clew @clew@octodon.social
Math, soil, ecology, feminism, material history, literature of the long nineteenth, waltz, polka, leavened bread. Seattle and parts northwest.
@starbreaker Both "prop" and "pro" have positive connotations, yes? So if we're trying to propagandize against them, maybe a different phoneme. Ganda? Gands? Gandy?
An individual advertisement is often called an "ad" or an "advert" for convenience.
But if all #advertising is in fact #propaganda, what do we call an individual piece of propaganda? Should we call it a "prop" or a "propa"?
As in, "Aw, jeez, not another Coke prop." Or, "A propa only five minutes into the show? Fuck this."
Hey #Seattle! Come see my band Northern Nomads on February 15th at Barboza! Lots of danceable #synthpop and so on https://octodon.social/media/hRlv1Mwug80AZ4oCoSA
"Halt," the knight called. "Release her!"
The dragon and the princess looked at him.
"Why?" the princess said.
"Dragons are not pets!"
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories
Thought I've been mulling: Designate a day of the month to data liberation.
Get YOUR data archived off SOMEONE ELSE'S system.
This isn't /removing/ it (unless you choose), but it is /getting a copy of what you created or want to control/.
So, that's the basic concept.
I'm thinking my way through the idea and am posting this to brainstorm.
My basic thought is to 1) organise the document as a FAQ, and 2) address process.
So let's dive in ....
1/
@amigiac @mrgah I'll be looking forward to the January 31 launch of Magnuson Radio Space 101.1 FM:
https://www.spaceatmagnuson.org/radio-station #seattle #hyperlocal #localradio #lowpower
@ColourOfSpring Huh, I don't even think the _twentieth century_ is the golden age of the novel. Of what we now call genres, probably, though.
A different way I do this is to jump backwards from my current reading -- if there's an older book referenced, and it seems even vaguely interesting, it goes on my list.
I have read (or anyway begun) a lot of now-forgotten bestsellers. Actually pretty interesting to see what was Obviously True and Important that isn't now.
@patchworked Assume it wouldn't be statistically better than a household supported by a male manual worker, and ... it doesn't look so good. The skilled trades usually still make enough money to actually retire, but that makes them expensive, so the world is happy to invent cheap technological substitutions. Personal labor is an expensive way to do most things.
hypothesis: Desk work pays well because of vanishing costs of reproduction, or because of rentiership.
pretty sure the Mitfords are the easiest -- Downton Abbey typeset. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness writing was considered difficult when it was new but I suspect is now just like reading a brilliant tootstream. (I'd put in her _Three Guineas_ essays, noting that she gets sexism but assumes classism in a way that... one recognizes.)
Maybe Edith Wharton instead of James. (And maybe Compton-Burnett instead of Maugham.)
How did you make up the list?
So far AI and Big Data are just being used to wage war on the poor, rather than on poverty.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/opinion/ai-and-big-data-could-power-a-new-war-on-poverty.html
@beefasil I find _Nexus_ only a patchy success, but the parts I like I really like. (The fiction is clunky for me, the science fiction great. And IIRC it isn't mean-tempered, which I count for a lot.)
Indy game devs, here's an idea: You control sheep dogs and have to herd sheep through crazy obstacles. Watch this video for inspiration:
https://i.imgur.com/ku2qqQO.gifv
Imagine the super-fun fluid-dynamics you could use to simulate the animations!
did you know the coffee bean is technically a berry?
every time you brew a fresh pot, you're writing a new chapter in decanter berry tales
@beefasil He’s speaking in my city pretty soon, yay. Interviewed by Namez Raam, interesting choice.
CBC: a 20-minute video story on nuclear fusion, contrasting the US National Ignition Facility, an international consortium's ITER, and a scrappy startup in BC.
@lambdagrrl love that middle rhyme
Interesting fact - Triton, Neptune's largest moon, was probably once a dwarf planet, stolen from the Kuiper Belt. https://twitter.com/WorldAndScience/status/948433842985209856/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/WorldAndScience/status/948433842985209856
@SteveJohnson i think of it as “I’ll hold your beer”
@pmosetc HOO YUS. Not actually a snapper, or he would probably have been hurt. As is, lasting family funny story.
Turtle was OK too, we brought it some extra snacks.
RT @ISS_Research: 2017 was busy for the 17th year of science aboard @Space_Station. Here’s a look back at just some of the research that wa… source: https://twitter.com/nasa/status/948403997634973696
