Notices by Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io), page 2

@thomasfuchs The JRE for VMS, somewhat as well (though "maintained" means getting a contract coder to work with Java FFI to keep the beamline controls running at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center).

@inthehands (loud laughter). Let the Wookiee win!

@inthehands wait a minute there... do I hear echoes of A Plan For Spam?

@inthehands My approach to understanding a thing tends to be comparing three examples, so "a personally fitted SSG" would be a welcome part of compare and contrast learning.

There are many derivative static site generators which don't acknowledge that they are "Jekyll*, implemented in [language], plus [shiny feature!]"

*For Jekyll, substitute Hugo or Pelican or Eleventy or...

@inthehands Especially if its compensation model is stock-based, which accelerates the convergence between company decisions and demonstrating visible revenue growth (which is a narrow view of a business model).

@inthehands Golden retrievers! Who knew?

@inthehands Or the lessons from Microsoft's Tay about how terrible things can get, how quickly.

@thomasfuchs (looks for the rainbow sprinkled toaster pastries)

@thomasfuchs Tucson was my stand-out city for sky shows, if all the places I have lived.

@inthehands Seattle cheers along with blue skies after a couple of smoky days.

@inthehands Los Angeles California by contrast has far better, bluer cleaner summer skies than in my childhood.

Not so much San Francisco and northward.

@inthehands Puts me in mind of Wolfgang Pauli's "not even wrong" for well-formed but concept-free LLM output.

And how much of human production is plausible but shallow.

@inthehands @natematias @ct_bergstrom

Anticipating and communicating risks of unintended system consequences in our fields of expertise is a good start.

We need to be better at practicing recovery from and correcting bad feedback loops; the responsibility is societal, and the conversation is vexed by notions of rights, blame, and responsibility anchored in the individual.

@kellogh @inthehands Waldorf ended up being a failure for our child especially during the middle school grade years. He didn't relate well with creating an artistic lesson book. He was very happy to go to public high school. The system overweights the class teacher's responsibility to handle everything, which can sometimes be good and sometimes very bad.

Waldorf can be a good match for some, yes.

@inthehands I feel lucky, looking back, to have taken a course called "Method, Imagination, and Inquiry" in the English department at the University of Washington.

I find its history-of-Western-Thought content, as well as cultural anthropology, useful for insight into how people understand things together and share those understandings.

Curiosity based choices for me at the time.

@thomasfuchs Tucson is the farthest east that I lived ('90s), and in other birds, I was surprised to discover that the cardinal (red-crested finch) ranges so far west.

It's a very lively desert.

Thanks for the bird! I think that might be a mesquite tree it's sitting in.

@thomasfuchs Tucson is a very lively desert. I lived there ten years. Big for sky shows: rainbows, lightning storms; moderate streetlighting for the astronomers' sake. I taught astronomy lab at the U of A before switching to computer science. A lot of wildlife visible on the edge of town.

@nova Social media for me is navigating your contact graph from friends and colleagues into new spaces of particular topical or cultural interest and exploring them.

The Twitter to Fediverse export gave me a grand jumpstart to this process with many familiar folks already present.