Notices by teledyn 𓂀 (teledyn@mstdn.ca)

A natural experiment using 60 years of #DoctorWho episodes (the TARDIS study)

#BMJ #mortalityrates

https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077143

>A new Doctor Who episode shown every festive period, especially on Christmas Day, was associated with reduced mortality rates in England, Wales, and the UK... This finding reinforces why healthcare provision should not be taken for granted and may prompt the BBC and Disney+ to televise new episodes of Doctor Who every festive period, ideally on Christmas Day.

I have a static site with a #WordPress on a sub-path; is it possible to redirect (apache) incoming #ActivityPub requests to the WP path? I'm guessing I can't have a user@mydomain/path as a #Fediverse handle.

"This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
A cat was paid a penny each week, to keep down the rats and mice in the north tower, and a cat flap was cut into the door below the astronomical clock to allow the cat to carry out its duties.
Records of payments were entered in the Cathedral archives from 1305 to 1467, the penny a week being enough to buy food to supplement a heavy diet of rodents."

#caturday

Is there a recommended #android app for #peertube? #Thorium on #fdroid is more than a year old, and on Google Play it says it isn't released yet…

Ideally I'd hope for easy posting and livestreams.

@lauren

Some time ago I posted a LinkedIn comment proposing the current bent of IT to prefer younger and/or foreign workers might be because those groups are more 'compliant' than the seasoned pro; more concerned with a visa or income, they park their ethics at the door.

I received hate mail for weeks.

@clacke

There were no texts when I started, just "This page intentionally left blank" updateable binders. We put together user groups, then others put together this thing they called the Internet and we'd use decwrl to get the source, and email to share understanding. Mostly we just built stuff and met maybe at conferences, but shared everything we found or did.

Some went on to write textbooks. I ghostwrote two chapters of Linux Unleashed and started a kernel book so there'd be SOMETHING. ?

@clacke

Print is at best a mnenomic device for the aural/oral tradition. Master to student is rife through academia and the arts.

@clacke

Or do we try to preserve what the texts actually meant by training interpreters dating back, if we're lucky, to the associates of the original authors. Many texts we are only now realizing we'd misread them, and copy pasted that take paper after paper.

@clacke

If what you say is true, why are there universities?

@clacke

You say potato and I say potato
You say tomato and I say tomato…

I'm not so certain 'knowledge' is the correct term for what literacy conveys. Indeed, if it did, we wouldn't need lawyers! ?

> "This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it because they will not practise their memory … You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding. And you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction."
#medialiteracy

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-23/the-history-of-writing-from-ancient-mesopotamia-to-today/102112604

@chiasm@venera.social

Any chance of posting an animation of these? ?

@chiasm@mastodon.online

Does chatGPT update its training set with its own conversations? If so, shouldn't we be really careful about tormenting and publicly embarrassing it lest it remember?