Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Instead of going on holidays, I am going to teach myself #medieval woodturning. As a first step, I finished the chisel.

You often see medieval woodturners at festivals, but they all use modern gouches and a tool rest.

Medieval lathes do not have tool rests, and the chisels are shaped totally different from modern ones. That tells me that the whole manner of wood turning was totally different from today.

The chisel was forged by Smederij Zwolle, and I made the grip myself from spalted beech.

LAPD's budget is $1.3 billion dollars, annually. For one year they moved $11 million of that (0.8%) to a basic income guarantee experiment that dramatically improved quality of life for 3600 people in LA by giving them $1000 a month. Like all basic income guarantee programs it is ending with no sign of sustained funding. LAPD's budget will increase by ~$75 million this year.

Every time.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fdc101bc3cfda2dcf0a2244/t/66a8cd0fc256a2303a8569fc/1722338580211/CGIR+LA+BIGLEAP+Final+Report.pdf

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-31/study-details-what-happened-when-la-residents-were-guaranteed-1000-dollars-a-month

“Bent u bekend met ons concept?”

Wij hebben het full size gourmetten uitgevonden.

OH: I wrote a wrapper shell script for rofi that checks if the exit code is the one for segfault, and if so, just runs it again

Does AI entice people to buy?

No. No it does not. People are less likely to buy things when AI is a part of the product description.

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions/

One thing we're focusing on in our NSF POSE "ecosystem discovery" interviews is what makes someone trust a data source, and separately how they built trust with their own downstream users / audience.

Interestingly, a lot of folks recognize that they choose who & what data to trust largely based on institutional affiliation, but don't highlight that as a key to others trusting *them*

Confidence is not "I know what I'm doing."

Confidence is "I know how to find that out" and "I know how to learn new things" and most importantly "I know when I don't know what I'm doing, so I stop and find someone who does"

Obnoxious blowhards rely on people not understanding this distinction. And they amplify it by framing actual confidence as weakness.

This may be a useful thing to talk about with certain people in your life who are being fooled by fascists.

I suspect that a lot of white people in the fedi think if there were as much racism as Black folks are saying then they would see more of it. However, they're misunderstanding the nature of the racism. It's not casual, it's _targeted_. The racists go out of their way to find Black people and harass them.
Since it's targeted, people who aren't the targets see only a very small fraction of it.
Black folks aren't making shit up. Listen to them.
#racism

Capitalism's greatest trick was stealing so much of our time that we cannot imagine living without the 'conveniences' it sells back to us.

Sure a rising tide lifts all boats, but if you haven’t noticed that there are people in the sea who drown, you really haven’t been paying attention.

Things I love about biking as part of my commute:

Seeing other people not driving to work. The streets are covered in bikes and scooters. The bike trail has tons of folks walking to work and to the metro stations
Getting some exercise. It feels good to get moving first thing in the morning, and it's a great way to destress after work
It's just so much fun. I love biking
I feel like I'm part of my community. There are a couple of people working where I bike past that I smile at and they smile back. Seeing people playing in the park. Last week I bought lemonade from a kid. It's wonderful.

I admire your courage, Atlassian.