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brainwane

@brainwane@social.coop

Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. #OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data.

New York City #NYC, Changeset Consulting, #RecurseCenter, #WisCon, #MetaFilter, #Python packaging, Geek Feminism, #Dreamwidth, harihareswara.net.

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itamarst, to random
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Sadly I am not going to be able to make it to PyCon due to being sick 😒 Hope you all have fun!

#PyCon #PyConUS

brainwane,
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@itamarst Wishing you a quick and full recovery!

TheDJ, to mediawiki
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Since simon04 and jon replaced ooui with codex in #mediawiki’s mediaviewer during #wmhack, ive gotten involved a bit, and we are ripping this thing apart at moment.

Also doing a hard attack on the gigantic ticket graveyard that no one seems to have dared touch since the 2015 team dissolve.

brainwane,
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@TheDJ I have made perhaps a significant chunk of my career thanks to my willingness to dive into those kinds of backlogs. Wishing you well

sabogato, to random
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Is there a better way to refer to the class of people that are not cishetmen than nonmen?

My friends and I are trying to find a term to refer to ourselves that doesn't center cishetropatriarchy as the default.

brainwane,
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@sabogato good luck; I don't know of a good one that is brief as well as comprehensible upon first reading it

jimbob, to random
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Write code for my own purposes, put it on GitHub, more or less forget about it.

12 years later

Person comes up to me at conference, congratulates me on my code library they use in a multi-agency mission-critical live product every day.

brainwane,
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@jimbob This is simultaneously the way it's supposed to go and utterly bizarre. You know?!?!

s3thi, to random
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magical realism is just fantasy, rebranded for people who think fantasy is for children

science fiction is just fantasy, but magic is explained away as "technology"

horror is just fantasy with extra spicy monsters, and the protagonist goes mad at the end

brainwane,
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@s3thi To what extent are you serious in this assessment of genre?

BethanyBlack, to random
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Had to call paramedics and currently sat with them in our house is a weird experience, they’re like the most aggressively heterosexual people I’ve spent any time around for ages

brainwane,
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@BethanyBlack Wishing you and yours well

lawsononstage, to random
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Since we are talking about the article about the abusive audience member in New York City: In the ten years I worked front of house in New York City my favorite audience member was May.

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brainwane,
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@lawsononstage How lovely!

brainwane, to random
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My friend David Forbes is, in her words, "making sure I have enough to stay housed and pay the bills while I fight some really ugly union-busting"

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-david-stay-housed-during-a-labor-fight

"While I've filed labor charges, they're still in process. A historic number of union fights has meant the labor board is historically backed up."

brainwane, to random
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#pycon2024 #PyCon #PyConUS2024

If you are coming in person to #PyConUS in Pittsburgh this weekend, and are comfortable playing the guitar in public, let me know? I may be preparing a surprise for the 20th anniversary of Beautiful Soup https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/celebrate-beautiful-soups-20th-anniversary/ .

brainwane, to random
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a New York City-specific "what if you could send someone back in time to change history" scenario that I talked about with @leonardr the other day:

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Robert Moses

(Leonard has actually read "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro so he's a good person to play this out with)

brainwane,
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For reference:

"Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" is an alternate history scifi novel by Orson Scott Card that asks: what could time travelers have done to prevent the colonization of the Americas? and .... it's like the letters Julia Sand wrote to Chester A. Arthur, getting him to live up to who he could be. Sort of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastwatch:_The_Redemption_of_Christopher_Columbus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Sand

brainwane,
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(It's Card, so, you know, I'm not offering an unqualified recommendation here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Homosexuality for example.)

jmduke, to random
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Life update: having a kid in October. πŸ₯°

(Let the record reflect that including Telemachus in this photo was not my idea, but he's quite excited too.)

brainwane,
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@jmduke CONGRATS and I hope all goes as smoothly as possible!

brainwane, to random
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@rbellinger AMAZING

brainwane,
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@rbellinger Sorry! Maybe a response to a post you made and then deleted?

simon, to random
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Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it

"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page

brainwane,
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@JeffGrigg Wow! Could you say more about those "no links allowed" policies? (Or even link to one?) Is that a setting they enable on the platform or a human-enforced moderation rule? If the latter, do they ever defend it with a principle or reason?

brainwane, to random
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@unpretty I just read https://unpretty.space/post/749936623491416064/is-there-anything-stopping-a-very-rich-person-from and I am going to ask my spouse, who used to be head of digital lending at the New York Public Library, to opine

brainwane,
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@unpretty Wayne could create an Overdrive account for his privately owned library

but publishers might not want to sell ebook licenses to his library (depending on whether it is geographically exclusive), depending on how many books we are talking about

He might want to negotiate directly with the publishers for the rights to a specific enumerated list of titles

@leonardr also briefly started considering Wayne's plans for offering app and/or web reader access to said books

brainwane,
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@unpretty

The closest model to what Wayne would be doing is Open eBooks

https://www.openebooks.org/about

given that Wayne is doing this toward a public policy goal

Some more on digital lending at libraries: https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2015-RESTFest/

gvwilson, to random
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Tan et al 2024: "How to Gain Commit Rights in Modern Top Open Source Communities?" https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01803 #nwit

brainwane,
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@gvwilson Oooh, thanks, I'll need to settle in and read this one closely!

wjt, to random
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Bloke next to me on the tube is listening to a podcast episode titled "Are we in a masculinity crisis?" and it has taken considerable strength not to lean over, say "no" and save him 45 minutes.

brainwane,
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@wjt Ha! But also, real question, you don't think we are? I feel like several people I know are grappling with it, not just on a personal level but also more broadly

brainwane,
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@wjt I am not about to instruct you that it's horribly unfair to judge the podcast ep by its title without listening!

In case you want to think about it a bit more and enjoy some folks' perspectives on navigating modern masculinity, https://maryannemohanraj.com/navigating-masculinity-a-roundtable/ has a lot of great lines, including "Maleness strikes me as a lovely little fandom, as long as folks don’t get all rigid about how to do it right or who’s allowed to join up." by @ben_rosenbaum .

But "crisis" is a strong word.

ditiro, to random

I just watched your @pycon video on YouTube!πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ Its awesome, I just wish I could get my visa and attend @brainwane

brainwane,
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@ditiro Thanks for the kind words and I hope the online experience is also good!

@pycon

sargent, to random

My story is live at @StrangeHorizons! β€œThe Jaxicans' Authentic Reconstruction of Taco Tuesday ” is about authenticity, purpose, existential dread, and being resurrected by far future aliens to work your shitty fast food job. http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-jaxicans-authentic-reconstruction-of-taco-tuesday-37/

brainwane,
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@sargent

I just read your story and had a great time. Thanks for writing and sharing it. I appreciated the reminder of how funding institutions and fast food franchises alike try to bed-of-Procrustes human endeavors and needs, and how wildness finds a way.

@StrangeHorizons

brainwane, to fantasy
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Today, again, I reread the very short story my spouse @leonardr wrote https://www.crummy.com/2022/12/16/0 after I asked him to write a sweet story about a robot oven.

https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-94b-when-there-is-sugar-by-leonard-richardson/ β€œWhen There is Sugar” has a decommissioned military meet a human baker who misses his son.

The ending always makes me tear up.

More of Leonard's writing: https://www.crummy.com/writing/

brainwane,
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Today I read a news story and watched a 1-minute video about the new world record for the longest baguette

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68962680

that gave me an idea for a sequel to Leonard's short story "When There Is Sugar", because both stories involve mobile ovens of kind of the same shape

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