Jens Finkhäuser 🌻 @jens@social.finkhaeuser.de

I've been reminded that I haven't posted #PlantUpdates in a while. Sadly, the sunflowers have all been eaten by snails. Meanwhile, the cucumbers all died except for one.

Basil, chives and parsley are thriving, as are the lettuces. Radishes have long been eaten.

But the tomatoes promise to be the winners.

Differences of opinion are fine, fwiw. But this makes me roll my eyes.

It's genuinely baffling to me, does the guy think we don't understand what he's doing, or does he think he'll get away with it? If neither, what does he hope to achieve?

This may or may not be a school that, if it were MIT or KIT (which it isn't) might've shortened their name to coincide with the name of a popular version control system.

I mean, allegedly. Supposedly? Hypothetically!

I mean, what would this alleged situation hypothetically do for your reputation as a school?

COMPLETELY UNRELATED QUESTION (not), if you're a university and hired a professor for, amongst other things, sitting in a group monitoring internet governance issues, should you want to know that said professor may or may not try to sabotage such a coalition by trying to block every single thing he personally disagrees with?

So you join a coalition for something. It includes a mailing list, where potential statements are being discussed, and sign-on opportunities for such statements are issued.

There is *no* mandate to sign everything.

If you join such a list, and your only contribution is to complain that none of the offered statements include your point of view that *hardly anyone* agrees with... why do you do that?

I mean, there's a transparent answer. But... do people not see how transparent they are?

A home made dystopia is a diystopia.

So a USB floppy disk drive is cheaper than a pack of floppy disks. There goes my idea of using floppy disks and their labels as a business card, like some folks did in the 90s.

I so rarely use business cards, it may still be affordable, but it's still a bit on the pricey side.