Posts by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
 (DIR) Post #AmHppYFqbajdDAmXeC by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       The Appeal to Solidarity FallacyThis is what I'm calling it temporarily until you tell me what it is normally called:One (large) group wants to have an advantage or keep a privilege. They identify another (small) group that will generally be pitied if they don't get this advantage. Then they propose solidarity with this smaller group, but propose the advantage to also apply to the larger group.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmHppYaPN9BKEwOxhA by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       Today, our article on Word Rain was published in the journal Information Visualization. Word Rain is a development of the classic word cloud, where the words, instead of being randomly placed, are horizontally ordered according to what context they appear in the text, and vertically ordered according to prominence. The words are supplemented with a bar chart indicating the prominence of each word. This means that two Word Rains generated at the same time can be compared.https://doi.org/10.1177/14738716241236188
       
 (DIR) Post #AmHppYucA1LRFbr6Bs by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       Jag höll ett föredrag om textvisualiseringstekniken ordregn på Språkrådsdagen för några veckor sedan, och nu ligger det uppe på UR Play:https://urplay.se/program/237963-sprakradsdagen-2024-ordregn-visualisering-av-klimatprat
       
 (DIR) Post #B4l3uCv3XpUmBJDejI by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       @Krazov @stux But can they do anything about it?
       
 (DIR) Post #B4uyMMbMU0EIAteJY8 by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       @bodil ”it was great for filling in boilerplate”There’s your problem right there. Computer science should work towards getting rid of the need for boilerplate, not invent ways to write more of it.Every piece of boilerplate is a failing of the language or library that you’re using, and is technical debt. Editing generated code doubly so.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5IMFYamN1RQs5k5S4 by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       @internetarchive @fight @pluralistic "essential to preserving the public record"This is of course the reason that certain people want it closed down.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5LSqxtESYJlFDTSPw by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       @azonenberg In Sweden, the government recommends a week of food as prepping. Enough to last through initial problems, and even when emergency food distribution is up, it’s unlikely to be at full capacity right away, so any way to relieve the pressure on those is important.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6uUtWPuaJ2qVnyCUy by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       @eff "License plate readers for ICE" seems like a very shitty movement.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7kubi4XW4u3A16V4i by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       @p @rpbook "non-consensual taxation" is the opposite of charity. Charity is alms, and comes with an expectation of gratitude.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9fvz5rtQUNr82XLFo by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       Over 50000 people marched in "The large climate demonstration" in central Stockholm today. The back of the crowd didn't even begin to move until two hours after the start of the march. After an additional two hours, the back of the crowd reached the final destination. By then, we had been standing or marching for about four and a half hours.This is back to the amount of people marching in climate protests before the pandemic, or perhaps even more.#climate #climateCrisis
       
 (DIR) Post #BAEoSQr2eeHkfgwQ3k by ahltorp@mastodon.nu
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       Four replies so far, and all of them shitting on the proposal without saying a word what’s wrong with it. As usual.It’s okay to say that the European Commission proposals or actions are wrong or bad, but then do that, and say what’s wrong. There’s plenty to criticise. Let’s criticise them for the right reasons.