Notices by Wren Reilly (akareilly@hachyderm.io), page 2

https://www.nasa.gov/general/katherine-johnson-a-lifetime-of-stem/

The engineers who got people safely to the Moon had to get where they were through mountains of bullshit, and excelled.

DEI is essential. DEI means *not* accepting mediocrity.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/margaret-hamilton-led-nasa-software-team-landed-astronauts-moon-180971575/

"One day, her daughter decided to “play astronaut” and pushed a simulator button that made the system crash. Hamilton realized immediately that the mistake was one that an astronaut could make, so she recommended adjusting the software to address it, but she was told: “Astronauts are trained never to make a mistake.”
During Apollo 8’s moon-orbiting flight, astronaut Jim Lovell made the exact same error that her young daughter had..."

Don’t worry; when it’s time to build the memorials in Berlin it will have been years after the atrocities so you can tell your grandkids you were in the Resistance, just like Opa told you about the 20th century.

#CeasefireNow

“Can’t we at least agree that Palestinians deserve the same consideration as anyone else?” is too much to ask from many Germans.
50% of the people in Gaza are children. Dude doesn’t care.
10,000 children dead: “Hamas numbers!”
Yes, there is resistance to Hamas “Where are they?”
They are, like Russian activists, subject to surveillance and abuse. “I’m done with this”
Germany, 2024.

@snarfed.org The GDPR applies to US-based companies that offer services to people in EU Member States. It applies to not-for-profit organisations. It will apply to you. Figure this out before launch.

Besides, consent matters even if you don't get fined for ignoring it.

You don't hate project management.
You hate a mediocre tech bro's interpretation of project management

You don't hate product management.
You hate a mediocre tech bro's interpretation of product management.

Go find the people those tech bros were talking over last year. Hire them. Listen to them.

When something underrepresented people have been arguing for becomes trendy, it gets diluted by mediocre overrepresented people in tech.

Break the cycle. Stop building mediocre teams.

With more hospitals being attacked and the conditions violating all standards of decency and human rights treaties, #CeasefireNow for Gaza

Never again is now for everyone.

The news in Germany: Farmers protesting fuel taxes prevented Vice Chancellor Habeck from leaving a ferry on Thursday, and are planning to block roads with their tractors in flood-ravaged areas despite the protests of hospitals.

This wasn’t just blocking a boat; they attempted to storm it and reach a Green Party politician. Ambulances will not be able to get to the hospitals.

This is after years of news coverage against climate activists for gluing themselves to roads, “because ambulances!”

In addition, Germany has its own sovereign citizens movement led by a self-proclaimed king. Small villages must be wary of these Reichsbürger movement members, who want to buy up property to establish their own government that rejects the modern German state.

They tie into a wellness-to-fascist pipeline that is anti-vaccine and eugenicist.

So no, I’m not worried about immigrants. We’ve got extremists at home.
Climate activists are trying to help. The extremism is fossil fuel promotion.

CCC relying on a serial boundary violator to respect boundaries is the clearest example I can think of about the need for the humanities in STEM.

If you’re going to #37c3 please be considerate of the people around the event space and wear a mask.
There are doctors’ offices.
There are people who need to be on trains and busses.
There are people who work in the cafes and restaurants.
You’re at an event notorious for being a superspreader event, even before the pandemic.
COVID is not over. Wear a mask.

Oh wow the site that wouldn’t remove transphobia shit won’t remove Nazi shit it’s like those things are connected somehow wow.

Remember that it’s a GOVERNMENT doing this. The baddies here are politicians.

Not an ethnic group. POLITICIANS.
Not a religion. POLITICIANS.
Certainly not any of the children, who can’t even vote. POLITICIANS.

#CeasefireNow

Making members of an ethnic group walk for miles and miles because otherwise you’ll kill them has been done before, and the perpetrators aren’t remembered as the good guys.

What are the elderly, disabled, injured, sick, dehydrated, and very young people supposed to do?

Never again is now, for everyone.

#CeasefireNow

This is why I hit back so hard at the idea that US people are clueless, that people are at fault for a lack of healthcare, public transit, vacation time, and free university.

I hit back hard against the idea that racism isn’t a European problem.

When insulin costs more than your rent and the bicycle lanes are gone and student loans bankrupt your kids IT WILL BE BECAUSE OF RACISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA.

White Europeans will vote against their own interests over and over again if a politician says something benefits immigrants.

@pettter @dymaxion

It depends on the state whether a tenants’ union provides any protection for renters.

@dymaxion Or when their tenants’ parents have lawyers so they can cosplay as poor students in peace.

Hell, I ended up in a privileged position because my mother would visit with a 60 kg dog. The maintenance visits while I was in the shower stopped. “Is the dog going to be there?” “I don’t know, Bob. My mother doesn’t have to tell me she’s visiting. She could be on her way with the dog RIGHT NOW.”

I always think back to telling MIT PhDs why their befuddlement at poor people wanting houses of their own, despite variable rate mortgages being the only option, stemmed from ignorance of the state of tenants’ rights, something they would know about if they didn’t have a silver spoon shoved in their gobs from the moment they took an interest in cryptography.

One of them was the cofounder of a privacy tech org.

They weren’t aware that landlords just barge in to your home.

There’s nothing wrong with being a minimally social tech nerd.

The problem is when your thinkfluencing stems from the idea that everyone should be like this.

Look, most extroverts seem like vampires to me and I’m happily childfree but there is nothing wrong with wanting to surround yourself with loud, sticky, tiny humans who grow up to be loud, slightly less sticky, taller humans who enjoy eye contact.

FFS.

People have always made images. How do we do this without burning it all down?