husbear is officially quitting his job after playing a game of employment chicken with them for the past few months. I am proud of him! and if they obey the severance agreement then we will be financially okay for a bit! And I have already had him apply at internet archive and a couple other places, and set him up on my fastmail account so he has a very Employable-Looking™ email address! But also, if you know anyone who needs a remote worker to do library science, project management, gov RFPs or data historianship, consider this an invitation to hit me up with hiring links. #FediHire

We should do vaccine commercials that look like tampon commercials. It makes 1000% more sense to have a commercial consisting of a woman and her friends riding rollercoasters and hitting the beach and stuff when the product in question is a vaccine to make sure you don't die when someone's kid open mouth sneezes in your face! You could even do a blue liquid test, but have the blue liquid in a spray bottle sprayed at a mannequin's face like "See what kinds of germs you can get? Seriously, get vaccinated"

wait. WAIT. is the japanese word "kanji" for the chinese-based writing system a transliteration of the chinese word "hanzi" which is the mandarin word for chinese writing?

Instead of hanging a framed college degree on my wall, I should hang the CUPS test print that I just successfully sent over wifi on opensuse

okay, so right now I'm in a group chat where we are staging an intervention, because one of my friends has come down with an actual factual case of chatGPT-induced psychosis and is trying to say that she needs "a network of trans women who work in AI" to put off the end of the human mind, and that she can "make the models do shadow work" I asked her if she could take a break from chatGPT for a couple weeks, and she said "I literally can't, my work isolates me and forces me to use AI tools for everything, and tells me to just ask AI every time I ask for guidance on a task." So, you know, in case you wanted to know how AI-first initiatives are going in the corporate world.

Having a CD player and unpacking my old boxes of CDs is great, because now my husband and I are hanging out in the living room listening to a gregorian chant cd that @npub1y9rh...vf9n got me for Christmas back in like 2011

Anyone here use Chimera Linux? If so, how is it? I've been intrigued for a while, and am considering it for this computer I'm building. Most of my Linux experience is Debian-based and rhel-adjacent distros, at least in terms of daily desktop tasks