Posts by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
(DIR) Post #AoTWrkS7nHlIij9TIe by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2024-11-27T17:42:37Z
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@futurebird That actually sounds like "summer" in my house. 😀
(DIR) Post #AomAlYcSN3FTIIrkHo by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2024-12-06T17:34:18Z
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@wjmaggos @FAIR As much as pre-X Twitter gave to me in the late '00s, both personally and professionally, at this point I feel like Twitter was a cautionary tale. Basically, "yes, we *can* do this, technically, but it probably isn't a good idea to do so. "I agree that Bluesky, in some lovely ways, currently *feels* more like the Twitter that was, but I'm not at all sure that's a good thing.
(DIR) Post #AomFcbuZGF9UfXtGMq by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2024-12-06T18:28:45Z
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@wjmaggos @FAIR The idea of a "global town square" seemed compelling -- transformational, even -- but, in my view, Twitter (and Facebook, for that matter) ended up illustrating that it's not possible for an individual to communicate with the whole world in anything the than a broadcast manner, which doesn't feel like a change to me. I'm not, and will never have the same potential reach with the Metaverse that I did with more centralized social media, and I think that may be a net positive.
(DIR) Post #AomH0GjBlwklsEPfU0 by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2024-12-06T18:32:30Z
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@wjmaggos @FAIR I have the same ability to encounter interesting people, which is great, but I personally also have a smaller possibility of encountering a number of people that I simply can't deal with.
(DIR) Post #AomMuwsSkQJgaNb5Cy by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2024-12-06T19:50:26Z
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@wjmaggos @FAIR I think what I'm saying is that I don't think -- at this point, at least -- that it's realistic to have a global, social "place for news."I'm mostly saying that I, personally, prefer a smaller scale "social network" at this point, but I'm also saying that I genuinely don't think that the basic idea of "if everyone just were on a single 'social network', they'd understand one another better and work everything out" is a realistic goal for social networking software.
(DIR) Post #AqWT99vBBvWx9QITr6 by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-01-27T23:29:16Z
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@futurebird An edge case, but my understanding is that file name *extensions* and file *types* can still be entirely different, so seeing a .JPEG file extension could create a false sense of confidence in what one is going to get.
(DIR) Post #Ar75sfC9Wll3W1NL0K by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-02-14T15:32:50Z
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@futurebird As late as 2000, I convinced an IT team to let me continue running Pine as my email client; I get it, I think.
(DIR) Post #ArCvoSMjS3j3yTRGGe by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-02-17T11:08:22Z
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@futurebird As always: thank you for sharing fascinating information in an entertaining way.
(DIR) Post #Asc2nAerTyvVtugmZs by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-03-31T11:46:25Z
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@futurebird The thing I'd miss is casual discovery: I found the bloomScrolling hashtag, for example, because someone in my feed used it. That could be addressed in a variety of ways, of course, but I do like that side of it right now.
(DIR) Post #AtGri05h4QzWdAS8tk by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-04-19T23:33:15Z
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I was literally talking with my mother today about "cultural" vs. observant religious identity.This image sums up my personal situation from so many different angles.
(DIR) Post #Av8DYj5rxJIIFeTLtY by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-06-14T20:01:38Z
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@foone There might as well be a sticker on there that says "For OG lawyers!"
(DIR) Post #Aw86LuRYgTumM8gpRw by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-07-14T16:33:24Z
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@futurebird I will say that my kids seem to view both gender and sexuality with much less of a purely binary perspective than I had at their age. I think and hope that may be part of a broader trend?
(DIR) Post #Aw8VbzG72v66mJ6DYG by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-07-14T21:16:29Z
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@Nonilex That is...unsettling to hear. Both the action, and the started reasoning underlying the action.
(DIR) Post #AwSnSzGErT2j2gsqDQ by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-07-24T15:53:50Z
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@0xabad1dea At least for the linguists I know, their laptops are generally owned by the institutions they work for, and academic IT tends to be super sensitive to "disifiguring" of institution assets. That said, I've seen a "my books smell good" sticker on a linguistics professor's laptop, so dunno.
(DIR) Post #Ax0bdosHQ01rwKX39E by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-08-09T23:37:57Z
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@foone When I said "look, you probably don't need 32 megs of RAM unless you're doing some pretty insane graphics stuff" I wasn't wrong. It was just quite some years ago, now.
(DIR) Post #AxIziAVKpstNvYgXAW by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-08-18T20:32:50Z
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@Nonilex This is the thing about electing a POTUS who genuinely thinks that his reality TV show host experience is somehow relevant to being POTUS.He just thinks that the writers and producers will figure it out before the next episode.
(DIR) Post #AyB2IuTW5SilN8JlpY by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-09-09T11:41:28Z
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As far as I can tell, the only reason we still have paper clips in our house is that sometimes electronic devices need to be hard reset.
(DIR) Post #B0cdQoak038C94Whwe by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-11-26T01:33:49Z
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@ricci I agree with this statement, but at the same time, in my own life I have more regrets about things I *didn't* do than about things I did.
(DIR) Post #B11KIeb4EeCOeZ4XlA by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-12-07T23:27:10Z
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@futurebird Our most recent family cats were...well, let's just say "not part of the cat science core research team," but I firmly believe that there *is* a cat science core research team.
(DIR) Post #B2jA7YGzO6htdwfSK0 by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2026-01-28T00:44:33Z
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@foone I'm honestly a little surprised it's that small. 2018-2023 was an extremely long decade.