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:
On August 22, 1985, a British airplane experienced an engine failure and subsequent fire on the runway. The pilots aborted the takeoff, fire services responded promptly, flight attendants ran the evacuation with heartbreaking heroism - and the incident shocked the world when 55 people died, even though the plane had never left the ground.
In consequence, worldwide, we:
* changed cabin materials to be safer in the event of fire
* added emergency lighting guiding people toward exits
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@paulrobertlloyd have you written up anything about your workflow for https://paulrobertlloyd.com/photos/ ?
Why do programmers find DNS so hard? It's just cache invalidation and naming things.
I'm needing a little help with federation, if anyone sees this post mind giving it a boost?
Airport announcement that sounds like a glimpse of the future: “All passengers are requested to present their ID or passport to the turnstile and to our human crew.”
@kissane Hello from north Thailand, where we just spent 3 days with a local guide who was incredibly generous and patient with my armchair-anthropologist curiosity. His tribe is of Myanmar origin, and I understood his stories much more thanks to your Meta journalism.
I know this is pretty far from why you wrote those pieces, but I’m grateful nonetheless. 🙏
Glad to see radiative power has been coming along so nicely they are even installing “reverse solar” panels! https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy-from-cold
The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.
Is it still true that US federal standards encourage ridiculous car sizes? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111208121022.htm
“One need not choose between opposition to Hamas and its terror and opposition to Israel and its bombings.” https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/02/melange/
I’m intrigued by this new @ia feature for tracking text authorship as an accommodation for AI: https://mastodon.online/users/ia/statuses/111500954938414626
Multimodal ChatGPT is too much fun. How do you all resist the urge to just constantly generate and share random images?
So are QAnon and the Musk acolytes going to conflict or merge with each other? https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-qanon-2024-election/
This should be required reading for anyone developing auth systems.
https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/3647311-paper-you-want-my-p
I have read a lot of English-language discussion of the Dutch election results, and most of it is clearly shallow observations from outside. This one is a nice summary of where we are and how we got here, though, clearly written by a Nederlander: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/23/netherlands-far-right-geert-wilders-victory-mark-rutte
To know your adversary is to understand how they understand you. Here is a bias-loaded analysis of tactics and 'ethe' in environmental defense movements, by a security firm that seeks to protect institutions and corporate powers from them.
It is an important read for activists in this space, rich with insights as to how their movements are being both legally repositioned and narratively framed.
https://www.torchstoneglobal.com/climate-extremists-evolving-tactics-targets/
(Via @Christina)