Sumana Harihareswara @brainwane@mastodon.social

I'll be at the last @osbridge today & am leaving Portland late tomorrow night. Looking forward to chatting and learning. Also: hope to verify safety numbers/keysign with a lot of people using PGP & Signal!

Some songs and books that have helped me get through news despair: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2018/06/27/0

I'll be in Portland, Oregon for the final http://opensourcebridge.org/ (my firm Changeset Consulting is a sponsor) later this week. Happy to talk with you there about grantwriting, running better meetings, future availability for client engagements, Python packaging & more!

signal-boosting
Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)
‏ @DIAL_community
Jun 19

.@DIAL_Community’s Open Source Center announces new Strategic Grants to support #T4D #opensource projects. These grants support solutions to common challenges that projects face when implementing #FOSS products. Read more: https://bit.ly/2lnOOy9 #ICT4D #ICTD #FreeSoftware #HFOSS
https://digitalimpactalliance.org/the-digital-impact-alliance-open-source-center-announces-strategic-grants-to-foster-ecosystem-change/

signal-boosting from birdsite:
Nathaniel J. Smith
‏ @vorpalsmith

FYI, I have some availability for consulting over the next few months. I'd be especially interested if anyone wants to pay for work on Trio or Python async more generally (e.g. adding async support to urllib3/requests).

The kind of things I do: https://vorpus.org/blog/a-farewell-to-the-berkeley-institute-for-data-science/

If you use the HTTPS Everywhere browser plugin https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/ , you may need to update to fix a vulnerability. https://lists.eff.org/pipermail/https-everywhere/2018-June/002782.html

signal-boosting @Keffy https://twitter.com/Keffy/status/1009517325656186881

Podcasts are super awesome! I love them! But podcasts have an access problem for people who are Deaf, HoH, or otherwise can't process audio. You can hire me for podcast transcription: http://www.keffy.com/hire-me/ $50/audio hour, ~24 hour turnaround. Make your 'cast more accessible!

signal-boosting a 19-post thread https://twitter.com/teioh/status/996298986783846400 by @teioh that was on the birdsite:

I think it’s worth mentioning with all the retirement talk going around that the very idea that everyday people could save up their own money to retire was basically unthinkable until the (very unevenly distributed) post-WWII boom.

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Alexandra Erin
‏ @alexandraerin

If you're playing "devil's advocate" at a stranger thinking they have not considered all aspects of an argument, think about your own standing to make this assumption. The demand that we rebut all possible objections each time we speak adds up to a demand for silence.

originally: https://twitter.com/alexandraerin/status/1003721113736761344

signal-boosting https://twitter.com/victoriadrew/status/997473813964058624 , a 7-post thread by
Lydia Nickerson
‏ @victoriadrew

I think the thing that's under-appreciated about Trump's calling people animals is that this is really just the flip side of the way he talks about people he approves of as "high quality." Trump clearly believes that people have an intrinsic value...

https://twitter.com/johnpaulspiro/status/1009400397490982912 I've been a fan of @johnpaulspiro's work for 10+ years -- looking forward to this event in NYC tonight (and already appreciated and learned from the Public Theater's summary of Coriolanus https://www.publictheater.org/PageFiles/27024/PSI_Coriolanus_Synopsis.pdf !)

https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/17-18-Season/Shakespeare-Initiative/Coriolanus-and-the-Death-of-Democracy/

signal-boosting from birdsite: Michael Downey
🇺🇳
‏ @downey

On the heels of closing apps for our $150k USD grants for #OpenSource "dirty jobs", today we're announcing a new $900,000 grant purse for #ICT4D #FLOSS projects' strategic work. Official announcements coming later today, preview now at http://www.osc.dial.community/

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Open Tech Strategies
‏
We're hiring! We need an ace project manager to oversee FLOSS development. Help us spread the word-- referrals will be compensated with chocolate! https://opentechstrategies.com/#jobs

Circa 1999, I got a Napster t-shirt (free? for ~$5?) at an https://www.eff.org/ event at Boalt Hall at UC Berkeley. The double-take dividends for wearing it to 90s nostalgia events are now rolling in. https://twitter.com/jessiepeterson/status/1004153736883789825

New York State neighbors: need to vote absentee in the June 26th primaries? June 19th is the last day to postmark an application (by mail) for an absentee ballot.

http://www.elections.ny.gov/VotingDeadlines.html

More info, for NY state in general + NYC:

http://www.vote.nyc.ny.us/html/voters/absentee.shtml

http://www.elections.ny.gov/VotingAbsentee.html

https://eruthros.dreamwidth.org/343901.html "Straightening Up the House" is a 4-minute political video remix and a systematic indictment of a common weak excuse by Marvel moviemakers. Witty, angry, sad. I can't recall when I've seen a better-executed video argument.

signal-boosting from birdsite:

@eruthrosish

Here's the vid I made for the @VidWisCon #WisCon42 vid party!

Straightening Up the House, Marvel comics and films.

Streaming or download at dreamwidth: https://eruthros.dreamwidth.org/343901.html

Or streaming at the AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14793695

https://twitter.com/twwings/status/1001522450406887424 or https://thingswithwings.dreamwidth.org/226409.html

I showed this vid to my spouse and told him: this is how our partnership feels. This is how you support me.