If you don’t know Shaun Tan, you really should buy copies of some of his books. They are all gorgeous.

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Maybe someone needs to start a science shitposts community

Those arc sides are parallel in polar coordinates.

This is a square in polar coordinates

I think any scientist should able to convey at least the high level concepts that they’re working on at the level that a smart 12th-grader can follow. If you can’t do that, I think that’s a sign that you’re probably not thinking about your work very clearly. Being able to distill things and context-switch back to a birds-eye view of your work is critical for knowing what direction you’re heading in.

(I say this from the perspective of a climate scientist - our field has a pretty active public/lay conversation and lots of science comma, but I think the concept still applies to other sciences, and social sciences.)

I mean, if the main draw-card is convenience, then signal isn’t going to have much holding power (especially when combined with the network affect problem and attentions grabbing design of other message apps).

Signal will only really succeed if there is a critical mass of people in your circles who care about security to some degree (it works well for me for this reason).

Doesn’t every phone have an SMS app? What’s the benefit of having SMS in signal?

Milloy has been spouting denial for decades, but this might be the dumbest thing I’ve seen him say yet.

That’s kind of a myth though, isn’t it?

Like, OK, they probably have more mature security systems in place (but that’s definitely not guaranteed, especially with anything middle tier or smaller), and at least they have cash reserves so you might get something if you can figure out how to sue them.

But most businesses would be well happy to make a quick buck off selling whatever private data they managed to get their hands on.

I’d be surprised if someone hasn’t already tried to make a business out of redistributing background check information, now that I think about it…

Not trying to tell you what do do (I bet there’s heaps of people that would see it the same way as you)

But it seems kind of odd that people are happy to give a background check to a corporate employer who doesn’t give shit about them (and who they don’t care about or feel any responsibility towards), but wouldn’t do the same for a community org position that necessarily involves more responsibility to the broader community.