Created a bluesky account. Will probably end up posting more there for a variety of reasons. https://bsky.app/profile/metageeky.bsky.social

When it comes to eating the rich, we should be asking how sustainable of a food source it will be.

We lost a major trans computer scientist a few days ago---Lynn Conway. If you don't know Lynn's story, it's amazing. She's responsible for so much of modern computing. Invented multiscalar processing (basically sped up computers hundreds fold) at IBM but was fired when she transitioned. Restarted her career and wrote THE TEXTBOOK on VLSI (chip fabrication). And worked for DARPA during the Reagan administration. She came out of stealth in the late 90s. Amazing lady! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

Today, I made an epic pun about vegetarian scholars protesting about meat-eating biases in academia. They established the Seitanic Temple to coordinate their fight on dietary bigotry.

So tired of people (abled and disabled) not getting that "differently abled" came about and is still used by many due to structural, internalized ableism in our society. Yes, there are intersectional lines involved in its adoption, but instead of just accepting "differently abled" as OK, how about working to understand why it's problematic, recognize how it maintains ableism, and in the spirit of intersectionality, don't put disability concerns tertiary to other aspects of intersectionalism?

If I had a time machine, I'd use it to prevent people calling software packages "libraries". Does anyone know how hard it is to look up things related to programming for library technologies because of this overlap?!?

Why yes, discovery layer vendor, I really wanted you to force a major UI update on my library just as we start a migration to a new ILS and completely different discovery service.