Anna SdTC

All this self-host techie discourse sounds, to me, a bit like a self-sufficiency dystopia. If we were discussing how bad public transportation is, and someone replied "just transport yourself", most of us would say "that's not it". But when we discuss wanting to get out of large American tech or of nazi-sympathyzing companies, the solution can't be "just host your services yourself". Having to do everything yourself is not my idea of a functioning society. https://todon.eu/@redjives/117223317766147041

I used to be quite active on that one bird social network until that one guy purchased it, and then I removed myself from it. From those days, I remember learning a lot from many other folks, many of them in a different field: economists, sociologists, environmental scientists, statisticians, humanities scholars, etc. but also from policymakers, people who were in tech or in many other industries. I am opening this account with the hope of recapturing that experience. #introduction

@SeaFury@aus.social I am supervising my first PhD student and I am quite happy when they email me mid week "sorry I am not sure what you meant" rather than wait until next meeting. Our training is in research, and we learn teaching, mentoring and other academic tasks as we go. Also, advice: do not write for your supervisor or for yourself, but for a distracted reader with the attention span of a toddler because they're working on too many things at once (the average academic, including journal reviewers).

@drahardja@sfba.social I now feel dumb for having read it out loud to my partner with my silly "English is my third language" accent. But, true to the essence of the poem, my partner replied that they like listening to me. ❤️ And, indeed, some folks are using AI to spare themselves the need to actually live. What a well written poem!