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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for some detail! What you describe reassures me in my decision not to get further into it, particularly as a professor path seemed one of few traditional options with what I studied.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

No business in particular, but my understanding was that Github doesn't allow for multiple personal accounts, nor profiles under a single personal account (the closest to this being an organization to create some separation).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Are doctorate/grad school programs distinctly competitive? My impression was that they were more challenging but similar in nature to undergrad insofar as loads of coursework to stay on top of to complete courses and ensure you got some of the most expensive, "You endured it!" paperwork in the world.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...How are they able to continue providing these but not maintain the Bridge Access Program for the uninsured? 🤨

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Is there an AcademicDictionary in the vein of Urban Dictionary for all the jargon and filler patterns?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are shitboxes?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Dr. Jill Stein has improved the Green Party; y’all just believe anything the duopoly and owner-class media spit out when it agrees with your thinking.

In what ways, alongside the one point mentioned, and according to what sources (presumably not from the party itself)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Appreciate the thoughtful reply! I can see where you're coming from in terms of opening TLDs up creating a bunch of issues, even though I do still enjoy the more playful ones despite that.

It's honestly a little surprising that so many have been made available given the issues it can present, but I think that's largely a byproduct of approaching the internet less from a rigidly structured perspective and more of a loose informal perspective.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

do you think you'd be able to tell if it was instead a massive homelab run by the microorganisms in your house?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Personally, the childish side of me will always get a kick out of .wtf in a website name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Taiwan has been able to effectively respond to Chinese disinformation in part because of how seriously the threat is perceived there, according to Kenton Thibaut, a senior resident fellow and expert on Chinese disinformation at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Instead of a piecemeal approach — focusing solely on media literacy, for instance, or relying only on the government to fact-check false rumors — Taiwan adopted a multifaceted approach, what Thibaut called a “whole of society response” that relied on government, independent fact-check groups and even private citizens to call out disinformation and propaganda.

Source - AP News article linked in OP article.

Given the degrees of separation from other nations' disinformants in some situations, how do you help the public take the hostility/threat of their disinformants more seriously to help build a counterinfluence apparatus?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

First I've heard of Toki Pona! It's really fascinating, thanks for sharing this!

 

By adult I mean over 18-20 years of age and with adult appearances. Nothing against anime with younger characters, but interested in finding some with older characters.

 

as an aside, here's a fun thread from awhile ago by someone else: What are some underrated careers/jobs?

p.s. leaving this open-ended per community theme, we can get into specifics in comments!

 

The safest option is obvious, don't try to access its contents, but if you absolutely had to, what steps would you take to minimize/contain any potential harm to your device/network?

 

bonus question:what does it mean to be too online anymore?

 

They seem like one more bodily detail to tend to without much benefit, and sometimes more detriment (breaking a nail or scratching oneself up, ouch!).

 

Somehow I missed what out of this world happened to result in some people stranded in space, and I thought it'd be fun/interesting to see how others describe what led to it.

 

I've been watching more shows from before 2020 and losing track of more recent ones, so I'm interested in what shows have been entertaining people lately.

 

Aware of Raindrop, but not a fan of freemium models & the data being stored primarily in the cloud. Many alternatives I've found are self-hosted, however if possible I'd prefer a desktop app with data stored locally.

Thanks in advance!

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