Oh, and another thing I wish people would understand better is the importance of having a support system; the ‘tooth-to-tail ratio’ is a military term, but it matters in activism as well, in the sense that the logistics of bending the arc of history towards justice more people in support roles than anything else.
You got to roll deep.
If you cannot be in the fight directly, support those that are. Positive reinforcement matters.
Also, cat pictures. Never be without 😼
@hellomiakoda There was a time when the only ones left were huge serving forks. I've eaten at least one meal the dumb way.
Anyone want to help organize an CS and (Anti)-Capitalism BoF at #SIGCSE2024 in Portland? It'd be fun to find all the folks in the community thinking about capitalism and advancent forces (racism, colonialism, exploitation, capture) and start building some community.
@CecilTeapot Alt text: a small dog operates a trebuchet by placing a ball in the bucket and then pressing a lever.
Ethical debt happens when tech developers don't take enough time to consider consequences before deployment, and instead wait to see what the "bugs" will be. Which requires speculation about likely consequences... but that doesn't mean imagining sci-fi futures. *Near-term* speculation is even more important when it's so clear what the immediate harms of AI can be... (wrote about this for @TheConversationUS ) https://theconversation.com/ai-has-social-consequences-but-who-pays-the-price-tech-companies-problem-with-ethical-debt-203375
Bad news for airborne druids.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/tsa-prohibited-items-weeks-shillelagh/index.html
#dnd #ttrpg #druid #AirTravel #tsa #shillelagh #irish #ireland
@Uniflame I log multiple plays on BGG unless it's something so fast (Uno, Set, Bananagrams) that we usually play a bunch of times in a a row without counting.
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.