Notices by John Lusk (tarheel@mstdn.io)

@cwebber @jalefkowit

What, whut?

No idea what's going on, but... uh... fired for union organizing? If so, not good.

@cwebber @jalefkowit

Context, for those confused (like me):

«If that name doesn’t mean anything to you, here is what it should mean. Vibber took over as lead developer of MediaWiki, the platform that runs Wikipedia, in early 2003. She was the first full-time employee the Wikimedia Foundation ever hired, and its first Chief Technical Officer. For more than twenty years she was the engineer you called when something deep in the code was broken.»

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Oops, meant to add: https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

@thomasfuchs @StillIRise1963

Ya know... I've been saying something like this for a while. The kids are gonna learn. We won't expect it, and we won't know how, but they'll acquire a natural immunity to the stuff that my generation has totally fallen for.

@inthehands

Has Walz not done a Pritzker yet?

https://share.google/aimode/UZKLxMVTL3GDkh7LX

@thomasfuchs @sundogplanets

Is that mv^2/2? All that energy comes from rocket fuel, right? 1/1,000th seems like a lot.

@inthehands

Actually, yeah, good point. She *knew* the House wouldn't open it to amendments.

@GottaLaff

😳

Going straight back to the reason grand juries were invented, in... Medieval England, because corrupt, oppressive governments were a thing even before the Enlightenment.

@GottaLaff

Oh, hey, I found some waste, fraud, and abuse.

Just to say... threw some money at Susan Crawford (WI Supreme Court election) just now. Threw some money at Florida special elections (Josh Weil, Gail Valimont) a day or two ago.

I'm not doing banner drops or protesting on a Wednesday at noon, but, in the spirit of everybody doing what they can....

@danwentzel

Not just AIDS. No infectious disease respects international borders. TB, polio, ebola, ...

@pluralistic

@GottaLaff

Glad you turned me on to Democracy Forward in Jan., and @heidilifeldman induced me to contribute more recently. If I wind up on a list, I couldn't be prouder.

@inthehands @benroyce @StillIRise1963

Caveat: that's a public debate. Cost of losing is high. (Benefit of winning is high, too, but, new caveat, it might not stick. Wow, I'm so negative. :/ )

@benroyce

I think there's a large fraction that doesn't know, doesn't care and/or doesn't care to know. Low-info voting prolly won't help; turnout doesn't help any more.

So it's more "care, motherfuckers." Maybe a taller order.

@ananasparachute

So, we hate royalty, except when...

@inthehands

@VeroniqueB99

Saint/Communist:

"When I feed the people, they call me a saint. When I ask why the people don't have enough to eat, they call me a communist."

@_L1vY_

@simon_brooke

I see the argument, but for you as a coder of CMSes, static is a step down in complexity, but for me (also a coder but, you know, cobbler's children, etc.), interposing a build/deploy system (unless it's on Netlify or some such, and that only adds complexity) is a step up. I "blog" from a variety of places (home pc, work pc, android, ideally linux) and having a build system, with all dependencies resolved, everywhere, is an issue.

@pls @dansinker @liztai

@dansinker

P.S. If you're just starting a blog now's a great time NOT to use WordPress.anything.

@liztai

@GottaLaff

There's always wonkette. 🙂

https://www.wonkette.com/p/actually-trump-caved-to-colombia

@onyxraven

Now I'm way overdoing this because I'm a dork, but my go-to recipe is from the old Joy of Cooking: https://www.reddit.com/r/Old_Recipes/s/EzNEPf9vBN

@timbray @mekkaokereke

@onyxraven

Yaaas, butter! Also: buttermilk (instead of milk) reacts with the baking soda and you get fluffiness, if you don't over-mix.

Throw fresh blueberries ON TOP of the pancake you just started in the pan, right in the still-raw dough. Short-order cook trick I once saw.

#dadsCook #menCook I guess.

@timbray @mekkaokereke