mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social

the little words every girl wants to hear

https://www.pyohio.org/2020/events/talks/apply-for-grants-to-fund-open-source-work
I'm speaking at PyOhio later this month, giving a ten-minute talk on whether and how to apply for grants to fund your open source work. I'll discuss the new Project Funding Working Group at the PSF

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/07/announcing-psf-project-funding-working.html

and how it can help you.

Because I'm interested in helping people get onto platforms they control and not be at the mercy of Facebook, I wanted to understand what the pain points are for marginalized groups taking up Mastodon/ActivityPub.

From my reading thus far, the big blocker is that federation is opt-out, not opt-in and that the Mastodon Maintainers do not want to accept a patch to make it opt-in.

What are the other blockers? Who is writing about them?

Thanks. Boosts are welcome as are replies in private.

Pls be sure to read this if it affects you or someone you know

"The U.S. Department of State will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester nor will U.S. Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States. Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures..."

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-exemptions-nonimmigrant-students-taking-online-courses-during

Happy 3 year anniversary to one of the greatest pieces of internet writing

http://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

I just "reminded myself" (by looking at old favourites) that last year Twitter announced they were working on a decentralized version of their protocol.

We are 7 months after that annoucement and, so far, not a pip about it.

DON'T TELL ME YOU DON'T NEED THIS.
YOU NEED THIS.
YOU NEED TO ORDER THREE.

https://www.redbubble.com/i/mask/Spaceballs-The-Face-Mask-Galaxy-Background-by-mBshirts/48973693.9G0D8?ref=product-title

...honestly, the various uses that "master/slave" terminology gets put to in computer programming and electrical engineering and other such fields is

um

/profoundly/ distressing to us as an anxious black plural system that's intimately aware of how dangerous it is to normalize hostile language towards a marginalized group

so, like, just want to note that y'all pushing for changes of wording here are definitely helping some folks

- 🦎 🦊

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“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

- Frederick Douglass, 1857

From the List of Things the BBC Never Thought They'd Have to Write:

"[West] does not appear to have registered his name with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for November's election. The closest name the FEC database shows is a candidate called 'Kanye Deez Nutz West', who filed their papers with the Green Party in 2015 under the address '1977 Golddigger Avenue, Suite Yeezus' and appears to have raised no money."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53297864

I am not using an image description on this because it could actually trigger antivirus software to do so, but I like the way he thinks.

My new favorite CW that I've seen here: "kale disparagement"

"Open white supremacists are greeted by the police as friends, while medics treating the BLM protesters are attacked, and food and water caches destroyed."

For all makers, now there is lower cost and much more powerful alternative to TS-100 soldering iron -> 65W ESD safe, digital PID, auto sleep/shutdown, 250-480C soldering iron https://olimex.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/esd-safe-powerful-65w-soldering-iron-with-lcd-display-digital-pid-temperature-adjustment-250-480c-in-stock/ #diy #make #soldering