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Cake day: October 27th, 2023

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  • Purely informational question: to me this seems to say “she started using!” Later the title clarifies that she’s using a FOSS tool of some kind. Is there a word missing? Or is “!” (just an exclamation point) a FOSS app? I get the overall gist of the message, but I’m confused about a detail.














  • Not that strange, but certainly fucking annoying: at universities it’s becoming more common to have “closed searches” for upper administrators like presidents, provosts, deans, etc. This is very much a labor/management thing, and historically (in the US) public universities have had open searches, where faculty and staff get to meet candidates, ask them questions, etc. Upper admins have taken over all decision making power in recent decades, but in the past few years they’ve even started preventing faculty/staff from even knowing who is applying to be their new uni president. Under pressure to do something about “the consent of the governed,” admins have “allowed” some faculty and staff to view interviews and things, but are forced to sign NDAs to do so.

    At public universities, using taxpayer money, promising large amounts of taxpayer money to some person. It’s stupid and annoying.