Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

📢 The @paqlab.bsky.social is recruiting a PhD (or MSc), and you don't want to miss that - best place ever to do you PhD! 😉 To work in IDENT, a network of experiments of the effects of diversity on forest functioning. Foreign student? It's gotten harder 😞 but we can help.
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📢 Le @paqlab.bsky.social recrute une personne étudiante au doctorat (ou MSc)! Pis tu veux pas rater ça, la pluss meilleure place au monde pour faire ton doc, sur IDENT, une plateforme expérimentale pour étudier les effets de la diversité sur le fonctionnement des forêts.
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Brilliant protest. This needs to be a regular thing.

Looks like an amazing position!

How did the tech bro crowd, growing up on stories of sci-fi, transhumanism, virtual reality and limitless ability to modify one's body, "biohacking," etc. end up becoming so viscerally anti-transgender? Truly boggles my mind.

A reminder to my colleagues in the humanities: a twenty year old was likely born in 2004, which means their cultural memory begins in roughly 2014 when they were 10. Pixar’s Inside Out came out in 2015, 45 was elected in 2016, Adele and Rihanna were the top singers.

I don’t know how many Scandinavians are familiar with indigenous Sámi length and navigation concepts? There are several other mathematical concepts like distance and how to count number of heads in a herd of reindeer.

Did you know that many tribes have websites that have information about their tribes? Many also now include a media guide for journalists. The latest to include a media guide is the Wabanaki alliance:

www.wabanakialliance.com/style-guide/