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@outer@mas.to
2025-12-27 13:42:37

Thank you, Professor. It IS time to change. zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115790431

Emeritus Prof Christopher May (@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us)
As Leslie Kern points out, historically cities have been built by men *for* men, leaving women's needs as a residual category... but: 'If cities are to serve the more than four billion people who call them home, they must prioritize gender equality. Only then will every urban dweller be able to participate in & benefit from the opportunities & advantages of city living'. Multi-use areas, focussing on care & mobility needs help women's safe use of the urban. #politics https://www.nature.com…

@pre@boing.world
2025-10-18 10:48:22
Content warning: dot gov on bluesky

Apparently the US government departments are starting to join Bluesky and are getting ratioed in that the accounts are being blocked more than they are followed.
Doesn't really seem to make sense at first. The US Department Of Transportation isn't going to show up as a reply guy in your mentions and the spooks aren't going to use that account to spy on your posts.
Is the blocking then entirely performative? Because blocks are public they are votes?
I guess really it's people deliberately reading the recommended-for-you AI-driven slop feeds.
Blocked users won't show up in your machine-learning robot-recommended feeds that people apparently must be reading over there.
Just not-following would be enough for me, I don't see things I don't follow. But if you read the robot-DJ feeds then anything can show up, so you have to preemptively block it. If only to train the robot shuffle.
#blueSky #fediverse #aiSlopFeed

@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social
2025-10-14 23:07:20

Today, Mr. Boots & I both cast our votes in the CA special election. If you’re a Californian, you should, too. We must use our voices while we still have them! #Prop50 #StatewideSpecialElection

Statewide Special Election - November 4, 2025
@teledyn@mstdn.ca
2025-12-02 01:53:07

I think this may be the thing that truly kills the last embers of any passion I had for tech. I knew it was coming when I coined WYSIAYG (what you see is ALL you get) and here it is, only 40 some years later, and while services halting inexplicably is is a fact of computing, WYSIAYG means the software won't even try to explain, intelligent logging and troubleshooting wasn't in the Business Requirements because we all know software only ever works perfectly. If you really must know, use gdb.
It's like the old joke, spouse buys a parrot, leaves it as a surprise, arrives home to find it cooked for dinner; how could you, it spoke 12 languages! then it should have said something.