Notices by Yvonne Lam (yvonnezlam@mastodon.social)

I'm not saying we can never trust any idea that Management comes up with. But what is the domain where we (and they) can have reasonable faith that they aren't too far out over their skis?

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115793020396469583

At this point, a very real question becomes: where *can* we trust Management to come up with ideas?

@jannem I basically agree with that. I've been thinking with Jenny Odell's Saving Time quite a bit over the past year, so I tend to think we have been Taylorism-pilled to the point where I'm not sure I trust our reflexes with respect to division of labor.

@skinnylatte When I was in Montreal, I realized you could order bread and 100g of cheese or paté in delis. Blew my mind.

@skinnylatte Julie Lin's book, Sama Sama:

https://interlinkbooks.com/product/sama-sama/

@skinnylatte I have been reading a Malaysian cookbook that very carefully explains that technique as part of making a good rendang...

@jenniferplusplus Nope. Not doing it.

@skinnylatte Not that the aquarium doesn't do plenty of public outreach things already, but I would love marine life crochet patterns...

https://mastodon.social/@Jason@fouroclockfarms.club/114834644129076846

Not if you are a woman in tech, to use an example with which I am very familiar.

https://mastodon.social/@codinghorror@infosec.exchange/114740468840682572

@skinnylatte I need this fantasy novella.

We recently published our first handful of issue pages, covering trans healthcare, equality in the workplace, and Medicaid. These are all huge topics, and a lot is going on, so there will be updates, and, inevitably, corrections:

https://unbreaking.org/

@skinnylatte I keep meaning to ask if you've read Zen Cho's The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, and your thread reminded me of it again:

https://zencho.org/books/the-order-of-the-pure-moon-reflected-in-water/

US tech people, read this by @riastrad:
https://joinreboot.org/p/nearest-neighbors

Even if everyone is nice, it's a lot to have a couple thousand new followers, especially during a highly emotional time like the US election season. (And yes, it absolutely sucks that's what elections are like for some of us, but given that's the case, having an influx of new followers that is so big I couldn't vet them, look for people I recognize, etc., was not helpful.)

Mastodon, if you have to do starter packs, *please think about consent* for people being added to starter packs. The bluesky starter packs may be great for new accounts trying to find their people, but it has not necessarily been fun for people who've been added to starter packs without their knowledge. I feel like a couple thousand people looking for a coffee shop have suddenly turned up in my living room.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113506072148074093

@eaton Not surprised he wasn't paying attention when the teacher said that A Modest Proposal is satire...

When RMS made a nuisance of himself at a sff convention where an acquaintance was volunteering, the volunteers went to the grocery store and bought broccoli to make corsages for femme-presenting people. RMS apparently hates broccoli, so he spent the weekend staring at femme people's breasts, only to be repelled by the broccoli.

I am extremely excited to learn the word entiativity ("the perception of a social unit as a 'group,'" according to wikipedia)! Particularly in *sighs* US election season, it's going to be useful to me to be able to think about perceptions of groupiness.

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/113300894807623197

I would follow this woman into battle:

https://bsky.app/profile/madamehardy.bsky.social/post/3l5az2melem26

I saw a lot of similar kinds of arguments during the height of devops-as-a-movement. What I'd really like to know is what mastodon gates people value and why. That is, if someone thinks the search for the right instance is deeply important, I'd like to hear what their reasons are.

https://mastodon.social/@yvonnezlam/113182454235802935

@danlockton I still laugh when I think about the time when @eaton called Teams "the winchester mystery app".