Flutterby™! From 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31

Is there a community of people out there using Honk as their fediverse client? I've got an instance running, and I'm confused and would love to find the community to chat about it with.

[ related topics: Sports Community ]

Lydia Violet was a guest song leader at tonight's Marin song circle. Every guest brings their own energy, and of course Marv has his own, and tonight was powerful, even if perhaps there was a little less singing than other nights. A good reminder of the lessons that can be gotten from following others in their work. https://www.singwithmarv.com/singing

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Bay Area Work, productivity and environment ]

So I've got a Surface Pro 3, I downloaded Pop! OS on it, it's awesome, except that freakin' Gnome apparently has no way to disable the on-screen keyboard when there's a physical one available. I like lightweight stuff anyway, is there an Xfce or similar distro with an *optional* easy-to-toggle on-screen keyboard? Preferably not Snap-based...

How long before the business landscape is flooded with GPT written business plans approved for funding by machine-learning systems?

(Or is this just what cryptocurrencies actually are?)

[ related topics: Education ]

So of the 6.67 seconds of the profile where I'm trying to figure out WTF an operation is so slow, at least 2.8 seconds are being spent apparently zeroing out memory deep in MacOS. I mean, I'm sure I'm trying to do too much of something, but there's nothing in that call stack that is directly me...

[ related topics: Macintosh ]

This evening's household discussion involves a look at Moral Foundations theory, and as I get into this I wonder how the fuck Haidt wasn't laughed out of his professorship.

At least when he says "we are clueless and hypocritical about ourselves", he's demonstrating some ability for introspection.

[ related topics: Ethics Community ]

Charlene and I know how to have a date night. Last night we go mid-way through the AIA SDAT proposal for Petaluma. I think we just got to the juicy bits, the economics and financing, but we've got a couple of pages of notes up to that point. I have questions. Next up I want to find someone to help us read AB 2097 that would supposedly "prohibit a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project ... that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit", but there are a *ton* of different interpretations of it, especially because it sits inside a lot of legislative and judicial context, such that it's actually pretty watered down and appears to really only remove parking restrictions from predominantly subsidized housing near extremely busy transit stops.

It'll be interesting to see how staff, and to a lesser extent the Planning Commission, interpret this, and what legal challenges this will lead to.

Anyway, spending our evenings doing this sort of things is a reminder of how much goes into understanding how a city operates, and it's pretty amazing that we expect Council and the Mayor's position to be volunteer.

[ related topics: Law Automobiles Economics Public Transportation Real Estate ]

Listening to the Vagina Museum podcast, there was mention of the vaginal canal, and now I have an unfortunate earworm involving a mule named Sal..

https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/podcast

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Art & Culture Pop Culture ]

I'm configuring a Surface 3 Pro with Linux, and I thought "I don't like the way Ubuntu is going with Snaps, I'll try another OS". Of freakin' *course* Clang is broken on Pop! OS, the distro I try. Of *course* there's an open bug on github about it breaking fairly recently. Sigh. Moving another distro to USB stick now...

[ related topics: Free Software Open Source ]

Stack Overflow temporarily bans ChatGPT: I have been struggling with a few tech issues issues recently, and I'd be happier with ChatGPT being banned if they could find a way to filter the other looks close enough to be plausible but is actually horrendously misleading dreck that plagues most of the questions I've found (or asked).

https://meta.stackoverflow.com...mporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

David Gerard: El Salvador’s Chivo Wallet: a slapstick saga of software disaster, on the disastrous Bitcoin wallet rollout, and bad software development processes.

[ related topics: Software Engineering ]

RT PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social Pavel A. Samsonov

SHITPOSTING

is an anagram of

TOP INSIGHTS

I see a couple of Gymkhana/Hoonigan type car drifting videos floating around, and I used to enjoy such things but now I can't get past the tire track circles in intersections of my neighborhood, and the glorification of car culture.

[ related topics: History Sociology California Culture Automobiles Boats ]

My podcast player gave me Radiolab's The Ashes on the Lawn episode https://radiolab.org/episodes/ashes-lawn back to back with Reimagining the Internet's interview with Gal Beckerman about his book The Quiet Before. https://publicinfrastructure.o.../gal-beckerman-the-quiet-before/

I highly recommend both if you're thinking about effective protest, and change.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Books Civil Liberties Net Culture ]

Thinking about how, in the early days of blogging, @davew@mastodon.social was the axis of social discovery as we all hand-coded or wrote software to support ourselves. Sure, he also wrote and distributed blog software, but he fostered a community of a variety of technologies. Thinking specifically of how long Brad and Cam kept hand-coding their sites.

This is something we don't have as long as Federation means spinning up another Mastodon instance.

[ related topics: Cameron Barrett Weblogs Software Engineering Community Rocky Horror Picture Show ]

As XCode seems to have forgotten what file is loaded for selecting "Counterparts", I provisioned a Linux laptop yesterday for some personal coding projects (gotta get SquareDesk on that platform again). And, sure, the command-line can feel clunky sometimes, and Ubuntu (because they got most of the Surface power management right) adds a lot of cruft, but so much stuff on Linux development *just* *works*, where on the Mac it's a royal pain of trying to figure out what crapped itself now.

[ related topics: Free Software Open Source Software Engineering Macintosh ]

Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria unpack the CVS Diabetes Scheme, in which CVS tried to convince you that you were donating to the American Diabetes Association, but instead you were just offsetting their marketing budget.

[ related topics: Consumerism and advertising Marketing ]

RT Darius Kazemi @darius@friend.camp

Proposal: in the spirit of Whamageddon... Cagemageddon.

How long can you go without hearing "4'33" this holiday season

If, like me, you've been wondering about this Twitter & Hunter Biden thing but haven't dug in because you didn't wanna see a random dick pick and suspected there was an attempt to make something of nothing, well... you can rest assured that you were right, but just in case this is a good (if verbose) rundown on the situation: Techdirt: Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden’s Laptop

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Law ]

Matt Haughey / A Whole Lotta Nothing: How to be a writer on a marketing team without sounding like a jerk

[ related topics: Writing Consumerism and advertising Marketing ]

Paleontologist accused of faking data in dino-killing asteroid paper

After trying to discuss the matter with editors at Scientific Reports for nearly a year, During recently decided to make her suspicions public. She and her supervisor, UU paleontologist Per Ahlberg, have shared their concerns with Science, and on 3 December, During posted a statement on the journal feedback website PubPeer claiming, “we are compelled to ask whether the data [in the DePalma et al. paper] may be fabricated, created to fit an already known conclusion.” (She <span>also posted the statement on the OSF Preprints server today.)

[ related topics: Astronomy ]

So Californians are over the spark/wildfire metaphor, I've decided that Petaluma cam now describe itself as patient zero for social change.

[ related topics: Cameron Barrett ]

I was feeling kinda of goofy masking for the Cool Petaluma event tonight, especially because the space was well ventilated, but on the way out someone said that they had to get home to take care of a house full of people down with Covid and suddenly I questioned the wisdom of having gone at all.

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy Real Estate ]

RT Craig Maloney ☕ @craigmaloney@octodon.social

@atomicpoet I think you mean:

Facebook: Old people who don't know why they hate computers

Mastodon: Old people who know exactly why they hate computers

It's been 20 years since the publication of "Cradle to Cradle", I'd love to see folks who work in manufacturing and product design talk about how it influenced their field.

I doubt many people I know have even read it, alas.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Graphic Design ]

It's that time of the year when my Sweetwater rep asks me if I can save on taxes by spending on audio gear, and damn it this is a reminder that I didn't even pay my music licensing costs with square dance calling this year. LOLsob.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics Music Government ]

That feeling of the last 100 pieces or so, when each piece gets easier to place...

[ related topics: Photography ]

Okay, this one was a nice snack. Started like it was going to be easy, got hard, the last 8 pieces hard had that great slide from hard to victory. The pieces shaped like animals also helped tweak new neurons in pattern matching.

[ related topics: Photography Invention and Design ]

I've tried Pop!, Mint, and Xubuntu, and the stock Ubuntu desktop is the first thing that seems to get Surface Pro 3 power management working right. But I *hate* it. Anyone have a suggestion for a distro that gets this right but lets me use something like XFCE or another space friendly desktop & WM? I'm even willing to lose .deb packages for this.

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy Work, productivity and environment Economics ]

I think Dinosaurs and Flugelhorns is a great idea for a band.

[ related topics: Photography ]

I have built bookshelves with cat staircases and a swinging bridge and a cat tree with a window view and where does Greta hang out?

[ related topics: Photography Sexual Culture ]

Greta is trying to help by taking the plastic strap off the paper box, and, honestly, I'm rooting for her. Those things are a pain.

[ related topics: Photography ]

The square dance calling thing means my Facebook friends list expands beyond my usual bubble. The guy who's been posting pro-Reagan memes, and is just this side of the "unfriend and block" line just posted bemoaning that his offspring and their families don't want anything to do with him during the holidays. Not sure, even if it were my place, I'd point out to him that maybe there's a reason for this....

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Seeing people celebrate the holiday snow fall in their neighborhoods as a "Dickensian" wonderland; despite the lack of snow at my elevation I too feel like I am living in a Dickens novel. #BestOfTimes #WorstOfTimes

Say one had access to a remarkable quantity of persimmon. How might one turn that into wine without adding corn or cane sugar, just using the fruit? I get how SG works with juices, but...

[ related topics: Wines and Spirits ]

Derek Powazek: The Community isn't a Garden, it's a Bar. On models for social media.

[ related topics: Journalism and Media Community Gardening ]

Interesting reading: Petro Burkovskyi writing in The New Voice of Ukraine: The collapse of the Russian Federation and the victory of Ukraine: What the West fears and what it wants to control

[ related topics: Invention and Design Writing ]

Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing

Using data from 35 million traffic stops, we show that the probability that a stopped driver is Black increases by 5.74% after a Trump rally during his 2015–2016 campaign. The effect is immediate, specific to Black drivers, lasts for up to 60 days after the rally, and is not justified by changes in driver behavior. The effects are significantly larger among law enforcement officers whose estimated racial bias is higher at baseline, in areas that score higher on present-day measures of racial resentment, those that experienced more racial violence during the Jim Crow era, and in former slave-holding counties.

https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac037

[ related topics: Politics moron Law Enforcement ]

All of those "Fentanyl kills" billboards and a particularly unfulfilling WaPo article this morning have me wanting a deeper dive into the topic. Because right now this sounds like Prohibitionists killing people through supply chain quality disruption, and the best thing we can do to lower the death and injury rate is defund the DEA.

RT Erin Kissane @kissane@mstdn.social

So Google search is increasingly vibing late-90s Alta Vista in a casino, Facebook has melted into MySpace + Second Life, Twitter is dogpaddling as hard as it can toward early 4chan but probably isn't going to make it, people are making blogs again, and everyone wants to talk to the ELIZA

Is the whole internet swimming back home to spawn and die, what is happening

[ related topics: Net Culture Artificial Intelligence Gambling ]

Wondering how folks like Peter Staley and Larry Kramer using Anthony Fauci as a symbol during the AIDS crisis, calling him a murderer while having dinner with him to discuss research direction, has influenced the current discourse on public health. Gotta admit I'm uncomfortable, even though it got results at the time.

[ related topics: Health ]

Mad props to the elderly gentleman getting off his bike and bracing himself so he can reach into his backpack and pull out a collapsible cane. I advocate for safer infrastructure so folks like him can maintain their mobility.

[ related topics: Bicycling ]

The peculiar joy of developing on Apple platforms is search results showing that every other UI framework on the planet supports that feature, but no mention of it exists in the Apple documentation page for that widget.

[ related topics: Apple Computer User Interface Space & Astronomy ]

Talking Points Memo: The Meadows Texts — A Plot To Overturn An American Election

Via MeFi.

United States Constitution, Amendment 14, Section 3:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

[ related topics: Politics Law Civil Liberties Real Estate ]

Genders.WTF

Holy shit. The latest episode of Midnight Burger. Laugh out loud, with so many new plot threads...

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

RT Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io

A fascinating effect of AIs trained on open web crawls — which, to be clear, are machine algorithms with no notion of race or gender built into the code, which merely summarize and imitate whatever predominant patterns they encounter — is that we have a whole new category of empirical evidence for the existence of discrimination.

RT Ariadne Conill 🐰 @ariadne@treehouse.systems

as @SexyCyborg once said, it’s all about merit until merit has tits

Bonus: The Tesla Model Q.

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

Today I learned: The list returned from Javascript's document.getElementsByClassName(...) is live and will continue to reflect changes in the DOM.

Which sucks if you're trying to compare the new state to the old state...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Invention and Design Theater & Plays ]

Greta just wants to play. Bagheera is having none of it.

[ related topics: Photography ]

Date night! So far we've learned about the Suspense File Process, read about Common Interest Developments, and all of the ways that AB-2097 (which, on its face, would destroy parking minimums) is toothless, alas.

[ related topics: Photography ]

I see we're again in the part of the news cycle where the PR groups from YouTube, Meta/Facebook, and whoever else can scrape together some lobbying bucks are ganging up on TikTok.

[ related topics: Current Events Pedal Power Bicycling ]

We like to lunch at Wild Goat, but talk about how nice it'll be when all of those loud smelly delivery trucks that park right there are electrified. Once the technology catches up.

Turns out the problem is that I live in a developing nation without the resources to participate in the global economy, or give a shit about climate change or quality of life. https://ginaf-durable.com/

[ related topics: Theater & Plays Machinery Economics Global Warming ]

RT Ruben Bolling 🪲 @rubenbolling@mastodon.social

Things just seem so crazy today.

I mean, can you imagine say in the 1930s if the richest automobile executive in America was also a media owner who used his platform to encourage anti-Semitism and allied himself with a foreign dictator waging a territory-expansion war in Europe?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama History Journalism and Media Automobiles ]

Twitter thread on Open Street Map.org about the Overture initiative from the Linux Foundation, with Meta, Microsoft, AWS, and TomTom, and why the OSM folks are skeptical about it.

A lot of folks are worried about Google owning the mapping world and all the good GIS data, it'll be interesting to see if there's enough cooperation and collaboration to keep OSM as a meaningful alternative, or if this is a circular firing squad that's gonna have a lot of collateral damage.

[ related topics: Free Software Interactive Drama Humor Microsoft Open Source moron Community Maps and Mapping ]

It took me a while to wrap my head around taking "ICP" to mean "Ideal Customer Profile", but now I'm seeing users in black and white face paint asking about how fuckin' magnets work.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Race ]

Best article I've read on that "fusion breakthrough": Let's celebrate the fusion breakthrough, even if it's 'bulls—t': SFGate's Drew Magary on why this isn't the holy grail — but it's still cause for celebration

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Current Events Monty Python California Culture ]

RT SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange

This and other stories make it clear "human trafficking" as politically discussed is a white-washed suburban victim fantasy of Instagram posts about zip ties on car doors, instead of social systems collapse and Main Street business labor practices.

Reuters: Child workers found throughout Hyundai-Kia supply chain in Alabama

[ related topics: Erotic Automobiles Race ]

Great that Stackoverflow has banned GPT Chat answers, but based on the quality of the answer I just downloaded code for, that's like a decade too late.

The current W3C/MIT kerfluffle and potential impact on XML schemas seems like a really good reason to not use DNS for identity information that's scoped beyond your own domain.

[ related topics: Web development Content Management ]

MAGA's Conummist Propaganda: A Photo Essay — "Dear Leader" art has a way of converging on the same themes and style whether in the Soviet Union, China—or the United States of America

[ related topics: Photography Writing Art & Culture ]

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus holiday spectacular at Sonoma State. Fantastic show. #SFGMC

[ related topics: Photography Sexual Culture Bay Area California Culture ]

Mastodon users embrace columnist's funny error about a fictitious "John Mastodon"

My contribution:

For twelve years you've been asking "Who is John Mastodon?" This is John Mastodon speaking. I'm the man who's taken away your victims and thus destroyed your world.

Business idea: Web site to post music, with single source to deal with the mechanical license, clearing backing tracks, and tracking plays to stay in compliance with the terms on those. And, yeah, the option to cover those things from advertising.

[ related topics: Music Consumerism and advertising ]

The Beverage People are out of bottles, so we asked neighbors what they had in recycling. Plum wine bottled. Nice fruity finish, the earlier notes are a little bland, but glad we made it. Also racked a carboy of Pindo which had the fruit in it for like two months, which we like a lot better than our first batch at this stage.

[ related topics: Photography Wines and Spirits ]

RT spaf @spaf@mstdn.social

So, is "fleece navidad" related to "baaaaahhh humbug"?

We watched "Everything Everywhere All At Once" last night, and I very much felt like it was trying to use a visual language from a culture that I was not familiar with. Cultural relevance has always been a problem for me, and there have been periods of my life where I've deliberately tried to stay current, but I could not associate the visual language that the film was trying to use with anything that helped me really get what the filmmakers were trying to say.

[ related topics: Movies Sociology California Culture ]

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? — Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.

The opportunities for inadvertent data release are really astounding.

[ related topics: Privacy Robotics Bay Area ]

Feels like just a month or two ago that I took pictures of this house on my walk home last year...

[ related topics: Photography Real Estate ]

Dubious Genius @dubiousgenius@mastodon.ie

"What happens if you get hit by a bus?", is a common question in IT, usually asked by managers who are more than happy to throw you under the bus, when things go wrong.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Public Transportation ]

Posting on NextDoor positing that they got a rash from a gym hot tub, and I'm sympathetic, but also lots of "must have picked it up in a washroom" energy...

Metafilter thread about guy who had a WWI artillery shell extracted from his butt has me laughing out loud. NoxAeternum notes:

Ah, a weapon of ass destruction. As I saw elsewhere, "I'm not kinkshaming, but I am kink asking why."

[ related topics: Guns Woodworking ]

Oh Holy Night — Matt Mulholland. The Christmas song, except that the only word is "penis".

Via MeFi

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Movies ]

Presumably the Dodge Charger comes with a pair of 9 mils that only fire if you hold 'em sideways, John Wu style...

The Onion: New Ford F-450 Comes With Shotgun In Case Truck Doesn’t Kill Pedestrian On Impact

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Invention and Design Law Automobiles Pyrotechnics Machinery ]

As the nation hunkers down for some serious cold, I'm feeling the trepidation. The weather forecast here looks pretty harsh, down to the mid 40s at night and 50s and 60s during the day. I think we'll manage to pull through.

[ related topics: Photography ]

Cat Valente: Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media.

Happens every time communities let our conversation spaces be owned by outside entities.

[ related topics: Journalism and Media Community ]

Had to power cycle my ONT this morning. It had blinky lights and showed when my local connections were plugged in and unplugged, but I couldn't get a DHCP lease, so still don't know whether it was that device, or something in Sonic's routers.

Mostly logging this here for future reference.

[ related topics: Pedal Power Bicycling ]

RT Dropped Mike @rebrafsim@universeodon.com

Interviewer: can I get your references?

Me: *sighing* probably not; nobody else does

So what I hear you saying is that if I'd bought Tesla stock with Bitcoin, I'd be pretty much almost even, minus the brokerage fees.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Economics ]

RT mr. pussy @natty@kolektiva.social

OSHA violations are technically NSFW

Don't re-use passwords. Also be super careful about where you point cameras, because they may be used for the entertainment of others. Sigh. We've got a bunch of Ring cameras, I thought all pointing to relatively public places, but this is an interesting use-case/

Krebs on Security: Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims

Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then “swatting” them — falsely reporting a violent incident at the target’s address to trick local police into responding with force. Prosecutors say the duo used the compromised Ring devices to stream live video footage on social media of police raiding their targets’ homes, and to taunt authorities when they arrived.

[ related topics: Photography tolkien Theater & Plays Law Journalism and Media Law Enforcement Video ]

Oh heck yeah! Got SquareDesk running on Linux again, after Mike's M1 Mac changes. Which means we're also libbass free now, so maybe I'll feel better about building a .deb for this.

And I now know a little more than I wanted to about Qt QObject slot and signal lifecycle details than I wanted to...

[ related topics: Free Software Open Source Sports Macintosh ]

I'm seeing these Consumer Reports claims of lead and cadmium in chocolate, herbs, and spices, and the recommendations, where different cacao percentages from the same manufacturer allegedly have different levels of heavy metals, and they recommend one, strongly suggest that their sample sizes are too small to be meaningful.

Is there a deeper dive somewhere? https://www.consumerreports.or...m-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

[ related topics: Health Food Consumerism and advertising Chocolate ]

Used to be "that and a quarter will get you a cup of coffee", then "that and five bucks will get you a latte", but it really won't any more.

[ related topics: Currency ]

RT Chief TWiT :twit: @leo@twit.social

Between Musk giving Bari Weiss access to my DMs and Lastpass giving a hacker access to my password vault It's pretty hard to sweat TikTok giving the CCP info about my interest in talking dogs.

[ related topics: Dogs ]

't was the night before Christmas, and all through the house was the testing of recipes to be taken to celebration with chosen family, and labels put on the recently bottled plum wine to be handed out in the neighborhood.

[ related topics: Sociology Wines and Spirits Real Estate ]

When the inevitable corvid uprising occurs, pretty sure this neighbor will be spared.

[ related topics: Photography ]

Dear advertisers: I do not aspire to be the detective in a true crime podcast.

Suspect, maybe.

[ related topics: Consumerism and advertising ]

Neil Stephenson's Termination Shock IRL. Although using balloons rather than ballistics.

https://www.technologyreview.c...-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/

[ related topics: Global Warming ]

Listened to On The Media's "The Divided Dial" series on the right wing takeover of AM talk radio, and that's gonna get a donation from me.

[ related topics: Journalism and Media ]

The thing about this Raymond Chen article about a major anti-virus vendor doing code like "memcpy(allocedMemory, function1, (char *)function2-(char *)function1); (((void)()*)allocedMemory)();" is that it's been years since any coding I've done has had to know all of the reasons why that's a really bad idea, but as I fumble through abstractions of Promises and whatnot those neurons miss their exercise...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211229-00/?p=106061

[ related topics: Humor Microsoft virus Software Engineering moron ]

Keith McHenry, Co-founder of “Food Not Bombs”, arrested for blocking a parking space and loitering in a Santa Cruz parking garage while setting up out of the rain to distribute food.

Because deities forbid we should make drivers pay market rates for the space their cars occupy.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/12/27/18853618.php

[ related topics: Food Space & Astronomy Economics ]

Just so I can find it later: Whole lot of persimmon and pindo fruit into the wine vat, will add yeast tomorrow. We were gonna do the whole freezer full, but ran out of room with about half the fruit done, and we've still got a bunch of persimmons ripening, so we'll do another batch in a month or so. We have the carboys for it, I just need to figure out where to store them while they're aging.

[ related topics: Wines and Spirits ]

Tim Bray: Privacy is OK:

I hate to write a piece just saying Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. But Reid Blackman’s The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs (in the NYTimes, forsooth) is not just wrong but dangerously misleading. I haven’t seen a compact explainer on why, so here goes.

[ related topics: Privacy Net Culture ]

Schadenfreudometer broke. Andrew Tate And His Brother Have Been Arrested In Romania In Connection With A Human-Trafficking Investigation

The arrests come a day after Andrew Tate sparred on Twitter with climate activist Greta Thunberg.

If you didn't follow the whole thing, Tate had been banned from Twitter, was let back on recently under Elon Musk's new policies. Tate attempted to troll Greta Thunberg about his conspicuous consumption with automobiles, Thunberg made a body shaming joke that got lots of attention, although it apparently also doubled the rate of uptake of his new followers.

In an effort to keep the controversy going he apparently made a video about his butthurt that had a pizza box from a Romanian pizzeria. The story going around for a while was that it was this box that led Romanian authorities to find him, although it's more likely that the events are disconnected.

Anyway, today Thunberg tweeted:

this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Invention and Design Automobiles Video Global Warming ]

A City Fights Back Against Heavyweight Cars

Oversized pickups and SUVs are exacting a deadly toll on urban streets. Here’s how one US city plans to push back. 

The proposal is for Washington DC to have progressive registration fees based on vehicle weight. Hopefully the mayor will sign it into law.

Via @scott@carfree.city.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Current Events ]

NPR: In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics

Matrix shrewdly took advantage of the near collapse of the local newspaper industry and a concurrent plunge in trust in media in propelling its clients' interests.

"The reduction in just the size of the press corps covering state government has created a vacuum that I think tends to be filled by people who have agendas beyond serving the public interest," says former Miami Herald executive editor Tom Fiedler.

[ related topics: moron Current Events Journalism and Media Currency ]

Between Barnes & Noble's successes, and the Southwest meltdown, maybe this is the year that we start demanding domain expertise from leaders?

[ related topics: Books ]

and now we get to the "what do i have to do to make the EV charging apps work?" part of the road trip. ChargePoint isn't displaying the map for me, EVGo made me revalidate my contact info, because when I'm trying to get navigation instructions is definitely when I want to be reverifying my email, then their machine wouldn't read my credit card. Luckily the unverified account on my phone was able to pay... Huh.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Travel Maps and Mapping ]