Notices by Sumana Harihareswara (brainwane@mastodon.social)

when I was on Mike Daisey's https://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/ email list, the unsubscribe instructions said:

> please reply to this message with the words "I JUST CAN'T BEAR IT" and you will be promptly removed.

which I still think of

Mastodon folks might be particularly interested in my response in this MetaFilter thread -- someone basically asked whether they should give up on Linux entirely, and I replied.

https://www.metafilter.com/183159/Odious-ideas-are-not-entitled-to-hide-from-criticism#7786619

boosting excerpt from https://twitter.com/luis_in_brief/status/1161615769764950017 thread

Luis Villa:
The term ‘bus factor’ has bothered me since we started Tidelift
—because buses are (basically) never the cause of bad project health! So I wrote about it—and my slightly tongue-in-cheek suggested replacement, boss factor.

https://blog.tidelift.com/bus-factor-boss-factor-and-the-economics-of-disappearing-maintainers

boosting Recurse Center
@recursecenter@twitter.com

Recurse Center

⏰ Fellowship applications close at 9 am EST tomorrow!
We're funding Fellowships of up to $10,000 for women, trans, and non-binary people to work on programming projects, research, and art at RC this fall.

Apply by July 22nd and start August 12th or September 23rd.

https://www.recurse.com/blog/149-10000-fellowships-for-women-trans-non-binary-programmers?r=t7819

Please help spread the word!

every time I read a new bit of news about Brexit I think about http://crookedtimber.org/2019/01/31/leaving-do/ this searing piece by Maria Farrell @mariafarrell@twitter.com

New blog post: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2019/02/07/1 sometimes we misuse cool-looking tools, like Socratic questioning or the Devil's advocate position, by using them when we don't yet have a trusting relationship, a defined question & decision framework, or a magic circle

signal-boosting SecureDrop & Freedom of the Press Foundation:

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the SecureDrop team! Want to work for a nonprofit & write open source code that's used by 60+ news organizations to communicate with whistleblowers? Here's your chance: https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-senior-software-engineer-securedrop/

manual boost:

Taeyoon Choi
@tchoi8@twitter.com

New York Tech Zine Fair
12.1 @sfpc@twitter.com Open call for vendors!
http://techzinefair.org
organizing with @thistimeitsmimi@twitter.com

New blog post: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2018/09/11/0 a short realization re: Captain Picard and management

The last day to apply to this SF/NYC/remote opportunity is tomorrow, 15 Aug

(signal-boost @evacide on birdsite https://twitter.com/evacide/status/1028820736322891776 )

Entry level job alert: Freedom of the Press Foundation is looking for an Associate SRE https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-associate-site-reliability-engineer/

And I love how his new short story "Terminus" uses the fantastic to explore the physical ache of careful labor.

http://www.3lobedmag.com/issue29/3lbe29_story4.html

signal-boosting from birdsite:
Nathaniel J. Smith
@vorpalsmith

FYI, I have some availability for consulting over the next few months. I'd be especially interested if anyone wants to pay for work on Trio or Python async more generally (e.g. adding async support to urllib3/requests).

The kind of things I do: https://vorpus.org/blog/a-farewell-to-the-berkeley-institute-for-data-science/

signal-boost Riana Pfefferkorn: Interesting #jobs: Privacy & Data Security Research Engineer with @AGSchneiderman's office: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/job-postings/exec_privacy_and_data_security_analyst_6062_int.pdf