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mackenzian, 14 days ago to random

"Sometimes I think that the meaning of life is to not give up, to keep the resistance going even though the forces stacked against you are overwhelmingly strong. This often requires some kind of religious conviction, because sometimes it seems irrational." — #AndreasMalm https://archive.ph/pB5Sj#selection-1317.492-1317.745

aral, 2 months ago to SmallWeb

Coming soon: it’s going to be trivial to deploy a different app on your Small Web server. Useful if you’re a dev and you’re playing around with different apps.

https://vimeo.com/932120624

(Also, notice the speed at which deployment happens. I’m one step away from implementing this in Domain using pre-warmed Kitten instances – called toasty kittens – thereby bringing the time it takes to deploy your own Small Web place down to a handful of seconds.)

:kitten: 💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #deployment

gisiger, 3 months ago to fountainpens German

So, today I unwrapped a NOS #Moleskine notebook, that I had stored in a drawer for some years (no sunlight!), and it is horrible. The paper around the edges is heavily yellowed and you can clearly see, where the bookmark was wrapped around the edge.

Also, the paper has terrible bleed when used with #FountainPens … honestly, I really don't like it. My #Leuchtturm1917 notebooks are much better in every way.

Am I just out of luck with this one? Or are Moleskines just that bad?

Terrible bleed on Moleskine paper

mackenzian, 4 months ago to random

"Patients admitted to private equity-owned hospitals had a 25 percent increase in developing hospital-acquired conditions compared with patients in the control hospitals. In private equity hospitals, patients experienced a 27 percent increase in falls, a 38 percent increase in central-line bloodstream infections (despite placing 16 percent fewer central lines than control hospitals), and surgical site infections doubled."

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/01/hospitals-slash-staff-services-quality-of-care-when-private-equity-takes-over/

mackenzian, 4 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

"I think something more fundamental has been lost for all of us as social media has evolved. It’s harder to find the spark of discovery, or the sense that the Web offers an alternate world of possibilities. Instead of each forging our own idiosyncratic paths online, we are caught in the grooves that a few giant companies have carved for us all." #BigTech #algorithms

https://archive.is/ttFA0

mackenzian, 5 months ago to history

🎙️ How are designers responding to Big Tech design principles, funding models and incentives?

For this last #Season1 episode of #MoralRepairPodcast we talked to @aral about #SmallTech, #colonialism, and how to design tech at a more human scale.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-answer-to-big-tech-tech-at-a-human-scale/id1708625744?i=1000641153684

mackenzian, 5 months ago to random

I hunted down a couple Pilot CON-50s, which are now obsolete and replaced—inexplicably?!?—by the much lesser CON-40 and the squeeze bulb CON-B.

Just had to top up a CON-40 with a syringe because it doesn't load more than a dribble of ink.

The Lamy standard converter puts them both to shame, and actually competes with a cartridge for volume.

Is a good converter really hard to engineer consistently?
Or is Pilot blowing smoke up all our exhaust pipes?

mackenzian, 6 months ago to random

Politics right now feels like this deduction puzzle.

Edward Gorey image via @pluralistic

mackenzian, 6 months ago to random

December to me: 🗣 "I am one again asking you to close all your tabs."

So that's the plan.

1. Close all the tabs.
   On all the devices.

2. Open no more than 5 at the same time.
   And close them all at the end of the work day.

This is Day 1.

GIF of Bernie Sanders outside somewhere cold, in the "I am once again asking—" much-memed video.

mackenzian, 6 months ago to ai

In Episode 3 of #MoralRepairPodcast, @Wolven talked to us about how insurance companies have come to use #AI to determine who receives what care.

That's what's going on in this story:
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/111422904090022457

mackenzian, 6 months ago to random

"What kind of a place is this—where you almost mean what you say? Where laws almost work? How can you live like that?" —Sengbe Pieh (Cinqué) #Amistad

Good question.

mackenzian, 7 months ago to random

"If you're able to, I implore you to stop buying and renewing .io domains. Next time you're asked to vote, find out how your candidates feel about the exile of the Chagossians. Read what The Chagos Refugees Group has to say." — @cariad https://www.beep.blog/io/

mackenzian, 7 months ago to machinelearning

New #MoralRepairPodcast episode out this week: It's about #MachineLearning and #tech ethics and features @Wolven

We also talk about movies. And cooking. And harm reduction.

Get into it on whatever platforms you like!

https://pod.link/1708625744

mackenzian, 8 months ago to random

"If at the moment you are haphazardly and unknowingly optimizing for only one mode of thinking, you are also unknowingly optimizing for confusion and misunderstanding and second-guessing.

Because the efficiency of communication isn‘t solely a measure of the time it takes to move information from one head to another; it‘s also the time and energy required to build and sustain collective understanding." — #MandyBrown #EverythingChanges
https://everythingchanges.us/blog/writers-and-talkers-and-leaders/

mackenzian, 9 months ago to random

"Ground so hot you could fry an egg" used to be hyperbole.

Not anymore.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/28/phoenix-arizona-heatwave-burns-sidewalks-climate-crisis

mackenzian, 10 months ago to Ethics

"Even people who might otherwise have been happy to help improve a tool they use all the time will balk when they do not have the opportunity to affirmatively consent. Anything less than this is coercion, and coerced consent is no consent at all." —@Wolven in @WIRED #Zoom #ethics #tech https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-became-a-part-of-daily-life-it-needs-to-tell-users-exactly-how-its-using-their-data/

mackenzian, 10 months ago to random

@aral Hi Aral: I just heard the good news that you've agreed to join me and my cohost Annanda on the Moral Repair podcast. Thank you so much!

I'm looking forward to talking with you about Small Tech, Big Tech, and using tech in ways that help us remember and cultivate our humanity.

mackenzian, 10 months ago to books

“Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.” —Barbara Kingsolver

#ProdigalSummer #SpiritualEcology #books

mackenzian, 1 year ago to random

Every day these seniors remind me:

—don't hold onto slights; they don't get lighter the longer you carry them
—face your fears early and often; you don't get to peace via avoidance
—good relationships are worth more than money, and in this world you still need money, so make some and save some
—do your work so at least some family weaknesses die with you

Every day. #wisdom