josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@smaurizi Most probably you knew this already, but you appear (among many other people) in the acknowledgments of Jacob's thesis.

I usually read young people complain about how nobody told them about something until somehow they found out about it on their own.

Isn't that weird? I mean, that's how it's always been for my own generation, I think. If we were interested in something, we would just dive into it as deep as we could. Did we like movies, music or art? We didn't rely on schools or colleges to tell us what was out there. We searched for it on our own and shared our findings with whoever was willing to listen, because we were passionate about it.

That's why I think it's weird that younger people say things like: “They never told me about that in college!” Well, duh. If you rely on official institutions, you'll get the official version. If you want the truth, you have to put on your helmet and start digging. I thought that was what being young was all about.

@alien A ver, esto es como no haber visto determinadas películas o escuchado determinados discos: si te interesa el tema, tienes que conocerla, porque es parte de la cultura (si hasta tiene un lenguaje de programación con su nombre). No haber oído hablar de ella no es un fallo del sistema, es un fallo propio.

@alien Pues hace falta estar desinformado, francamente. Suya es la cita que encabeza el primer capítulo de la Biblia (TAOCP para los ateos/agnósticos).

Personalmente, creo que ya es hora de dejar de pensar en personas como Ada Byron en términos de “figuras ocultas de la Historia” y empezar a plantearse su desconocimiento como una falta de cultura general.

Ha, ha! It didn't work on me! I beat behavioural psychology! (I read the last part second.)

@veer66 I don't know about Tailwind, but, to me, Bootstrap is greatly overrated. It makes all websites look the same. I don't like it.

@moth_ball
> too fucked to ever get adapted

Sounds like my kind of story.

@coolboymew

@coolboymew What a baby.

@coolboymew What does anon mean by that?

@tomey It looks like a tumour.

I dare you to look at the list of Nobel laureates in Literature and see how many you actually know (by name, you don't even need to have read them). That's how inconsequential this whole shitshow is.

And that's just one of them. Take the Peace prize instead. Woodrow Wilson won it for what? Caving to Clemenceau in Versailles and sowing the seed of WW2? I guess. What about Obama, whose acceptance speech was a defense of “just war”? And the EU, whose only purpose as an organisation seems to be to kiss NATO's boots? Even the Dalai Lama, who you may know for tongue kissing little boys, or Aung San Suu Kyi, whose inaction while in power led to the Rohyngya genocide. They're not the only bad apples, I'm sure. (Henry Fucking Kissinger, motherfuckers! In 1973.)

You know who never won it? Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. You know who's still waiting in jail for a recognition? Julian Assange.

My point is that Literature and Peace are the ones most people are acquainted with, and we know they're a joke. I wonder if the others work the same. Just one anecdote: When the CRISPR creators got theirs (for Chemistry, I think), the committee left out the _actual_ creator, a Spaniard named Francis Mojica. Why? Because he was a man.

@Fullmetal2255 The real problem here is that they actually look like fucking roadkill.

@LibrosdeBabel Cómo no iba a sacar una nueva novela el Nobel de Literatura de este año. A ver si se creen que el premio se lo podrían haber llevado vagos redomados como Sabato, Rulfo o Joyce. No sé qué esperábamos.

@Moon I'm not sure it was ever banned, but I think _Steal This Book_ deserves more visibility.

@LibrosdeBabel La ley de Godwin también funciona en la vida real, por lo que se ve.

@Computer Wow! I feel so honored, computer! I mean... friend... computer. Sir.

Sorry for taking so long to respond. Please spare me.

@karolat I do:

https://www.csl-computer.com/en/csl-usb-vertikal-maus-v2.html

I use a previous version of that one, but I assume they would have improved on it.

@coolboymew Well, you must watch all John Carpenter movies to be normal.

@Senator_Armstrong