Moved to @wilbr@glitch.social @wilbr@mastodon.social

Hey folks: I'm giving advice to someone who just finished HS. She will be entering a CS + Linguistics program in some shortish time from now. As I'm mindful of so many of my bad programming habits come from before I entered uni, what resource would be best to teach her?

"Best" defined as: most able to *think* about the programs/model them in head/not be messed up when hitting intro to programming courses in other langs?

logs off

Starring:

-A misanthrope who's probably not even in a good mental space to be romantically involved with anybody anyways!

And the beaus:

-Maybe It's A Bad Idea To Try To Change Yourself To Be What You Think The Girl You Had A Crush On Back In Freshman Year Wants Guy!

-Commitment Issues, Edgy Sarcasm, Elitism And Unresolved Trauma Guy!

-All The Relatives My Age Were Guys So I Think Women Are A Different Species And Am Terrified To Talk To One Guy!

First the queers and furries build a space where they can be themselves.

Then the infosec folks find that it fits well with their values.

Then the communists flock to the first real alternative to capitalist monopoly on shortform burst communication.

Then the artists come to find new walls to paint and nobody to tell them no.

The intellectuals, the chroniclers, the priests and the prophets, singly and in droves.

Slowly, it builds. It's neat to build an oral history from inception. #mastodon

"...women participated more actively when a more casual and collaborate atmosphere was encouraged, which also gave rise to simultaneous interaction between speakers." (Yuasa, Ikuko; 2010)

Hmm gee I wonder why that might be

@HTHR @dboyfajardo Mumford And 10 80-Year-Old Men Who, Because Of A Legal Loophole, Are Counted As His Sons Rather Than His Grandpas

Things Mastodon and other OStatus & ActivityPub protocols will have to deal with eventually, as learned from email:

- How do you deal with spammers, especially those rapidly churning through domains/instances? Do your solutions make it harder for small/new legit instances to federate?
- What happens as instances diverge in formatting support? What are the graceful fallback points?
- How do you avoid phishing based on similar domain names? (Address books?)

Got more?

"We know that if engineers, scientists, or doctors are paid ten or a hundred times more than a labourer, and that a weaver earns three times more than an agricultural labourer, and ten times more than a girl in a match factory, it is not by reason of their 'cost of production,' but by reason of a monopoly of education, or a monopoly of industry."

Kropotkin's critiques of state socialists are SO GOOD. I didn't quote the snarky stuff...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171116132135.htm To absolutely no one's surprise, when the price of vegetables is lowered to be closer to the price of chips people buy more vegetables

there's only two types of people:

CW EXTREMELY LEWD NSFW [show more] SEVENTEEN DICKS

and

CW EXTREMELY LEWD NSFW [show more] who here wanna hug

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SEASONS GREETINGS
https://mastodon.social/media/E6whV_g8-x7QziJ9mkI
https://mastodon.social/media/0QkGRYfBfSq-0gff718

apparently the us govt thinks that the solution to people being unable to pay off student loans is to make it impossible for them to earn any money at all!

> Firefighters, nurses, teachers, lawyers, massage therapists, barbers, psychologists and real estate brokers have all had their credentials suspended or revoked.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/business/student-loans-licenses.html

I completely forgot that I own pastels

Need the right paper and some fixative for them though

Wait, wait, today was going to be a writing day

Right? Right

Gotta stay Focused (tm)

@mizui

#KeystonePipeline #TransCanada
#latestagecapitalism

happy international men's day

let's work towards creating a supportive and positive environment to help develop more healthy, happy and compassionate boys and men