Christopher Neugebauer

"Hermeneutical injustice" is a phrase used to describe the situation where a person has had an experience that they cannot easily make socially understood, often because no label yet exists to create a common reference point.

Anyway, apropos of nothing, here's a term my dad invented 25 years […]

(You can find Renaissance paintings of the dream Saint Jerome had in which angels beat him as punishment for reading pagans, and of him beating himself with a rock to try to purge his love for Cicero.)

Me whenever i automatically murmur “mischief managed”

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued. This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, which you can access any time on your AOL plan dashboard. To manage or cancel your account, visit MyAccount.

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

ht @mattl

Potentially uncomfortable but true: if you're doing A/B testing *of any kind* on users who did not explicitly consent to be part of such a test, you're performing unethical research on human subjects.

(Repost dup up from an old :birdsite: thread of mine.)

infinite examples of this, but it really is zuckerberg's metaverse bet that crystalizes this for me. he got up in front of the entire world and bet against the idea of physical pleasure and hasn't been forced to resign in disgrace

omg I just saw a quote post in mastodon for the first time and I am quite pleased

@amethyst go to england, order `black` pudding

@offby1 Enjoy it! I won't be there this year, but it is, every time, one of the most rewarding events I make it to.

@mathowie so glad to hear the league has finally entered the 20th century

@glyph just dropping in here to say that the pause is – in no small part – down to having excellent staff to keep on top of things like this, and they deserve a lot of credit 👍

2-3. If you're in the community and you're just feeling vaguely good about the PSF but not fundraising for them, participating in governance, or just generally helping out, well, this is a PR opportunity to get involved. We cannot passively accept all this work that the board — and for that […]

However, even in the face of decreasing funds, the PSF is taking pretty big chunks of money for corporate donors and routing it to lots of different deserving projects and communities that are working hard to improve the global Python community, even in the face of *significant* geopolitical […]

It is of course not all good news. The fact that the PSF has funded a loss for PyCon for 2 years running is indeed quite bad. The fact that almost all regional conferences also make losses and need to be funded via grants, rather than contributing back to the PSF pool, is also bad. The overall […]

Meta's 'Anti-Godfather' Offers As we cross into ten-figure territory, people keep turning them down...

There will probably be nothing more damning ever written about Meta than the fact that there are so many people Zuck literally can't pay to join them. And not just regular amounts of money – obscene amounts of money. A billion dollars.

https://spyglass.org/metas-anti-godfather-offers/

hot women whispering in me ear "low battery, please recharge the headset"

i am slowly coming to understand that activism should be build on joy, community, and connection - not anger or fear.

anger and fear are very valid emotions to feel in the current political situation* but trying to build a movement out of them leads to burnout and brittle, polarized communities […]

SCAM ALERT

An elderly adult may go up to you and pinch your nose without your consent then claim to have stolen your nose

Do not attempt to pay them to reacquire your nose

They do not have your nose

Their supposed proof is just their thumb in between two of their fingers

Do not engage them […]

As promised, another plane 🙃

STS 😶‍🌫️ PHX STL

At an airport again, as it turns out.

@bitprophet I had a funny retort until I remembered that a harbor freight just moved into a space that was usually a Spirit Halloween around here

I am home; #PyOhio was an utter delight (A++ would go again), but I am very much looking forward to being in California for *checks watch* 6 days

actual home time now

CLE DFW 🥧 STS

ok home time

CLE 😴 DFW STS

And a hat tip to @aurynn , whose work I refer to far too frequently, but I am not going to tag into another hemisubtoot.

I have internalised that contempt culture* is a bad thing to the point that I recognise Oracle as a target of contempt culture and I think this is a valid thing to recognise.

* https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture

@kyle I am at PyOhio and @kattni says hi, so this is me passing that on

@SnoopJ
This is nothing if not a trick

Just announced `pip install fromless` at #PyOhio. Guess I should actually write the README for the next release.

I have now written the README

please clap?

Just announced `pip install fromless` at #PyOhio. Guess I should actually write the README for the next release.