Notices by Steve Gisselbrecht (stevegis_ssg@mas.to)

@shayman @mattl

When I started at MIT in 1986, the internal email system (Project Athena) invited me to set up my email address, and suggested an ugly mishmash of letters from my name, and I naively signed up for steve@athena.mit.edu, which it turns out no one had taken. And yes, every time they changed the way aliases work, which they did all the time, I would get a flood of emails intended for other steves.

@shayman @mattl
lol

@goatsarah
Hi I have an iPhone 7 it's great.

(I had to check yesterday when this conversation [re]started.)

@emarktaylor @MagentaRocks

We will NOT get our hopes up!

@MagentaRocks @emarktaylor

Still gotta get rid of Zverev and then I will relax.

If you "won't vote for Biden because of his support for Israel" …

You might suppose a pirate's favorite programming language is R but nay. 'Tis the C he loves.

@futurebird
I only recently learned that an R function I use all the time is actually written in FORTRAN.

@theauracle
Holy crap the VOICE!

Okay, sex determination in humans.

This shit is COMPLICATED and this will probably be a longish thread. Sorry. But I've seen a lot of people claim that "biology says" that everyone is either male or female, full stop, and it's just not true. 1/22

I want to rescue this from my account on the birdsite but I once got into arguing with TERFs (it happens, try not to judge me too harshly) and as a biologist I just wanted to push back a little on the "it's just biology" line, so I wrote the following:

@BethanyBlack
There are literally billions of "neurotypical" people who would never get to that last sentence and you are a genius and a hero.

@BethanyBlack
Ooh, possible knuckle tat!

@BethanyBlack

NERD FLEX

@BethanyBlack
YOU DID IT!

@BethanyBlack
I'm sorry! It's a scary time!

I understand that sending texts in meticulously capitalized and punctuated complete sentences makes me An Old and the thing is I am 100% fine with that.

I'm delighted that the #USOpen put Venus on Arthur Ashe Stadium to open the night session and even if she doesn't do very well, she is Venus Fucking Williams and you will show the appropriate respect. #tennis

@dgar
The French call pie charts "cheese graphs."

@TomSwirly @cstross @aral @johnbierce @pluralistic

I do miss the not being evil.