⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ @pnathan@mastodon.social

Follow-up: George Paget Thomson, one of the physicists who experimentally confirmed wave behavior of the electron, was the son of J. J. Thomson, the physicist credited with verifying that the electron is a distinct particle.

Dad showed that the electron is a particle, and his son, in an act of filial physics rebellion, showed that it’s a wave.

The last day to apply to this SF/NYC/remote opportunity is tomorrow, 15 Aug

(signal-boost @evacide on birdsite https://twitter.com/evacide/status/1028820736322891776 )

Entry level job alert: Freedom of the Press Foundation is looking for an Associate SRE https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-associate-site-reliability-engineer/

Who knows a good front end dev? How is it possible that we are having a hard time filling a #job for @greenpeace international 1st #FOSS project? Peeps - please share: https://workfor.greenpeace.org/vacancies/details/front-end-developer/

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/

This is exceedingly good.

(not a subtoot but someone’s toot reminded me of it)

I love how the Millennials killed X thing highlights a frequent imbalance when it comes to economic talk. Why is it that millennials are blamed for simply not being interested in buying certain forms of shit, instead of say ‘demand for this product is real low, X company is failing to appeal to newer, younger markets’

If it’s a free market, why are millennials the framing device here instead of the companies?

Looking for a new developer job! Remote or PDX. Python, JavaScript, React, SQL. I enjoy full stack dev and data mangling. I'd love to continue working in healthcare and/or with products, businesses making the world a better place. Resume: https://t.co/kfTJcfp1CV

Cool! The EU's looking at tackling repairability and life expectancy of devices:

"Devices should also be easier to repair: batteries and other components should be freely accessible for replacement, unless safety dictates otherwise. Manufacturers will also need to give other companies access to their components so that consumers can visit those companies for repairs."

https://www.retaildetail.eu/en/news/elektronica/eu-aims-abolish-planned-obsolescence

( h/t @tessaracht )

Also reposting this on the new instance:

If any mastodon devs are looking for design help and would like a hand from the original designer of blogger.com, who recently redesigned the WordPress.com Reader, and wrote an early book on the design of community spaces online, let me know because I can put you in touch with him.

Because he’s me. Hi. Let’s talk.

"C is a perfectly good systems and applications language you just have to be a capable programmer" yeah well KDE Dolphin segfaults if you try to manipulate a folder you can read but not write, and the KDE/Qt team are up there in the pinnacle of C programmers, so maybe it's actually irredeemably bad?

so much hot
so few air conditioning

Anyway, hi, I'm an internet linguist!

You might know me from writing linguistics articles at The Toast (RIP)

These days I cohost a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics (lingthusiasm.com) and I'm writing a book in defense of internet language which'll be out with Penguin in 2019 gretchenmcculloch.com/book

#intro

Something for #linguistics - j'eat jet, a linguistically-excellent restaurant name that I recently visited in Brooklyn when I was there for EmojiCon

(from my monthly linkfest here https://gretchenmcculloch.com/2018/08/07/july-2018-book-heading-into-copyedits-and-emojicon-in-nyc/ )

I'm trying to find fellow people into linguistics, feel free to RT!

I haven't really been posting much lately, so here's a I think I made for no defensible reason

Faking #Nigeria’s iconic #football shirt: A how-to guide

"If #Wakanda had a #footballteam, this is the kit they would wear.
It’s cool. And I want one.

For better and worse, this is a country where #counterfeit is king. In a sense, the knock-off version of the #Nigerian kit may be a more authentic expression of national identity than the real thing."

https://mg.co.za/article/2018-07-20-00-faking-nigerias-iconic-football-shirt-a-how-to-guide