Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

A superb argument against the existence of ghosts from 1st CE Chinese philosopher Wang Chong. https://iep.utm.edu/wangchon/

If what your *goal* is to get off Twitter, then Bluesky has solved it. They solved it by building another Twitter, and this time it's open source, which is cool! And it might have this "credible exit" thing.

But god damnit it's not decentralized and it's not federated stop TELLING people that

I did a four-page short comic for Le Lombard (Belgian publisher), it was a contribution to a big book project in French, featuring 24 other comic artists; an "advent calendar" book for Christmas. And yes, you have to cut the page every day in December to reveal a new story. I negotiated to have mine published on CC-By and made it using only FLOSS .

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1055/new-comic-book-la-bd-de-lavent-le-lombard-publishing

#creativecommons #christmas #krita #comicbooks

📢 My new R package {cocoon} is available on CRAN!

This package flexibly formats statistical output in a way that can be inserted into R Markdown or Quarto documents.

✅ Directly pass t-test, correlation, and Bayes factor objects to format test statistics, confidence intervals, p-values, Bayes factors etc.
✅ Automatically calculate and format summary statistics directly from data vectors
✅ Control the formatting of numbers and labels

https://jeffreyrstevens.github.io/cocoon/

#RStats #QuartoPub #Quarto

Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense

MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (1959) w/ Kim Novak and Fredric March is now on Tubi, if you'd like to lean into your melancholy.

#TCMParty #FilmMastodon

D.C. has passed ranked-choice voting.

New, by me: Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker, has laid off 30% of its staff as it goes through a restructuring, including dropping its advocacy division.

The Mozilla Foundation reported having 60 employees during the 2022 tax year, but TechCrunch has heard that the number of employees was closer to 120 people at the time of the layoffs.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

If you care about building a music library you can listen to for years to come, don't use Spotify, and buck against the trend of exploitative streaming services. Learn about where to get DRM-free audio on our DRM-free living guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr #EndDRM #BoycottSpotify #Spotify

IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1954) w/ Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday is now streaming (exclusively) on Prime.

If you're looking for a deft satire of people who are famous for being famous, George Cukor and Garson Kanin did it 70 years ago.

#JackLemmon #FilmMastodon

LibreOffice advocates around the world help to raise awareness of our free and privacy-oriented office suite! Phil Shapiro is one example, and has developed a maths game using LibreOffice Calc: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/10/22/interview-with-phil-shapiro/

I was talking about this elsewhere for other reasons but let me skip all that and just say that “Elements of Surprise” is absolute gem of a book, and if you are at all interested in novels, films, plot twists, puzzles, cognition, or surprise endings, you absolutely should read it. https://veratobin.org/publications/elements-of-surprise/

Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/21/24273820/intuit-ceo-sasan-goodarzi-turbotax-irs-quickbooks-ai-software-decoder-interview

"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."
Biographia Literaria (1817)

English poet, philosopher, & critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born #OTD in 1772.

He was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England & a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.

Books by Samuel Taylor Coleridge at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/95

#books #literature