Orlando International Airport (MCO).
Orlando International Airport (MCO).
🧱 I don’t think the The Verge’s paywall will last, given that it’s very porous, most Verge readers likely block ads anyway, and the comments section is already… lively. They should offer an easy way to support them without degrading the free experience, but I can’t blame them for trying something.
🧱 I don’t think the The Verge’s paywall will last, given that it’s very porous, most Verge readers likely block ads anyway, and the comments section is already… lively... They should offer an easy way to support them without degrading the free experience, but I can’t blame them for trying something.
🔔 There are so many bearded dudes in Philly that I think I know from college. It can be very disconcerting.
Seeing my Micro.blog profile in a Mastodon app, where my username is @joe@joeross.me, really makes me want to use it as my primary fediverse account. I just find the transfer process daunting, and I recall Mb may not be a full implementation of an ActivityPub account, though maybe that has changed.
🦃 Now that the kids are mostly sentient, Thanksgiving means fielding questions from them about why we’re vegetarians and most people aren’t. If anyone has any ideas let me know. I’m not sure they’ll understand I was radicalized by a YouTube rabbithole decades ago, given they’re both younger than 5…
Threads can brag about hundreds of millions of users and more daily signups than all of Bluesky, but its recent feature sprint shows competition is having the desired effect. Bluesky’s best move would be to ship true, easy federation ASAP. Easier said than done, I’m sure, but the sooner the better.
I recently posted a photo of my cat on Bluesky, as any serious person does on a growing social network. While carefully preparing the post (again, I am serious person) I asked four different LLMs for alt text to include with the photo. They all did okay, but as you can see Claude went pretty hard…
▶️ Once in a while, I remember that the overwhelming majority of human beings prefer everything Coldplay did after Parachutes over that absolute gem of a record, and I realize that I should’ve known when that thought first occurred to me that I was in one of the darker timelines.
I told myself I wouldn’t participate the discourse, but everyone who voted for Trump had enough information to know this was a likelihood and they did it anyway. Each and every one of them shares responsibility for those will suffer or die as a direct result of RFK Jr. running HHS if he’s confirmed.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 →
I was sad to read that Radio Free Fedi is shutting down early next year. It got me thinking about how easy it is to spin up awesome stuff on the Fediverse. On the one hand, that’s awesome! But on the other, it means that stuff often outgrows the metaphorical bandwidth of its creators pretty fast.
Chris Geidner writes at Law Dork that progressives should be litigating “narrow challenges brought on conservative grounds — using the reasoning of the right, […] fighting with the tools that can work.”
This is the way. Forcing liberal arguments through conservative courts won’t work.
Oh the privilege of naivety, or the naivety of privilege, or something
Great to see Andy Kim win the former Menendez seat in the Senate for New Jersey.
Adam Kotsko, grousing:
The beginning of my frustration came early last week, when the entire site was aghast at a Financial Times column that said Bluesky was an echo chamber.
I’m a fan of Bluesky, but I chuckled at the idea of all of its users being upset about it being called an echo chamber.
I don’t pay much attention to polls, so I had no idea Nate Silver had gone so far down his own rabbit hole. It’s so bad that he thinks polling based on, wait for it, the data, takes “an incredible amount of guts.”
Practical AI tip: When someone sends me a PDF calendar (😡), I ask Claude to process the info into ICS format. For my kids' daycare snack calendar, I say:
Please convert data from each day to one all-day event, like: Snacks: AM: Cheerios / PM: Crackers
And I get the excellent result pictured here.
With Omnivore being acquired by Eleven Labs and shutting down, I recommend Readwise Reader.
You can still self-host Omnivore, but I think Readwise is worth its ~$100/year price, though all-in Apple users might prefer GoodLinks for a simpler but still well-designed alternative at a much lower cost.
And just like that, someone I have idolized since I was a young child shows themselves willing to deliver our republic to death by authoritarianism.