In actuality, Keith hid $21 million dollars from the council and lied a bunch in a newsletter to get NW Portland neighborhood people irrationally angry

Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism

begging all the youtubers aiming for studio-quality filming setups to please, please god put on makeup. that setup needs makeup. I can count every single glistening pore on your face and you are so, so red. please god,

Seattle and Portland folks we have got to figure out a solution to the Mayor Wilsons thing or this will keep being very confusing also I don't want ours to get any credit accidentally in anyone's mind for doing something cool the other one did.

honestly 99% of advertising for controlled substances of all kinds should probably be illegal

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district. Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.

example six thousand of how IP law protects owners, not creators. abolish copyright

It is crazy to me how many empty lots there are in the city. Dare to Dream 2 is probably the most infuriating one bc of the history there but they are everywhere. there should be insane fees for squatting on empty lots in the city. I'd double that shit every year until they sold it or did something.

The rake that every pundit and poster steps on (and I am guilty of this too) is the implied presumption that every political decision is necessarily undergirded by deep political values or beliefs rather than Vibes based on the 3 most recent semi-relevant things they interacted with

Sweeps do actually kill people. I watched it happen to houseless neighbors of mine. 5 years our neighborhood had zero issues. Each sweep they became more and more worn down. Homeless Deaths Quadrupled — ProPublica share.google/c8RPXDH0D3mH...

Mayor ghosts city council because he doesn't want anyone to challenge his big "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" PR victory lap in local papers after claiming he's fixed homelessness in Portland. Seems a lot like Mayor Wilson just doesn't like his ideas or claims being challenged.

really interesting and suspicious choice given the recent revelations of admin hiding knowledge of $21 million in housing money from the council before the budget adjustment and the still unexplained firing of the housing bureau director.

Portland City Council will meet today to discuss the "Homelessness to Housing Continuum." The original idea was for it to be a venue for Mayor Wilson to talk about his homelessness plan. But per Wilson's office, it's not certain he'll show up. (And bureau staff have been advised not to attend.)

I'm sure this framing was not intentional but it is incredibly telling about the ways people view houselessness and addiction and the people it happens to

Felt like I was losing my mind when I talked about the sheer number of empty units in this city and people insisted this was not a thing

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

All 50,000 panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt has been fully digitized. You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too. www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...

“yeah our network downtime was getting to be a problem until we told the bot it was wearing programmer socks. we’ve got a whole team trying to figure out which fursonas work better for QA”

in one sense, computers and related technology are obviously not magic. in another, often just as real sense, they are absolutely a kind of magic. gosh I love computer

okay it's finally myths of the realm time. god I love this alliance series

people in portland should be angrier about their tax dollars being funneled to the salvation fucking army tbh

good time to start masking up indoors if you aren't already tbh

one of the more personally irritating parts of job hunting is all of the wild and frequently invasive corporate astrology shit I have been subjected to. I have yet to apply to a job that has not forced me to do a personality quiz either before or after the interview.

what if we did just shove every tech ceo into a wickerman and let nature take its course

but man it's really hard to get people to drill into specific problems when they're being given maximalist outrage bait that targets the basic concept of the technology as the root of all evil

It's quite depressing that we're not allowed to have nice things that save women's lives and bodies because it's now a moral imperative to oppose linear algebra.

I think a lot of people (not necessarily Isaiah) are significantly underweighting the future where the Guy Who Keeps The Ancient Excel Forms Working just becomes the Guy Who Keeps The Ancient LLM Output Working at like 30x leverage

Exhibit one million in why IP law does not protect individual creators but is more often than not a cudgel used against them used to stymie creative works. It does not exist to protect creators; it exists to protect owners.

checking the opera schedule for December bc I might as well enjoy cheaper tickets while I've got SNAP and the show, Everest, has ... no live singers? guys, what the fuck do you think an opera is?

less time On Here seems to correlate with better times Off Here. weird,

incredible quote lol

tbh I always forget this holiday is coming. when I was living in a dorm I didn't know they kicked everyone out for the whole holiday and had to beg a friend to let me stay in his apt while he was at his family's place in another city. think I had a gas station hot dog for dinner that year.

never had a family that wanted me over for Thanksgiving even when I was young so this is always a weird and uncomfortable holiday for me. I've always been the odd one out. that said I've got game hens in the fridge brining bc people (my wife) still expect me to cook. so we'll see how it goes.

really weird how many people fire from the hip with some casual misgendering then expect you to engage with the rest of their post. nah, actually.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.

bro copyright is so good for creators you can make something that's about to be turned into a huge fucking franchise directed by michael bay and some predatory company can take it from you for pennies and lock you out of it with legal threats

while many people experience the expectation of gender performance as a straitjacket many people enthusiastically and sincerely love performing their gender as they understand it. same people sometimes, even.

fuuuuck it's Wednesday? goddamn when did that happen

i would say i'm on the struggle bus but they cut the funding for that too

I'm used to being a certain level of disrespected by employers but honestly not like this.

I know it isn't new for robert evans to be wrong with his whole chest but it does get grating after a bit and is a reason I stopped following BTB all you need to understand why is listen to one of the episodes where he eagerly gasses up elon musk and talks about how smart he is

LRT but the best answer is also the most difficult and expensive answer, which is decentralization. you used to go to a company or dev's website to get that company or dev's stuff, not a centralized repository where everyone puts things. that model has drawbacks and censorship is one of them.

I keep having to unfortunately remind myself that Valve, as a private company, still sucks ass due to the monopoly they hold on the PC gaming market. Like no storefront or company should ever have the authority to outright ban the sale of games due to the content within them.

okay apropos of nothing else: what the fuck are people doing on bsky that they're constantly dealing with unsolicited dicks and tits in their timelines? I have never seen a single unsolicited lewd image on this site and I am beginning to think this is a skill issue.

agriculture, fashion, steel, golf and similar all consume more for example while not necessarily being as willing to upgrade local systems or paying a similar amount in taxes. But the novelity of data centers prevents us from critiqueing these old industries

the current job market appears to be selecting primarily for people with a humiliation kink and absolutely no self-preservation. I'm sure this will work out fine

setting up a virtual machine unexpectedly because this job interview wants me to do a proctored examination before the interview that involves giving them basically full access to my equipment. christ this is undignified.

I have a stance of "transit needs to be good enough that I want to ride it constantly instead of driving" Which never includes the idea of having more cops or getting rid of 'undesirable people' because that makes me want to ride it less.