Check blood vessels, check large intestine, and check heart lights are all on and flashing angrily.

I think the “ohfuckwe’redeadadeadmanwalking” alarm also blares out at least once per morning.

Not so much in London, and usually you need to pay for the public ones.

We live in but a bright second, yet are determined to fill it with darkness unending.

Looks like a normal night out with the lads to me.

The three pathways for most academics

Option 1 - shit out a large pile of bad (either misleading, over-sensationalised, or just clearly partial work) papers, but get funding to do the same for another year.

Option 2 - work hard to create a quality paper, run out of time, no more funding, off you go to industry.

Option 3 - take a teaching intensive role and never have any time for research, oh and also get paid less than in industry.

Agreed!

On the contrary - it’s not Google getting one’s data that is to be avoided. They are a law abiding (if law bending) entity.

The issue is there are apps on the store that takes data for third parties, who then proceed to sell that data to threat actors who have a phone number and a user profile (great for scam calls).

The adverts within apps can also be predatory - preying on gambling addiction (I know this for a fact, I worked in the gambling industry), loneliness (AI partner boom), and inexperience (oh god the crypto scams…).

There is a greater probability of issues, but the severity is underplayed if examined without a psychological lense. When this is taken into account - the playstore offers a greater probability of lesser harm, and an equal (or greater) probability of severe harm.

Yup, that’s a genuine vulnerability.

Then again, the playstore hosts predatory adware that legislation was forced to blunt.

Of the two, you have a higher chance of being scammed/harmed via the official playstore than by fdroid.

I was thinking that, you’d think they’d strike once the pot is a little larger.

This was kind of breach so predictable even surprisedpikachu.txt isn’t enough, but it must be done.

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The real comedy is in the comments we found along the way.

Sane => Worry Google is a threat

Worry Google is a threat =/> Sane

"Google, however, has decided anonymity is too risky. "

The rest of the sane universe appear to be deciding Google is too risky.

Ehh…

So, it’s more a case that the system cannot prove it’s own consistency (a system cannot prove it won’t lead to a contradiction). So the proof is valid within the system, but the validity of the system is what was considered suspect (i.e. we cannot prove it won’t produce a contradiction from that system alone).

These days we use relative consistency proofs - that is we assume system A is consistent and model system B in it thus giving “If A is consistent, then so too must B”.

As much as I hate to admit it, classical set theory has been fairly robust - though intuitionistic logic makes better philosophical sense. Fortunately both are equiconsistent (each can be used to imply the consistency of the other).

I often come up with a fun nickname for UK leaders - from “Creepy Uncle Boris”, through “Sussy Sunak”.

I’d like to inaugurate “Stasi Starmer” in memory of this absolutely insane decision.

Shit… One of my coworkers is giving me one of these to play with…

Guess I’m ordering the socks this weekend…

There’s the future we all need

It’s as if satan were being bought out by the lawyers infesting hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2mvT1ddiBc

Alas, the game itself was long ago murdered.

I’m doing a stats intro class this week - new funny star just dropped!