#emdashpride

2025-05-10

Ain’t it funny in some regard, that very deep down — digging far enough — strongman regimes and fascism come from the same place as fanboyism?

The smallness of it all — mind-boggling.
#emdash #emdashpride #fascism #fanboys

Christopher Silsby (he/him)silsby@hcommons.social
2025-03-28

Ran into a random #WordPress issue today. Ok, isn't really WordPress's fault, but a #modsec false positive. In trying to protect from #SQL injections, our firewall sees WordPress posts as dangerous. So every once in a while, a professor assigns a post about or related to the topic of sleep.

This is a problem for modsec. It thinks anyone writing a parenthetical clause after talking about sleep (like this) is trying to hack our server.

But WordPress doesn't have a way to process the error code, and gives the students a wholly unhelpful error message.

Luckily, this has now happened about 3 or 4 times in the past 15 years. So I know to look out for it. And to recommend emdashes instead of parens. See, my dissertation writing IS useful in my EdTech job! #EmdashPride #DigitalHumanities

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