3 artist/writer-in-residence posts (12 months) to work on my ERC funded Data Stories project.

All three positions run from August 2023–July 2024, with duties expected to average 3 days a week working on two case studies, each running for six months.

Payment is a contract-for-services fee of €32,000 inclusive of expenses, with €16,000 payable for each case study.

Closing date: 13 Feb 2023

More details at:
datastories.maynoothuniversity…

Do we need to say any more?

h/t @jburnmurdoch@twitter.com

#USpol
We’ve heard that Republicans cheated in polls in 2022 to create a “red wave” narrative and deceive Dems.

That’s true, and there’s even a deeper issue. When we focus on polls too much, even correct polls, it leads to passiveness.
That’s a lamppost problem—
polls can’t measure some important things. For example, polls don’t measure persuasion, which happens over months or longer.

Reupping my 2021 piece on polling and Dem leaders: deepnarrative.io/2021/12/14/ov…

@stevesilberman
@QasimRashid

Did you read our story about Google Chromebooks being 🚫 in schools in Denmark?

IT professor Jeppe Bundsgaard recommends open-source solutions and how schools can better benefit from them.

Read the great summary of all the benefits in our blog! go.nextcloud.com/r/Vwg

Schools in Denmark look toward open-source solutions after DPA bans Google Chromebooks - Nextcloud

In the school district or municipality of Helsingør in Denmark, a conflict has arisen over the continuous use of Google Chromebooks despite the ban by the Danish Data Protection Agency (DPA).

^{Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)}

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science #HistoryRemix

Here is DEATH STRANDING DC running with HDR on Linux!

It's hard to show off HDR... so have a HDR Heatmap to go along with it!
Anything not greyscale is brighter than 100 nits. 🌞🐸

I refuse to believe this place is even real.

#Australia

Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women #HistoryRemix

Vanilla OS has just made its first release – the #Ubuntu-based distro scene just got more exciting!

omglinux.com/vanilla-os-first-…

#linux #foss #vanillaOS

Satyendranath Bose was a brilliant theoretical physicist born this week in 1894 in West Bengal (now India).

In 1924, while on faculty at the University of Dacca, he wrote a short paper to Albert Einstein about indistinguishable particles related to quantum theory.

Einstein immediately recognized Bose’ genius, translated the work into German & made sure it was published. Bose ideas led to Bose-Einstein statistics which continue to be studied in quantum mechanics. #science #history #HistoryRemix