I meant to migrate my last domain name from Gandi to Porkbun this past weekend but totally spaced out and then because I waited last minute, it expired for a few hours. Downtime is very annoying.
I watched the half time show on YouTube and I understood maybe 10%. Bad Bunny's Spanish is effectively inaccessible to the majority of Spanish speakers. The show itself was good, but the music, rhythm, and vibe has much more in common with US traditions. A Spanish settler-colonial base with a […]
With all the sad news coming out of Minneapolis, I had missed that the Westfield Mall had closed for good after such a long agony. I worked next door for years and have fond memories. I was a fan of the Loving Hut and spent many breaks walking around its rooftop POPO. It was an anchor for […]
I'm absolutely floored by the videos coming out from Minnesota. What seem to be door to door, (judicial) warrantless raids.
Great song with a nice, simple video. A walkman, a bike and a park. Olive Jones - End of Time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjjhyMvrbRM
I'm heartened and inspired by the incredible acts of bravery by otherwise unexceptional individuals. They redeem this country. May they persevere.
There’s a solid crowd of folks marching down Market Street into the civic center right now. https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115832547375033692
I skipped the Bush II years, only to be here for the Trump ! and II years. SMH.
I got some amazing Christmas gifts. I feel so fortunate. Particularly happy about some amazing Japanese frankincense. One of my favorite smells.
“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
I randomly bought some silver coins from Costco in the middle of last year and then saw prices have gone crazy a couple of weeks back so sold them today. A little unexpected Christmas gift.
I've really enjoyed following all the news from 3I/ATLAS. All the science and speculation.
Yes! I still keep in touch with people I met over mailing lists and IRC channels 25 years ago. Those spaces might have been small, but they were very real.
I spent years of my life on Usenet, IRC and FTP sites. Now those spaces are veritable ghost towns, while corporate social network are full of ads and bots and search engines throw up AI slop. They're all dead or dying.
But the internet continues to have promise and potential and the fediverse […]
I'm glad I live in the part of the city with electricity. Things are normal here.
Anytime it rains in the Bay, I think what a huge difference free transit could make here. Driving is terrible and expensive in these conditions, biking and walking isn't a whole lot of fun, but transit is legit unaffordable to many.
Meaningful victory in SF: Seems like there's a deal with the November transit variable rate parcel tax. We're still getting a pass-through, but it's much smaller and manageable.
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Join us this Sunday for a special Winter Soltice/Shabe Yalda Zoom celebration for activists, poets and dreamers.
Sunday, Dec. 21 at 7pm PT
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/a-shabe-yaldawint...
I am tempted to start a lo-fi icecast program. I've done them in the past, when Indymedia was a thing, and it was fun. Even just an hour a week might be enough to scratch that itch.
I've been craving Choco Krispis for the past couple of days so I went to the store and got me a box. I'm on my third bowl today and I regret nothing.
LLMs might steal content and hallucinate and produce generally untrustworthy content, but they're oh so perfect for the insurance industry. One claim adjuster can now do the job of several, denying claims with seemingly plausible justifications.
A cut bike chain next to a bike rack
Small NYC bike lock, also cut
A second chain
Noticed another cut bike lock and a two chains yesterday. This was on the ground floor bike rack area, next to the staffed lobby and in plain view of cameras. So three more stolen bikes. Insurance companies must hate our building.
Close up of the cut lock.
Another month, another cut lock in my building's garage, all that's left of a stolen bike. This is in a locked, "secured" building in SOMA, here in SF. I lost several bikes the first few years here and finally learned my lesson: I store them either in my apartment […]
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Now that I spend less time on the fedi, I'm not sure there's much value in having two single-user instances (this one and social.sanfranciscan.org). They're complementary in many ways, and that's cool, but maybe I ought to consolidate it all into one.
I haven't had mail service in weeks. Our building's mailboxes kept getting broken into, which led USPS suspending mail to our building, forcing tenants to go to the Townsend annex across SOMA to pick up their mail. This has meant waiting 30-45 minutes in line to get a fraction of my mail. I […]
This has been a crazy year. Work has been particularly intense, with the unexpected November election and preparing to get a new CEO tax on the June ballot. Then there's been a decent amount of travel, both abroad and within California. And then there's the national political climate, which is […]
It's been crazy cold here in SF. Luna, my quarter Chihuahua dog, hates it. She's been spending 22 hours a day hiding in her bed.
I spent the better part of a week in the Indigenous COP30 village. It was a strange, humbling and challenging experience. I've never been in a space with Native individuals from all over the Americas. We had Spanish-speaking, Dutch-speaking, French-speaking and English-speaking Natives in my […]
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Tomorrow, here in #Belem for the #PeoplesSummit at #COP30, we will be doing a presentation on Regeneration, Reforestation, and Lessons from Mesoamerican Indigenous Traditions for a Just Transition. From 2:30PM at Salas ICB, SAT 04 in the UFPA campus […]
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