@casey if it’s one of those “hey pal wanna hang out and make something fun?” situations I’m all in
Matt Schneider
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PhD ABD, U Toronto: digital materiality, print culture, videogames. #botALLY and penny-rounding northerner. he/him. Edmonton, Alta // Treaty 6 Territory
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Ted DiNola | ᴠɪʀᴛᴜᴀʟ ʀᴇᴀʟɪꜱᴛHey all, if you see a particular instance being a source of *bad stuff*, consider reporting them to the admins of your instance for possible blacklisting.
We need to cut this stuff out at the root.
@halishuman this was but *this* far from working on oulipo.social
I find myself tooting more on @mattlatailor than here, currently. Ah, the productivity of limitations.
@aparrish fun fact: this mentality is so pervasive that back in 2012 a member of our *conservative* government called businesses out for it, telling them that they needed to start pulling their own weight on the employee education front.
@aparrish It's interesting to see how easy it is to fall into believing that the tools are at the heart of what we do, and to forget that learning overarching concepts will leave us in a much stronger position than learning the steps to accomplish tasks in a single language. I suspect that the neoliberal mentality of schools as worker prep has a lot to do with this.
Allison Parrish("only" there should come with an asterisk, I don't make a categorical exclusion, especially when teaching for a narrow audience. but "only open source" is my guiding principle)
I teach tech and I'm often asked why I don't teach some allegedly time-saving proprietary tool/environment/whatever. the answer is that the risk of that proprietary tool just ceasing to exist are really high, and when that happens, the time I spend developing curricula against the tool goes up in smoke. by contrast, notes I wrote for, e.g., python text processing are just as good today as they were ten years ago. over the long run, I think I save a lot of time by teaching only open source tools.
I was doing a workshop last weekend and while I was showing my work I discovered that two of the pieces in my portfolio are just... dead links. both pieces were made on commission for organizations that no longer exist, and I was reminded of the fact that if you want something on the internet to last you have to host it yourself.
(this is why I'm a mastodon fan. not that I'm hosting my own account right now, but it's good to know that I could!)