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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 13:34:49 JST Anil Dash

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   • Jens Finkhäuser
   • Sumana Harihareswara
   • Fastly Devs

   @jens @brainwane @devs we’re offering web-scale buttholes now

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     Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 13:34:58 JST Jens Finkhäuser

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     • Sumana Harihareswara
     • Fastly Devs

     @brainwane @devs Why is there a stylized image of a butthole on the wall?

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     Sumana Harihareswara (brainwane@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 13:35:00 JST Sumana Harihareswara

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     • Fastly Devs

     I started thinking about this as I sat in the audience of the @devs #Fastly live event on Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgNjS1_kOW8 during which they announced some no-kidding good things, such as a significant new service donation to some open source projects.

     And: a curtain was rigged up to add polish to entrances and exits. And speakers asked us to shout "instant" at them.

     A proper product launch, these days, is accompanied by a dramatic ritual, and Jobs and Engelbart were not the only forebearers.

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     Sumana Harihareswara (brainwane@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 13:35:01 JST Sumana Harihareswara

     there must be a documentary somewhere that illustrates and analyzes the history of Silicon Valley oratory

     I want to watch rhetoric researchers discussing:

     * early role models who influenced the speech/presentation styles we're so used to now
     * changes in mics, slide/video tech, and staging/venues and how they affected speaker capabilities and audience expectations
     * what speakers from marginalized groups did to overcome or play with audience bias