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How time flies when you’re having fun! After another quick trip to the Bay Area for some wine tasting in Sonoma, we’re back in Seattle for the full moon, meteor showers, and back-to-back DJ Anomaly shows at The Atrium. w00t!<\/p>\nHow time flies when you’re having fun! After another quick trip to the Bay Area for some wine tasting in Sonoma, we’re back in Seattle for the full moon, meteor showers, and back-to-back DJ Anomaly shows at The Atrium. w00t!<\/p>\n
Professionally, once again a lot’s happened since my last post on The Union of Bliss and Emptiness<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The underling ideas behind q<\/span>w<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span>i<\/span>e<\/span>s <\/span>still make sense, but with Google+ (and the upcoming Google Questions) it really doesn’t seem like now’s the best time to be writing a bunch of software.\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, in chaos is opportunity.\u00c2\u00a0 So Kathy Gill and I came up with an interesting ebook idea — with Google+ as the first target!\u00c2\u00a0 And we were just starting to get some momentum when the nymwars hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n One thing that helps reassure me I’m on the right side in this war: during my six weeks on Google+ I’ve met literally hundreds of new and interesting people.\u00c2\u00a0 While the general environment is overwhelmingly male, with plenty of sexism and bigotry, my own circles are filled with a remarkably diverse group of great conversationalists (along with the occasional troll).\u00c2\u00a0 One of my new year’s resolutions<\/a> is “spend more time on diversity-friendly social networks, and less in sexist, racist, and elitist environments”, and the last few weeks have really reminded me of how important that is.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So I’m going to renew my Dreamwidth subscription and start looking at Disapsora.<\/p>\n Alas, Google’s certainly giving the impression that they don’t <\/em>want G+ to be that kind of place.\u00c2\u00a0 Their latest statements on the naming policy imply that they’re going to try to tough it out knowing full well that what they’re doing is harmful to women, lgbtq’s, activists, people with disabilities, and a lot of other groups — including many of my friends, who are unsurprisingly leaving or cutting way back on their posting.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m still optimistic that Google will come to their senses at some point … but when?\u00c2\u00a0 And until they do, how much time and energy do I want to be investing in their new world order?\u00c2\u00a0 Tricky questions …<\/p>\n Exciting times, to be sure, but somewhat stressful.\u00c2\u00a0 And with stresses in my personal life too … well, let’s just say I’m ready to dance.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately there’s an embarassment of riches tonight in the Seattle: Lara and Muschi at Inertia Labs’ 13th anniversary, and DJ Anomaly at the Atrium, following up last nights Perseids party with Assimilation.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots to look forward to!\u00c2\u00a0 I heart psytrance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How time flies when you’re having fun! After another quick trip to the Bay Area for some wine tasting in Sonoma, we’re back in Seattle for the full moon, meteor showers, and back-to-back DJ Anomaly shows at The Atrium. w00t! Professionally, once again a lot’s happened since my last post on The Union of Bliss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[283,292],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-psytrance","tag-qweries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}