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I wrote a blog post that could be seen as depressing, but I think it's full of hope and perhaps you'll agree.
I'd like to hear what you think.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/12/16/the-book-of-pete/

The Book of Pete
Something for when I am gone I guess...

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsj-restructures-…

WSJ restructures health, science and education, makes layoffs - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Wednesday: Dear all, Today we are announcing changes to how we structure our health, science and education teams at The Wall Street Journal. The health group is returning to the business team after becoming a separate coverage area during the Covid-19 pandemic. Coverage of […]

Either I am missing something after another hour of googling or lots of people have their MariaDB root passwords in their shell history.
How do you create a backup without putting the password right in a shell command?
https://mariadb.com/docs…

Full Backup and Restore with mariadb-backup | MariaDB Documentation

This is entirely spot on.
#StarTrek

Star Trek Needs New (and Better) Villains - Reactor
The "villains" of Trek are meant to be foils to the Federation's worldview, not blindly evil antagonists.

ICE eats at restaurants I know and love, nice comfy meal before going back out there and destroying more lives.
It’s weird how much this enrages me. I hope the restaurant staff knows who they’re serving. I hope ICE knows they know. I hope ICE officers eat with nagging doubts about food safety.
I heard a rumor — this one not well-substantiated — that they ate at a restaurant and then come back and raided it the next day.

https://www.ad-magazin.de/artikel/villa-rezek-wien-restaurierung

Dieser Architekt rettete die Villa Rezek in Wien vor dem Abriss
Investoren hatten sie schon entkernt, doch dann kam die Restaurierung. Nun hat die Villa Rezek in Wien ihre Würde zurück – so gelang es den neuen Eigentümern

Star Trek Needs New (and Better) Villains https://reactormag.com/star-trek-needs-new-and-better-villains/

Star Trek Needs New (and Better) Villains - Reactor
The "villains" of Trek are meant to be foils to the Federation's worldview, not blindly evil antagonists.

About 40 to 50 Pentagon reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon rather than agree to new US government-imposed restrictions on their work (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-a…

Journalists exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power. The refusal was near-unanimous, from trade publications, wire services, television networks and newspapers, and included outlets that appeal largely to conservatives like Fox News Channel and Newsmax. Many of the reporters chose to turn in their badges together at the 4 p.m. deadline set by the Defense Departm…

My bike to work route...
#bikeTooter

Bike Commute to Work
How did I get here?