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1. Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 08:50:00 EDT Coffee & Aspirin

   Today is the birthday of the late Warren Delano, creator of the premier free and open source biomolecular modelling software, Pymol

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Lyford_DeLano

   1. Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 08:53:31 EDT Coffee & Aspirin

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      This is what frustrates me about aspects of CW culture: Like, OK, I get that caring for other people is a good thing, but writing is hard enough. This isn't *about* mental health or suicide--those are just a part of the story. Like, the fact that I ate something is just part of some stories. Or, well, anything else, really. The CW convention is a convention that puts the meta discussion foremost.

      1. Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 08:56:15 EDT Coffee & Aspirin

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         Like, OK, more power to you if you can get people to categorize the world the way you want, to say what you want them to say instead of what they want to say. This is the dreariness of orthodoxies and authoritarianism and enforced rather than emergent convention, to bleach the color out of our interactions, to cover the naughty bits with a fig leaf.

      2. Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 09:00:28 EDT Coffee & Aspirin

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         I'm going to take another run at this, doing a separate reply to my initial post, tagging it using my best understanding of the convention. A convention, I'll note, that constitutes a jargon which, like all jargons, has the emergent property of excluding those not sufficiently familiar with it, whether due to a lack of caring or a lack of privilege or whatever. It's a question of priorities.

   2. Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 09:04:22 EDT Coffee & Aspirin

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      Anyway, Warren suffered some sort of mental health breakdown and killed himself 9 years ago come November. I didn't know him in person, but his work changed my life, and very possibly yours, given how widespread it has been used in the biological sciences.

      I remember vividly where I was and what I was doing when I learned, some months after the fact, that he'd died. I heard it in a podcast.

      1. Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 09:14:20 EDT Coffee & Aspirin

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         My one direct interaction with Warren, via email, helped me in non-obvious ways, which maybe I can get back to writing about later.