Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

You get to the end of the course you are teaching and students conclude it was a waste of time. How do you respond?

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

Periodic PSA!

I use lots of graph paper, so I made a LaTeX template to print my own. It was so handy that @duetosymmetry and I turned it into a LaTeX package.

There are various grid styles (graph, quadrille, hex, iso, dot grid, etc), and both custom and pre-defined color schemes.

Use it to easily print your own paper, or to make pdf page templates for your favorite tablet note-taking app. I use them with GoodNotes & Notability.

Github: https://github.com/mcnees/LaTeX-Graph-Paper
CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/gridpapers?lang=en

When you think, do you have an internal dialogue that includes words?

Boost if you're interested.

Zoom ordered no more work from home for its employees because someone in legal read the new Zoom ToS and was shocked by what Zoom can now do with the content of Zoom calls.

@takeitev
Platform maturity.

It always happens. Any new movement the best people move first and the average and terrible ones arrive later.

When CrossFit appeared my fittest friends jumped on that.

When Twitter started my friends who could best describe their day in 140 characters went there.

When Gab started all the racists got in first.

Now Mastodon has the most interesting people and the nasty posters are arriving here too to pad out the ranks.

This is an excellent time to be skeptical consumers of legal takes and be cautious about both Trumpist pseudo-legal disinformation and Resistance pseudo-legal wishcasting.

We drove #electriccar to Paris recently and back, via Dieppe - no worries.
Last December I drove to Berlin and back. Again, each drive took about 10 hours with couple of stops - no problems.

Stop believing nonsense in the media. It's a moaning of either corrupt people or let's just say - less gifted in the upstairs apartment - who think their privilidges is just a norm. #climate #ElectricVehicles #climateaction

Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820710/pay-no-attention-to-the-usb-port-behind-the-no-usb-sticker

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820710/pay-no-attention-to-the-usb-port-behind-the-no-usb-sticker

Do I know any screen reader users who have successfully completed advanced math coursework? If so, I would like to meet with you. Boosts requested

The most Mastodon thing I’ve seen on here so far is someone CWing a picture of a cat because the cat is making eye contact.

Please Fedi-Friends,
don’t forget to use Content Warning to hide your toot if you as discussing spoilers from a tv show, movie, game, or book so that others can enjoy it too! 📺🎬🎮📘✨

@alexwild I have a bit of nostalgia for the time that Yahoo was trying to keep all pages in a defined categorised tree.

Now I can't even get Amazon to return search results related to or even containing the words in my search string.

@kirby@lab.nyanide.com Being on fediblock is just a sign that your instance is properly federating across the network. It's an inevitability and there is nothing you can do about it.

I have just been requested to commute three days a week 135 miles away each way from my home (I have not moved) to an office I was never required to attend before the pandemic starting end of September.

If anyone needs remote product/infrastructure/platform engineering or backend developer who has 15 years cloud deployment experience and data center to cloud migration experience, email me on spotter@referentiallabs.com.

#haskell #PureScript #Deno #typescript

Anti-SLAPP win this morning. Dear CA plaintiffs and lawyers: just a reminder, under CA law even if I take a case pro bono you have to pay my fees, at rack rates, if I win an anti-SLAPP.

Hello everyone! 👋 We've joined the fediverse as part of an experiment with our friends from BBC Research & Development. Read more about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub