Notices by raphael, now @gekitsu@toot.cat (gekitsu@mastodon.social), page 3

@pattheflip i really really like leaf’s outlook on things. he seems like such a delightfully uncynical kind person.

#comics talk: i received the last volume of sophie campbell’s #wetmoon yesterday and wow. i get that the mix of goth/queer/lynch/slice-of-life is very much a cup of tea matter, but i love it. what i’m most impressed with is the exact note sophie managed to hit for the comic’s end.
wet moon lives off leaving stuff unresolved, so there can’t be too much closure. on the other hand, wet moon lives off the humanity of its characters, so it can’t just let us go away. she balanced it perfectly.

@Are0h *duckduckgos name* GOT DAMN YES PLEASE.

*nods* yeah, accurate.

even if you’re not super into #climbing, this video of magnus midtbø is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSepsUJKdHs – he’s in jordan, climbing with and talking to alex huber.

it’s just beautifully human to see alex reminisce the early days of climbing, the death of wolfgang güllich, and both segue-ing into enjoying every day of climbing you can get. very silent and introspective and nonspectacular.

also, gorgeous mountains.

@meena @garbados :<

@garbados NJE – neon jean evangelion

@maloki kanban is neat. i’m notoriously bad with keeping project management solutions up to date, but a very simplified kanban implementation really did the trick.

@Are0h i just appreciate the heck out of you, man. <3

@Are0h also, it makes your instance a place i can recommend to PoC friends without having to worry i’ll accidentally send them into a cesspool i just don’t get confronted with on straight/white/male easy mode. at least i know they’ll have a badass in their corner who’ll come out swinging at anyone giving them the shit they get on birdsite just for insinuating trump isn’t very intelligent.

@Are0h super good thread, man. i agree 100%. regarding the word ‘radical,’ as i tooted a few days ago, it’s only radical in the word’s literal meaning: ‘pertaining to roots of things.’ not in the sense of ‘politically outrageous’ or ‘extremist fringe.’

@maloki so relatable. one of my biggest pet peeves is that, prompted by english’s relentless separation of compounds, it’s starting to become more common in german. it’s both ugly, and a significant danger to there being a german word for everything in the future.

@fraying yes, this. it’s one of the issue where i go d’accord with stallman – the words we use are important, and we should choose them thoughtfully.
content is a marketer’s concept, who doesn’t care what he panders, just how effectively and in what manner he does so.
if people don’t like the connotations of ‘art(ist)’, we have the beautifully nonspecific ‘maker,’ for example. and we can always make up words to exactly fit our notions of what we do.

@Yerazunis <3 jupyter notebooks! that’s what we’re using as well.

i find it a tad annoying how they don’t behave super duper well with git, but it’s hard to argue with how incredibly good they are at what they do.

at the same time, these young’uns are sitting there, trying to get some JS framework to work, being all like: ‘oh, you don’t really do programming in DH, do you?’ – ‘personally, i just do more python stuff. last term, i wrote a library for archaeology stuff.’ – *nods knowingly* ‘ah, no wonder this stuff here is a bit much for you.’

like, how can you claim scientific transparency when you have to blindly trust a proprietary tool to work as advertised? when you can’t just publish your code to show your process pipeline because your process was an ephemeral sequence of clicking buttons and copy-pasting the result?
how can you do work like this on a professional level without writing generic processing pipelines instead of doing stuff by hand over and over?
not to mention locking your data away in proprietary file formats!

it’s kinda a curious thing. i, studying digital humanities, sit in a course of the human–computer interaction department this term.

i find it hair-raisingly primitive how much they rely on – often even proprietary – GUI software for their statistics work. their idea of a quick/custom hack is an excel spreadsheet.
while excel is valid FP, i have so many issues with this, to the degree of doubting whether this practise can ever be truly scientific.

#science #academia #toolculture

i have a new tactic for how to deal with enthusiastic feature requests from co-workers:

outline the first unwelcome consequence of introducing it.
then what would be necessary to deal with that consequence.
then how to rectify the amount of repetition of work they’d have to do because of that rectification.
then an outline of how to automate that repetition.
and then how that automation will severely impede their ability to easily correct earlier decisions.

@garbados yes, very much this. i guess that’s also how a butcher feels about the cheap prepackaged sausage – knowing it’s made from crap, knowing i t’s made to tickle just the right taste buds to pass muster, and knowing about every unethical corner cut behind the scenes that allow such a product to be sold at a cheap price to people who don’t know any better.

#howthesausageismade

@orb @InvaderXan radical, as in ‘pertaining to roots of things’, not as in ‘politically outrageous’, ‘extremist fringe’, i take.

@Are0h you fuckin’ better be! for one, it’s a damn good look as it is, independent of context. and if you add your path to it and what it means, that’s plenty of reason.

(that’s totally the kind of shit that makes me think whether i should add something to my exercise that yields more visually exciting results. but then i remember that’s going to be weight i gotta haul)