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Academia life 

Just got comments back from my first peer reviewed journal article and the peers really liked it!? Minor revisions but pretty manageable. Very relieved!!

Hallmark Christmas movie where a tech executive comes from the big city to get an AI data center built on the town Christmas tree farm

Hi everyone, sorry for going so long without an update!

While Fastmail management declined to give us voluntary recognition, today we had our NLRB vote, and unionizing with CWA won with 75% of the vote! We're looking forward to negotiating a contract with Fastmail that helps ensure a safe and equitable future for everyone here!

Thanks to everyone who offered their support throughout this process!

wares.lifewinning.com/products heads up that I am closing up orders on this yearlong project of quarterly plotter postcards today so I have a consistent edition through the year. Printing for the first postcard starts soon, gets mailed out in March.

If you want to read long email chains that amount to "Adam Mosseri feels there's a big gap between 'perceived' harm and actual technical violations and "Mark Zuckerberg declines to fund any work on improving known and terrible Meta performance on abusive everything" this is a "fun" read

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/13124metadocuments.pdf

(Link courtesy Adi Robertson at The Verge, I couldn't find it on anyone's sites.)

Got to the part in the Doppelganger audiobook where Naomi Klein bemoans that Kissinger continues to advise governments and I got to yell "he's dead now Naomi!!" I hope she had a great day when that happened

last night a student told me the extent of her political education during her engineering degree came from playing Disco Elysium

aging dog, weird housing life 

for this kind of building in this part of Brooklyn, the most likely buyer is going to gut the whole place anyway, so while it is a decent move on his part for our quality of life it's pretty irrational for him to spend more money on things like this if he really wants to sell in the next year. very confusing mixed messages!!

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aging dog, weird housing life 

Kitty has been having some incontinence issues as she's gotten older which has led to more than one pissing incident in our building's front hallway. my landlord was trying to sell the building like four months ago but he just texted to say he's going to see about getting his contractor to replace the front hall carpet with hard flooring, which is thoughtful but also seems like a weird expense if you're really planning to sell this place?

Absolutely losing it after discovering what3words took control of the whatfreewords domain by arguing that "three" and "free" are indistinguishable when spoken.

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2019-2439

Nice book story 

The co-op bakery in my neighborhood has a little book rack and a few months ago I gave them some zines including one of the first self published copies of Networks of New York. Today I learned there's a family with a little kid who reads it every single time they come to the store!! It's their favorite book!!

When I watch old videos of my dog I think "she was so little" and then have to remember we got her when she was six years old and she is basically the exact same size now

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: how lucky, severed, the Eighteenth Brumaire, laissez-faire dogmas, dog stew, the thing behind the dumpster, probably

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: how lucky, severed, the Eighteenth Brumaire, laissez-faire dogmas, dog stew, the thing behind the dumpster, probably

observablehq.com/d/c8fafa2b342 retrofitted an observable demo that did a neat trick with generating isolines to accept arbitrary geojson files--it's hella slow but I think it will make for some nice plotter drawings. this one is probably going to be a little gift for a friend who just had a kid whose middle name is, I am serious, California

Listening to the audiobook of Naomi Klein's Doppelganger and a little disappointed she doesn't do a silly voice for Other Naomi

My downstairs neighbor is learning to play the cello and honestly I love it, so cute to hear the little scales very proud of u neighbor

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.