orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

also while i'm at it with the constructive criticism,

can we please stop misrepresenting the historical witch-hunts as being a literal targeted oppression of literal witches?

the "witch cult" hypothesis has been thoroughly debunked and the "9 million" number is a fabrication invented by ahistorical neopagans

the witch hunts were a way of controlling women during the Primitive Accumulation of Capital (suggested reading: Silvia Federici's The Caliban and the Witch).

Boomers had essentially no class awareness because unions were on the decline and most boomers thought Socialism=Russia which made class Politics almost non existent.

Boomers (who benefited from the Welfare state) thought welfare was anti "Individualist" and embraced Reaganomics

The Boomer's Anti War Movement was less "the military industrial complex must be destroyed" and more "Id rather not fight in a war."

Many white/middle class Boomers thought the Civil Rights act ended racism and were turned off by the Black Power movement cus it wasn't Liberal.

Just learned about a woman in computer science history: Elizabeth Fong. She spent her career at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, and is mentioned as attending data standardization meetings in RFC-316 (1972). She was heavily involved in the effort to standardize SQL in the 1980s.

Here's a 2014 interview with her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLUm3vst87g&feature=youtu.be

And a brief autobiographical sketch on being awarded for 48 years of service at NIST:

https://medium.com/@usnistgov/cant-stop-computing-nist-dean-of-staff-elizabeth-fong-ddc550781c26

I'm hungry. It's irritating.

— Meng Akmamustuth, hammerer

pretty sure that insisting you're not a furry is step one of becoming a furry

I'm not a furry btw

i will never not refer to the cover you place on a keyboard to prevent crumbs from getting under the keys as a "keyboard condom"

Wrote up a review of Malcolm Gladwell's latest book, "Talking to Strangers." This is why I don't read self-help Ted Talk esque books anymore.

#malcolmgladwell #bookreview #writing #books
https://johnpierremaeli.com/malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers-whitewashing/