what is the math on this?

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sometimes you wish you could block somebody on somebody else's behalf.

i'm so excited about getting hearing aids tomorrow. i should likely temper that a bit.

every time you do an isinstance check, barbara liskov cries

what are we doing with rhubarb this year?

physician, aggrandize thyself!

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the afl-cio has good position papers on ai, much better than what made into this article 1. ai should be subject to collective bargaining 2. historically automation also came with the creation of new jobs and industries, not clear anything different now. 3. unions should push for shorter work week.

if you want a real wtf, look up the lyrics to the theme song for M*A*S*H

alienation is painless and it brings on many changes

perhaps the most useful thing about a writing practice is that it objectifies your thinking, so you can look at it from some distance and react to it, push on it, and revise it. most people don't have that practice, and llms are their first real experience with a kind of alienation of thought.

If you are a successful full-time union organizer or if you have other relevant experience for what will be an intense contract campaign, please apply for this opportunity to work with my completely rad and awesome union council as we fight to preserve public higher ed for the common good in NJ.

most of the data problems of unions are the result of the systems not being oriented, fundamentally, to organizing. when the data systems are used every day in the service of building power, the old data problems mainly evaporate.

when you consider the alternatives, django's data migrations are such a good solution.

a pet theory: companies often implement new labor displacing tech like self-checkout *not* to maximize profits but rather to change workplace politics.

To be in conversation with one of the nation's great storytellers who is also an accomplished union builder was nothing short of ideal Full stream is available to watch. Gratitude to @chenjerai.bsky.social @aaup.org @haymarketbooks.org @sununion.org www.youtube.com/live/7JnkGf9...

just watched the madonna "music" music video (2000), and it's shocking to remember how popular ali g was.

from the inbox: this incredible parody of the past few weeks in the Northern District of Illinois

my kid's school had their annual 4k today. the kid asked me to pace him but not run with him (we have entered those years). i was very happy to do it, but it to all outside observers it looked like a dude in his 40s racing, alone, against elementary-age children.

if you appreciated the reporting during the occupation of minneapolis, then you probably have someone in this room to thank for it.

Star Tribune Guild members wore our union merch to work today after management's announcement of 15% layoffs across the company, including within the newsroom.

i'll have you know that my intuition is correct

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@trentonleestewart.bsky.social's /the mysterious benedict society/ is going on my top five kids books list for 2026. exciting plot, and very good sentences.

but will it compound?

i revisit this problem every few years to learn something new. this time i used PuLP. my branch and bound rust version took 10 minutes to solve the problem at K=30 (or more accurately to prove it had found an optimal solution). this takes less than a second.

Always a special day when I can pull the box with Walter Reuther’s carved wooden hand. From the @uaw.org’s archives here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. Learn more: youtube.com/shorts/_9o31...

you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about llms linear programming

i revisit this problem every few years to learn something new. this time i used PuLP. my branch and bound rust version took 10 minutes to solve the problem at K=30 (or more accurately to prove it had found an optimal solution). this takes less than a second.

the best foia officer i ever interacted with is gone. 🫗

whoah

thinking about her. farber and western's 2000 paper, "round up the usual suspects: the decline of unions in the private sector, 1973-1998"

saw a private parking enforcement tow truck today in a thin- blue-line vinyl wrap.

time to make the birthday soup

this statement of support for the wikipedia workers united is good. if you have an wikimedia account, consider adding your name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

some may call it biking up a hill, but i call it charging a gravity battery.

i need to implement an e-mail based etl process. prayers up.

so you're saying women can't make portfolios

there comes a time in every man's life when he must create a portfolio website

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We have more power than we know.

✨path dependence✨

i'm pretty close to refactor of datasette to allow pluggable backends so duckdb can get a first class treatment (unlikely to ever make it upstream), but i'm vacillating on what the interface should be. datasette has enough of an installed based that users and expect to write sqlite-flavored sql

datasette really wants to be built on top of duckdb, not sqlite.

is this a problem that a wiki can address? no. no, it is not.

We will not sit passively as new technology is used to monitor and surveil us without our consent. This is why we have a contract; this is why we fight.

set up cloudflare to challenge every user agent that says it's a browser, while letting all user agents that make no such claim to sail through. feels wrong, but works great!

This is what worker power looks like! Today, the MA App Drivers Union became the first statewide union to win recognition & the right to negotiate with Uber & Lyft. The largest private sector workforce to win union recognition since Ford autoworkers in 1941!