Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Good usage of a train station is only when every platform is having an active countdown

movie programmer, smug: i pulled it off with a hack

irl programmer, deeply ashamed: i pulled it off with a hack

My favorite random local news station in a place I don't live is KTVB in Boise. Yesterday, they reported that the City of Boise made the #pride flag an official city flag so that they aren't prohibited from flying it by the state of Idaho.

#LocalMatters #LGBTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFuUKY9tWIU

wait what happened to my phone keyboard

Boiling water and then never making tea

We really went from AI means you’ll only have to work 3 days a week to AI is going to take your job unless you work harder, faster and more efficiently in the blink of an eye.

It's never too late to start using content warnings. Go ahead and give it a try!

Don't listen to what these companies say. Watch what they do.

When they say "all code will be created by A.I.", are they hiring software engineers?

When they say "AI will replace SaaS", are they acquiring SaaS products?

It occurs to me that if your "A.I." code generation technology really worked, you wouldn't pay $3 billion to acquire a software product. Especially one that does "A.I." code generation.

Printed and laminated a prototype of my solar slide rule on 350g A3 at the local print shop and it works fairly well! Correcting sextant height for index error, temperature, refraction, height of eye and lower limb is fast, as is computing latitude from the noon sight. Computing Hc and Z is a bit more involved (using additional scales on the reverse side)

Beware of "compostable" products that aren't actually compostable at home. In digging through my compost pile this week I unearthed 3 forks (from takeout food I purchased several years ago) that I think were made by the California-based company, Karat Earth (aka Lollicup). On Amazon and elsewhere the sentence the company uses in marketing is "simply toss the fork into a compost bin when finished." And the forks themselves have the text, "compostable" embossed on them. On company's own website, however, is a logo from the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) indicating, in a small font, that forks are "commercially compostable only," which means they only begin to break down at ~190 °F (88 °C). Somebody needs to file a class-action lawsuit to force greater transparency on marketing materials. #compost #composting #fork #takeout #food #psa #plastic #restaurants #greenwashing #polymer #corn #bioplastic

A quadriplegic man named Normand Meunier died via MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being neglected for 4 days in ER. He was denied a specialized mattress, wasn’t turned & ended up with terrible bed sores.

His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him.

Everyone who’s involved in the assisted dying debate, both disabled and non disabled, should be following this inquest.

People need to understand that you can’t ethically administered assisted death if you aren’t committed to helping patients live as well

Mr Meunier didn’t want to die. His condition wasn’t terminal.

He suffered such severe neglect that he couldn’t bring himself to return to the hospital.

His pressure sores couldn’t be treated at home, so he opted to end his life rather than face returning to the place that harmed him

No one should suffer like this, yet disabled people know all too well the level of neglect that can occur in the hospital.

They know how important it is to have an advocate, but they also understand that your advocate can be removed at any time.

The imbalance of power is huge

With just a bit of compassion and care, Mr Meunier would still be with us.

Instead he fell through the cracks, suffered the consequences and then the government stepped up to end his life.

It feels very wrong that the same system that neglected him also ended his existence

I will be following the inquest closely & hopefully writing an article about it.

I support the right to die, but we need to have some very tough conversations about how to protect disabled and marginalized people from neglect, coercion & abuse.

We’re failing at that right now. Let’s change things.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quadriplegic-man-medical-assistance-in-dying-coroner-inquiry-1.7526270

#MAiD #assisteddying #ableism #disability #chronicillness #eugenics #disabilityjustice

Maybe to be prepared, we don't only need to have sufficient stocks and a battery powered radio, but more local communities producing whatever are our first needs. For me it connects to the #CommunityEconomy, with local energy grids in the hands of neighbours, telecommunications infrastructure that is owned and governed by your local community, food coops and community supported agriculture.

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Then there is the #Preparedness Strategy by the European Commission, urging all EU citizens to have an emergency kit at home and have stocks at home for at least 72 hours. Being prepared is not bad, I'd say, but IMHO this is far too individualist. Between the neighbours and local community we care for each other. That is lesson number one from such a crisis situation. You can never have everything you need at home, and mutual support and interdependence is vital.

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