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Luci For Tai Chi

@thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara whenever i hear about y2k i think about the water treatment plant that sacked all its scientists because there hadn’t been a cryptosporidia outbreak in 10 years.

2 January at 1:55 | Wall-to-wall | Open on queer.party
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Luci For Tai Chi

@thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara there must be a name for this logical fallacy. X worked to eliminate Y so we don’t need X anymore

2 January at 1:56 | Open on queer.party
Rob Sison

@bri_seven @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara Donald MacKenzie of U. Edinburgh has done some sociology work on beliefs/models that are "counterperformative" if they tend to encourage action whose impact tends to (apparently) undermine their own assumptions/preconditions

He's written some stuff about the histories of formal software verification and financial markets as models that encourage action that undermines/reinforces their own assumptions, respectively

2 January at 4:03 | Open on aus.social
Rob Sison

@bri_seven @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara so roughly speaking "we should take system-critical software flaws like the y2k bug seriously" is counterperformative in this sense because it caused everything to get fixed, so unfortunately then we have this situation where people aren't taking future things like this seriously

2 January at 4:11 | Open on aus.social
Steven Bodzin bike & subscribe

@bri_seven @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara a lot of libertarians have come out of CUNY, U Virginia, U Texas, etc.... Same energy

2 January at 5:08 | Open on thepit.social
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thepoliticalcat

@bri_seven @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara Go ahead, tell me. Did they immediately find themselves in the middle of a raging outbreak?

2 January at 1:56 | Open on mastodon.social
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