Notices by Irene Zhang (irene@discuss.systems)

Me explaining my job to my skating coach: I’m thinking of starting a new research direction, I’ve been working on my current one for 8 years, which is a pretty long time.
Her: wow, some of the kids on the ice aren’t even that old!

Went on a “walk” today. Max loves his walks so much that he comes running when I hold up his harness and leash and purrs while I put it on. PSA: keep your cats inside when unsupervised!! #cats #catsofmastodon #lynxpointsiamese

Sigh, maybe I just need to create a how to guide on: 1) how to spot incels, 2) how to keep them out of your lab/group, 3) how to get rid of incels if they have managed to get in. The men in the UW situation were clearly incels/men’s rights activists, not subtle in any way. The faculty just decided that they had more of a right to be there than the women. End of story. You let one Nazi into your bar and soon you are the Nazi bar.

@skinnylatte @sharon haha, I named my sister! I suggested Sharon, which my parents liked because her Chinese name is Shaoran, so now her name is Sharon Shaoran Wang

@skinnylatte when my sister @sharon was 4, she demanded to be called Sharon.com

Miso taking me for a walk around “his” neighborhood #cats #catsofmastodon

Teen Vogue nails it again. The American empire (like all others) is built on hate and cruelty. We are simply watching it decline. Unfortunately, also like all other empires, it is going to kill a bunch of people on the way down. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-admin-american-history-indigenous-people

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I’ve been so excited about this moss that I planted because I love the vibrant color and texture but today, I noticed that it BLOOMED. I didn’t even know that moss did that!! #mosstodon

Miso is back and back to being a gremlin. He’s really settled in to our house well and he’s been consulting with Pixel on the schedule. #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

@skinnylatte says more about Marin than Puerto Rico 😂. I’ve literally only been there twice in my life.

@Hello_KayT also to be clear, this is a pre-probation step, so it’s actually a serious academic consequence of reporting sexual harassment.

I recently found out that all of the women who have reported sexual harassment this year to the University of Washington Allen School of CSE received a “needs improvement” on their Review of Progress, except @Hello_KayT presumably because she published both a MICRO and a HotOS paper this year. I’m speechless. If nothing else tells you how UW treats women who complain, this tells you everything. I would give them a needs improvement on .. sexism.

@JessTheUnstill @pci_express I really don’t understand why people think this. Soo many people in power being like this is what it takes to get things done.

Whoa, as someone who is a bit of an engine nerd, I can’t believe that I didn’t know that all Suburus use a horizontal vs vertical engine!! https://www.jalopnik.com/1872037/why-subaru-still-uses-boxer-engines/

@skinnylatte My mom has been bringing it back from China for me! 😍

@skinnylatte Unless they are peanuts or sunflower seeds in the shell and one is playing mahjong.

@skinnylatte Yup, I started stocking these too. Delicious, healthy and full of protein.

@skinnylatte Have you read this? I know who will be in my gang. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

This is so interesting, I’m such a nerd about construction material. For example the development of reinforced concrete was a big deal because it has material properties that normal concrete doesn’t have and really changed the way that we build buildings. My other fun fact is that MIT thinks concrete is so cool that all of the main buildings are built from it including both big and little domes. https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-lasts-thousands-of-years