there is a phrase in scientific publishing where people plagiarize a paper but run it through a thesaurus to change certain words to make it less obvious. thing is, randomly picking things up from a thesaurus leads to what is called tortured phrases.

• counterfeit consciousness
• torment executioners

retraction watch has more

if it remember it correctly it was said in relation to algorithm optimization > code optimization

awesome! thanks the tip!

I’m using vim mode in my bash and i agree that a mode indicator would be nice

German is a bit ambiguous here. we use Fleisch for animal flesh that is eaten as food (meat) but also in the sense of flesh in general.

well for companies it makes sense i guess. after all they could spend their money on other social media thingies if their research shows that mastodon isn’t working for them.

but what really bothers me is that this article shows that companies become interested in mastodon. i really would love to have a place just for people to interact not companies and their stupid social media teams. on their hand there’s a good chance that I’ll never even notice their posts anyways.

uhh this is dark. I’ll have to follow up on this. brr