Notices by Lew Perin (wrenpile@mastodon.social), page 15

@nbering @veer66 I can’t see myself taking a firm position on these issues. There are costs no matter what you do, including ditching one language for another.

Q: Is Polly amorous?

A: Hard to say, but she definitely want a cracker.

If you can’t think of a reason to be happy, consider this: that drummer isn’t your upstairs neighbor.

@fap It’s at least closely related, even if it isn’t the same thing.

@nbering @veer66 There’s a certain amount of truth in this, but how seriously can you take it coming from a guy who’s invented three different programming languages?

@seanl The centenarians will save us.

@aparrish Thanks for saying “whoa”, not “woah”.

@enkiv2 Right, and I shouldn’t have said “to the outside world”. Different factions may be signaling on the basis of different norms WITHIN a community. In a small town, for example, you can stake your claim to fame by being the most raucous person or the most ostentatiously proper.

@enkiv2 But it’s no fun talking if nobody can hear you.

Case in point: I have had a Twitter account devoted to tea for many years. There I basically never use hashtags, because I don’t need to. But on my one-year-old Mastodon tea account, I always put a pound sign before “tea”, because tea freaks are hard to find here.

Does that make me a human spambot?

@enkiv2 This is an important insight, but applying it to specific cases is tricky unless you’re willing to make simplifying assumptions about groups’ cultures. One faction may call another tacky while the second faction is belaboring the first as pretentious. They might both be right, and both might be waving to the outside world in different ways.

@natecull @enkiv2 @Angle And also in making this the mainspring of capitalism. I mean, it’s important, but not THAT important. Marx’s truth is bigger than Veblen’s.

@natecull @enkiv2 Exactly.

@natecull 🐖🐖🐖

@natecull @a_breakin_glass @enkiv2 No Chengdu hiphop?

@natecull @enkiv2 I think Lester Young would agree with that.

@natecull @enkiv2 The very essence? That’s overselling it, I’d say.

This is your periodic reminder that there are ante-millennials who aren’t anti-millennials.

@mattskala Oh, you’re right about replying to one’s own boost—thanks for that!