Ken Hoover @khoover3@icosahedron.website
A PhD student in the least employable CS field. | :flag_ca: :airplane: :flag_us: | Yes, the timing was poor. I am not a clever man.
Caps memes > 3-1 memes
https://streamable.com/sw81b
Just got attack walking from and to my apartment by a flock of ravens. :<
Fettuccine con carne (sauce is tomato with garlic, basil, chili flakes, and gochujang, meat is andouille sausage). Let nobody challenge my Italian bona fides. https://icosahedron.website/media/F98kjWId7wWALVjdUYE
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - John Maynard Keynes
George RR Martin gave a guest lecture here just the other day and I missed it. Arrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggg.
@bobrossbot This should be your display photo.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/punching-holes-in-nomx-the-worlds-most-secure-communications-protocol/
Boost this toot and I will relentlessly mock you for boosting a toot that told you would cause me to do that.
it's Lesbian Day of Visibility so HUG A LESBIAN IN YOUR LIFE TODAY!
Serena Williams wins a tennis match pregnant and she gets tons of praise. But when I get my highschool girlfriend pregnant while coming in 3rd in my swim team heat I get called "irresponsible" ?Double standard much!? #MensRights #RedPilled #Meninist
As Mastodon grows, at some point there _will_ be a meltdown of some big instance into which tons of people put their trust and then the admin turns out not to be trustworthy (like the MtGox incident in Bitcoin). Even if it's a few hundred people affected, it will be major negative news.
People need to be educated about the role and power of instance admins.
From a friend:
"The funny thing is, Romanticism and material reductionism are two of the largest philosophical footprints on modern North American culture, leading us to have a view of emotions as vital and powerful but no room for them in our metaphysical framework, meaning that we're ultimately at the mercy of our feelings with no cultural skillset for their management except for repression or hysteria, thus contributing to the current mental health crisis! Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahawait."
hellbird is adding followed people's likes into the feed as though they are RTs hahahaha KILL IT NOW BURN IT DOWN
Some commentary on the twisting of the English language for the purposes of shifting agency (in particular, re: United). https://longreads.com/2017/04/12/the-elements-of-bureaucratic-style/
Fun fact: Nobody has ever seen a cat. What most people think of as cats are actually tiny horses.
Fun fact: Nobody has ever seen a cat. What most people think of as cats are actually tiny horses.
