#Slack

[slackster]

The medics don’t often get breaks, but when they do…

[askthemedbay]

Sooo…Slack…you sure you won’t give Frenzy a chance?

Oof! You’ve been called out!!

[lucybellwood]

"Making systems resilient is fundamentally at odds with optimization, because optimizing a system means taking out any slack. A truly optimized, and thus efficient, system is only possible with near-perfect knowledge about the system, together with the ability to observe and implement a response. For a system to be reliable, on the other hand, there have to be some unused resources to draw on when the unexpected happens, which, well, happens predictably." (Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works, p. 209) Another way to look at this is that you cannot optimize for resilience. Resilience requires a kind of elasticity, an ability to stretch and reach but then to return, to spring back into a former shape—or perhaps to shapeshift into something new if the circumstances require it. Resilience is stretchy where optimization is brittle; resilience invites change where optimization demands continuity.

—Mandy Brown, from her post "Against Optimization" on A Working Library

[zackslater]

Favorite Zack & Slater scenes: 9/?

[coeurdeverre82]

[enki2]

[afunn]

RIP Skype. I will miss you.

[krisfreedain]

[pierresmith]

We traded freedom for polish when we left IRC behind.

[slackster]

Lore drop!!

First Aid and Slack were found early in the war, after a pack of Seekers bombed the nursery in which Arcee worked. There were no creators to be found.

Obviously… Arcee and Ratchet took them in :’)

[askthemedbay]

(ooc for creator: Been a long-time follower. I LOVE YOUR STUFF) Sooo, how do other humans ask (through email, letters, in-person, or other means)? And how does it get sent to the other medics? Cause frankly, I'm writing this on a piece of paper and sneaking in (probably dropping it somewhere). Wish me luck.

Aw jeez… yeah, I remember when someone crammed an ask in Ratchet’s subspace. We get most questions here, tumblr asks pop up on our helm-up displays (HUDs), but we find the occasional note. We just comm the other medbay team if necessary :)

Jazz found your letter, by the way! No idea how you got in here, but it was sitting on one of the canteen tables…

[fellington21]

Slack made chat easy. IRC made it yours.

[zackslater]

Favorite Zack & Slater scenes: 8/?

[coeurdeverre82]

[valmaras]

let me show you a book