Category: Daybook

Tweets in contradiction.

Posted on By pukeko
This is the Antifa. This is Berkeley. They hate fascists. This is the antifa going all hatey on the Jews and White people. It appears the antifacists are fascist. This is the new meaning of convergence: to invade, subvert the institutions so… Read More

gstreamer 0.10 depreciated in Arch.

Posted on By pukeko
Over the last few days you have not been able to update arch (and antergos)due to an error in a libsoup dependency. IT points to gstreamer 0.10, which was depreciated in Arch. From the Arch developers mail archive 
Balló György via…
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Dust and ash follows convergence

Posted on By pukeko
The future of medical education worries new graduates. Locally, there are just enough places for house surgeons, and there are still gaps in registrar (advanced training). But the funding for this is central: the state (who fund the health system)… Read More

Three papers, three pictures.

Posted on By pukeko
I was putting together a set of slides for teaching tonight and inadvertently ran into some recent data. All these papers are open source, and I will be giving references. The first, by Zhou and others, looks at "left behind children" -- that is… Read More

Three quotes and a poem

Posted on By pukeko
The postmodern academy has decided everything is power. More fool them.
My remarks boiled down to the observation that theoretical anarchism (as opposed to the practical, bomb-throwing sort) is a gnostic sect. Its essential gnosis is that…
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The error of the science march.

Posted on By pukeko
Science is not something that needs defending. It is like truth: it is its own defence. Scienidolatory, like Scientology, is a series of faulty and flawed beliefs that does need defending. Consider this tweet for science day. There are some errors.
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The direct costs of virtue signalling.

Posted on By pukeko
This is part of a paper in the AMerican Journal of Psychiatry. It is not research per se: it a useful list of needs that a group of Muslim and refugee friendly doctors have found they need within a very liberal part of the USA to accommodate… Read More