ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

AFNY. Americanster.

I ... don't understand this.

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

Any other academics out there currently caught in the tornado of class prepping, article writing, and nine other projects you can't put down or avoid?

Just me?

#AcademicChatter

Full of emptiness
An absence made manifest
A void shaped like you

#haiku #poetry #longing

Wow... https://twitter.com/dadabots/status/1604391007222697984

("These slogans from the 1930s protesting the use of recording music in films are amazing -- I love this evil robot. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-against-evil-robots-92702721/")

Butts, the round and plump appendage
A source of both delight and dismay
Some perky and firm, some soft and saggy
But all unique in their own way

From the curvature of the back
To the dimples on the sides
Butts, a feature that often lacks
The admiration it rightfully abides

For they bear the weight of our days
Through sitting, standing, and walking tall
Butts, the sturdy and reliable base
On which we rise, and sometimes fall

#minnesota #winter

Mondak, Valley County, Montana. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn05056_002/

Interesting to read this answer, that the use of meteoric iron to shape some precious tools, was heralded at the ‘start of the Bronze Age’. https://www.quora.com/profile/Bill-Shamblin-2/https-www-quora-com-Why-did-the-bronze-age-come-before-the-iron-age-Bronze-is-a-complicated-alloy-Iron-is-1-simple-ele?ch=17&oid=94740514&share=38ab8d1e&srid=u4Yy&target_type=post

#Democracy in classical Athens, had its problems, too, and we can learn from them.

"Thucydides’ luminous insights, however bleak, help us to rise above the incessant reactions and predictions of the 24-hour news cycle that feels as if it will never end. And, even if and when it does end, Thucydides warns us, 'at some time or other and in much the same ways,' it will happen again."

https://theconversation.com/ancient-greece-had-extreme-polarization-and-civil-strife-too-how-thucydides-can-help-us-understand-jan-6-and-its-aftermath-196928

#Jan6 #January6 #News

Survived the trip. Have to say it wasn't the best idea to do this in one day as I didn't anticipate it would take so long on the road (18 hours of driving/border passing/resting/etc) and the actual time spent in Petra was only about three hours.

Nevertheless, #Petra is a wonderful place to visit! Slot canyon + ancient architecture and tombs carved in the cliffs

#jordan #tourism #travel

#today
#tbt
#NationalBirdDay
#circleci
#songsormoviesaboutbossgettingarrested
#genuary5
#ogl
#wordle565
#waffle349
#WotC

Today in 1970 — The daytime #SoapOpera #AllMyChildren debuted.

#SusanLucci played Erica Kane for the entire 41-year run on ABC!

#OnThisDay #OTD #ClassicTV #ClassicSoaps #AMC #SoapOperas

Black Mirror gives me anxiety but I still keep watching it.

Now that subdued.social is up and running, I have no interest in the other domain I was squatting on: salishsea.social. If anyone in the area wants to take that domain name for a separate Mastodon server, be my guest, I'll give it to you. #SalishSea, #PNW, #Cascadia, #PugetSound, #GeorgiaStrait, #StraitOfJuanDeFuca, #GulfIslands, #SanJuanIslands

somehow liz truss has won election for speaker of the house

Daniel Dennett wrote, “We’d better see what can be done to help people get over their delusion.” He used it in a specific context, but it sure seems apt in many contexts today.