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  • On Saturday morning, Musk posted an unscientific poll to his account asking users of the platform if Jones should be reinstated. By Saturday evening when the poll closed, about 70% of nearly 2 million respondents had voted “yes.”

    Lol

  • Huh, your question was not about what they meant.

    You assumed what he meant and asked if he was sure to go with that.

    However, if you were capable of catching that difference, you wouldn't be replying to me in that way. So, say what you will. I don't care anymore.

  • I do think she should resign.

    Yet, I agree. As a university employee myself, I could imagine that a professor (assuming she is one) would behave the way she did. We're trained to answer questions as asked, showing nuances, rather than judging something black or white.

    Congresspeople asked "does the university rules allow something, yes or no!?" Of course, the correct answer is "it depends on the context", as she replied. That politician used the usual rhetorical tactic. Even they themselves know it's not yes or no. In that sense, the congress became the political theater as always. I rather dislike the way congresspeople treated her.

    That said, she should have known better. Her response also showed that she didn't try enough with her management.

  • The Biden administration has used an emergency authority to allow the sale of about 14,000 tank shells to Israel without congressional review...

    when the review was supposedly there to prevent the exact kind of harm these tanks will do to civilians.

  • A volunteer editor seeking to contribute content to the page might use information found on the West Virginia Department of Transportation’s website as a reference source. However, policy sticklers are likely to deny this usage because DOT is a primary source for highways (directly involved in the subject matter). According to the site’s policies, Wikipedia should be based mainly on reliable secondary sources, such as newspapers.

    Angry road editors like Ben are up in arms, claiming that this hard-line interpretation of the guideline does not reflect the realities of the situation. With local newspapers going out of business left and right, there are rarely any other sources to draw from for these kinds of articles. Why not allow Wikipedians to cite from DOT, which is responsible for publishing highway routes?

    Then again, it’s worth remembering that most of the time Wikipedia has good reasons for the prohibition against primary sources, especially with government entities. A state’s DOT content might generally be reliable—but allowing Wikipedians to cite from other primary sources, such as China’s Central Propaganda Department, is not a risk worth taking. The question is whether there is some way to recognize an exemption, granting that some types of primary sources may be reliable while still protecting the integrity of the rule.

  • "Well done book about someone forced to defend themselves and what that means in America now. Well done. Highly recommend for everyone, especially now," one reviewer wrote.

    Stay home – also conservatives.

  • ...social algorithms...

    What is an algorithm?

    The Geeks for Geeks blog has a great tidbit from their article Introduction to Algorithms:

    Yeah, no, this author doesn't know what they're talking about.