Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

9 in 10 Americans think the Supreme Court should have a formal ethics code, bipartisan majority supports term limits https://twitter.com/AGTheodoridis/status/1671987990799822850?s=20

"Never laugh at someone for being interested in something you find weird or boring. That just means you don't know enough about it yet."

Something my (now sadly deceased) mum said to me when I was a teen.

Always stuck with me.

Truer now, in the era of social media, than ever.

RT https://twitter.com/CavaliereGiu

Hi #EconTwitter! Interested in expanding your knowledge on 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 #econometrics? The top statistician Aad Van Der Vaart (@tudelft@twitter.com) has some great notes covering the mathematical theory of time series. Recommended before getting into estimation and inference!

Link to pdf https://t.co/yqoSezoDW7

Earlier this year a former inmate came to me w/a USB drive of surveillance videos another inmate had picked out of the trash at Men's Central Jail & sold to him for $50 of dope

He hid it INSIDE himself for mths then smuggled it out

Here's what was on it: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-24/fights-beatings-and-a-birth-videos-smuggled-out-of-la-jails-reveal-violence-neglect

Arlington County ran a proportional preferential voting system for the Democratic Party primary for two Board seats. One candidate from each voting block was elected. Likely that the traditional method would have given one block both primary seats. There was no mention of the proportionality part prior to the vote. Lots of talk about the preferential part. Apparently this was one of the first ever use of proportional preferential voting in the US. https://vote.arlingtonva.gov/Ranked-Choice-Voting #voting #Arlington #RCV

I absolutely adore the whimsical #art of 3D sidewalk chalk artist David Zinn. https://zinnart.com

Zinn creates delightful “works of ephemeral pareidolic anamorphosis” inspired by weeds, sewer covers, traffic cones & nearly everything he encounters around his Ann Arbor community.

Nevermind ya'll, it was just a parade

I Did Not Have February 1917 on My 2023 Bingo Card...

History May Be ON ÞE MOVE Þis Morning…
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/i-did-not-have-february-1917-on-my>
2023-06-24 Sa

Good morning to readers; Moscow remains in Putin’s hands.

For now.

The Wagner Group has seized territory in Russia and is trying to remove the nation’s military leadership from power.

The UK assesses that the mercenaries are trying to get to Moscow.

On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution.

It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it.

A thread 🧵

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839669 1/6

pronouncing 'W' as double u is way too long and doesn't even make sense since it's more double v than u

we should just refer to W as wa from now on

when talking about the world wide web you won't have to spend an eternity on saying double you double you double you out loud but instead just say wawawa dot domain dot TLD

Btw, I care a lot about safety, Pixelfed is the first AP project that allows users to disable comments, DMs from people you don't follow are hidden by default, and we support shared blocklists and several other features!

I've closed registration on pixelfed.social several times, randomized the pixelfed.org/servers directory and mobile app onboarding.

I'm hellbent on ethical and sustainable growth.

You can come to your own conclusions, my actions speak for themselves.

Instagram blocked the #joinPixelfed hashtag not long ago, and Twitter too.

Don't forget that 😉

Excellent review of upgrading a 12th Gen Framework Laptop to the full set of new 13th Gen modules by HughJeffreys

"With their first device, they've really outdone other brands that have been in the industry for decades. It's amazing what can be achieved when you put customers first."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vx-Lggf2TXc

Out of Balance: How the World Bank Group Is Enabling the Deaths of Endangered Chimps
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The World Bank Group enabled the devastation of villages and helped a #mining company justify the deaths of endangered #chimps with a dubious #offset

#Guinea #Africa #Biodiversity #Offsets #Environment #Ecology #Chimpanzees #Spillover

https://www.propublica.org/article/biodiversity-offsets-guinea-world-bank-group-chimpanzees-outbreak?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society #OTD in 1822.

The name, the difference engine, is derived from the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial co-efficients. This difference engine can thus compute many useful tables of numbers. via @Wikipedia

Books by Charles Babbage at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/556

#science #mathematics

"A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton died #OTD in 1936. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from high church Anglicanism. via @Wikipedia

Books by G.K. Chesterton at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/80

#books #literature

Our first workshop on Econometric Theory and Applications is approaching. We are looking forward to hosting an amazing group of researchers in Siena. Program at http://bit.ly/3jb5dYb #SWETA #UofSiena #Econometrics #CausalInference

Reminder: The IEA is funding research projects that advance women in Economics in developing countries. More info here https://iea-world.org/research-on-interventions-to-advance-women-in-economics-in-the-global-south/

Hey all,

I made a similar post on Lemmy the other day, but I figure it might as well be shared here, too.

A decent amount of you may be familiar with wedistribute.org, my old news publication that's been floating around in one form or another since 2014. For those that aren't familiar, We Distribute is a blog publication that reports on the various developments of the #Fediverse - as a bonus, the blog itself federates with the rest of the network, and people can remotely comment from the network itself.

After recovering and reconstructing as many articles as I could find, I'm very close to relaunching the thing. The network is growing at an eye-watering rate, and the sheer amount of platforms, protocol developments, and projects (technical or otherwise) is frankly overwhelming.

I believe one of the biggest mistakes I made with this project in the past is that I did everything by myself, and didn't optimize enough for team collaboration. I want to put my best foot forward prior to the relaunch by working together with a bunch of writers and coming up with cool new articles. I can't offer money for articles for the time being, but I can offer a unique opportunity to report on a unique niche of the Internet in a publication that has very few others like it.

Anyway, this is getting a bit long-winded, but...if you'd like to volunteer and write an article, or two, or five, or to your heart's content, I would be thrilled to work with you. There's so many amazing things happening here that people need to know about. #WeDistribute

//cc @fediversenews