Claudia Lo @cwylo@octodon.social

departmental town hall time. time for my cohort to plan. and strategize. 😬

oh, #hongkong bakeries 😂 https://octodon.social/media/9PYRa2ohFELCekUfZgs

i never thought a bottle of water (sorry, "juice") would be punchable, but shows you what I know, eh?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/koawater/koa-the-worlds-first-organic-water-made-from-100-j/faqs

good morning Mastodon! Any suggestions for savoury oatmeal? Just did a peanut butter + soy sauce + sriracha + green onion + egg thing which was very good, but also totally copied off a shop I went to. Would like to experiment more!

tfw your girlfriend shares your reservations with regards to machine learning 😍

Wrote a preliminary, barely-edited postmortem of my RimWorld article for RPS. http://cwylo.me/a-code-analysis-postmortem/

#gameing #feminism #queer uhhh... append "criticism" to all of those tags? 😅

was getting into Persona during the school term a bad idea orrrr

#gameing

gems from the archive:
"After this, since listening to a telephone for an hour is hard work, everyone took a recess".

(MIT banquet celebrating the move from Boston to Cambridge, June 4 1916)

final edited version of my article sent off to editor! I'M GONNA BE PUBLISHED 🎉🎉😍😍😍🎇🎆✨🎆🎈🎊

...but even with voluntary moving, the hassle of moving passengers, potentially moving baggage, and also lost customer loyyalty, is not a great situation. Not to mention the compensations, monetary and otherwise (e.g. booking a night in a hotel if necessary, vouchers etc.)

AGAIN: there are already measures in place to punish reckless overbooking, but the practice *on the whole* isn't going to go away if we keep working under the logic of maximising profit.

So the thing about overbooking (in airlines, but also in other industries like hotels) is this: it makes perfect sense under capitalist logic, where maximizing profits is the primary driving goal.

The issue is not that they don't offer compensation; by US law, involuntary ticket cancellations must be compensated with at least 400% ticket value, up to a cap of $1350. What they really want are voluntary bumps from flights (tbc)

Was going back through archives on MIT's move from Boston to Cambridge (in 1916)—they make mention of a cablegram sent to congratulate the president, MacLauren... that came from someone fighting in the trenches of France. "No better illustration of the spirit and loyalty of a Tech man to his alma mater" indeed. o_o

been rereading the fascinating story of how we "forgot" how citruses cured scurvy—really about collisions between theory and technology and changing circumstances.
http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

sorry i've sort of slowed my tooting on account of work snuck up behind me and jumped in front of me and oh no deadlines

it is a beautiful warm sunny day, and consequently the birds are out in force, all yelling

woke up to #caturday, mood seriously lifted :)

goodnight, Mastodon :)