What is layout, anyway? Also, parking shouldn't be free, especially when #trimet hasn't made the buses free. #pdx

Our constituents will always ask us for a faster horse, and we need to be wise enough not to try to build a faster horse, but instead to offer them buses and trains. We also need to be wise enough *not* to design automobiles.

Today my 9yo said, "I love cleaning my room." Do ... do I have a changeling? (I don't—the 9yo doesn't actually do the cleaning unless a parent is encouraging them the whole time—but my spouse did something magic in selling it this time. It was still a wild thing to hear.)

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@disco3000/115594333101228867 This is cool. There's clearly a centralization/monopoly risk that the author is glossing over ("massive barriers to entry and long-term moats"), but the status quo is worse. I wonder how M-PESA manages the pressures that have […]

even with an equivalent volume of PRs, code reviewers *must* use heuristics to judge how much effort to pour into any given line of code. what's the contributor's reputation, do you trust them to know what's going on, what's going on in this file, is this a tricky area of the code, are there […]

Hahaha which one of you submitted this one Like it made me laugh with its wide-eyed eager absurdity but also this is genuinely a textbook example of a Great Ad If you click on this ad then it goes to a small Neocities webpage at […] [Original post on retro.social]

Before I read Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons (1990), I'd heard that she debunked the famous Tragedy of the Commons ("TotC", 1968) essay. It's more complicated than that. The TotC essay assumes a #commons that's completely open for everyone to use, with no real governance. My impression […]

2 #web problems which seem like they might share a solution: 1) You link to a page, but there's a chance that it's gone offline or has a too-steep paywall, so you want to also link to an archive site like web.archive.org or archive.ph. It's possible to put those links adjacent in the HTML, but […]

W3C folks did a great job with TPAC this year. Usually there is some consensus on what to complain about (soggy chips, power outage, etc), but I can't really think of anything this time. No rain on Sunday? Ban the word "agent"? No notes I guess. 👍

RE: https://writing.exchange/@erlend/115549403577231766 This essay is great. He even gets to my hobby-horse, that Ostrom's research on the #commons revealed that sustainable commons need boundaries: they can't be completely open.

QOTD: I don't know how well they heard my answer, because they seemed happy about it.

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it? https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/ It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely […]

Just made the best Werewolf play ever: I was a werewolf, and the villagers had to kill one of us this round or else we'd outnumber them. I claimed to be the seer, managed to call out the right number of people, but accused the actual seer of being a simple villager. Somehow the village didn't […]

Kobe Portopia Hotel score so far: + Did not have a 4am power outage that turned on the emergency lights in the rooms + Shower curtains keep water in shower (if you think this is a low bar, try visiting a hotel in Europe) * Can get waffles w/ fruit for breakfast for ¥1200, as opposed to the […]

Welcome to Seoul airport, on my way to #tpac2025.

This is an important, eloquent piece by @aphyr - worth a boost I’d say: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

Am I optimistic or just naive? Only time will tell.

The #kyriarchy (racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) is the default. In Twitter, in Mastodon, in the U.S., in Europe, in Asia, in me, and in you. It's what we do effortlessly because we've been raised to do it. But with effort, we can reduce the harm we cause and protect the […]