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

Quick! What's the difference between SPARQL 1.1 Protocol and SPARQL 1.1 Query Protocol? How does SPARQL 1.1 Update relate to it, and what role does an entailment regime play in it? What is SPARQL-Star and how is it different from RDF-Star or Turtle-Star?

(And no, "leaving the communication and education to a bunch of data startups that do incredibly creepy things for even creepier customers and publish some scraps on a blog in the process" is not an acceptable implementation of that)

And like, lots of the concepts behind it are great, and would genuinely be helpful to an open web! But you do actually need to *communicate* these things in a way that people can understand it

I don't know how anyone ever expected the 'linked web' to take off on the open web, with how dense and academically impenetrable all the resources around it are

@jon Oh, correction: the other type I see used as-designed are the two-level stackable bike parking racks, which have a very long slot to fit your bike wheel into, and a wheelbender at the end. But those are generally only economical at train stations and such, so I consider them a special case.

@jon Around here (Rosmalen, Netherlands), we have a lot of different bicycle racks - these ones, but also low wheelbenders, wheelbender pillars with a loop for locking a cable lock to, etc....

The staple racks are the only ones I see people consistently using as designed.

More curiously, when they are all in use, people tend to just extrapolate the parking area off to the side in a perfect line, where there are no racks. Whereas with wheelbenders it often seems to get a bit messier.

(The parking extension thing is a generally interesting phenomenon, I've also observed it elsewhere before, in a place where there were no bike racks to begin with, just a large oddly-shaped open space!)

If you've ever been involved in activism, you've probably heard someone tell you that "these things always take time, it's a slow process", as if it's the most normal thing in the world.

But... is that actually normal? *Should* that actually be considered normal?

Building a new highway is a relatively fast, procedural process. Getting a train line built is a very slow process of convincing people with no guarantee of success.

Increasing police funding is a relatively fast, procedural process. *Decreasing* police funding and reallocating it to social services instead, is a very slow process of convincing people with no guarantee of success.

Why do we consider any of this normal and acceptable? Why do people consider us to live in a functioning democracy, when this kind of asymmetry for 'doing the right thing' exists?

How does any of this constitute a healthy society, even on paper, even according to liberal political norms?

The upside is that that whiteboard was definitely never gonna fall off under any circumstances, this tape is honestly pretty cool

(The whiteboard has been removed now but it took a solid few minutes of prying to get it off the door)

Looks like the hypothetical removability of the tape I used for the whiteboard was largely hypothetical indeed