awt[asciilifeform]: !!ticker btc usd
deedbot[asciilifeform]: $21,662
awt[asciilifeform]: *fashioned
asciilifeform: 'crypto'(tm)(r) delenda est.
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-05-09 asciilifeform: the banishment of 'institutional' scum from btcism can't happen soon enuff.
awt[asciilifeform]: Ugh. Have finally had a he/him show up in the project slack channel.
asciilifeform: lolwat?
awt[asciilifeform]: They have their name set to "John Doe (he/him)"
jonsykkel[asciilifeform]: still waiting
bitbot[asciilifeform]: (asciilifeform) 2022-03-31 jonsykkel: still waiting for pronoun field in addition to speaker in pest messages
PeterL[asciilifeform]: I've been seeing people (from various big corporations, including the one that just bought the little company I work at) who now include "he/him" or "she/her" with their name in their email signatures. It is only a matter of time before somebody asks me to add it, and I will say no.
asciilifeform still not encountered these anywhere, to date
asciilifeform: in salt mines, that is
billymg[asciilifeform] encountered them in salt mines as early as 2019 (possibly earlier)
billymg[asciilifeform]: and i'm referring to the regular straight folks who just throw it in there the way they would a ukrainian flag, the first real life troon (with they/them pronouns) i met was brought on in ~2016-17
asciilifeform: in 1 salt mine where asciilifeform consulted briefly, actually saw a transsexual ( looked kinda like this #t tourist ) but was the 'quiet' sort, not said much, nor 'waved flags' iirc
asciilifeform: there's likely some of this effect in play there.
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-03-31 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there's an ukr joak, 'one ukr -- is a fine fella. two ukrs -- best buds. three ukrs -- is a partizan brigade with a traitor'
lobbes[asciilifeform]: the pronoun jazz was all the rage at bank of america. Not so much at current gig (yet at least)
lobbes[asciilifeform]: my current running conjecture is that size of the organization equates to faster adoption of various fads
asciilifeform: wb lobbes