Mastodawn

Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.

meejah 2h ago

David Ho 11h ago

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't received any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since grants are typically for 3 years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

In my 25-year career, I’ve never NOT had funding. I typically have 4 to 8 grants, which you need if you’re running an observation science program and have a technician, students, and postdocs.

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meejah 2h ago

@dougcuff @CStamp I grew up in the kool-aid/tang time, but (natural) juice was considered "a treat".

Very occasionally we'd buy boxed cereal, but never anything "sweet". Halloween candy had limits (no suckers or hard candy) and (theoretically) one per day.

meejah 2h ago

Doug Cuff 20h ago

When you were a child, what was your parent's attitude toward sugar?

	No sugar in any form, even juice was forbidden
	Natural sugars were okay
	Sugar in coffee or tea was okay
	Sugar in home-baked treats were okay
	Sugar on cereal was okay, but no sugared cereals
	I could have sugar in any form
	My parents taught me how to mainline sugar

Poll ends at Apr 3 at 12:23pm.

meejah 2h ago

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Lori M Olson 13h ago

@meejah when I retired I dropped my JetBrains “everything” subscription, and committed to using emacs. I’m actually enjoying figuring out how to be a power emacs user again

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meejah 15h ago

@lorimolson okay, commenting out most of my elisp loads makes LSP work properly again. Fonts still weird.

I've been using Source Code Pro for years, and still like it a lot :) and I _believe_ my reason for having "a bunch of elisp in a dir" (TLS didn't work in emacs) is gone now too, so that's nice

meejah 1d ago

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Lori M Olson 1d ago

@meejah So how did that work out?

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meejah 1d ago

@lorimolson upgrade itself was smooth (as usual) and many things have higher versions. Nearly everything works but emacs decided on serif fonts now (!!) and evidently my piles of elisp still need more rototilling

meejah 1d ago

Tim Bray 1d ago

Here's where you go to tell GitHub that it can’t train CoPilot on your code & interactions: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

Just sayin’

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compost_funeral 1d ago

Is there a word for "body language accent" and is there a body of literature on this subject that I could find if I had the right keywords?

I mean things like styles of sitting attributed regionality ("asian squat", "western toilet"), levels of physicality in speech ("gag an italian by handcuffing them"), also things like the way a lot of white American men will have been trained to pitch a ball with a certain posture that reminds you of specifically baseball, or how nearly everyone who went through the Finnish school system has a certain angle to the way they sit. This way of holding oneself and expressing oneself which seems like actually the deepest level of cultural identification for many.

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