New server means a new #introduction
Hi, I am a design executive in Europe who started as a backend developer in Missouri.
My life has taken many turns, but I’ve always benefited from the advantage of being a white cishet male who is stereotyped as credible. Hopefully, I leave this planet more equitable than I found it.
I strive to apply critical analysis to everything yet also find solidarity with everyone.
While I value “strong opinions, weakly held”, I do indulge in strongly-held opinions on a few issues. I’ll thread them here so you can make an informed decision on whether to follow or block me:
at what point does the industry in need of disruption become the tech industry
Publicly available container images are very similar to USB drives you find in the parking lot. They are meant to be downloaded and run in production.
Hello London! Is it normal that a tube train is covered in maps for a different line than the one it’s actually running? What are y’all doing?
Hello London! Is it normal that a tube train is covered in maps for a different line than the one it’s actually running? What are y’all doing?
Do any of you know of a workshop/bootcamp for learning to make + manufacture + distribute physical products on a small scale?
Maybe something a bit like Bolt’s Groundwork workshop, but less startuppy and perhaps more practical, plus… still exists? https://web.archive.org/web/20230313123137/https://groundwork.live/
(Boosts outside of my normal less-physical-and-more-digital audience appreciated.)
Remember when Roskomnazor tested disconnection of Runet from the internet, establishing Russia's ability to network independently?
Maybe it's time to make that more permanent. https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/eus-stratcom-struggles-to-counter-russian-election-disinformation/
Some of y'all are still confused as to why it seems that Silicon Valley billionaires are "turning to Trump." That's because you don't listen to Black people, you disrespect poor white people, and you ignore obvious statistics that have been staring you in the face for decades.
Silicon. Valley. Billionaires. Have. Always. Supported. Trump.
Not because they like the tax breaks. Because they are more likely to be racist, and racism is the greatest predictor of Trump support.
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A copywriter (IDK who) had a good idea, and a Belgian company (Impact) made it into a building-sized advertisement. Someone (IDK who) took a picture of that.
Then someone who posts lots of unattributed photos and screenshots from other people to build their fediverse following posted it, without attribution, with some anti-AI snark.
Which keeps getting boosted into my timeline by the same people who complain that generative AI can copy other people's work without attribution. #AIrony
Bring back iWeb, with iCloud indieweb hosting https://www.apple.com/welcomescreen/ilife/iweb-3/
One Night of Terror times 830
Here, the trajectories of Russian missiles and UAVs during the combined missile and drone attack overnight against peaceful Ukrainians.
All this killing is just one night.
Stop driving WOKE cars and ride a bike like a PATRIOT today
THIS IS A PRETTY HARD TIME FOR YOUR REPUBLICAN FAMILY MEMBERS. KICK 'EM WHILE THEY'RE DOWN. CALL YOUR UNCLE A BABY. ASK HIM IF HE'S GONNA CRY.
Used to be you could order free Ubuntu CD’s. Their first release proved controversial. I got like 48 of them as a teen. They’re now going for $10+.
Ubuntu is a Zulu word for an African philosophy of interconnectedness, which is the theme they were going for.
Remember, Russia attacked Ukraine in Fall of 2018, attacked Ukrainian Naval boats transiting the Kerch strait. Trump cowered in fear shutting off all operations in the Black Sea, for months... because he's a coward.
NSA and DoD recommended a host of options that would have advanced deterrence... deterred further Russian aggression. Trump was petrified. He froze. He was and is a scared, weak child.
Remember, Iran attacked US troops Feb 2020 injuring 109 Americans in Iraq, and Trump responded with nothing but fear. He's a small man.
He Did Nothing. He is weak.
It serves our ememies that the convicted felon, convicted fraud, sexual abuser said, 'It would not have happened if we were in office' because it did happen. Donald gave cover to Iran and Russia, and he mocked US service members, saying their traumatic brain injuries were just headaches.
Dutch F-16s supplied to Ukraine can be deployed on targets anywhere in Russia without US permission, says Netherlands Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot. https://nos.nl/artikel/2522702-nederlandse-f-16-s-ook-inzetbaar-voor-doelen-in-rusland
I'm amused that it is "news" that OpenAI is training another model. Did anyone expect them to let their primary capital assets just lie dormant?
Re-posting here for the good..
Very glad to announce the first 72hr Collapsible writing sprint - The Collapsathon!
Pls share widely. Let's do this!
Did you know that it's actually NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope? Even though it is often referred to as "NASA" only.
European Space Agency #ESA has contributed the NIRSpec instrument, half of the MIRI instrument, and the launch (including the payload adapter & launch site services) and has 15 scientists working at the science and operations center. #CSA, the Canadian Space Agency, has contributed the NIRISS instrument.
Graphic from launch kit: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/James_Webb_Space_Telescope_launch_kit
Today in not a drag queen
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — A local member of a New England-based neo-Nazi group known for disrupting children’s “drag queen story hours” has been charged with possessing child pornography.
Stephen Thomas Farrea, 34, a member of the Nationalist Social Club-131, had been arrested two years ago while distributing white nationalism leaflets in East Providence.
Then, last month, the Portsmouth police got a tip that Farrea may be in possession of child pornography.
Status on whether countries allow Ukraine to use their weapons against Russian territory:
✅ UK
✅ Finland
✅ Sweden
✅ Denmark
✅ Norway
✅ Estonia
✅ Latvia
✅ Lithuania
✅ Poland
✅ The Czech Republic
✅ The Netherlands
✅ France
✅ Germany
✅ Canada
Your move Joe Biden.
Hello world – #introduction time! This is the #devlog for Found, an #indiegame and #rpg
Found is an adventure where the player, a cloaked figure with glowing eyes named Em, explores a soft-poly world that has been torn apart, reassembling broken bits of land and figuring out who they are (and have been) along the way.
All art is created using #procreate and #blender; development is done in #godot. If you only want pretty, follow on instagram. If you want messy details, this is the place.
#onthisday 107 years ago, thousands of white workers vented the rage of their economic oppression by rioting and murdering their Black fellow citizens of East St. Louis.
The city has never recovered, but as a white child of the region I was taught to see the dismal state of the east side as a symbol of Black failure. This local civil war of 1917 was never even mentioned.