Notices by Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)

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There's a guy in PA whose lifetime goal has been to plant 10 MILLION trees. And not tree plantations, a wide variety of Pennsylvania-appropriate trees and shrubs in yards, on farms, and in places we clear of invasive undergrowth (eg privet).

Obviously he doesn't do this on his own but rather through a large group of folks over time, although "Greg's sweat equity" is certainly a big part of it.

He emailed today to say he's got 200 to go and would I like to come to the work party on Friday.

@cwebber nononono close it

I started with reading "Get Me Out of Data Hell" https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/get-me-out-of-data-hell/

which gave me:

"Our CTO, who has never written code themselves, gets on stages every few months and just lies to people about things that the CTO can't possibly understand, pretending that any of this works and that they're a leader in the space."

I then veered into https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/quitting-my-job-for-the-way-of-pain/

which gave me

"Each day I go to the office, and I watch people senselessly babble about AI and robotics while what we actually do is maintain a pile of teetering spreadsheets and schemaless metadata"

and what I'm saying here is please stop feeling like you're behind if all you're comparing yourself to is the conference papers/presentations of peers vs. the quiet conversations over beer or tea or coffee or on the social backchannels.

@alpine_thistle I just really get Poison Ivy’s point

@hugh same 😭 I use remarkable nibs but the stylus is from … frick I forget I can look it up. It drops without cracking but doesn’t have that nice heft or eraser

Reading subsets of survey responses again. It’s fascinating when people are like “Alma is only good for the catalogers” or “FOLIO is good for the catalogers.”

My siblings in Ranganathan, I assure you that over half my survey respondents are catalogers and they would disagree.

So if anyone got invested in my vacuum saga, this diagram was quite helpful! I found this toothbrush from a travel kit that's probably been in there for a while actually but then it sucked up a nickel which caught it and brought things to a standstill. Circled where I found it.

Trying to figure out if my 8-year-old vacuum won't turn on for reasons I can fix or if I need to take it to the repair shop.

Please enjoy this WILD page from the manual, about how a biblically accurate angel might troubleshoot this.

Finished this quilt top tonight (just put borders on it). I’m gonna keep it as a hanging quilt. The good news is that it’s low key Halloween in many rooms in my house throughout the year (mostly my office but also elsewhere). So I don’t have to finish it by October 31.

Interviewee: We renovated my building a few years ago. And one of the they, you know, they're like, what? What features do you want? And I was like, I want a waterproof building. They were like, "ahaha"

Just came across this while cleaning up photos on my computer. Did Stanford ever hire that Linked Data Community Outreach Librarian role?

What I cannot recall is who made this.

about to have another interview, but just got breast biopsy results back!

no evidence of malignancy!

there is some weirdness that I'm hoping a phone call with the doctor will explain -- e.g. does this mean I really do have to go into their high risk program now (which I was planning to put off until 45 considering timing in my family is post-menopausal) or is this just already what we were thinking was going on?

Mods would like to remind you not to post anything that means we have to deal with Secret Service or other federal agencies, whether on main or any degree of locked.

I have been reading the book AUTOPSY OF A CRIME LAB and it didn’t surprise me too much that there was not any scientific data on things, but I was unsurprised and extra angry to learn that:

In 1985, the FBI convened an international symposium of scientists to set its guidance for hair matching forensics. Their report was that you cannot match hair. Hairs can at best be used to exclude someone. Like my husband’s red hairs and my brown hairs.

I haven't ever had to work under a review number quota system, but yesterday I read an aside that explained employer motivations for implementing them.

If you want to lay people off, you must pay severance/unemployment. If you require that x% of people must receive 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s on their evaluations, then the 1s can be fired after an "appropriate" period for "poor performance." Being fired for poor performance costs the employer nothing.

So it's a % layoff with no responsibility taken

No, spam filter, that's not spam, that's Welsh.

@foone oh dang, I have actually done that before but server-side :ohno: :goose_honk:

@alpine_thistle joke:
something something "organized" is always an aspiration anyway

related/unrelated, I keep having to remember to not read the comments on your IG mostly so I don't accidentally fight a Calvinist

(With words, obviously, the only weapon I am permitted)