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Content warning:For UK citizens living abroad:You may be allowed to vote in the next UK election due to recent...

Content warning:For UK citizens living abroad:

You may be allowed to vote in the next UK election due to recent changes:

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/news-and-views/elections-act/changes-overseas-voting

The UK Tories are now desperate to claw votes from citizens overseas. By contrast, in 2016, our votes were not sought for the #Brexit referendum. We lost our EU passports without being granted the right to weigh in.

I encourage others who were annoyed by this to give the Tories the finger symbolically from abroad.

#UKPolitics #Election

For those who may be interested: in a few minutes, I'll be chatting with Reuven Lerner about our experiences in Python training.You can...

For those who may be interested: in a few minutes, I'll be chatting with Reuven Lerner about our experiences in Python training.

You can register here if you're interested:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016861618878/WN_EoJe9TBKRj-P6c3W1YC2KQ

Honestly, it's exhausting and infuriating that we continually have to suffer through so many "economic" arguments about costs...

Honestly, it's exhausting and infuriating that we continually have to suffer through so many "economic" arguments about costs & benefits of certain policy decisions with a deft sleight of hand to completely obscure precisely *who* benefits & precisely *who* bears the cost.

This is an astute observation and a trend worth starting.Substitute #RichPeoplesYachtMoney for "the economy™" whenever a...

This is an astute observation and a trend worth starting.

Substitute #RichPeoplesYachtMoney for "the economy™" whenever a think-tank issues a statement or advice.

From https://mastodon.scot/@AlienAnomaly/110437823291075239

For those not following Teri Kanefield, do follow @Teri_Kanefield.She always provides a clear, well-reasoned legal analysis of the major...

For those not following Teri Kanefield, do follow @Teri_Kanefield.

She always provides a clear, well-reasoned legal analysis of the major (US) cases we hear about in the news. And she explains things well for us non-lawyers.

(Her blog post this week is very insightful: https://law-and-politics.online/@Teri_Kanefield/110090051232219877).

Woke up to an email from #haveibeenpwned to inform me that my Twitter account was compromised in a hack... in Jan. 2021. Along with some 200...

Woke up to an email from #haveibeenpwned to inform me that my Twitter account was compromised in a hack... in Jan. 2021. Along with some 200 million others. Sigh.

Changed my password-manager-generated credentials immediately, but I've not logged into Twitter for a few months now.

I'll leave my account up for archival reasons, but I'm not going back. It is a disaster there now.

I've moved over to #Mastodon now due to disillusionment at the dismal trajectory Twitter's current leadership has chosen. I greatly...

I've moved over to #Mastodon now due to disillusionment at the dismal trajectory Twitter's current leadership has chosen. I greatly appreciate that most long-time #Mastodoners are welcoming the exodus with grace (rather than rolling their eyes or wagging their fingers at late adopters like me, which is sorta understandable).

(I do like the larger character limit on toots!)

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I endeavour for kindness & courtesy in my interactions unless it no longer makes sense to do so. I do hold, um, some strong opinions...

I endeavour for kindness & courtesy in my interactions unless it no longer makes sense to do so. I do hold, um, some strong opinions that I voice from time to time; where those opinions are informed & supported by established facts, I'm inclined to stand by them. I do hold other weaker opinions: I can modify those when new—at least new to me—facts come to light and/or others share their perspectives appropriately (as a grown-up ought to, IMHO).

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As an experiment, I'm using three Mastodon accounts:• @dhavide@mathstodon.xyz for math stuff;• @dhavide@fosstodon.org for computing...

As an experiment, I'm using three Mastodon accounts:
• @dhavide@mathstodon.xyz for math stuff;
• @dhavide@fosstodon.org for computing & open-source software stuff; and
• @dhavide for everything else (politics, culture, cat pictures, etc.).

Where topics overlap, I'll crosspost. My goal is to generate more effective signals rather than noise by decoupling topics between servers/accounts. I'm open to suggestions of more effective usage patterns—I'm still figuring things out.

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I'm overdue for an #introduction. My name is Dhavide; I'm a Canadian mathematician & computer scientist. Once upon a time, I...

I'm overdue for an #introduction. My name is Dhavide; I'm a Canadian mathematician & computer scientist. Once upon a time, I earned my living as a professor. I currently work as the Director of Education & a Principal Solution Architect for #Quansight LLC.

My main social media outlet was Twitter until recently. I'm excited by the opportunity the Fediverse provides to reassess ways for technologies to serve people—and democracy—rather than advertisers.

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