Notices by Josh Wells (josh@fediscience.org)

@thekitmalone @brian @hoosiersocial
Congratulations to all of you, and thanks for being an exemplary model for expanding reach of quality social media in Indiana!

NPR quits Twitter. Good. Now it’s time for every actual government account to cut the bird cord. There needs to be a social.gov server where federal accounts can post news and alerts without supporting an increasingly abusive misinformation company.
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@io
Jargon and milestones throughout CS comes from the arts.

First programmer? Daughter of the poet Byron.

Robots? From a Czech play in the 1920s.

Cyber[insert concept]? Famous science fiction novel.

And so on … obliviousness to these cultural debts is what makes the torment nexus possible