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:
so glad this DIDN'T happen to the #opensource and #linux supply chain with the #xz #backdoor attempt! but it looks way better when things fall over.
what a great excuse to do a #physicssim in #blender3d #b3d after seeing @ahl draw this already. And I learned about drawing outlines in blender, and made things fall over, yay.
I still can’t get over the fact that people discussed trickle down economics like it made any fucking sense.
All of Hollywoods’s depictions of ineffective ways to destroy data-holding devices (phones, thumb drives, laptops) are a disservice to the public.
The amount of time I have invested porting stuff that worked perfectly fine with CommonJS over to ESM is unbelievable. But it is all worth it knowing that at the end of the day, after all that hard work, it will... work exactly the same with zero additional benefits... mostly. It will probably always have some hiccups that don't work as nice as the old system.
Among other measures, the Dutch parliament is considering banning anti0democratic parties. https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/04/09/wet-op-de-politieke-partijen-voor-advies-naar-de-raad-van-state
This sort of self-policing is of course sensitive and maybe dangerous, but I’m heartened to see the tone of “something must be done about the fascists”.
i swear, you could solve public transit in the US if you just got:
- the software people who truly love the field
- to talk to the municipal politics people who are actually doing it for the love of the job
- to talk to the train planning people who are actually doing it for the love of the job and or hobby
- to talk to the physical security and penetration testing people
- to talk to the mining engineers
- so they can then plan and pull off a complicated heist to rob the treasury
Only 2.5% of the world's population is Nigerian. 🇳🇬
But 33% of the top 100 ranked Scrabble players are Nigerian.
https://www.wespa.org/aardvark/html/rankings/full_rankings.html
Only 1.3% of the US population is Indian American. 🇮🇳
But 20 of the past 23 spelling bee champs have been South Asian.
https://people.com/human-interest/national-spelling-bee-champions-words-they-won-with/
British colonizers did this to themselves. 🤷🏿♂️
English belongs to us now.
Amsterdam public transport authority GVB quits X, citing the "continuous, mostly anonymous flood of hateful replies and the lack of surveillance thereof by the owner" as the main reason.
"We feel that it's important that everyone feels welcome, safe and respected with us"
@kottke@botsin.space I found your attribution for https://kottke.org/12/10/girl-with-a-pearl-earring-and-point-and-shoot-camera at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3099947989963&set=a.3099915429149.2137763.1602075459&type=3&theater
I still think about this post contrasting Apple's “paean to a bygone era of suburban sprawl” to Amazon's integrated urban campus every time I watch a Tim Cook keynote. https://seattletransitblog.com/2012/03/20/apple-amazon-and-the-wicked-problem/
GOP states are forcing women to give birth and now outlawing lab-grown meat.
Clearly their endgame is breeding humans for meat.
“Few such measures have been adopted.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/09/florida-highway-shooting-eclipse-god?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
American Express just let me cancel a card, efficiently and politely, via a text chat session. For two decades they've been surprising me with the sort of customer service we should expect from every company.
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Back in 2011 when Microsoft demoed them, I didn’t see that communication avatars (sorry, “Personas”) would be useful for AR; strapping an iPad to my face was a distant dream. I think I still believe the real value will be in facing emotional states, though. https://twitter.com/gerwitz/status/84311406148718593
The US has been threatening to leave NATO on its own for some time: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/8569647/America-will-no-longer-prop-up-Nato-says-US-defence-secretary-Robert-Gates.html
Rutte has some work ahead of him.
The last good April 1 press release was when Ryanair announced child-free flights: https://web.archive.org/web/20110401175103/http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/child-free-flights-from-october-2011
13 years later, I have a media player that could detect what parts of a film I'm paying attention to, and “AI" software that could automate changes in response is on the horizon.
Can we please stop with all the wars and genocides and environmental destruction so 2024 can be the year of “digital sovereignty”? https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/Presse/PI/2024/CdS/240403_cds_it-arbeitsplatz.html
Many of the kindest, most compassionate human beings I have met in my life have been punks and goths.
Dictators doing land grabs always go for the justification that they used to live there. Bitch, I used to live in an apartment on Broadway, but I don't break in whenever I have to piss, so shut the fuck up, and call it what it is.
