Klara, continued / is on Nostr

Middle-aged queer trans Chicagoan. Fond of the ancient world (casually), board games (medium-crunchy), feminist scifi/fantasy novels, and occasionally other media, if it grabs me.

Follows welcome. I usually cross-post manually between here and the bird site (no boosts/RTs/QTs, just my own posts), where I'm @listel[l]ian.

I write code for work and therefore have zero brain remaining for hobby programming, but a long time ago I did grad school in type theory for functional programming languages.

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2024-05-14 00:08:16

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@npub1ua7…rrg3 I lost a whole day of work because Mercury was in systemd.

2024-03-22 23:07:01

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@npub1psd…9sr7 These (or something very similar to them; I don't remember where I got them) are my regular hair clips during the parts of the year where I'm not wearing a hat all the time!
I honestly don't think I've ever used the tool functionality, but I like that I could. Also they're good hair clips and don't fall out easily like cheap drug store ones tend to.

2023-08-01 15:50:53

Any of y'all in the Twin Cities and looking for free KN95s? https://kstp.com/kstp-news/outdoors/minneapolis-providing-free-n95-masks-friday-for-bad-air-quality-protection/

2023-06-06 02:09:59

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Nope. There's just a lot of perverse incentives aligned such that a diverse group of influential tech people benefit from saying shit like this.
Some want their stock prices to go up, some want to make regulation focus on fantasy scenarios so they can get away with more mundane awful, some want to freeze their position as market leaders, and some want to direct well-intentioned charity money to their awful cults. (And some decent people have been duped into joining said cults, too.)

2023-05-03 07:13:11

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@npub1cjj…8rtc You can always talk about autism with co-workers after you take the job, if you trust them.
Are you ever able to tell who will have a problem with you if you don't mask? If so, "I'd like to come in and meet the team before I accept" is a very neurotypically-reasonable-sounding thing to ask for.
And don't discount that people who've been shitty to you in the past may well have just been assholes using your autistic traits as a target selection excuse

2023-05-02 23:11:58

I've seen a lot of people talking about the WGA strike, which is at it should be, but it's not yesterday's only labor news: https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/
Big American companies have been farming out awful content moderation tasks overseas for far too long, so heck yes unionization.