UPenn, Harvard, Cornell, but still forgot to close the gas tank.

To be fair, this is how a lot of networks operate too.

I’ve roasted enough coffee that the metal flap in the Gene Cafe’s roasting chamber came off.

I never understood why it was there until I roasted without it. On every rotation it scrapes the chaff away or through the roasting chamber’s exhaust. If that doesn’t happen, it gets clogged, so no more heat flows through.

Seeing @briankrebs and @mattblaze note how this platform has problems makes me sad, but I really don’t see a better alternative. Because mastodon got filled with people who were tired of nazis on other platforms, this has been a brief period less awful than the alternatives. But describing how this works to less savvy folks, I can’t help but think of comparing it to email (or usenet), and what those platforms became. I frankly don’t remember what effectively killed usenet. I can’t help but compare this to the September that never ended, and wonder how communities will protect themselves from themselves without becoming what they escaped.

Anyway, here’s the coffee I’ll be roasting for next few weeks.