Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 40

How a typo created a scapegoat for the AIDS epidemic - Macleans.ca
https://www.macleans.ca/culture/movies/how-a-typo-created-a-scapegoat-for-the-aids-epidemic/

Notre-Dame de Paris : que reste-t-il et qu'a-t-on perdu à jamais? | Le Huffington Post
https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/notre-dame-de-paris-que-reste-t-il-et-qua-t-on-perdu-a-jamais_fr_5cb5cc06e4b098b9a2da7009

À mon avis, on devrait reconstruire le toit avec une charpente en acier. Aucune raison à révenir à un sytème sensible au feu.

#NotreDame
#génie

Interview of Fr. Fournier, who entered a burning Notre-Dame to save the Blessed Sacrament and the Crown of Thorns [French, translation in comments] : Catholicism
https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/beazey/interview_of_fr_fournier_who_entered_a_burning/?ref=readnext

#NotreDame

"In the days since Notre Dame was ravaged by fire, [Fr.] Fournier has emerged as a central figure of the mission to rescue endangered treasures from the blaze.

"It was a task that emergency workers had prepared for. Firefighters held two training exercises at the cathedral last year that were focused on savings its treasures."

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/the-chaplain-the-cathedral-fire-and-the-race-to-rescue-notre-dames-relics

#NotreDame

"By imagining that they are fighting against fascists and white supremacists, their own lives are imbued with grandiose moral purpose. And if their opponents are fascists, then any means are justified to destroy them."

https://medium.com/@contact_38385/resignation-974d82c5d6bd?sk=f5764be639a3cad69efcce373a58da40

#CaylanFord

"It can also be tempting to imagine that your opponents are as bad as possible. [Their] election strategy involves portraying conservatives as cruel, intolerant, bigoted, and racist. And maybe it isn’t just an election strategy: this seems to reflect the genuine beliefs of many progressive activists."

@bthall @invaderxan Aren't your pdfs already searchable as text?

@boingbot Why it's like seeing what happens to a left-leaning person who's addicted to political Twitter/Facebook.

Maybe we should try to wean them away from screens, talking points and political bile by giving them subscriptions to intelligent and ideologically congenial magazines.

#politics

@dredmorbius
ẍ is the second derivative of x, normally with respect to t. ẋ is the first derivative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation

#Newton #calculus #physics

One of the grand trends in Canadian politics is to have opposing parties in power federally and provincially. When Stephen Harper is Prime Minister, then one by one the provinces turn red; but put Justin Trudeau into the Langevin Block, and the provinces turn blue.

This is presumably because Canadian voters want their provincial governments to fight for their interests against the Federal government, and feel that's easier if they belong to different parties.

#canpol #abpol

@invaderxan @bthall
I'm tempted to name the files by their authors, then sort them by the journal from which they came, but maybe that's a hard-copy way of thinking. Organisation by topic would probably be more logical, but then how should I classify my topics, and what about articles that address more than one topic?

Maybe throwing everything into a singe directory and then using search is the right approach; at least it requires minimal effort up-front.

@dredmorbius I learnt #physics at university in Canada using Newtonian notation.