@bvibber nice!

@grajohnt looks like another map of population density to me :)

…A coalition of #Democrats, led by Sen #KirstenGillibrand of #NY, have supported the #legislation despite misgivings from most senior members of the party.

Sen #ElizabethWarren, Democrat of #Massachusetts, was unforgiving in her criticism, arguing that the legislation’s “thin #regulation” mirrored the #deregulatory approach that helped create the 2008 #FinancialCrisis.

#law #cryptocurrency #crypto #finance #fraud #Trump

@darwinwoodka @dangillmor how do we feed ourselves, @bvibber @legoktm, it's a mystery for sure.

no no, not a teams meeting, it's a meet meeting. on google meet. it might be called duo for you? i sent you a hangouts to the drive link on messages. no no not your gmail inbox, it's under "all mail", not every email goes to the inbox, haha. or if you're using the classic mode it might be under meetups or promotions. yeah where the chats used to be, before they made google voice an RCS thing. have you got it from google play? no not the green one, the new one with the multicoloured icon. you can only use the green one with legacy members. ok so the problem is you're on workspace for business, it's under google one basic now. did you try quick sharing it? no see you can't use it on a tablet, only a phone or laptop, unless you want the plus features, that only works on phones of course. honestly the easiest way from here is through the docs plugin, unless you wanna family share if you can do vowifi

@lynnesbian most of my friends bailed to Whatsapp or signal, but I have one friend who still uses hangouts or whatever it is called now and I see the notification popup and can never remember the right incantation to find his messages...

I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk

https://x.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1133703638432526337

As I walk around the city for exercise and errands, I like to play walking-around games on my phone: games that that use GPS* to move my little guy around in the game. I just wrote a new such game. It runs in a web page: Walkzee. I'm still tweaking the game. I play it as I walk around; then sit down and fix bugs when I get home. As of today, it might be of more interest to Mystery Hunt players than walkers: there are no instructions, so half the challenge is figuring out how to play.

Why am I writing yet-another walking-around phone game? The previous such game I wrote ran on top of Google Cloud Services. You might remember a few months back, I switched my backups to not use Google servers, run by a will-abet-genocide-for-$$$ division within Google. Some days ago, I wondered: "Why is Google still billing me?" My little walking-around game didn't make Google's servers think very hard—it almost squeaked under the threshho…

https://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2025/06/16/as-i-walk-around-city-for-exercise-and-errands-i/

@quips ha!

A little beautiful news

@brooke obligatory network gear photo

@brooke I reflashed some home automation switches with tasmota, configured a long-range z-wave remote, and contemplated replacing the flakey esp32cam package-door camera with a proper PoE wired camera.

@ClariNerd @pluralistic brookline.news fwiw

@ClariNerd @pluralistic my community funded a local newspaper.

Technically they passed a bylaw that said that local thingies must be published in a local paper, and that guaranteed business was enough to get said local paper off the ground.

@evan @mattblaze oh I know, the gore-bush election is what got me into political advocacy, and it was directly responsible for the 2002 Help America Vote Act, among other reforms. I'm an election warden for my town as one indirect result.

The 2000 election has been analyzed for over two decades, and (summarizing) the conventional wisdom was that "if only" Gore had pressed for a complete recount of all the votes, instead a more limited recount, he would have won. The supreme Court decision hinged on the inequity of recounting only partial results. This has the comforting aura of idealism to the liberal listener-- if only Gore had better promoted our American democratic ideals! -- and helped us reconcile the fact of a antidemocratic outcome: the candidate with the most votes didn't win, but at least the judicial process was followed, yay norms and rule of law.

Now, with more recent hindsight, I think it is more broadly recognized as a harbinger of the judicial activism and other traits of the modern right wing movement. From this more cynical viewpoint, I suspect the election would have been thrown in any case, the rationale would just have been different. The same bad actors were working on FL on the Bush campaign who surfaced again as members of the Trump administration.

In any case, it's not news that the 2000 election was stolen. The difference is that post-2000 we focused on election reform to eliminate butterfly ballots, DRE machines, and other misfeatures that surfaced in that campaign. Post-2024 we need to focus on the *other* culprit and reform the judiciary.

@mattblaze @evan it's not even historical "research" , the article is 24 years old. It is just history.

I've been seeing photos and videos of crowds at the No Kings events around the country today. I'm just overwhelmed with a sense of "wow, that's a lot of people". It lifts my spirits.

Thank you, America.

@LaserMistress the PCB houses like pcbway and jlcpcb will cut thin sheets of aluminum, means as PCB stencils, for quite reasonable rates. I wonder if those could be affordable as projector stencils.

Teen Vogue continues to be a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-be-an-activist-when-youre-unable-to-attend-protests

@jgilbert legit an issue for me in the past. "Phone a lawyer" is still the rule, not "web search a lawyer" or "email a friend". Be prepared.

A friend of mine set their kids' computer unlock passwords to the home phone number, which struck me as a brilliant hack to get that memorized.