Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app
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co-Founder // Chief Science Officer at @geopipe (🖖🏻), PhD from Brown CS Dept (w/ @maurice), SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin at Cemetech, AFOL & open-theist.
Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.
📍 Vermont
Joined Nov 2022
@mcc @KevinCarson1 I feel like "losing your post history" shouldn't be one of the problems with this medium. so much for "own your own data" 🙃🙃🙃
@regehr I would settle for just having a declarative format for the various C++ ABI name mangling rules 😅
@quephird I never played it but the movie version with The Rock was such delightfully self-aware cheese
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@mekkaokereke A version of the story linked below was on NPR yesterday. It was unbelievable to me—though it shouldn't be.
"KRAIG LEWIS WAS living in Connecticut and was nine credits away from his MBA when the neighborhood he had spent his life trying to get away from came back to haunt him."
https://theintercept.com/2019/04/25/bronx-120-report-mass-gang-prosecution-rico/
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Mastodon meta
A couple people have pointed to relays as a potential fix here - that's a Mastodon feature where you can partner with other instances and have them send you a firehouse of every public post they encounter (from their instance or from elsewhere)
I'm loathe to set that up for my own instance-of-one though - it just feels really resource-wasteful to funnel thousands more posts an hour into my instance purely as insurance against me maybe not seeing a reply to something!
@dev @infinimatt @ricci @adrian honestly the best thing about running my own instance is the mid-2000s phpBB vibe of leaving all the normal emojis as text =) and then adding a bunch of utterly gratuitous tomfoolery like 
@dev @infinimatt @ricci @adrian my sole configured autoreplace on any device is :shrug: -> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and I'm disappointed that at how many clients now try to insert their own emoji for the former before the autoreplace can take over.
@normative but yeah, you could just Google my name + school name and find press releases from the school, so I wouldn't have ended up in this situation to begin with
@normative sure, guess it depends what the standard of evidence is after you've lost control of the narrative to the extent that people are interrogating your life story like "but are you actually gay though".
@normative if you really wanted to go hardcore, getting transcripts from a registrar's office during winter break sounds like it could take a week, but almost anything else in the list seems like 1 day?
@shriramk @ricci @geomblog It's not even particularly subtle or subtextual. The second-to-last chapter in LOTR (which gets cut from film adaptations for "not being exciting enough" or whatever), is arguably the most important in the whole book, and, without being too spoilery, is also pretty explicitly anti-cop.
@shriramk @ricci @geomblog It's irony in the same vein as self-proclaimed Star Trek fans complaining about new installments being ruined by getting "political" and/or "overly woke". My dad has written a whole book on Tolkien's moral/ethical framework (and another on his environmental framework), although it predates these two particular companies being in the media cycle
@shriramk @ricci @geomblog
- The Hobbit (~350 pages / 1 volume, light fairy tale/adventure vibe)
- The Lord of the Rings (~1000 pages / 3 volumes, more mature/philosophical story with a strong anti-fascist/anti-war/anti-industrialism vibe)
- The Silmarillion (~700 pages /1 volume, vibe oscillates between an ancient epic and a mythology textbook)
- The History of Middle Earth (~5000 pages/12 volumes, extremely technical academic material on the development of the other material)
@shriramk @ricci @geomblog I've been working on Naomi Novik's 9-book Temeraire series on audio right now during my commutes and I've never encountered media so optimally tuned to the interests of someone who enjoys both Anne McCaffrey and C.S. Forester. Keep finding myself sitting in the car after parking to finish chapters...
- Personal
- http://sfgp.cemetech.net/
co-Founder // Chief Science Officer at @geopipe (🖖🏻), PhD from Brown CS Dept (w/ @maurice), SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin at Cemetech, AFOL & open-theist.
Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.
📍 Vermont
Joined Nov 2022
