George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

"With teaching, [universities] expect faculty to clear a bar of reasonable competence — anything better is appreciated but not required. With research, [on the other hand,] we expect the best in the world, or something close": https://bit.ly/3CNPm8W

Long overdue #introduction post!

I'm Ethan, an iOS developer currently working full time as the solo developer on a companion app for a global e-mobility company based here in #australia.

My everyday involves in #swift and #swiftui and have in the past run the Cocoaheads meetup here in #brisbane. I am very interested in #technology #automation #cityplanning #emobility #accessibility and #space!

CTRL - SALT - DELETE. One of the new names for one of our city snow plows #hamont

i just ordered 10 acres of 3.5" floppies and i have no idea what's going to show up in a few weeks

If you’re annoyed by those floaty prompts on websites to sign into them with your Google Account, you can turn them off for your Google account! Link: https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/permissions

it's driving us NUTS, who has a youtube channel, either streams or joins streams, or does videos with this in the background? (pacman + ghost lamp)

Moderna is planning to charge $130 for its COVID vaccine, but the vaccine only costs $2.85 to make.

Meanwhile, over the last two years, the company made over $19 billion in profits off the vaccine.

Folks, this is what corporate greed looks like.

England’s banning plastic plates and cutlery later this year - https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/23556068/england-single-use-plastic-plates-cutlery-ban

If Elon Musk can afford to lose $200 billion in a single year, he can afford a wealth tax.

I just had the worst #interview of my entire #career . It turned out to be an insightful list of precisely how NOT to attract talent. In that way, it was really useful to me as a candidate.

Presented for your amusement, here's a thread of what I asked. It's going to be a longboi, but here's my absolute favorite:

🚩 Do you have any queer peers? Is this a safe place for them to work? "We don't talk about that here."

#lgbtq #trans #job #discrimination

Just thinking about how we had dozens of ideas for Twitterrific over the years that we didn't even try because we were worried they'd probably violate the Twitter TOS somehow and they'd ban us.

Instead, Twitter arbitrarily changed or redefined some rule that has yet to be identified (and might not even be published) and banned us anyway out of the blue.

They've still not said a word and I don't expect they ever will.

Canadian selfies

We're seeing a lot of posts about #ThisIsFine and that IS fine, but we're long time friends of the meme's creator KC Green. Don't forget you can get official merch from his store and support the #art and #artist so check it out!
https://topatoco.com/collections/this-is-fine

Okay, I’m excited for this now.

https://youtu.be/TIfMfLbCbzY

Mastodon Etiquette 101

Boost what you like, do not just Favorite (like) a toot/post. It is all about lifting others up. This is not twitter.

It can take a bit of getting used to but I have found it to be a much better experience without an algorithm driven by bot likes.

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#TwitterMigration #Boost