Back to deploying those "how to do normal things while big things that are terrible are happening" skills.
Notices by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 03:22:02 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. -
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 05:15:00 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. Putting GNOME on a tablet seems like . . . a really bad idea.
Tablets are just screaming out for a for more restrictive, prescriptive UI framework. And GNOME is very much not that.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 23:02:50 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. Off to church to help replace the Pride decorations that someone decided to tear down and trash this week.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 05:06:03 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. @aral I have written some amazing code between the hours of 1 and 4 in the morning. Seriously.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 06:55:53 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. Anyone know WTF is happening at UNC or why we just went to critical emergency response?
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 06:55:49 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. Apparently negotiations broke down between the admin and the student protestors. So we go to critical status or something.
And in response someone shared this, which is just ****ing perfect.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-message-from-the-chancellor-on-the-recent-student-protest
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 02:04:52 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. It's insane -- these companies basically have license to print money for decades on end just by doing the same basic job over and over again. But the stock market gets antsy and wants higher returns. And it all comes crashing down. (Literally, in Boeing's case.)
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:02:22 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. I agree and that needs to be fixed pronto. I fully agree with your comment. Relying on X11 support to keep major functionality going forward is a really, really bad work around and is unfair to people who rely on screen readers.
(EDIT: slightly misread your angle on this the first time, we're in either full or almost full agreement, I think.)
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 00:13:20 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. As much as I loved X11 30 years ago its time has long since come and gone. Absolutely sucks about the screen reader though.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 04:26:32 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. I appreciate having a church where the "swords into plowshares" Sunday school lesson uses the conversion of the Charlottesville Lee statue as an illustration and the children's time on the Sunday after Thanksgiving emphasizes land acknowledgement and land debt.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 04:23:42 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. Because of my cracked tooth and the recent oral surgery I had to work on it, I can't have hot drinks at the moment.
Lukewarm coffee is disappointing at the best of times, but it's made worse by the fact that I haven't quite gotten the knack of how much cold water to add late in the process, so today I'm drinking lukewarm, weak coffee, and now I'm sad.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 03:22:24 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. Also from experience the reason most co-ops don't expand more is because their internal incentives don't line up in a way that bank risk modelers understand, and so getting financing for expansion is a pain in the rear.
Better financing for co-ops could see an explosion in the sector.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 03:22:22 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. Oh, there are plenty of good lenders who do that kind of work. But they don't get anywhere near the kind of underwriting support from state coffers and central banks that conventional lenders do.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 02:05:45 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. My dude I'm not actually going to smack someone over this.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 01:44:34 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. Well I would turn the other cheek so they could slap me afterwards . . .
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 07:35:33 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. I want to take whoever started the "anything less than five stars is unacceptable" thing and smack them.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 02:33:04 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. I really appreciate how the authors don't fuck around with the kicker.
"So, in short, social inequality causes stress, leading to shortened telomeres and, in turn, premature aging, disease and early death."
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 02:32:20 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. I am grateful for all the work done to realize just how much stress and injustice drive so many contemporary ills.
This is a gift link so no paywall. Please boost widely as I think this is a superb article that many would enjoy.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 00:25:29 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. @georgetakei I do remember "The Dan Quayle Question" articles but that was because he was uniquely prone to howlingly embarrassing incidents.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 13:03:40 JST Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. @atomicpoet @socialmedianews I remember when AOL opened up access to the broader internet, including UseNet. And because of that, I am not enthused about Meta suddenly joining ActivityPub.