The Leewit @ghost_bird@witches.town

@Aerdan And did Musk offer to pay for the hardware?

@Aerdan Musk could have put up the money for a low-cost high risk science package without even noticing a blip in his cash flow.

@benhamill 🎉 ✨ 🎂 ✨🎉

@ethanandco *sends good thoughts your way*

""Freehold.Earth is a free-speech centered community... the initial round of invites mostly went to folks from the infosec and free speech advocacy communities..."

*sound of world's fastest instance block*

"Opening the files could be thought of as enabling a conversation between complaints. Confidential files are usually kept apart. When we open them together what will we notice? A complaint could acquire a companion: perhaps these folders, files, and documents, will talk to each other. Perhaps they will have something to say to each other... Feminism is what is possible when those with a complaint speak to each other, learn from each other. It is a collective feminist task: opening files, pulling out documents, pulling out memories."
https://feministkilljoys.com/2018/02/11/opening-the-file/

@hollyamory Those kinds of intersections are always interesting. Let me know if you get any reading recommendations.

"To make a complaint is to learn how organisations and departments that appear on the surface to be committed to equality and progressive values turn out to be deeply hierarchical and traditional once you dig deeper; that a complaint often requires digging deeper tells us something."

https://feministkilljoys.com/2018/02/11/opening-the-file/

@hollyamory Varieties of English sounds really interesting, though I don't know what a linguistic approach (as opposed to, say, social history) would be like.

@ThisIsLeeloo If you allow property you’ve got hierarchy; if you allow hierarchy then you’re not anarchist.

@masklayer Something to keep any eye on, then. Though I know it’s not always possible to negotiate.

@synaesthetica I should probably have said Republican, but “Tory bastard” has a better sound.

@masklayer Are you getting paid for on-call time?

@jk Insta-blocking is self care. Never feel bad about it.

Re-reading Prophet, because melancholy but violent posthuman space opera is what I’m in the mood for right now.
https://witches.town/media/v6ahoJJCbG8xSKu9E7M

have persuaded another member of my team to join the union. I'd be more pleased if I hadn't thought they were in the union already but I'll take my victories where I find them.

@KitRedgrave It's lunchtime where I am, though that only makes your question more poignant.

Bitcoin as disproof of the efficient market hypothesis:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/opinion/bitcoin-financial-markets.html