I am not happy now.
Two organizations that are trying to make a difference:
The Journal of Trial and Error.
[The journal's editor-in-chief was interviewed by Nature.]
SURE: Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics
I found out about these today by the comments linked below:
Academic fraud is in no way a thing that is limited or even disproportionately prevalent in China. Perhaps the flavors of it are biased to one form or another in different cultures, but don't mistake that for more or less fraud in that culture. Perhaps you notice more from China simply because there are simply more Chinese people in the world than any other nation behind Indian people in India.
Incentives matter in any system. The incentives are perverse right now.
There was a whole season of The Wire that was dedicated to the theme of news publications demanding that more be done with less as budgets were cut. Craigslist was a major factor in the trend as it cut revenue severely for local publications.
It would be great if corn got that feature
There's a variety of maize that does fix nitrogen:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/amaizeballs/567140/
There are some political and technical hurdles to adapting it more broadly to the agricultural industry.
FYI: https://lemmy.ml/c/learningrustandlemmy
Maybe @SorteKanin@feddit.dk would be interested in helping people there.
The biggest thing that PieFed has done is get up and running on public data with new accounts open to the public. This trial by fire will make it fail fast or become much improved. It seems that the main developer is quite experienced and has thought about architecture and improvements that have already been implemented. I think it's promising for all of these reasons.
My biggest potential concern is that moderation tools have not been implimented yet (unless the were very recently).
As far as Python being difficult in larger systems, this can be mitigated by experience and good practice. But I tend to agree that Python is typically not the ideal choice for a large project.
Furthermore, a statement from Open Collective Europe: https://opencollective.com/europe/updates/regarding-the-announcement-to-dissolve-open-collective-foundation-us
It's easier not to look at when you know where it's prohibited from being posted.
To show up in your all listing, a post must be:
- from an instance that your instance is federated with and has not blocked
- from a community that someone on your instance is subscribed to
- from a community you haven't blocked
- from an account you haven't blocked
Rather than take a defeatist veiw from this line if thinking, it will do well for your mental health to first spend more time, energy and thoughts on things you can control. Not just things related to environmentalism, but broadly reduce energy, engagement and focus from the things you don't have significant control over and direct them to those things you do have control. It's good to get a broad picture and observe the world around you outside of your control in small doses, but it's easy to over indulge in an unfocused survey of problems in the world, especially on social media. (I include Lemmy communities in the social media category).
Furthermore, when you do engage with these problems, do so with more narrow focus and in more depth with an eye towards understanding the level of impact the problem has and what organizations or policy positions you can support to amplify your limited influence over the issues that causee the problem. In this way you can mitigate the feelings of helplessness and sense of there being many existential and imminent problems you need to contend with but cannot remedy. You can turn seemingly untouchable solutions into real possibilities without overwhelming your emotional capacity by working with others.