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Plausible theory of the current insanity I owe to @ecourtem.bsky.social: 1) Before social media, women couldn't share experiences directly (unmediated by men) on a scale to generate phenomena like MeToo. 2) A lot of anti-woke reaction is masculine horror at getting called on their bullshit.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

The jury pool video is all “rah rah” and very good about eliciting strong feelings about civic duty, and meanwhile I’m sitting here knowing full well they aren’t gonna seat me. ☹️

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

try to be there if you can

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Someone on the Maintainers listserv wondered if there's any critical discussion about the death of "open" tech projects. I'm wondering if anyone knows of rituals, protocols, etc., around "sunsetting" (composting?) or related practices?

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Seems like the Supreme Court's cheering on cholera too?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

as Musk hurts more and more people, the next discourse will be "if only trump knew, he would ..." At least that's what happens next with the corrupt first minister/grand vizier/etc. discourse.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Astonishing good news!!!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

In which I find myself on the front page of the Sunday op-ed section in the newspaper my parents have subscribed to since I learned out to read it, hoping to rally hometown opposition to the Trump administration's destruction of federal research agencies 🌿 Local boy makes op-ed

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It bears noting that those medieval life expectancies aren't because people were regularly dropping dead in their mid-30s (tho overall mortality was definitely higher), it was because infant and childhood mortality was 30-40%! Incredible survivorship bias in how some people think about these things

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

We're all trying to be careful with our language, so as not to offend, or not to lose federal funding for talking about paragraph transitions. To help you out, here's a worksheet to guide you in swapping out troublesome phrases for real, historical eel expressions. 🗃️🧪

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

I wish that people in mainstream culture had listened to us nerds when GamerGate was happening and when the Sad/Rabid Puppy situation was going on with the Hugos. They were movements, writ small, of what is now eating my country.

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

Dear Manager, This week I: 1. Gave three rings to the Elven-kings under the sky, 2. Gave seven rings to the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, 3. Gave nine rings to Mortal Men, doomed to die, 4. Gave one to the Dark Lord on his dark throne, 5. OK, I'll admit that was probably a bad idea.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you king. Calling yourself "princeps" definitely doesn't make you king. Really. I promise.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 19 days ago • 831 comments

Taken from user _greens_eggs_and_sam_ on reddit. The battle cry of the Nac Mac Feegle, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (first from Wee Free Men)

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

This looks like a fantastic postdoc opportunity at Cornell, slated to work with a wonderful team. They're looking for someone who does English/cultural studies + DH, with emphasis on computational work.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

submitted 28 days ago • 143 comments

Fun day in the Waymack/Mercury household as we figure out hyperphantasia/aphantasia. My spouse and my dad both apparently can generate photorealistic images and just, like, hold them in their minds? Meanwhile, I have the concept of an image.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes things unexpectedly turn out well. Case in point: the billionaire who more-or-less bought the election. No, not that one. Pritzker in 2018.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Remember, kiddos, letterpress printers did radical shit like put two letter ‘u’s next to one another to make a ‘w’ when they were out of sorts like w O man, a whole lot of NSF grants these days might be out of sorts too.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone keeps leaving out that it's not D.E.I. it's D.E.I.A. the accessibility bits are being scrubbed too.

submitted 32 days ago • 14 comments

palate cleanser: loaf vs ciabatta

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

submitted 36 days ago • 75 comments

Today seems like a good day to do some maintenance tasks on items I already own, to ensure they last longer. Oiling and waxing wooden kitchen utensils. Conditioning leather chairs. Household shoe polishing is also happening, but that's not my purview.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Archiving will be some of the most important work that we can do collectively over the next several years.

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

And sometimes a stray pixie (electron?) gets into it so it stops working as expected, and you need to perform a sacred ritual (turning it off and on again) in order to vanquish it.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone else with "traditionally" feminine hobbies feeling weird as there's this flood of hyper-gendered content pushed? A friend just vented about all the impeccably manicured hands cooking. The gardening algorithms go tradwife so fast.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment