Notices by Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org), page 30

@kensanata

Not sure, but isn't the economic benefit center on the idea of having a "full" profile of a person to trade in? Evading links amongst online personas is hard, but *making* those links also has a cost, which I'm sure the data merchants are keen to minimize.

@freakazoid @ajroach42

@kensanata

I have unpleasant memories from my time in those UseRealNames battles.

FWIW though I remembered you fondly from that time, no doubt in part from your very constructive approach around CommunityWiki, its license, and mirrored pages. No ill-will at all.

There are other proponents from then I might still grumble about, if pressed, but no need to go there just now.

@freakazoid @ajroach42

@cblte

Like all value judgements, it depends on what you value.

@jjg

@ddipaola

I totes remember you being at Interlock. Been too long, maybe.

@rey

at a fast casual place for lunch, near location of an earlier errand.

In the short time I've been here, 2 separate times 2 separate customers have knocked over a free standing plastic sign holder, from countertop to floor.

It's just not a good fit.

@ajroach42

Or even simply "these are hard problems" regardless of the tool.

@enkiv2 @vertigo @Azure @jjg

@balrogboogie

Well-played.

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

@hfrazey Thanks. It's a hard problem. I fully support stiff-arming trolls and haters *when* they are trolling and hating. And trying not to troll and hate and not to be deliberately damaging, and discouraging people from doing that.

That said, I tip towards talking it out, being expressive, and well ... *being* instead of not being.

I saw a status go by recently about how creativity and criticism are separate processes: That is, writing is different from editing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

@ycleptKyara

Yeah, I started with fruit, fruit trees in particular. Then I, uh, branched out into woody plants more generally.

Lately, its a question of whether or not I like how the Latin genus name sounds when I (mis)pronounce it to myself.

@dr1ft