When I am president I am making highway engineering an illegal profession

a song I like

Good news: train show is close enough to walk to Bad news: Kentucky NMRA-hosted train show is in the Catholic Church that's close enough to walk to

Bluesky will manifest as a series of suspensions viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.

No wonder this tech is burning down the barn with the American failson-industrial complex

Looking at archival papers on Louisville's old rail infrastructure is fun but sometimes it feels like getting hit in the head with a brick repeatedly

Imagine living in a suburb that had streetcar service for decades and then opposing it's re-implementation.

Dems: "No Kings! Yes political dynasties of unfathomable wealth and power!"

And yet, a trace of the true self remains in the false self

Just added Louisville's 1916 Streetcar Network to Rails to the Past. The network's 15 lines are all marked. centerforgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

the con artists who run society aren't even good at it! they are, at best, con dilettantes

one thing, i think, that gets in our way of correctly analyzing contemporary tech politics is that fact that we are incapable of seeing social movements among the elites, among the rich, among the powerful. we end up displacing all the action onto the technology itself.

So far I am really not a fan of Zephyr

it’s quite interesting how these guys will deny any kind of right wing politics cause they didn’t like… say a slur on main or whatever. but like anyone who’s been around for more than 5 minutes can clock their whole deal just from word choice

I think we need to trick the rationalists and zizians into thinking the datacenter boom is the manifestation of how AGI is going to destroy humanity

I think we need to trick the rationalists and zizians into thinking the datacenter boom is the manifestation of how AGI is going to destroy humanity

"what if the socialist mayor meets road blocks due to unknowns we don't know about" actually your socialist mayor should hit as many of these as possible, the party behind him figures it out, and together they write it down so no other mayor has to go in unknown

The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.

look I'm all for poking fun at kentuckians, but let's call this what it is: A Republican Secretary of State who is pandering to his base (people who would like to feel smarter than progressives) and MAYBE making fun of a vanishingly small number of Kentuckians who are misinformed

Since Raspberry Pi has no problem hiring cops, I'm sure they also have no problem being used as advertising material for the brutal American prison labor system www.unicor.gov/EBGCircuitBo...

In Louisville, almost every kid being tried in adult court is Black. From KyCIR:

So it turns out ARM has a really nice set of Bazel modules for embedded development? gitlab.arm.com/bazel/

So it turns out ARM has a really nice set of Bazel modules for embedded development? gitlab.arm.com/bazel/

"With limited exceptions, the 2017 city ordinance bans local police from questioning, arresting or detaining people for violating civil immigration laws or from undertaking 'any law enforcement action…for the purpose of detecting the presence of undocumented persons.'"

Autumn, my love

Autumn, my love

When even in rural eastern Tennessee I can run into a tour guide who will rant to strangers about the country being built on stolen land, or hear a random delivery driver complain about climate change, it really helps cement the belief that we are going to win.

as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,

Comfort in art for its own sake, resisting and avoiding reality through art intended to coddle and swaddle, leads swiftly to some dark, dark places

Workbench Upgrade: DIN Rail

Workbench Upgrade: DIN Rail

“Kentucky’s experience since passing House Bill 5 – sometimes called the ‘SAFER Kentucky Act’ – last year shows that cracking down on public homelessness doesn’t end it. It just makes it harder to see and harder to solve.” Good read by @anabelrose.bsky.social

So, it's been a great year for walnuts

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

So let me get this straight: Nordic sysbuild ties together multiple west projects, Zephyr West manages build files for CMake, which generates ninja build scripts, which build C files. So now we're in a meta-meta-meta-build?

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

A long-time annoying guy on the hackerspace mailing list sent a message asking how to post on Reddit, because every time he tries, his post disappears or his account gets banned. This feels like a good summary of the failures of a lot of hackerspace communities to moderate themselves.

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Went on an adventure today chasing down some of the relics of Louisville's interurban system. The right-of-way of one of the lines is still used as a utility easement, and this old building, now a tiny post office, was a station building.

Went on an adventure today chasing down some of the relics of Louisville's interurban system. The right-of-way of one of the lines is still used as a utility easement, and this old building, now a tiny post office, was a station building.

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Cities Skylines 2 is the only game that has made me want to even consider upgrading my PC recently

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose" margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...