@blogdiva

Rhyme schemes got weird in the aughts

Growing up in the 80s, my mom was a board member of a 2nd-wave feminist bookshop in Atlanta, so I thought all bookstores were queer-friendly, feminist spaces

As the funny fad of the Internet started to take off, I naturally assumed — for literally months, in the early 90s — that "Amazon" was an online lesbian separatist bookstore in the vein of the Whole Earth Catalog.

In retrospect, my imagined reality was SO MUCH BETTER than what we wound up with

https://mas.to/@gleick/116036890696295170

@inthehands

Also, this guy makes Pontius Pilate look like a mensch

@inthehands

Jesus.

@zzt @jplebreton ... at the time he (almost always a "he") was just a nerd who was pretty good at matrix mathematics, mediocre at Python, and kept showing up at conferences about theory and talking about how great it was that theory doesn't matter any more

@zzt @jplebreton as a fellow phd-haver I can attest that phds ain't all that.

@zzt @jplebreton

Am pretty sure I met Bob Scienceovsky at an ML conference when we were both in grad school

@otfrom @inthehands @garbados Yep, we only mulch SOME of the ICE/Miller/Bannon types, and let the oligarchs capture & torture each other

@inthehands

your "extremist" position reminds me of this short story (from @garbados ?) that i have had open in a spare tab for *months*

https://blog.bovid.space/they-let-me-live

it is oddly hopeful about the aftermath of adopting the extremist position