Nicole Mirea @nimirea@scholar.social

I have added 2 new lines to the Scholar Social Community Standards:

* Satire and activism must make a good-faith effort to punch up. ("Punching up": making jokes or criticism at the expense of those with more power, higher status or greater privilege.)

* No academic/intellectual dishonesty (e.g. accounts for services offering to write academic papers to help student cheat; vaccine denialism, etc.)

Writing my first grant application in awhile. 'I will give you the world on a silver platter. Just give me lots of money in unmarked, nonsequential bills, please.'

I might need to do another draft.

#GrantWriting

Yay, I'm so happy!

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The version management/collaboration software git is bad

It is nearly unusable and constantly causes unexpected behaviour

There is no reason why it couldn't be replaced with something good

Except part of me wonders if it sticks around *because* it is bad, which allows techbros to be performatively competent and to act as gatekeepers to programming/tech/comp sci/whatever

"You can't even use git?" is the "You can't even name their 5 first albums?" of programming

Windows 10 isn't an operating system on your computer anymore. This characterization applies new laws to it, distinct from former versions of windows. This is a read, for sure.

Me losing it when my favourite song gets fiddled in the club

Before companies tracked my location and habits, I didn't have any. No location, no habits. I didn't know what to read or think, where to go.

good morning

please CW your doom and gloom

rattling folks doesn't make them more able to act, it just rattles them

thank you

my grandmother needs a new setup. she needs something INCREDIBLY intuitive, CONSISTENT, predictable, and simple

she needs to be able to check her email. occasionally go to websites, but only ones ive pre-bookmarked for her

im thinking things like xandros simple-mode, that was /nice/

what OS, email client, and browser should i set her up with?

if you say Ubuntu i will block you. im talking REAL accessability, thinking outside the box. for my GRANDMOTHER

#IPCC release a special report with more than 6000 scientific references outlining the need to act before 2040, and what happens if we don't do it.

🔗 4 page press release: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/session48/pr_181008_P48_spm_en.pdf
🔗 Main: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/
🔗 FAQ: http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_faq.pdf

#climatechange