Don't get me wrong. There are Good Things that come out of product management and UX processes taking time and several ui-flow-final-final-oh-god-i-promise-totes-final figma thingies. But things like "swap out SMS providers before the vendor cuts us off next week" ... ... Just Fucking Do It.

I am absolutely arriving late to the orgy I'm hosting to this song.

Also the guy I met up with was cool and we will absolutely have to slot him into the calendar somewhere and see what he can do.

Events are a fiscal risk and very much can wreck *personal* finances despite shielding yourself in a proper 501(c)(3), even a big umbrella one with good lawyers. That plays into these things. The bigger your event, the bigger your risk. At the end of the day I think the biggest thing I can say […]

Addendum: Boards are not monoliths. I'm drawing on my experience in the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on the board of the South Florida chapter which is...mostly defunct now. The territory was too massive and membership told small so we couldn't really do the work we wanted, though we did a […]

In conclusion: If the person who runs your event moves away to a Big Gay Mecca and continues to run your event from there, speak the fuck up. If people start showing up at your event complaining that it's just so annoying to get there or the Uber is too far away? Speak the fuck up. If your board […]

I did not get to attend that event. However, I did reach out to some of the regular attendees and the few who did attend said the entire makeup and vibe of the event changed. Again: accommodating a national audience completely changes an event. There's also a seeming blindness to just how small […]

Bears, Bikers, and Mayhem is a bit of a mystery but there's a weirdly similar thread here of being run by someone who lives Very Far Away. 2023 I attended and it was my first leather run. Then suddenly, they moved 501(c)(3)s to one based out of Wilton Manors. The Baltimore hotel that was gonna […]

CLAW's troubles this year are absolutely about them losing a core of their community trying to cater to a national community and be a MAL or IML. There are two sides to this story and we may never get the proof we need without some of the tech from The Light of Other Days (2000) by Arthur C […]

I alluded to the Contentification of sex as a root cause of this sort of thing and it holds true. Even if you don't identify as a "content creator", attending these smaller capacity events from across the country *is a burden* on the event. Demanding they improve the convenience and capacity […]

In a very generic sense, people demanding events move to a more nationally accessible city so they can get there via a nonstop flight and Uber to their heart's content with no surge is a bit tone deaf. It's the "more lanes" problem of transportation: you induce more demand. This doesn't even get […]

Some random highlights because I'm not publishing a long hike just to state pretty obvious things and also you'll just have to click through to this thread if you're on BSky cause I'm gonna use the full character limit on Mastodon. Sorry!

[LLM Bullshit]

I mean, I definitely can see where the cultists got the entire idea of "let the LLM just generate several paragraphs of tokens, read those tokens, and then put out a single paragraph of pretty correct conclusions," because I absolutely do this as a human being.

Also like, boo boo magoo, that's one hell of a dog whistle.

It's always the white skinny bottoms with nothing but their abs in their profile pic isn't it? *eye roll*