Notices by Annalee (annalee@wandering.shop)

Over on birdsite, my mentions are full of authors talking about their awesome work and their awesome friends, thanks to a meme where you add other writers to a thread. It is fun and neat, so I'm gonna borrow it here. When tagged, introduce yourself, tell us what you write, and then tag some other authors you recommend following on here (please keep it to one post).

Fountain pen hack: after using the 1:1 solution of windex to water to clean your pens, you can use the same solution to clean off the ink you just got all over your fingers. Just rub it on the ink stains--and then wash your hands with actual hand-soap and rinse to hell and back so you don't have windex on your hands. Works a charm!

Me: I have cheese breath.
Spouse, cooking: I have onion-breath.
Me: Together, we could have PIZZA BREATH.

Spending the close of the year writing code to schedule panels for a con, and thinking about how often we hear "that was the algorithm" when a computer replicates human bias, as if the computer made the choice.

The thing is, computers can't make choices. Humans make choices. Computers make decisions, using the choices we give them.

If we want them to make better decisions, we have to give them better choices.

With email, we use one domain, but we can still communicate with people on other domains-- gmail users can talk to hotmail users. We can have multiple accounts too.

Instances work a little like that--but they also have a "local timeline" to show you what's happening on your instance, which gives each instance its own community.