Notices by Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 (djoerd@idf.social)

#PWAsForFirefox is a tool to install, manage and use Progressive Web Apps (#PWA) in Mozilla Firefox.

https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox

Today, students protested against police deployment on campus: No activist deserves to be mauled by a police dog!

Exactly one year ago, a student protesting the university's complicity in the Gaza genocide was severely bitten in their leg by a police dog. The police officer involved will be prosecuted, but until today, the university’s Executive Board did not condemn the police violence, nor did they apologize to the student protesters. #GazaGenocide

https://www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/protest-against-police-deployment-on-campus-no-activist-deserves-to-be-mauled-by-a-police-dog

Nieuwe laptop sticker voor de varkentjes 🐷
(ze komen per 20 stuks, stuur me een DM als je laptop nog een leeg plekje heeft)

Voor de mensen die dit overdreven vinden: In Nederland alleen worden 45.000 varkentjes per dag geslacht, dus ruim meer dan een miljoen per maand.

... now scanning my papers for "Pearson correlation" and "Fisher test"... may their names be cursed

Thanks to this great thread by @Iris and @pythonbynight, worth a read in its entirety: https://scholar.social/@Iris/116433727927734855 to at least https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/116490065492280980

As I grow older, I more clearly see how science is never truly objective; That all scientific studies have political implications.

To my horror, I am starting to realize that some of the things I learnt and taught, such as significance testing, are rooted in vile, violent racism. Please, read Aubrey Clayton's "How Eugenics Shaped Statistics: Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers."

https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014

We're hiring! a postdoc: Load Forecasting for Energy Systems to help reducing network congestion in the Dutch energy grid. #vacancy

https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/postdoc-position-ai-based-load-forecasting-for-energy-systems

@fonolog Jeff Bezos is het probleem? Oh, en Bill Gates ook. Is dit een strikvraag?

@sandradejong ik ben een paar jaar geleden gestopt met whatsapp

Anil @anildash Dash's interview with the Gazette hits hard: about the massive layoffs in tech, the collusion and corruption of venture capitalists, how they pushed a fascist agenda, how big tech economically engineered themselves out of a an AI recession, and finally about whether Dash would recommend studying computer science: "It puts a pit in my stomach to say it, but no."

https://sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickled-each-others-brains

Call on ABP: break ties with BlackRock: Sign the petition!

Why? Because #BlackRock keeps investing money in fossil-based industries. #ABP is one of the largest pension funds of the Netherlands. It organises pensions for academics like me. I don't want my money to support Blackrock. I don't want my pension to evaporate when Blackrock starts depreciating their investments.

https://gofossilfree.org/nl/petition-abp-break-with-blackrock/

The StopReArm Europe (#SRE) Campaign — supported by more than 800 organizations — drafted an open letter to Members of the European Parliament, urging them to take a stand for peace during next week’s budget vote in the European Parliament.

https://stoprearm.org/open-letter-to-meps-ahead-of-the-budget-2026-vote/

@marcelvandervelde 😀 Bijzondere keuze; dit is mijn onderste rijtje:

@marcelvandervelde Heel begrijpelijk! Ik probeerde als angry nerd te antwoorden. Niet gelukt?

@marcelvandervelde ik moet nog meer oefenen 🤐

Sign the open letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia!

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e

Starting today, I protest the genocide in Gaza by refusing to use Radboud University's central Microsoft Outlook 365 service. If you email me at my official @ru.nl mail address, you will receive the following automatic reply:

This is an automatic reply. To protest the genocide in Gaza, I refuse to read email sent to: djoerd.hiemstra@ru.nl
To contact me, please resend your email to: my@other.email
For more information, read the statement at: https://www.cs.ru.nl/~hiemstra/radboud-against-microsoft/.
This is week 1 of my protest.

@aral @claudius @Codeberg Nice! This is mine: https://github.com/djoerd

A surprise to no-one in particular: LLM reasoning models cannot reason about, nor "understand" the Towers of Hanoi.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms