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oh_that_courtney

@oh_that_courtney@hachyderm.io

Voted most likely to be eaten by a grue.

I live in #austin #austinTx; planning to move to #portland #pdx

I'm interested in #openSource #linux #selfHosted #homeAutomation #homeAssistant

I advocate for #civicTech #openData

Past #library commissioner, community technology commissioner, and Code for America brigade captain

I occasionally post photos of #cooking, #bread, #pizza, and Franklin the #cat. You're welcome.

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oh_that_courtney, to random
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I know kid. Me too.

Me too.

https://youtu.be/frqXX1-LaNg?si=tpxNvTxtkYn5_pJA

oh_that_courtney, to random
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It's "pretend you want to learn Terraform" day at my house. ... yay

oh_that_courtney,
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@jimfl 😂

oh_that_courtney, to Cat
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"Outside the box" is for losers and management assholes. Franklin is all about inside the box.

#cat #catsOfMastodon

oh_that_courtney, to random
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Much cute. So sad. Wow.
https://mashable.com/article/kabosu-doge-died-crypto

oh_that_courtney, to random
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My post earlier today has been (as of this moment) liked 102 times and boosted 66 times and I've received a separate notification for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

How did anybody believe this is a good design? Why aren't these notifications aggregated?

oh_that_courtney,
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@jimfl @phanpy Thanks, I'll check it out.

oh_that_courtney, to random
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Is there a Nobel prize for headline writing? Because if there is, I've got a nomination.

https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/

oh_that_courtney, to random
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The City of Uvalde, site of a school mass shooting two years ago, is making a $2M payout to the 19 victim families.

That (about $105K per victim family) strikes me as an order of magnitude too low.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnze3n96go

oh_that_courtney, to Vivaldi
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Hey @Vivaldi! Why can't I set my preferred search engine on the Android app? I can add a custom search for desktop. Why not Android?

Not being able to use address bar search on mobile (the way I want) is a big problem for me.

#vivaldi

waldoj, to random
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Heat pumps and induction ranges are two strong examples of products that are better environmentally and better products than their gas/oil competitors, for almost everybody. (EVs will get there, but they’re not there yet.)

Because carbon emissions are free, it’s important that low-emission new products be clearly better than the polluting status quo. It’s a high bar, it’s not fair, but I’m glad we have heat pumps and induction ranges as a model.

oh_that_courtney,
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@waldoj I'm currently house hunting. I really want a kitchen with 240V because I want an induction range. Not because I'm a dirty green hippy, but because I currently use an induction cooktop and it works far superior than the alternatives. (The only thing it doesn't do well is woks and roasting peppers over flame.)

It's crazy that people are choosing a lesser alternative, all over irrational grudges.

oh_that_courtney, to portland
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I participated in a workshop by city of #portland to discuss civic use of AI. I contributed a rubric of "assistive" versus "determinative". The first case may be a helpful use (subject to usual concerns about energy, creative rights, bias, etc etc etc). The second case is where things get dangerous. #pdx

oh_that_courtney, to random
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Now playing ...

https://youtu.be/BirJMnMcfBs?si=FLKRB0vNNtpRcqeY

(I love the subversive/reclaiming things being done with country music these days.)

oh_that_courtney, to random
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My cousin the rabbi is one of the signatories of this letter, and I couldn't be more proud.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4651826-jewish-professors-biden-antisemitism-legislation/

oh_that_courtney, to austin
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What if they gave an election and nobody showed up?

State of Texas -- as part of its "screw with cities" agenda -- allowed some areas to vote yesterday to dis-annex from their city.

Some areas in #Austin voted to do so. River Place voted to dis-annex with one single vote. Not "by one vote", but one single person showed up and voted in this election.

Some areas didn't have anybody show up at all -- zero votes registered.

I fear for our representative democracy.

https://www.kut.org/austin/2024-05-05/may-4-2024-election-disannex-city-of-austin-lost-creek-blue-good-road-river-place

oh_that_courtney, to Texas
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A reminder that if Nancy Pelosi and the DCCC would have stayed the fuck out of the way, Jessica Cisneros (a bad ass Justice Democrat) might be representing the Rio Grande instead of this pro-gun, anti-abortion, corrupt jerkwad..

https://wapo.st/3WwmKM9

#texas

oh_that_courtney, to austin
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Hey #Austin peeps ... there's election ratfuckery going on. The state is trying to undermine the local tax base by putting wingnuts in charge of property tax assessments. It's an off cycle election to try to discourage turnout ... so it's extremely important to show up.

The ballot is super easy and quick and there have been no lines. So please vote Austin. It would be better if you did.

I like the Chronicle endorsements:

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-04-19/endorsements-for-the-may-4-travis-central-appraisal-district-election/

skrishna, to space
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Hi all! I'm still in a newsletter subscription push mode -- with the demise of the bird app, it's gotten really hard to get the word out about projects like this that don't have an internal algorithm to help people find it.

If you like , , , or just want to support a woman of color doing STEM stuff -- please subscribe! Ad Astra is a weekly newsletter that tells you what's going on in space science and spaceflight.

https://www.adastraspace.com

oh_that_courtney,
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@skrishna Done! +1 for using a newsletter platform that doesn't monetize hate speech.

zalasur, to random
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Oof, so I did a dirty deed today.

We have rabbits that like to hang out in our back yard. They are a pair we see quite often and a few days ago I saw one of them gathering grass over on the side of our house.

Neat! They are building a nest!

Not so neat: they popped off the cover of our window well leading to our basement and dug a hole under there. I would have missed it had I not been looking for it. It looked like a small pile of grass until I pulled it back and saw the hole (cont'd)

oh_that_courtney,
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@zalasur I'm glad you caught it early. I hope the bunnies find a good nesting place.

oh_that_courtney, to random
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I'm not even bothering with this season of ST:DISCO. Every time I've tried a past season, I couldn't finish it. It breaks my heart, because I love the cast.

On the other hand, I adore ST:SNW to bits. I'm so ready for more of that.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/star-trek-discovery-season-4-recap-how-did-this-show-get-so-boring

oh_that_courtney, to Texas
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The newly formed "Find Out PAC" could bring consequences to the radical Texas supreme court justices who have harmed reproductive healthcare.

https://19thnews.org/2024/03/find-out-pac-texas-gina-ortiz-jones/

#texas #abortion

oh_that_courtney, to random
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Anybody out there using ClouDNS? They look quite good (and affordable). I really like that I can easily have them pull from a server I run, so I can maintain zone configs in VCS managed text files.

https://www.cloudns.net

#ClouDNS

oh_that_courtney,
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@willglynn @kwf Thanks for the pointer! The About page says it supports NOTIFY, so it might work for me. (I run my own private dyndns.)

oh_that_courtney, to random
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The previous two weeks have been a steady crescendo of stress and anxiety as we approached the Open Data Day event on Saturday. But it went off without a hitch. We had great presentations, a bit of data hacking, and there were cookies.

I like this photo of me listening to a presentation. My friend Liani photo-bombing the frame seals the deal.

oh_that_courtney, to random
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Unfortunately, ever since COVID nearly bankrupted SXSW, it seems like it's returned to suck the teat of whatever venture capital and sponsors are offering them.

Past years, we've seen this with web3 and blockchain. Now we're seeing it with AI.

I think if SXSW is to survive, it needs to disconnect from the hustle crowd, and reconnect with creators.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/sxsw-audiences-boo-videos-artificial-intelligence-ai-1235940454/

#sxsw

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