Notices by George Dinwiddie (gdinwiddie@mastodon.social)

I love my library!

@CoachMark
Just a world-wide thing.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/12/1158286

@sjvn 😱

@jawnsy @inthehands
I highly recommend her book of the same title.

@sjvn The enshittification of plumbing!

@phaedral @Chrishallbeck
And I thought an expert was a "has been (ex) drip, under pressure (spurt)."

Advice for the day:

@inthehands
I've never found a student's survey about technical attitudes that I can answer honestly. They don't allow answers they didn't anticipate, and they don't do a good job anticipating because they don't have broad enough experience.

@grimalkina @sue
I'm not sure I have the links to our sources of this idea, but at NIH they found that they got more value from their research bucks using a lottery than by having "experts" select from the grant proposals. The experts are attracted to more of the same, rather than new ideas.

@grimalkina @sue
WRT selection, we use a random selection process at AgileDC (https://www.agiledc.org/https/wwwagiledcorg/agiledc-program-selection) and the results are wonderful. It's also much easier.

@rebeccawb @grimalkina @sue
Another example of how advertising is given more weight than substance.

@sue @rebeccawb @grimalkina My point is that they are less “known quantity” than “known reputation.” That’s what makes it easier.

It’s kinda like the old saying “nobody ever gets fired for recommending IBM.”

@phaedral
See https://blog.archive.org/ and @textfiles

@VeroniqueB99

@sjvn
Is that a bowl of petunias falling from the sky?

A friend shared this thought with me, and, to be honest, I find it a little depressing.

@jeffowski
That's not what "political correctness" refers to.

@jeffowski
What's called "political correctness" is mostly being polite to people who are already being oppressed.

If you stand with the oppressors, so be it.

@jeffowski

Fight ignorance!