Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

(I am seriously considering just closing PR functionality on all my repos, telling people to file an issue instead, and working to find a better model of collaboration)

Like, it seems to be a widespread problem that the review and processing of PRs ends up taking up more time than it would have taken to implement the feature by oneself, which seems to defeat the point of collaboration?

"But drive-by PRs are a really important way to get new contributors involved!"

Okay, but if we're relying on an unscalable, net-labour-cost model of interaction for attracting contributors, then what does that say about the health of our communities...?

I have trouble believing there are no better and more sustainable ways to achieve collaboration

I'm becoming more and more convinced that pull requests, at least in the "from random people passing by" sense, are just overall a terrible idea

I'm collating #evidence, studies, and journal articles refuting the bogus claim that porn causes harm to women and encourages violence towards women and girls, so we can cite evidence to Baroness Bertin in the #porn enquiry tomorrow. Please spam me with anything you've got. We need everything we can get our hands on, especially recent references.

#academia #pornography

I came up with this joke when I was asleep, so forgive me if it's not very funny

If I thought that "Social Media" meant using X or Facebook... I might agree with "stay away" But, that isn't the whole universe (we know that here, but who else knows?) and these are the kind of people who should know!

In the future social media will be media. The end.

What will that be like? We are building it now. Please for the love of God we need smart people to participate in this project. 4/4

Is "stay away" realistic advice for young people? Or for ANY people? It drives me nuts that some of the people with the best judgement, the cooler heads, the deeper thinkers, think that just ignoring social media is a solution.

Any format of information sharing can be "bad" yellow journalism, propaganda TV networks. All media present an opportunity to control the public will and so all media can be put to dishonest uses.

3/

We had a really good speaker at our school last year who talked about understanding conflict resolution. Part of an effort to improve student mental health. The only thing I didn't like about her presentation was what she said on social media "Social media? my advice is stay away!" *big audience chuckle from teachers and parents*

And that laugh is because most know we won't *really* stay away. And we admire those who don't use social media like they are training for a marathon. 2/

It annoys me how people talk about using social media like it's a vice. And a female-coded one at that.

"Spend less time on social media" is trotted out a virtuous in the same way that "not eating a pint of ice cream" is.

Imagine if in the early days of movable type, there were people going around saying "don't read pamphlets, they are full of misinformation"

Social media is the primary way news is disseminated. It is superseding newspapers and TV as the primary vector of mass media. 1/