pies @pies@qoto.org

Some people think scalability is the biggest challenge in tech. Some think it’s data privacy.

I think the biggest challenge in tech is the constant internal battle between ideals and a fat pay check.

The Guardian today has a photo of tents on the steps of UC Berkeley's Sproul Hall, the admin building. I spent a night in such a tent in 1985, as part of an anti-apartheid protest. That protest now has a lengthy Web page praising it on the official UC site, because the whole movement achieved its goals.

Ironically, today's protest could equally well have taken place in 1985, also.

THEIR EXPERIENCE OF REJECTION IS THE ARTWORK

For the last 4 years, the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art has been running an installation called The Ladies Lounge. Only people who identify as ladies are allowed to enter. In the lounge, they can sit in luxury and look at famous artworks by Picasso etc, which are not available elsewhere in the museum. They are served champagne and pampered by male butlers. It was meant as a comment on exclusionary men's clubs (which still exist in Australia and elsewhere).

Some dude got upset about it and sued the gallery for entry at the anti-discrimination tribunal. The artist, Kirsha Kaechele, said she was "absolutely delighted" that the exhibit had been taken to court. “The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.

She then turned the tribunal hearing into part of the art as well, by having a group of women observing the hearing dress like her and mimic her every move. They did not disrupt the hearing, and at the end of proceedings they exited the tribunal to the song Simply Irresistible.

Kaechele argued in her defence the Ladies Lounge was a “a response to the lived experience of women forbidden from entering certain spaces throughout history” and promoted equal opportunity.

The tribunal found against the gallery and is ordering them to allow men to enter the exhibit. MONA is removing the exhibit instead.

Fucking love this artist 😂

#MONA #art #kristenkachele #sexism #discrimination #performanceart #australia

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/09/mona-ordered-to-allow-people-who-do-not-identify-as-ladies-into-ladies-lounge-exhibit

I'm trying to do something new every day, so I called the cop "boyo" and now I have enough new experiences for the week

You matter.

Unless you’re moving at light-speed.

Then you energy.

If kids are "catching gender dysphoria" because of social media, it's because visibility matters. People see others, it is discussed, and they ... recognize some aspect of themselves in it.

That's it. One of the reasons I recognized I was queer early on was because... my mom had gay and lesbian friends and the visibility gave me a name for something.

THIS. IS. A. GOOD. THING.

Sustainability is a security issue. Consumers only have demands for a burnt out maintainer and the only help that arrives has long-term malicious intentions.

https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/

Stallone: I’m making a movie about classical composers.
I’ll be Beethoven.

Van Damme: I’ll be Mozart.

Schwarzenegger: Stop it guys. I’m not saying it.

Missed toenail cutting day now I have to wait another month.

i hate to be a grammar snob, but it should actually be "Fewer Miserables"

How come I can't develop some sort of clinical happiness?

Think I might join the cicadas this summer and just scream for six weeks straight.

If you attempt to rob a bank you won't have any trouble with rent, groceries or bills for the next 10 years, whether you are successful or not.

@girlonthenet All products marketed as "for men", "for boys", "for women" or "for girls" must specify en detail on the packaging what the risks are if they are accidentally used by the wrong gender.

Wife: What are you thinking about?
Me (out loud): We need spreadable butter and the bread’s use-by is tomorrow…
Me (internally): If you take the consonants out, Celine Dion is E-I-E-I-O.

Kelloggs is worth $19B & made $1.6B in profit in 2023.

So as 1 in 4 military families, 1 in 6 Americans, & 1 in 9 children are food insecure—Kellogg's boasts about celebrating that insecurity & advertises "cereal for dinner."

Shameful. Greedy. Cruel. smh
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/kellogg-ceo-cereal-dinner-save-money-2024-2