Lingolol

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

Chtitedev: Femmes et minorités de genre de la tech dans le Nord, Hauts-de-France, Lille[ChtiteDev] Conf en non-mixité : Introduction au Clean Code 12 novembre 2024, 18:30:00 CET - GMT+1 - Exotec, 59170, Croix, FRANCE <a href="https://mobilizon.fr/events/93a2dee5-5d16-48e3-9a5a-b8e0e2eda81e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mobilizon.fr/events/93a2dee5-5d16-48e3-9a5a-b8e0e2eda81e</a>

Weltschmerz à GogoReally good research from 'HOPE not hate' on the Human Diversity Foundation (HDF), a kind of successor to the Pioneer Fund, continuing its work of supporting and funding "scientific" racist research.As is so often the case, a mega-rich asshole from Silicon Valley has coughed up a lot of the funding. In this case, that asshole is Andrew Conru, founder of Adult FriendFinder (sorry, swingers), who has given HDF no less than $1.3 million.Among the other major players are Emil Kirkegaard (legal name: William Engman), who is easily one of, if not the, best known race "scientist" in the world.Another is Erik Ahrens, a close associate of "identitarian" figurehead Martin Sellner's and a member of Alternative for Germany (AfD). He specifically wants to turn "Germany, or probably eastern Germany, a state power," into a white ethnostate and is seeking to build an "international network generating revenue in different countries" in order to do that.Anyways, good work all around, and well worth reading.===From the article:In an online presentation to our undercover reporter in October 2023, Matthew Frost claimed that HDF has two arms. Emil Kirkegaard runs the “underground research arm”, a continuation of Pioneer’s main activity. It is a group of academics and independent researchers that convene weekly for a video call to coordinate ideas and share access to genetic data sets.The team aims to slip papers into academic journals with higher impact and circulation than their own publications. If unable to do so, HDF will publish the group’s papers in their print journal Mankind Quarterly or the OpenPsych website, which has been described as “a pseudoscience factory-farm”. Kirkegaard is associated with the management of both titles. During a research team meeting in November 2023, Kirkegaard told his researchers that an article on “international dysgenics” was unlikely to get accepted by a proper academic imprint unless their colleague Bryan Pesta, a former scholar at Cleveland State University, could “make the words soft and sweet”. HDF leaders discussed a “pipeline” whereby the underground research team would publish scientific racism articles that would then be promoted by HDF’s public operations like Aporia or Edward Dutton’s YouTube channel, “The Jolly Heretic”.A diagram shown to our undercover reporter shows that the research team has approximately 10 members. The meeting our infiltrator attended had 11 writers from the UK, the US, and Europe, including Kirkegaard. At least one contributor (Meng Hu at the University of Hong Kong) was not present. Several of the team are known in the world of scientific racism, and had contributed to Aporia or had in the past been funded by Pioneer. Chief among them is Bryan Pesta, who between 2019 and 2022 received Pioneer money and was dismissed from his academic position at Cleveland State University in February 2022 for misusing genetic data in his research.Davide Piffer is also part of the team. His 2013 paper on intelligence and race was cited by Payton Gendron, the terrorist who shot dead 10 Black people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York in 2022. The gunman wrote in his manifesto that Black people have a “lesser IQ”, concluding: “We must remove blacks from our western civilizations.” In past research papers, Piffer was credited as a member of the psychology department at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, however a representative said he never completed his PhD and left after a year in undisclosed circumstances.Members of the research team are sometimes successful in smuggling their articles into peer reviewed journals. Piffer co-wrote an article with Kirkegaard focused on IQ for the journal Twin Research and Human Genetics, published by Cambridge University Press, in March 2024.<a href="https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanDiversityFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanDiversityFoundation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HDF</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PioneerFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PioneerFund</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EmilKirkegaard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EmilKirkegaard</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikAhrens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikAhrens</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeterThiel</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmRen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmRen</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/noAfD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#noAfD</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fcknzs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fcknzs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ScientificRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScientificRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eugenics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HopeNotHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HopeNotHate</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheJollyHeretic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheJollyHeretic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwardDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdwardDutton</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MartinSellner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartinSellner</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechBro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechBroFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechBroFascism</a>

Roadskater, Ph.D.The person who pinged me about this won't look too good dealing with the data product developers on his end if he keeps arguing for standards that, e.g., mean my software can read and plot the data. But forget moi, CF rules!Otherwise. Ooof. My bad.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/netcdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#netcdf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hdf</a>

Roadskater, Ph.D.Belatedly remembering to announce a new release of the Panoply data visualization app (v. 5.4.3) has been posted. Now handles data on an ellipsoidal Mercator grid (per CF conventions!). Some fixes to the open-file dialog. Further ability to plot UGRID data was added a few weeks ago.See <a href="https://bit.ly/46QhhBW" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/46QhhBW</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/netcdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#netcdf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hdf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dataviz</a>

Roadskater, Ph.D.A new release of the Panoply data visualization app (v. 5.3.4) has been posted. Minor feature updates and bug fixes, plus some tinkering under the hood that could lead to major new features in the future.<a href="https://bit.ly/46QhhBW" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/46QhhBW</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/netcdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#netcdf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hdf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grib</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#java</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dataviz</a>

Pybonacci (no war)Argos is a GUI for viewing and exploring scientific data, written in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Python</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Qt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Qt</a>. It has a plug-in architecture that allows it to be extended to read new data formats. At the moment plug-ins are included to read <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HDF</a>-5, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NetCDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetCDF</a>-4, WAV, Exdir, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/numpy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#numpy</a> binary files and various image formats, but a plug-in could be written for any data that can be expressed as a Numpy array.<a href="https://github.com/titusjan/argos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/titusjan/argos</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#hdf