Good morning, what can you do if you live in NYC? You can commit to talking to your City Council member about our public libraries. Please sign up and we will get back to you re: what to do: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You are my people if you also enjoy clicking Random on XKCD for a jaunt through memory lane deplicator.github.io/xkcd-time-at...

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

Improvised a light table with tubelox and old IKEA finds so that the older kiddo could draw a map on graph paper for a new version of his board game. Currently plays a bit like a cross between Risk and DnD. Next parent job is to nudge toward collab instead of world domination.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Said goodbye to our old lady baby cat this weekend. Other slightly older cat cannot resist being the center of any board game we attempt.

Every conference should have a track dedicated to Gen AI applications. A whole track with all the Gen AI talks. Over there. Down the hall. Yep. Keep going. Just a bit farther. Okay, yeah now open the door. Uh-huh. Now close the door behind you. YEP RIGHT THERE.

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work

You too can be part of ensuring the security and safety of those around you. I'm giving a talk tomorrow 9 July at 11 Eastern about how to do this on software teams but you can apply it wherever you care about. agilealliance.org/event/divide...

Every morning, open to awareness of suffering and its causes and conditions; at the same time be open to the experience of happiness and its causes conditions. Act accordingly and you will reduce suffering in the world without the distraction of judging yourself against some imaginary future you

To put into perspective how astronomically high 87% is... In 2012, 87% of Black men voted for Obama. Republicans like the way immigration is "being handled" as much as Black men liked Obama. 🤔I swear, I don't think some of y'all even talk to Trump voters before you claim that they don't like this.

I now offer an optional half-day workshop with every keynote talk. The workshop can be on any topic for which I have published a slide deck (which is quite a lot!). Get in touch: matthewskelton.com/keynotes

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

But none of that will happen.🤷🏿‍♂️ Because in the US, we have absolutely no authority to hold cops accountable for this stuff. Because both Dems and GOP like having a police force that can crush Black protest without accountability. Like I said, racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first.

HBO’s Silicon Valley on vibe coding in 2019. I miss this show.

You don't need to be sure "the next right thing" is categorically, objectively the next "right" thing. Recovery involves LOTS of educated guesses. Just do your best, pay attention, remember your recovery goals today, & course correct as you go. Easy does it. You've got this.

I realise this is a bit underspecified: in both pottery and calligraphy, you stabilise the arm and loosen the wrist to achieve more stable and finer control and responsiveness. Tension at the edges makes for more friction and chaotic instability. Looseness at the edges allows more adaptation.

I'm looking forward to DDD Europe next week! I'm leading a hands-on workshop, Expanding Your Design Heuristics one Experiment at a Time... where we'll be designing experiments and learning about sharing/collecting our design heuristics. 2025.dddeurope.com

The tech job market is brutal, especially if you're part of a marginalized group. I'd like to offer a free practice technical interview to anyone who is BIPOC or trans and looking for a job. You can book time with me here: calendly.com/tthurium-lau...

Happy to share that for #GivingTuesday I've created my 5th (!) edition of Ryan's Community Giving Guide for SE Michigan. Please share widely, and let me know if you discover/donate to someone new through this work - it really helps! You can grab the full PDF version at www.henyard.com/giving

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1min 43sec in and already @ashcoleman.bsky.social is dropping diamonds:"Boundaries are for ourselves not for other people." This isn't your ave entrepreneurship podcast open.spotify.com/episode/7ewK...

Good job Methodists.

The LeadDev Engineering Leadership report is back for 2025 and we need your help! 🫵 Take the short survey to help us understand: - How engineering orgs & roles have been changing? - How is AI impacting engineering team roles? - Key industry trends whiteoctoberevents.acemlna.com/lt.php?x=3DZ...

I love axe throwing. I love painting my axes. I am having trouble naming the emotion that two people have trusted me to paint their axes and pay me money for it. This is just the base layer FYI. Anyone know an alternative to Rust Stop spray paint so I can paint indoors without asphyxiation?

If protesting doesn't work, why are they trying so hard to criminalize them?

I regret to inform you that accomplishing complex and useful things well requires getting good at meetings.

So excited to finally talk about Neighborhood Literary, an agency with an extra focus on taking care of our local writer communities. 🏠 The door is open. 🫖 The kettle is on. ✨ Come on in. Good neighbors make good books. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/blog/come-on...

[Security advice for the current timeline: Physical street maps are damn near a necessity if a storm destroys the landmarks/signs around you. Or if you need to move without the cop in your pocket. www.heyitsfree.net/free-state-m... ]

If your plans for revolution do not include how you're going to care for the most vulnerable in your society (children, disabled, elderly, poor, etc.)? Then you don't have a plan for revolution. You have a plan for destruction for destruction's sake.

My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some thoughts on defending public libraries.

One thing I’m worried about, which becomes much more likely when false claims about Social Security combine with ignorant people on the inside: More cases like this, where Social Security declares a person dead who is very much alive. This triggers a nightmare. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Hi !! I am a Senior Fellow @annenberg.usc.edu for the Civic Media Fellowship and I would really love if you would apply especially #blacksky www.annenberglab.com/civic-media-...

We’d have to stand for Khalil even if he was a shmuck who believed vile things, but the fact is he sounds like an exceptionally decent guy.

I really enjoy pair and ensemble programming - in part because I'm fluent in user needs and testable logic and that's a healthy complement to someone who cares about users and is fluent in code. I'm not commanding someone implement my ViSioN. We collab on understanding/solving the problem.

So. Many. Pigeons.

“If the competition for discretionary spending is harder than it’s ever been, you need to make sure that you’re at the top of the list…And #Target put themselves at the bottom of the list with the people who care about them most.” www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025... #PlayStupidGames #WinStupidPrizes

Legacy media is dying. They have no editorial independence anymore, they are beholden to billionaires who are buying out all the outlets and controlling me message. Support independent journalists, y'all. We're out here doing the work and breaking the news. Drop your WAPO sub.

We all want to believe that we would be the kind of person they have to drag out of a town hall or at least that we wouldn't let them drag someone else away. But rarely are we ready to be that brave. Bravery isn't magic, it's a skill, and like any skill it requires practice. So practice lil crow 🖤

I just got the author copies of my new book, "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech." I thought it would be fun to catch the unboxing on video. Check it out, then visit thehammerbook.com for more on the book and how to buy it!

It's international women's day and that means it's the day I self-promote! I've written a few good books including my most recent on Platform Engineering, check them out here! amzn.to/3QYGaoB

We put it in comics form to make it easily digestible and to get people to understand the gravity of the situation at hand if they voted for Donald Trump. It's still worth a look to know what will likely be coming: stopproject2025comic.org

Thank you, more please: Golden hour walk in the park by the icy pond

Are you building hammers or knee breakers? How would you know?

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Trustworthy journalist doing the work. Give @erininthemorning.com a follow if you're looking for actual facts about trans folx and our safety