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:
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?
@Bernard i spent my first 38 years in the US and am still a citizen so, yeah, I know the story. But am now convinced the free-speech absolutism I used to subscribe to is a mistake.
Yes, we have to tread very carefully w.r.t. social regulation of speech. But we already do and must be open and deliberate about it.
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.)
The 20-yr-old me that bought into the techno-utopian dream that connection brings peace would be horrified, but here we are.
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/
@neauoire I think I'll give myself a deadline to improve my /projects section :-)
@neauoire does a quaint old blog with only a few projects listed qualify?
@csilverman yes, it sounds familiar.
No, I can’t find it either 😭
@Okanogen oh, I assure you, they were both the point of my post.
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/
@futurebird green flag: expressing solidarity with people who have less power than the speaker. And the intellectual humility others have mentioned.
@Okanogen @hazelweakly there’s no profit in social equity, and profit is the only motivation American society rewards.
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.
@davidho because it’s always so sunny and hot in London they need the technical gear to wick away sweat.