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

boosting @`WisConSF3

Today is the LAST DAY to register for this year's virtual #WisCONline convention! Sales will close at 7PM Central Time (GMT-5); be sure to get in before then!

A reminder that if you registered for the original *in-person* #WisCon44 convention before it was cancelled, your membership was rolled over to NEXT year's con (#WisCon45 in 2021). Double-check that you re-registered for #WisCONline!

boosting @`wisconSF3

Registration for #WisCon44 is open through Wednesday May 20. The default cost is $10, but you can also register for $0, $25, or $55.
http://wiscon.net/register/

boosting Nicole Harris
@`nlhkabu
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Python people!
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The pip team needs your help!

Do you have complex project dependencies?
We want you to try to break pip's new dependency resolver...

Details here:
http://ei8fdb.org/thoughts/2020/05/test-pips-alpha-resolver-and-help-us-document-dependency-conflicts/

Please RT!
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cc @`bernardtyers
@`simplysecureorg
@`ThePyPA
@`ThePSF

boosting https://twitter.com/gvwilson/status/1263114315642609672

Goal for 2020: figure out how to deliver instructor training effectively online when learners have unreliable internet connections. Zoom + Google Docs is great when connections are stable but unfair when they're not.

boosting https://twitter.com/andywingo/status/1263392704790032385

Andy Wingo
@`andywingo
in-person confs are third places where you can think different things, you have no domestic responsibilities or interruptions, and you can catch up w colleagues & friends over backchannel beverages. single-threaded video calls have none of that 🤷

boosting Katie Cue @`ktquiet

Hey @`zoom_us
- any plans to offer support for your numerous ASL users on the platform? A way to “pin” the interpreters separately from the rest of the content would be awesome

boosting Nisi Shawl @`NisiShawl

Contract signed, so I'm going ahead to tell you I'm a co-editor of the Library of America's first Octavia Butler volume. @`gerrycanavan
is my co-editor. My contribution's basically writing an intro. Coming out Spring 2021!

boosting Mariatta 🤦 @`mariatta

https://twitter.com/mariatta/status/1256288811190898688

#PythonLanguageSummit2020
Lightning Talks
- What do you need from pip, PyPI, and packaging? by Sumana Harihareswara
- A Retrospective on My "Multi-Core Python" Project by Eric Snow
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/04/lightning-talks-part-1.html

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boosting https://twitter.com/fureigh/status/1267901162185019394

.@`ColorOfChange
is hiring for a *ton* of positions, some tech-specific, others not. Building power for Black people and winning real change. https://colorofchange.org/careers/ Pass it on.

And if we know each other and you apply, lmk.

boosting @`aishaismad
Drones being used on you. Riot gear first exported to authoritarian states being used on you. This is why you need to care about foreign policy. Those of us in the developing world--we are laboratory rats. It starts with us. It finds its way to you.

boosting https://twitter.com/di_codes/status/1245079525156847616

Dustin Ingram
@`di_codes
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
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boosting Yeray Diaz
@`yera_ee
Does anyone else feel bad when selecting "Request changes" in GitHub reviews?

In my mind it's more of a suggestion...

boosting
Dustin Ingram
@`di_codes
hey @pganssle now that you're "python time czar" or whatever, we should probably start a discussion about adding a few more hours to each day

feeling like this whole "days only have 24 hours" thing is definitely a bug

boosting Evan Prodromou
@`evanpro
Our remote @`W3C
advisory committee meeting this week has been revolutionary in format. All the presentations were pre-recorded and available to watch at leisure (synchronized speaker, slides and transcripts) a week ago. The conference was 2 days of synchronous Q&A and discussion.

boosting amy nguyen
@`amyngyn
[looking at a test failure]
brain: what is reality? what if logic cannot be trusted? what if I must accept the futility of the premise of software being something that can be reasoned about, what if some mysteries can never be solved... oh haha I made a typo test is passing now

boosting Intersteno
@`Intersteno
We are happy to announce the launch of our new free online Intersteno journal: Tiro - The Journal of Professional Reporting and Transcription! Welcome to read and comment on our first issue at https://tiro.intersteno.org

Great idea. Filed an issue for PyPI: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/7992

Boosting Runa Sandvik
@`runasand
This is a great feature and I wish other services would add it.

who boosted Nathaniel Gleicher
@`ngleicher
8/ To confirm whether an email claiming to be from Facebook is authentic, review recent emails we've sent in your Security and Login Settings: https://facebook.com/settings?... [brainwane did not click through to figure out what this URL is]

Neel Patel has now implemented https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/8170#issue-440366108 on http://PyPI.org to help protect Python package maintainers (and, thus, users). Thanks, Neel, and thanks @`di_codes
for the reviews!

boosting Karen Healey @`kehealey

The universe doesn't care about us, so we need to care about each other. Justice doesn't exist as a substance, but as a process we engage in.

thread: https://nitter.net/kehealey/status/1293686704499392515#m

boosting https://nitter.net/EssayMnktl/status/1296252961509855232#m [humorous threats of violence but no onscreen violence]

This is how all my fights go

"THAT'S CONSIDERATE OF YOU"
...
"AND YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT SMALL BUSINESSES!"

https://nitter.net/TheKaranMenon/status/1296180741550702592

How school bullies are expected to act now.

boosting Dustin Ingram @`di_codes

[see charts at https://nitter.net/di_codes/status/1298754797529694209#m ]

Hello! If you are the proud owner of a Golang script currently scraping the hell out of @`pypi, you might notice that it has stopped working!

@`EWDurbin and I would like to have a chat with you! Email us at admin@pypi.org k thx!

boosting thread https://nitter.net/luis_in_brief/status/1298122482549833728#m by Luis Villa:

If you're an individual developer who wants to have an independent community whose voice is heard at the decision-making table, figure out how to get paid by many companies, not just one. We're here to help you with that @`tidelift .

boosting @`baconandcoconut

Did you know that this year's @`seagl CFP is looking for "Performance ART?" We are, or it is! If performance art for FOSS audience is the invitation you've been waiting for to be your best self, this is 100% your moment. https://seagl.org/news/2020/07/14/CFP-open.html

boosting Luis Villa
https://nitter.net/luis_in_brief/status/1299144360441782272#m

Thread. Kudos to James for having the guts to shut it down. (This didn't start as a subtweet of all the enablers at Facebook, but 🤷‍♂️)

boosting https://nitter.net/sethmlarson/status/1289302542355062784#m

👉 Important thread for Python users:

The Pip team is shipping a new dependency resolver and needs *your* help to find issues. Everyone who tries it will know their projects are future-proof and issues can be fixed before they're shipped. That's a win-win!

So how can you help?

boosting Zen Cho @`zenaldehyde

Are you an aspiring creator/freelancer? As someone who's occasionally in the position to make recommendations, let me BEG you to make a website. All you want is a simple professional place on the internet that shows
- what you've done
- what you can do
- how to contact you

boosting Zen Cho some more:

I know people are like "I haven't done anything worthy of putting up a website yet", but it is most helpful if you're just starting out. I can't tell you how annoying it is when I'm like "commission this brilliant short story writer" and all they have is a defunct Tumblr

Boosting @`bernardtyers

Are you a #PythonProgramming #pip user?

Do you have to deal with dependencies? What about conflicting dependencies?

If so, the pip UX Team want to hear from you: fill out this survey:

https://bit.ly/pip-ux-dependency-conflicts

and sign-up to our UX studies:

https://bit.ly/pip-ux-studies

#Python

boosting Christie Koehler @`christi3k 1h ago @christi3k @christi3k@toot.cat

FYI Portland folks - As of yesterday lowes.com had furnace filters in stock and we just got a notification they'd shipped. Still gonna be a bit before they get here. But an option to consider, esp since this smoke is gonna stick around for a while yet.

boosting https://twitter.com/pbkalra/status/1306373719225503745

I hate to say it but I think spaCy does better POS tagging (not to mention entity tagging) than nltk, but it is easier to install.

As in I'd like to install spacy but I'm having trouble if anyone wants to help me...

boosting https://nitter.net/recursecenter/status/1286020186643070977#m

A Skynet Simulator, by Ed Burnett. Seems harmless! skynetsimulator.com/

Source here if you want to confirm for yourself: https://github.com/edisgreat/skynet-simulator

boosting https://nitter.net/LeaKissner/status/1303707723142365191#m It's time to register for PEPR, you folks who want to do privacy engineering or bolding with respect. Because building better requires a deeply diverse group of us doing this work, there are grants available for students and those traditionally underrepresented.

boosting thread https://nitter.net/whitecoatcapxg/status/1300610989445054464

Somebody needs to design a streaming platform that is designed to incorporate live captioning. @`youtube used to work, but it literally is useless now. They have abandoned and forsaken the idea of human-produced live captioning. @`zoom works...1/ But some events want a different sort of platform for their events. New platforms are springing up like mushrooms during the pandemic, but NOT ONE OF THEM

boosting https://nitter.net/TWiT/status/1301570224030846976

What changes are coming to PIP, the most popular package installer on the @`pypi?
@`dsearls & @`aaronnewcomb talk with PIP project manager @`brainwane (who is also a comedian!) and release manager @`pradyunsg.
Listen & subscribe to FLOSS Weekly.
https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/594

boosting https://nitter.net/whitecoatcapxg/status/1306028441511264258

I don't know who needs to hear this, but captioners are in extraordinarily high demand right now. Chances of you getting something set up in one day, or same week, or often even same month, are slim. We'll try, but *please* start planning for your captioning needs far in advance!

...This brings up something that separates White Coat Captioning from some other companies:

... We don't take a job unless we are sure we have coverage and we know exactly who's covering it. As opposed to the way of doing business where a company takes every job that comes...
...through the door and then scrambles to find any old body to fill it. And often can't. And leaves the client hanging.

That is crappy, and we don't do that.