Notices by Blake C. Stacey (bstacey@icosahedron.website), page 19

New to scholar.social. Is there a specific instance for lawyers and those in the legal field? Just curious.

'Open Source Devs Reverse Decision to Block ICE Contractors From Using Software' (via Motherboard)

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pawnwv/open-source-devs-reverse-decision-to-block-ice-contractors-from-using-software

Some ~ interesting ~ statements about open source quoted here, including from Eric Raymond

i love how in photo realistic video games when you hit a supplies box with your knife it explodes into 250 lovingly rendered wood splinters, just like in real life

it's weird to see advice about going to grad school in 'STEM', b/c the S/T/E/M parts have virtually no similarities between them, in terms of either what grad school is like or what post-grad career paths & prospects look like

@bstacey I feel very lucky that the sole professor in my department for grad that believed in "destroying" students was fired for essentially that reason.

Everybody say hello to @AstroKatie ! 👋

Current mood: regretful that I cannot send the :blobpats: custom emojo to a friend via SMS.

"These students are making science easier to understand on Wikipedia, one article at a time"

https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/08/15/these-students-are-making-science-easier-to-understand-on-wikipedia-one-article-at-a-time/

One student makes the point, "It is much more difficult to find information about underrepresented people because often the information about them isn’t even recorded in the first place."

<<Far right groups Resist Marxism and Boston Free Speech are planning to hold a demonstration in Boston on 8/18, where they intend to rally and march under the hypocritical banner of a "March Against Leftist Violence." As we have done time and time again this past year, we have to oppose them in the streets.>>

zucksite link: https://www.facebook.com/events/220679278644598

I'm trying to make a reading list of books about justice and ethics issues in tech/science/math/academia/teaching... any texts you would especially recommend? Thanks! :)

Modern systems architecture sounds a lot less sexy when you replace terms like "containers" and "serverless" with "kicking the can down the stack to make maintaining this shit someone else's problem".