Edward L Platt @elplatt@greatjustice.net

"Embrace, Extend, and Exterminate"

Phrase used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy of extending standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage competitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

I don't understand why some people are complaining about samsung giving a grant to support mastodon development. I'd prefer to see development crowdfunded, but what is the harm? If it were ms/gates, I'd be concerned about embrace-extend-extinguish, but that doesn't seem to be samsung's MO. #NoCrosspost

@cwebber Some of my research possibly relevant to your work: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02426

What is the thing you most wish everyone else in the world understood?

Who's going to #NetSci this year?

Welcome to the #fediverse, @imjane !

Me writing conclusions: "I already said this twice. GOTO introduction."

#BanHeadlines

This one was a win for academic privacy researchers. Still scary though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj2yxJ_wrEk

Anyone working on cool free software for collaboration that I might not know about?

TFW you see an ad for something you were *thinking* about searching for.

The current way we use emoji is going to vex literature, archival, and history students for centuries to come.

"WTF is everyone calling eachother a ::pinching hand:: ::eggplant::?!?!"

Contacted a lawyer re my father's medicaid being illegally deactivated by MDHHS. Received some top notch advice: "you should probably do something about that." Also "have you tried calling?" (phone number goes to VM, of which I have left ~12)

#Networks #DataIsBeautiful

A very short story, apropos nothing. #NoCrosspost

"I'm sorry, I must have left it in my other pants."

"You're not wearing pants."

A: Because it would be a pair-o-docks! #puns

Q: Why can't you build two piers next to each other? ...

I rode my motorcycle today :D

"Cryptocurrency exchange says it can't access some $190 million in bitcoin and other funds after its founder ... died at age 30 — without sharing the password for his encrypted laptop."

#SinglePointOfFailure

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/04/691296170/cryptocurrency-exchange-says-it-cant-access-millions-after-founder-s-unexpected