Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 71

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-- Aristotle

Pont Champlain: de l'arsenic et du plomb sur le chantier… L'utilisation de produits de sablage contenant du plomb, de l'arsenic et du cyanure a provoqué un véritable branle-bas sur le chantier du nouveau pont Champlain au début du mois d'octobre. La Direction de santé publique a déclenché une enquête épidémiologique à la suite de l… — https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/201812/09/01-5207414-pont-champlain-de-larsenic-et-du-plomb-sur-le-chantier.php

@greenjon @jkl In fact this is almost what the Japanese had before the Meiji Restoration. To get in step with the rest of the world, they added two new weekdays to the (Chinese-derived) traditional five. This is why “Sunday” & “Monday” in Japanese are “Nichiyobi” & “Getsuyobi”, where “nichi” is 日 meaning “sun”, & “getsu” is 月, “moon”.

Practicing the fiddle is like playing Guitar Hero

Except afterward

I can play the fiddle

Thread: a really cool thing that students have told me about this term are "feminitives"—or basically just feminine endings on nouns. Russophone femininsts draw attention to women in non-traditional roles by ADDING feminine endings to words that don't usually have them.

e.g. vrach (doctor), vrachika (female doctor).

It's fascinating to me that this is the exact OPPOSITE of Anglophone feminist linguistic strategies. 1/

I'll consider the #fediverse a success when corporate social media sites start adding ActivityPub support to allow following/sharing from other networks, in order to stay relevant

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Welcome to this little scholarly patch of the Fediverse, where you can leave the outrage cycle behind, and just earnestly enjoy what it is that you're learning, teaching, researching or studying

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I encourage people to join other servers, or start their own.

However! mastodon.social is the gateway for those who are undecided, or who don't yet know about decentralization. It is also my baby just like the software itself. I do not appreciate hostility towards it when promoting the benefits of other servers. Thanks

:reddit: In /r/emacs... :

Emacs with Jupyter Notebooks?
Hello all, what's the integration between Emacs and Jupyter Notebooks looking like these days?

I found this post from two years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/5bzkyv/emacs_and_jupyter_notebook/

Thanks all!

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Les cas d'aide médicale à mourir en forte hausse… Le nombre de personnes qui ont eu recours à l'aide médicale à mourir (AMM) au Québec a connu une hausse significative cette année. Un total de 845 personnes l'ont reçue en 2017-2018 contre 638 l'année précédente, selon le rapport de la Commission sur les soins de fin de vie … — https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/sante/201812/07/01-5207129-les-cas-daide-medicale-a-mourir-en-forte-hausse.php

This is nice! It looks like the Government of Canada's Directive on the Management of Information Technology now says "Where possible, use open standards and open source software first" and goes on into detail with more guidance. I'm fully in favour of this sort of thinking, especially since it's a more free and sustainable approach https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=15249 #GCdigital #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

More Masto etiquette

Content Warnings may be new to many of you

Try to think of them as being similar to the Subject line of an email

They're not censorship; they're not a punishment; they're not something that need only be applied in cases where the content is very offensive

They're a piece of meta-data that it is polite to provide and that you're expected to supply in certain cases to help others to decide whether/when to engage with your post

This may raise the question, So when should I CW a post?

On scholar.social, we have a list of things where CW's are required: https://scholar.social/about/more

But beyond that, if you see people asking for CW's on a particular subject, add them! It costs you almost nothing and it can be very helpful for maintaining the kind of space we want here