Notices by Abie (temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe)

Mmmm I'd propose the confounding factor: Nobody tells me what to do!
https://mstdn.social/@DannyYee/114692202457429630

Rue des Ecoles.
#streetart #paris

Ce qui me rappelle ceci vu à Rouen dans une autre vie.
https://xcancel.com/temptoetiam/status/1196348823058157568

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."