Notices by Abie (temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe)

The 'Gruen Transfer' "is the moment that you, as a consumer surrounded by a deliberately confusing layout, lose track of your original intentions.
We've all experienced it, and now it's starting to consume the internet."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_transfer
https://sebs.website/blog/the-gruen-transfer-is-consuming-the-internet

@HauntedOwlbear @Lucomo thank you!

@Lucomo I first read PR as Public Relations... Is it Product Review?

Je m'attendais à devoir passer plein d'obstacles, mais en fait c'est tout simple de soutenir une initiative européenne !
https://act.lgbt/
Go signer et faire circuler, en particulier si vous avez dans vos mutus des Néerlandais (85 % du seuil) ou des Slovènes (75 %) !

Update 1 : 87,3 % & 77,8 %
Update 2 : 88,9 % & 79,3 %
Update 3 : 90, 5 % et 80,5 % ! \o/
#Netherlands #NL #Slovenia #nederland
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Si ça continue à ce rythme la condition de 7 pays au-dessus du seuil sera atteinte.

Reste plus qu'à réunir 200 000 signatures par jour de toute l'Europe !
✊

Update : C'est bon pour les Pays Bas ! \o/
Et 85 % pour la Slovénie !

Reste plus qu'à engranger les signatures :
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

@GreenSkyOverMe oh nice, where are the pics from ?

Word of the day: Criti-hype, "Lee Vinsel's term for critiquing the claims of your adversary without bothering to ask whether they are true", "criticism that actually builds on – and depends on – maintaining the halo of devastating potency that surrounds overhyped technologies."
Via @pluralistic
https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5
#motdujour #wordoftheday

@david_snug Ha! https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2025/04/24/le-conseil-constitutionnel-censure-la-prolongation-de-la-videosurveillance-algorithmique_6599713_4408996.html

Word of the day, Periscoping.
https://social.sciences.re/@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks/114381374421927341
#wordoftheday #motdujour

D&D avant la lettre :p
https://archive.org/details/emblemasmoralesd00covar/page/47/mode/1up

Turkish Monopoly.
#SurLesMurs

@RickiTarr The liguistics term is collocation :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collocation

J'avoue j'ai ri.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2025/03/divertimento-197.html

"you used to be able to write a scientific paper with style. Now, in order to please reviewers, you have to write it like a legal contract. Papers used to begin like, “Help! A mysterious number is persecuting me,” and now they begin like, “Humans have been said, at various times and places, to exist, and even to have several qualities, or dimensions, or things that are true about them, but of course this needs further study (Smergdorf & Blugensnout, 1978; Stikkiwikket, 2002; von Fraud et al., 2018b)”. "
et en effet :https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2364276_4/component/file_2364275/content

"If you want to sell a bottle of vitamin C pills in America, you have to include a disclaimer that says none of the claims on the bottle have been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Maybe journals should stamp a similar statement on every paper: “NOBODY HAS REALLY CHECKED WHETHER THIS PAPER IS TRUE OR NOT. IT MIGHT BE MADE UP, FOR ALL WE KNOW.” That would at least give people the appropriate level of confidence."

"When one editor started asking authors to add their raw data after they submitted a paper to his journal, half of them declined and retracted their submissions. This suggests, in the editor’s words, “a possibility that the raw data did not exist from the beginning.”"

"Scientists have run studies where they deliberately add errors to papers, send them out to reviewers, and simply count how many errors the reviewers catch. Reviewers are pretty awful at this. [Reviewers caught 25-30% of the major flaws.]
These were critical issues, like “the paper claims to be a randomized controlled trial but it isn’t” and “when you look at the graphs, it’s pretty clear there’s no effect” and “the authors draw conclusions that are totally unsupported by the data.” Reviewers mostly didn’t notice."
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review

La page de l'Ademe accommode vachement mieux la réalité évidente de *ça dépend*.
Tu passes 12h hors de chez toi, tu vas au taf en vélo, tu fais un métier physique et/ou salissant ?
À la surprise générale les contraintes ne sont pas les même que pour le télétravailleur de bureau, ou pour les jeunes parents qui se font roter du lait caillé dessus trois fois par jour.
Il faut aussi prendre en compte qu'il y a des intérêts financiers en jeu : au-delà des fabricants de machines à laver et de lessive, si tu fais énormément de lessives tu vas finir par avoir besoin d'un séchoir à linge (grand consommateur d'électricité).
Et si tu changes de soutif tous les jour, il va probablement t'en falloir un nombre nettement plus important que si tu le gardes 5 jours.
Exception notable : le gars de Levi's qui dit de ne jamais laver les jeans T_T
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/10/how-often-should-you-wash-your-jeans-levis-ceo-settles-debate.html