A Feathered Friend @SomeEgrets@awoo.space

Wow, it turns out that when you turn off disk write buffering, using a modern computer feels a lot like the early 90s

I'm pretty sure there spraying fertiliser out at the farms we're downwind of.

Every time there's a smell outside, for some reason, the HVAC system seems to suck it directly into my office, which means it also smells like fertiliser in here now.

IMO? This is the Ford gov system working exactly as intended.

They get to set arbitrary requirements, like disallowing disruptive protest, without appearing to do so. Because each school has to draft their own policy, they take the heat for it instead of the Ontario gov.

During the Q&A, a lot of speakers were not pleased with prohibiting disruptive protest, and they're not wrong.

But that part of the policy is actually one of the provincial standards they have to meet, set by the Ontario provincial gov before word one was drafted.

As much as I may be critical of the Free Expression policy the university is drafting, I also realise they don't have a lot of choice in the matter - this is a mandate from the provincial gov, consulting with bad faith parties who have a vested interest in this.

Signals suck, I'm just doing the self pipe trick.

@datastains@snouts.online where you least expect it... *spooky*

@datastains@snouts.online it's not bad right now because I just don't know that many people here, but if I had even half as many as twitter, I don't think it would be manageable.

@datastains@snouts.online honestly, the CW system as it stands is... necessary, but clunky.

I don't want it to go away, but I'd really, really love a way to whitelist almost all of the common ones for my own feed specifically, because they just don't bother me. What they do is make it really hard to skim-scroll through a timeline like birdsite, because you have to stop and click about 75% of posts that go by.

It's heated pad season

oh no, I saw the new batch of NITW shirts *WAY* too late to actually get in on them

It's heeeeere
Ready for spookyween now

T+1 day, lotta people walking around today smelling kinda funny, but I can't quite figure out why. It is a mystery.

Love how companies can just decide "we don't like these laws so they don't apply to us," write it into their pages-long TOS along with a clause that you automatically accept the terms, and this is somehow legal.

"The established literature fails to predict X, Y, Z and doesn't account for N. My new model takes this into account and provides better predictive power than the old one, please peer review my work" is a far cry from "I only believe in two genders" or whatever.

One good point raised was that despite what many claim, very little of this has any impact on academic rigour. Saying "prevailing research be damned, I believe in X" is not useful academic work and doesn't advance knowledge in ways they claim to care about so much.

"In the last decade, people have started to talk about safety in terms of safety from ideas ... universities are very physically safe spaces, which is the only measure that matters" 🖕(òvó)🖕

Student: (paraphrased) "we have to acknowledge that we are a colonial nation with a long history of suppressing marginalised voices such as indigenous peoples, trans or gender nonconforming people. How can I protect my vulnerable students from harm under this policy?"

This student is arguing for free speech absolutism and that this is "our roots as a country" - maybe ignorant that we have actual restrictions on that?

Or that as an institution, we're not obligated in any way to provide a platform for hate? They're free to say it elsewhere.

The teachers want an actionable policy document with practical, real world examples of how it should be applied in the classroom - most aren't lawyers and legalese doesn't help them, afraid without guidance, it could become a witch hunt if they try to uphold standards