boosting Karsten Wade
@`quaid
Ready for writers!

The Open Source Way 2.0 call for writers is now open:

https://lists.theopensourceway.org/archives/list/contrib@theopensourceway.org/thread/FH4QIIZODQPP4CA6H5YTWBAYYUGWB4G7/

Yes dear friends, it's really happening. #opensource
//@`opensourceway

boosting Jen Myers
@`antiheroine https://twitter.com/antiheroine/status/1254806481783844865
Twitter friends, I have reactivated my full-time job search. Please spread the word and reach out if you would like to chat! hello@jenmyers.net Links to more info in the thread.

I also have some availability in the near future for some small gigs, so if you have a discrete writing project or would like a bit of website/newsletter/remote work consulting, we can set that up.

boosting Elizabeth Barron
@`ElizabethN
Bonus benefit to mask wearing is nobody tellin us to smile more
🙃

boosting Steven J. Cooke https://twitter.com/SJC_fishy/status/1257345591698436103
@`SJC_fishy
I have $ for recent grads/post docs to analyze/write up interesting datasets related to env sociology / human dimensions of resource mgmt on a contractual basis. Does not require moving and cud be from anywhere. steven.cooke@carleton.ca @`SCB_SSWG

boosting !!Con
@`bangbangcon
!!Con 2020 is just five days away!

Check out our schedule of events at http://bangbangcon.com/program

We'll be posting our public livestream link here when we have it ready.

SO EXCITED!!
2:54 PM · May 4, 2020

boosting https://twitter.com/di_codes/status/1245079525156847616 from Dustin Ingram

Going to pair with @`EWDurbin
this Friday again, but starting next week anyone is welcome to grab some time at https://di.codes/pairing

Details below
👇

boosting Jed
@`elysdir
The online magazine _Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show_ ran from 2005 through 2019.

Reading it required a paid subscription at the time, but now all 69 issues have been made freely available.

http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=content&article=issues

boosting https://twitter.com/nick_w_estes/status/1244795542695116800

My neighbor didn’t show up for work. His boss called the cops to do a “welfare check.” They shot and killed him.

It’s 2020. Everything is canceled except for police terror.

boosting Sami Abdul Aziz
@`ChaplainAziz
This sheep escaped a farm and spent 6 years in the mountains, during which time he grew 60 pounds of wool. Wolves tried to eat him, but their teeth could not penetrate the floof. You don't have to turn hard to survive the wolves, just be really, really soft and fluffy.

boosting *** @`platformpapi
FYI Xian Famous Food is trying to keep the lights on and is selling their chili oil to raise funds

https://www.xianfoods.com/shop/box-of-10-xff-chili-oil-packs

boosting Ben Rosen @`ben_rosen
BIGGEST TWIST ENDINGS

3) fight club
2) the sixth sense
1) the song “row row row your boat”

boosting Palante Tech Coop @`palantetech

Stressed about Zoombombing? Organizers and activists can apply the principles and practices of community safety and security that we've been using for years in our physical spaces to keep our communities safe as our work and gatherings move online.

https://palantetech.coop/blog/zoombombing-self-defense

boosting https://twitter.com/SamFromInternet/status/1257368517118251009

In the wake of the killings, student protests erupted across the country. Students at NYU famously hung a banner out of a dorm window, reading: They can't kill us all.

I can't get that phrase out of my head. 3/3

boosting https://twitter.com/ericholscher/status/1258428723503734786

Eric Holscher @`ericholscher
I've been on @`ThePSF
board for the past 3 years and I'm stepping down at the end of my term. It's a critical time for the PSF with the loss of PyCon funding, so I encourage you to run for the board if you can. Nominations are open:

https://python.org/nominations/elections/

#python #pycon2020

boosting https://twitter.com/ericholscher/status/1194512479730229251 [on important things the PSF board should discuss]

Packaging is definitely a big one. We've been getting a good bit of grant funding to improve pypi and pip, which should hopefully start showing gains, but there's certainly a lot in the packaging space, and a lot of legacy stuff to consider.

boosting https://twitter.com/zooba/status/1217150303406964736

It's actually a huge issue for most software - happy users rarely talk to you.

This is why developers add telemetry, or push surveys at you. Those who can afford focus groups and user research do them extensively.

Help out your favourite projects: tell them why you like them.

boosting https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1224448600962256897

Every day, in every way, The People Who Are Corporations look at the geese that lay their golden eggs and sharpen their axes because that goose might lay an egg today but there could be two inside it.

boosting https://twitter.com/_jjphillips/status/1216159316924723200 (thread from January 11, 2020)

1) have an activity that signals the start of your work day and the end of your work day.

You work remote/at home/sometimes commute-less. You need something that signals your brain that test is over, play is paused, and work is commencing. Showers, walks, breakfast, whatever.

boosting @`chris_swenson

Free Python course materials!

I put in a FOIA request to the NSA for their Python training materials and got back a 400-page printout of their COMP 3321 training course.

So, I scanned and OCR'd it. Here is a PDF (warning: 118 MB)

https://nsa.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/comp3321.pdf

boosting Sean Perryman
@`SeanPerryman3 thread https://twitter.com/SeanPerryman3/status/1227988707690545152

I want to speak less about Mayor Bloomberg and more about the program he misused and the people it impacted.

People often refer to #stopandfrisk as if it were simply a misguided police tactic. I believe they envision it as an unpleasant but brief encounter with the police.

boosting Bernard Tyers @`bernardtyers

Interesting development - Whimsical removes Google Analytics from their web service, citing":

"100% of our product decisions over the past year were based on strategy, qualitative feedback and our own needs."

Interesting.

https://whimsical.com/blog/choosing-privacy

boosting https://twitter.com/dianabutlerbass/status/1237917493055967232 thread

We're going to have to take care of one another. Period. Not because we're great. Not because of a leader inspiring us.

But because we can be a people who love each other, who care for our neighbors.

boosting https://twitter.com/korimichele/status/1247596376780951553

The weird bunny avatar is back for an illustrated version of a tweet thread I made three years ago about comics insecurity. I've luckily internalized most of this now, but maybe someone else might like to hear it. <3 I love you. Keep making.

(see link for several comic panel images)

boosting @`mousevspython

This week I chatted with @`mpirnat
about #Python, @`PyOhio
and more!

https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2020/04/13/pydev-of-the-week-mike-pirnat/

boosting https://twitter.com/mpirnat/status/1247946734438924290

Python friends who do Animal Crossing, enjoy…

https://twitter.com/mpirnat_switch/status/1247932626393911298

#AnimalCrossing
#ACNH
#nintendoswitch

(a Python tee design that users can get in-game)

boosting https://twitter.com/clewisreviews/status/1254264537492131840

“Beneath a moonless Sky” like girl it was cloudy, that’s not that special

boosting https://twitter.com/twwings/status/1254474162351071233 regarding https://snagtights.com/

I bought some today, because these are literally THE BEST tights I've ever gotten and I want this company to live. No one else I've found does this level of quality with this colour range for fat people. plus chub rub shorts in cute colours for summer! sizes up to ~US 32

https://twitter.com/PoppyCocktails/status/1254144156169011203 with more info

boosting thread https://twitter.com/ErinLThomasPhD/status/1256996152622415882

Dr. Erin L Thomas
@`ErinLThomasPhD
Employees are burning out. Concerned leaders are encouraging time off but folks aren’t taking it. Here’s my take on what’s going on (beyond typical flexibility stigma) and what empathetic managers can do about it./1

boosting https://twitter.com/GeekMelange/status/1258465488855871490

@`GeekMelange
I'm very, very proud to share that the WisCon Chronicles Volume 12: Boundaries and Bridges, coedited w/@`MsUppityness
is forthcoming from @`AqueductPress
later this month! It's at the printers & will be available to order soon!

http://www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-61976-191-9.php

[see links for cover, list of authors, and excerpt]

boosting Alex Gaynor @`alex_gaynor

. @`paultag
and I built an SSH CA for AWS: https://github.com/hallowauth/hallow

It's written in Go and comes with a terraform module to deploy it and a CLI tool. You can use it to get MFA and short lived certs for SSH incredibly easily.

Try it out and give us feedback (issues/PRs)!

boosting Jed @`elysdir . more info https://constellationpress.com/catalog/heavenly-breakfast/

The first book from my small press is now available for preorder!

https://twitter.com/ConstellaPress/status/1227286996017565696

@`ConstellaPress
The ebook of Samuel R. Delany’s essay/memoir _Heavenly Breakfast_, about his time in a commune/rock band in NYC in 1967-1968, is now available for preorder on Amazon.

Will be published this Friday, February 14.

Coming soon to Apple Books.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084MNK72W

boosting thread https://twitter.com/iasmelaion/status/1245418443450404865 about a socially distanced funeral

i hope very much that i will not have to attend any more funerals like this in the coming year.

boosting thread https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1245493805530451968

Andrew M. Webb
@AndrewM_Webb
I'm having trouble concentrating on science animations right now, so instead here are some screenshots from my favourite document on the planet.

These are taken from a 'work in progress' document from Pepsi's 2008 rebrand. Every figure is as incomprehensible as this one. 1/23

boosting Recurse Center
@`recursecenter

This weekend's Joy of Computing:

Book Wyrm, a federated alternative to Goodreads that lets you track what you're reading and share it with friends. By @`tripofmice .

Try it out here: http://fedireads-test.glitch.me

https://joy.recurse.com/posts/690-book-wyrm-a-federated-social-reading-platform

https://github.com/mouse-reeve/fedireads

boosting thread about #wiscon #c44 #wiscon44 #WisCONline https://twitter.com/elysdir/status/1261773715852816387

Ever wanted to attend a feminist science fiction convention, for free, from your own home? Next weekend, you can! But you need to register by May 20.

http://wiscon.net/register/

boosting Free Law Project
⚖
@`FreeLawProject

We are urgently looking for a technical summer intern to work on our massive collection of judicial financial disclosure reports. Please help spread the word! All the details here: https://free.law/hiring/ Questions: jobs@free.law

boosting https://twitter.com/lotormatic/status/1261388197461757952

This crisis lays bare how much our economy depends on unpaid and underpaid labor. There's simply no functioning market without a foundation made up of things that markets can't provide on their own: healthcare, childcare, elder care, and all types of domestic labor.

#WisCONline #wiscon44 #wiscon #wc44 boosting https://twitter.com/OtherwiseAward/status/1262838143985819650

Register by tomorrow (May 20th) for @`wisconsf3 so you can watch our auction Saturday night! List of auction items, and a trailer, at https://otherwiseaward.org/2020/05/otherwise-auction-wisconline-may-23