Matt Blaze, a respected computer scientist whom I've known pretty much forever, just told me to "Fck off" (without the '') and blocked me here on #Mastodon.
I think you may find the reason why interesting.
While I have frequently stood up for him when he's the subject of unfair comments of one sort of another, I still call issues as I see them.
Earlier today, without any prompting, Matt noted here that he just cancelled a bunch of reservations he'd made to help assure he could get a "cloud free" viewing experience of the eclipse.
In response to my comment that this seemed to be rather obnoxious behavior, given how tightly rooms have been booked, he suggested that people could just use the reservations now. I noted that not everyone can do last minute planning and sometimes it takes weeks for many to plan such trips.
He "apologized" for not meeting my "personal standards". I noted that I felt they were pretty basic standards and wondered how many reservations he had made.
At that point, he threw the invective and blocked me.
What's interesting here is that Matt openly made a point of publicly saying he had made multiple reservations only to cancel all but one. Why he made that post in the first place I can't imagine.
But I stand by my analysis of that post.
Just wanted you to know why I apparently won't be interacting with Matt any more here on Mastodon at least.
I welcome alternative points of view regarding this dialogue.
