Shit. I’ve had this boss before.

gonna say it again: ChatGPT & other LLMs use em-dashes BECAUSE ACTUAL WRITERS OFTEN USE EM-DASHES AND THESE DEVICES HAVE BEEN TRAINED ON OUR STOLEN WORK!

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Observability isn't about pretty dashboards, it's about outcomes: fixing problems in minutes instead of hours, shipping faster because you can see production, and spending less of your life firefighting. And it's more important than ever with the increased rate of production change.

I think a lot of people underestimate how forgiving Kickstarter backers can be, as long as you keep them in the loop. Being late doesn't sink you. Most Kickstarters (yes, most, as in literally THE MAJORITY) blow their deadlines. What sinks you is silence.

Double truth. For me, also, the fun of making something & sharing with others. We regularly had cooking competitions, randomly, and themed. Fun moments of storytelling while sharing space-time together.

Truth .

My hot take is that small towns are much easier to make into nice walkable communities than the car dependent slop suburbs

Oh they're gonna be SO MAD

Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their Bones, Helping Them to Communicate Over 6 Miles. “Studying elephant hearing isn’t as simple as asking an elephant to wear headphones…” [discovermagazine.com]

I'm currently compiling a much delayed list of links to share on my blog. One thing that takes more time than you think is finding the name authors want to be addressed by. Most times it isn't on the post. Or footer. Let alone in the meta. Gang, put your lovely name next to the cool things you do!

holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???

We skipped a publication cycle in June, so we’ve posted 42 new entries in the Immigration timeline this round. A lot has been happening. 1/6 unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Friends and neighbors like Ms. Rachel do everything in their power to protect children of the world at all costs 🌎 She is my hero, the library kids are my heroes. Be like Ms. Rachel, be kind. Raise your library voice for the children 💜

In collaboration with Poznań University of Life Science, VW is using 100 sheep to graze under 31,000 solar panels at its Poznań, Poland factory. This agrivoltaics project aims to study the coexistence of solar power and agriculture, focusing on animal welfare, biodiversity, and environmental impact.

Argentina really should win an Emmy with such great acting.

IN THE FACE!!!

marketing for season five of for all mankind kind of on the nose thanks

an idea's been rolling around in my head about how what we lose with assuming everyone wants "answers" & not search results is similar to what we lose when "route" is the only kind of map we encounter I won't get the academic terms right, but it's some version of skipping an essential abstraction

Yes.

They do, but they got rid of the people who were … and they are working to pretend those folks deserved to be ignored

Work in the AI economy is deliberately organized through an "outsourcing maze," writes the Weizenbaum Institute’s Sana Ahmad, enabling global capital to extract value from workers via layered intermediaries.

Oh yeah that goes under the same macho bullshit heading as killing your darlings. Y’all know we can be edited and edit ourselves without violence right? Right?

I generally think tech at large is weird about personalization/scratching itches/rolling our own; I'm ready for a swing to "well-designed products for well-defined users based in reality".

Right? Forest covers nearly half of NC's land. Forestry is a huge industry here. But our state ag department keeps siphoning off forestry budget so it can ::drumroll:: buy more conservation easements from farmers!

I just need people to realise that experts fairly universally say “we barely understand any of this” when it comes to dopamine or basically anything about the brain So turning around and scribbling “my feelings —> buzzwords” onto cardboard with giant crayons is not going to work

whoops

A lot of people are doing testosterone explainers, but you should read the one written by a trans man.

THIS IS SO COOL!

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Being a typographer means noticing an "a" missing on the saloon's whisky selection and letting the bartender know about it. Also, a true whisky and not a whiskey. Whisky is from Scotland. Whiskey is from everywhere else. Figured the errant a worthy of that fact, and Laphroaig itself.

U WOT, ATLASSIAN?

"For some of us, curiosity is enough." — @chanda.blacksky.app The Edge of Space-Time p.137, footnotes.

Fun new differentiation of metaphors & language: - literally (metaphor = ∅) - figuratively (metaphor = ∞) - schematically (metaphor = it works? 🤷🤔🙂‍↕️🤔🤷🙂‍↕️ Math works.

I love Ziggy anyway, but damn this is so great for this moment. Share/link/credit. Give Ziggy some love.

Blog posts I would like to write—a pinned profile thread. This is a thread of writing prompts that I would like to spend some time wading & wandering one day. I have stories to tell. Interact—like, quote, repost—if you'd be interested in reading. It helps me motivate my bodymind. 🧵1/∞

Time zones are political.

I had to write something today about how sustainability is often seen as a drag on progress and innovation in AI circles (because > compute = > progress) and it's completely nuts that *in a scientific field* sustainability is not understood to be one of the primary goals of innovation.

This is really cool/nifty app.

NYC stays a leader in US municipal civic tech. Glad to know a lot of good folks there who'd be great for this kind of work. more cities especialy mid-size cities recognized the payoff of investing in homegrown solutions to improve friction and service delivery at the local level.

CW: snake

Anyone working with @11ty.dev in NYC should look at this. Minimal computing, ownership, future-proofing, all the reasons we all know

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

This is going to sound like a shitpost but it's not I really believe this: they will get incepted into this belief if enough folks and their bosses believe it. Culture has power!

Collaboration is deeply satisfying for each person involved with the team. You cover more territory. Collaboration is where solution ideas come from. medium.com/inclusive-so...

I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.

1/7 "For radical disability activists, the tension in 'accessibility' also arises from use of the term to denote inclusion in an unjust system—or, as activist organizer AJ Withers terms it, 'accessing privilege.'" Kelly Fritsch, “Accessible,” Keywords for Radicals akpress.org/keywords-for...

7/7 "Here people are encouraged to 'get,' 'understand,' or anticipate someone's access needs and, in so doing, produce or practice 'crip-made access' and 'crip solidarity.'" Kelly Fritsch, “Accessible,” Keywords for Radicals akpress.org/keywords-for...

it's amazing what you can get done if you give people explicit permission to do things, I think Mamdani is the Good version of this and the Trump admin is the Horrific example of this