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unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

I just made this silly but accurate thing. I'm silly too and i love it, but also i'm serious in my silliness.

About 10% of Apple's $3T market cap got wiped out today.

That $1M inauguration investment currently has a return of -$300B.

YouTube has just changed its rules to allow hate speech against gender minorities

https://www.usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-gender-identity-from

If you currently publish on YouTube, please consider putting your videos on PeerTube instead or as well:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videos-and-audio-on-peertube

Your audience doesn't have to be on PeerTube themselves. They can follow and interact with PeerTube from within Mastodon etc, and they can even follow PeerTube from podcasting apps such as Apple Podcasts.

(via @taylorlorenz on https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/114274955775553205)

Urgent: scraping help needed to preserve all #NOAA data services from catastrophic loss
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569/2

We (@SafeguardingResearch) need urgent help with archiving websites & datasets from NOAA:
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569

If you can contribute, please consider doing so.

SCOOP: YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy. "YouTube quietly removing ‘gender identity and expression’ from its list of protected groups is a major radical shift away from best practices in the field of trust and safety." https://www.usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-gender-identity-from

Introducing the Tinker WriterDeck OS!

Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck: A device designed solely for writing.

No distractions.
No internet.
No apps. No games. No social media.

Just writing.

The Tinker WriterDeck is very light weight and specifically seeks to lower the barrier of entry to creating writer decks. It converts older, reused, refurbished, or inexpensive laptops into a dedicated writing machine.

A digital typewriter.

The Tinker WriterDeck sits on top of a "headless" Debian Linux image and boots directly into a console based text editor.

We're using the Tilde Text Editor because it is a simple text editor, has an intuitive User Interface, and allows for customized color schemes for light and dark modes.

Operating System download and instructions on how to convert your laptop into a dedicated writer deck for free are found here: https://tinker.sh

See below for an example of the writer deck in light mode and dark mode.

If anyone has any questions or needs any help setting your laptop up, let me know here!

One of the classic videos inside Google was "I just want to serve 5 terabytes of data", satirizing the complexity of doing anything at Google scale. The video features animated characters Panda Woman (trying to serve data) and Broccoli Man (presenting more and more obstacles). I was reminded of this video because I'm at the Phoenix airport and I'm sure that the synthesized announcement voice here is the same as Broccoli Man. I keep expecting an announcement of "Five terabytes is so little that I've forgotten how to count that low."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI

Leaving this in the guest bedroom bedside drawers like it’s a Gideons’ Bible.

Masterful.

Caring about things is brave. Cowards make fun of people who are empathetic, acting as if it is a weakness. I don't know how else to say this, but they are completely full of shit.