Nel @Navertal@schelling.pt

I think I’m about to massacre this poor guy

Am spending the weekend boning up on classes, methods, and ORM for Python, if these are things you’re passionate about I want to talk to you

Turns out that these devices were... not great for you. He hasn’t experienced any serious ill effects from them yet, though. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/when-xrays-were-all-the-rage-a-trip-to-the-shoe-store-was-dangerously-illuminating

Talking to my dad last night I learned that when he was a kid, there were devices in shoe stores that let you see live x-rays of your feet. Whenever he was there he would sneak onto one to watch his toe-bones wiggle until a clerk told him off.

Noticing that I’m more likely to gravitate strongly toward disciplines once I can place its theory into a historical narrative.

Began to study networking protocols after reading STS-laced histories of the development of TCP/IP and the OSI protocols.
Am now invested in becoming a decent chess player after learning about the succession of schools of chess theory.

Seeing how domain knowledge accretes over time makes it easier to engage fields that would otherwise seem too complex to approach.

Local government websites with terrible interface design as a form of grassroots resistance to high authoritarian legibility standards

Mostly I'm thrilled about this blossoming of Twitter alternatives because it means I might hear something new when people use hamfisted media comparisons to explain what The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is kind of like

Beginning to get a feel for the federated ecosystem dynamics. It makes sense that different servers would have distinct cultures to them. Noticing headier content from extropian and lots of shitposting from poa

Look, a lot of relationships, romantic or platonic, don’t last that long. Even so, a good general rule of thumb re: anybody you would spend time with for the sake of their company is to try your best to leave them in better condition than you found them.

Been thinking about the standard scam mechanic - open with a call that only the naive and overtrusting will answer, then exploit the mark’s trust to siphon their money away to you.

I think there are similar patterns that select the overly thoughtful and conscientious to suck away their time and energy - recommending that someone put together a bureaucratic task force to address an issue they find urgent, for example.