Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

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Fun fact:

What's your current favourite game on Board Game Arena? We can't get enough of Sea Salt and Paper right now!
#boardgames

I love fine bindings. The craftsmanship of a good book. My problem is that the texts I love rarely are dressed in leather and hand marbled endpapers— There are a few — but many finely bound books aren’t the best books. I don’t want a copy of IDK “The Great Gatsby” or whatever.

So I love to find blank books— blank pages bound with such care and art that no sane person would throw that book away whatever the contents.

NASA awards eight HBCUs with $11.7M to boost Data Science research #datascience #HBCU #blackmastodon

https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/nasa-awards-eight-hbcus-with-11-7m-to-boost-data-science-research

3D graphs that don't contact the plane in the closure area may proceed as scheduled, but be alert for possible collisions with 2D graph lines that reach the hole and unexpectedly enter 3D space.
https://xkcd.com/2735/

The ears have it.

#PlutoTDog #DogsOfMastodon #Mastodogs #RescueDogs

“What’s the worst UI for a signature on an online form?”

Me: 🤔

History is written by the winners, which is why #Luddite is a slur meaning "technophobe" and not a badge of honor meaning, "Person who goes beyond asking what technology does, to asking who it does it *for* and who it does it *to*."

https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/07/full-stack-luddites/#subsidiarity

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It follows the Stranger Danger evolution
Roughly,

1980- Don't get in cars with strangers
1995- Don't give out your personal information online
2010- Summon strangers from the internet so you can get in their car

2000-2005: Blogs are great and so are comments!
2005-2010: Blogs are still great but comments are not.
2010-Present: What if we didn't have blogs but just had a website full of nothing but comments?