The research fairy @bgcarlisle@scholar.social
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I'm the research fairy, here to make your academic problems disappear
Joined Apr 2017
@Cyborgneticz Same thing in Québec!
"Mon neveu, si il perde à quelque chose, il boude!"
@schratze Very Disney villain
Also 🍆
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Somehow Palpatine
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@bgcarlisle I hate this and I wish to un-know it now thank you
Two days until the Summer / Winter School presenters form closes!
Would you believe that it is because of a kind of faux backward compatibility with Mac OS 9?
I had to explain why "/" can exist in files on Mac OS today but ":" can't and why the Finder is a lie
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@bgcarlisle oh god why did this have to age so well
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NCT00373711 Withdrawn. Reason given: Abandoned https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00373711
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Wake me up when there are consequences
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White people have race
Cis men have gender
Straight people have sexuality
Abled people have access needs.
It's just that theirs are dominant and unquestioned in a way that refuses coexistence with difference, always elbowing others out while denying they do it.
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You, too, can boost the op to alienate the trash fires in your circle! 
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WORF: When was the Klingon Empire.
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I fundamentally believe that computers should help as many people as possible do as much as possible, and the way to achieve that isn't by hiding what computers are doing; it's by making what computers are doing understandable and manipulable by users.
Computers should do what their users tell them to. No more, and no less.
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The issue with people not understanding filesystems isn't that people don't understand filesystems; it's that for decades now the leading technology companies have been executing a campaign to strip basic computer literacy from everyone who isn't college educated, allowing the formation of a cult of tech and the mysticization of the process in order to justify monopolies and oligopologies with outsized influence over daily life for everyone on Earth.
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@Cyborgneticz Reminds me, I need to update the one on my blog someday haha
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@Cyborgneticz It's fine, I don't need that grant for anything anymore
But like
I haven't published anything with my doctoral supervisor since 2019 gahhh
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@pence 🤦♂️
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I'm the research fairy, here to make your academic problems disappear
Joined Apr 2017
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