@futurebird
I need some advice. An ant colony took over the interior of my kayak, and I'm hoping there's a humane solution. I dislike killing anything, but I also want my kayak back. Is there a way to make it unappealing to them if I can get them all out?
Thank you for any advice you might be able to provide.

XProc 3.1 “last call” editorial drafts:

https://xproc.org/specifications.html

CM Sperberg-McQueen died, 16 August 2024.

He leaves an enormous hole in many lives, many projects, many working groups, and many conferences.

Balisage is hosting an online wake at: https://www.balisage.net/RememberingMSM.html. To share memories send text, images, or XHTML to: RememberingMSM@balisage.net (or to info@balisage.net, btusdin@mulberrytech.com, or dalapeyre@mulberrytech.com).

We have lost a friend, a colleague, a force of nature.

Wichtig!
Hamburger Clubsterben — das Hafenklang braucht Eure Hilfe! Kauft ein T-Shirt, spendet Geld oder geht einfach mal (wieder) dort auf ein Konzert.

#hamburg #Hafenklang #clubsterben #music

https://www.startnext.com/broke-but-dope-save-hafenklang

The content on @piccalilli is consistently excellent and nourishing for web developers.

Do yourself a favour and add it to your RSS reader or subscribe to its newsletter.

https://piccalil.li/

The second installment in my series on HTML elements is now available: The `abbr` element.

https://heydonworks.com/article/the-abbr-element/

That's two elements down.

It seems that even those who are not interested in sports and do not follow the Olympic Games have already read about the "50-year-old Turkish man who showed up at the competition in a wrinkled T-shirt, without special equipment, and took the Olympic silver without even taking his hand out of his pocket."

"Surely, Turkey sent some kind of hitman to Paris!" social media marvels.

In the blink of an eye, Yusuf Dikec, a previously unknown figure outside professional circles, a retired gendarmerie officer and professional shooter, became a global internet meme and sensation.

Everything is great! The moral of this story could be: no matter how old you are, keep doing what you love, and your best achievements may still lie ahead, even if you are an athlete over 50!

But another nuance caught my attention.

The fact is, Yusuf Dikec did not win the Olympic silver alone. It was a team event. Shooting alongside him was his colleague Sevval Ilayda Tarhan. In the same T-shirt, in the same pose, and also with minimal equipment.

The only difference is that he is 51, and she is 24. He began professional shooting around the time she was born.

Dikec is an excellent shooter with a plethora of medals from prestigious competitions, but he had never made it to the Olympic podium until his young partner grew up and competed with him on the same team.

If we look at the individual performances of these shooters in the same discipline where they took silver as a team, we will see that Tarhan finished 7th, while Dikec only came in 13th.

Now let's trace how mass consciousness works: we simply do not notice the woman standing next to him. It does not matter who she is, how she is dressed, how she shoots, or how unique her achievement is. We only see the man in the "wrinkled T-shirt," deliberately nonchalant, and create a romantic image of a "hitman." We spread a photograph in which he is shooting alone, and the result of this shooting is 13th place! Yet, we declare that he won "silver."

Why does the logic of mass culture work this way? After all, patriarchy has long ceased to exist, feminism is unnecessary, equality has been achieved, at least in Paris 2024 for sure!

This is how patriarchal myths about great male victories are born before our eyes. These images are entrenched in culture and shape our thinking. Meanwhile, women's contributions and achievements are simply erased from history. It was like this before. Unfortunately, it still happens today.

#Paris2024 #YusufDikec #SevvalTarhan #Olympics

Translated text. Original text from Maya Guseynova

La dolce vita auf dem #jfs2024: nach viel gehaltvoller geistiger Nahrung ein bisschen Relaxen auf dem Sofa mit lecker Kuchen.

All Protocol Observed.

Welcome to Issue 169 of The Continent.

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap: Artificial Intelligence is not as artificial as it says on the box. In fact, programs like ChatGPT and Copilot rely on millions of data workers – actual humans – to do the grunt work. It’s tedious, underpaid, and often traumatic. No wonder much of the work is outsourced to vulnerable communities in the global south.

While a lot of people are aware of something being too good to be true, they often believe that something is too bad to be true either. Even if it's true.

This is a bias called the Just-world fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy

Protestors took to the streets of Nairobi last month because of a proposed new bill that would hike taxes and introduce new levies. Police fired on them. During a week of protests that culminated in the storming of parliament and the scrapping of part of the bill, 39 people including children died in the protests, over 360 were injured and 627 were arrested. 32 people were also abducted, and it's alleged that this was sanctioned by the state. @thecontinent reports on the “cost of resistance.”

https://continent.substack.com/p/kenya-life-is-cheap-when-police-turn

#Kenya #Nairobi #Africa #Protests #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

At the request of our faculty board I drafted some basic guidance on generative AI and research integrity (v1). With valuable input from @Iris @olivia @andreasliesenfeld among others. Primarily aimed at academics and written from a values-first rather than a tech-first perspective

Produced for @Radboud_uni Faculty of Arts but since some folks asked for a shareable version I've preprinted it at https://osf.io/2c48n/
#GenAI #ethics