Nicole Mirea @nimirea@scholar.social

replication is the sincerest form of flattery; it means you think the question that someone's asking is important enough to answer correctly.

(mind you, "riff off" here is distinct from "rip off", where someone else is turning a profit from something you made without changing it. don't do that, it's uncool.)

I think the people who don't want others to riff off of their work are the same people who worry they'll never have another idea again. that's never happened to me before, and it's not likely to happen in the future.

part of the reason I'm always on about open source and intellectual property rights is because I *want* people to build off my ideas/tools and use them as launching pads for their own original thoughts. so truly, I'm thrilled when people "copy" me. it means I've inspired someone! and that's all the impact I can hope for :)

mixed feelings

on the one hand: science good, knowledge advancement good, several people (that I know of) doing interesting research are working here

on the other: if this is fully funded by Toyota, what relationship does the corporation have with the institute? Does it set research agendas? Does it retain exclusive IP rights over anything created by the academics working here?

can i call in sick with the hiccups

@ksteimel I wrote the HTML myself. I was generating the CSS using PHP because I wanted to be able to change the colors quickly... but that was kind of useless

SASS/SCSS would have also served the same purpose

Website update: switched over to a static site, cleaned up some other cruft, and added a rel="me" for verification!

(in preparation for other big things)

https://www.nimirea.com

@bgcarlisle This would be awesome especially for the people who are arriving from Tumblr; the ability for long- and short-form posts to live comfortably together is something that platform is *really* good at.

@kate_wagner Hi there! I remember finding your blog a few years ago and laughing about it with my mom, who is an architect. Thrilled to see you here!

@socrates I suggested this, because of a few reasons:

- Found this urbanism journal on Masto and I'm excited about it!
- Want to learn more abt impact of heritage tourism on non-tourists
- Personal connection: my entire family is from this region, so growing up I've met many people with v strong and varied viewpoints on the socialist past, from "literally the worst" to "everything was better before the revolution"... curious about "decontestation" in this context

decided to start boosting every request for financial support that comes across my timeline because, fuck it, it's the holidays (but i'm also going to keep doing it past the holidays). life is too short to spend any part of it in poverty.

@mmin
yeah I get that about the pen-and-paper thing too! some of that might be also that the computer is kind of limited/cumbersome in the ways you can record ideas—the "best"/easiest/most future-proof way being plain text... but not all my ideas come to me in a textual form, or at a speed where I can write them down fast enough.

re: privacy, my most creative moments have definitely been alone, with no one looking over my shoulder. sometimes you're just not ready to share!

on a far more positive note, I have a book suggestion for people who love #urbanism, networks, infrastructures, Los Angeles, or all of the above: The Infrastructural City by Kazys Varnelis https://www.worldcat.org/title/infrastructural-city-networked-ecologies-in-los-angeles/oclc/179828017

It's not pessimistic enough to really hammer the point that LA is in "perpetual crisis mode" but it does situate the city as a weird & freaky place that can only exist thanks to infrastructural networks, and has been shaped by the development of these networks.

@bthall (at the same time I don't want to propose solutions without talking to people who are more affected than I am; I might be missing the point entirely)