Notices by Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️ (stevendbrewer@wandering.shop)

@Broadfork I told my wife that Tanuki-chan loves leaf piles.

"Oh, good," she said. "I'm glad she's gotten to play in leaf piles."

"Play?" I said. "Oh, no. She just loves to pee on them."

@Broadfork Tanuki-chan's favorite thing is probably drinking from the hose. #DogsOfMastodon

I took a picture of Tanuki-chan. But she didn't like it, so she barked at me. And then jumped on me. #DogsOfMastodon

@jonny Although tenure-system faculty don't have to fear being fired, they live in constant fear of the loss of funding. Because their entire enterprise is dependent on soft money, even a small gap in funding results in professional death — at least in the life sciences. If you lose your funding, you lose all your staff and can't purchase supplies to continue your research. And probably can't come back from that. This has contributed to a head-down conservative approach to any kind of activism.

@evan Can I write it in PHP as long as I call the python library somehow?

@evan What are these things you call "friends"?

I learned today that LinkedIn removed hate speech protections for transgender individuals from their policy on hateful and derogatory content. This is unacceptable for me and I won't use LinkedIn until these terms are restored. https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/linkedin-removes-transgender-hate-speech-protections/

@elilla I looked them up once. It's an aquatic slime mold. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxogastria

I wonder if Iran will strike mainland United States. I've heard the media speculating about Iran hitting US bases in the middle east, but I don't see why Iran wouldn't hit the US directly, if they could. I don't know what their capabilities are. Or what missile defenses the US may have deployed. If they did, I think a lot of people would be surprised.

The contact form on my website is basically only ever filled out by robots, so I added a checkbox that says, "I am a robot. Only check this box if you are a robot." https://stevendbrewer.com/contact-me/

Robots appear to find it irresistible.

Thirty years ago, I read William Greider's book "One World Ready or Not" that presciently described many of the consequences that trade with China would entail. One of his primary concerns was that the Chinese government could skim many of the profits that the West allowed corporations to skim. The net result was that they enriched the state while we enriched the wealthy. China built infrastructure (like high-speed rail) while billionaires bought yachts and helicopters and politicians.

Cybersecurity boxer prevents unauthorized computer access. #DogsOfMastodon

@evan If you have one persona, you don't have personae.

The Trump administration is withdrawing funding for scientific research. I have a suggestion for my colleagues: Every minute that you are unable to conduct your research, you should devote to public advocacy in support of higher education. https://stevendbrewer.com/a-suggestion-for-my-colleagues/ #science #research #HigherEducation

The real trolley problem is finding and stopping the ones who keep tying people to tracks.

@quinn @dansinker My brother @philipbrewer has an oura ring.

@cstross But where does my sapphic romantasy fit in that? 😉

@cstross What *I* want is an AI agent to hammer a company's phone tree until it gets a human on the line, puts them on hold, rings me, and then connects us.

I've decided to create a filter so posts containing the string "Trump" and "DJT" appear behind a content warning. But I made the mistake of naming the filter "trump" which meant I saw "Filtered by: trump" in my feed over and over again. So I changed it to be named "that fucker". Much better!

So *that's* how he did it!