Notices by Doctor Memory (memory@m.blank.org)

@mekkaokereke Ironically I think this _starts_ to show up on reviews once you hit the tech lead levels, assuming (and it's not a given) that your company correctly evaluates tech leads.

But if you're a “mere” L2 with that skillset? Damned if I know how you're supposed to get recognized for it. :(

@inthehands @davidgerard speaking as someone at a small company: muah hah hah hah absolutely right. I’ve never had so much fun going through resumes.

@mekkaokereke Dear god. I'm all for labor unions but among their other properties they're a tool that gets used to decide _who gets to work_ and anyone who thinks that _wouldn't_ sometimes be applied in a racist manner in this country shouldn't be allowed to carry sharp objects unattended. Like just on first principles, never mind doing a tiny bit of research into their history.

RIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills

If you would like to do a small thing to help undo the mark that Henry Kissinger left on the world, I recommend a donation to the HALO Trust, which was working to de-mine Cambodia when I visited in 2002. The work continues. https://www.halousa.org/where-we-work/south-asia/cambodia/

In 2002, my partner and I visited Angkor Wat. The highway from the airport to our hotel was a pockmarked dirt road. People with missing and mangled limbs were a common sight. Reliquaries of bones stood in fields. Fuck Henry Kissinger, may his works crumble and his name be swiftly forgotten.

Shot in the dark here: did you, or anyone you know, work at the #Harvard Office of Information Technology (#OIT) circa 1997-98, AKA When Everyone Quit At Once over the summer? (Before or after the quitting is fine.)

If so... I have some questions which you are probably no longer legally enjoined from answering! 🤣

Also, a detail about O’Connor's SNL appearance that I only just now learned.

The woman was hard as nails.

@Polychrome @tasha aw damnit, that's a pity. She was occasionally frustrating to follow (probably my single most common use for a timed mute) but she was a unique voice (to put it mildly) and a rare unvarnished view inside the CCP and it sucks to see her muzzled.

@davealvarado @Polychrome @tasha I’m pretty sure she just means her wife can’t get an exit visa, but I guess we’ll find out. Or we won’t. (Obviously, yes, in custody would be more than just a pity.)