Dan Phiffer @dphiffer@social.coop
Internet enthusiast. Cat fancier. Works at ACLU. He/him.
https://phiffer.org
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(Time passes)
Things that are now working:
• Slack
• work email
• Mastodon
Things that are not working:
• SCOTUS
Things that are not working right now:
• Slack
• work email (remote worker + macOS + Microsoft Domain + password expiry)
• Verizon hotspot
• Mobile voice service
Things that are working right now:
• Amtrak wifi
• Mastodon
Today sucked in a lot of ways, but:
1. saw a beaver in the canal
2. discovered an ice cream shop within walking distance
3. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took NY-14
This will be my first time voting in a closed primary since I moved here from California in 2005.
Reminder to New Yorkers: if you are registered with a party, vote in the primaries tomorrow! It’s the most your vote will count, by percentage.
Matt Taibbi wrote a 3-part series on the NY-19 Democratic primary: “The paradox facing the Democrats is that in the current political climate, voters might be quicker to trust the outsider. But the system is designed to funnel money and media attention to insiders.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/jeff-beals-new-york-midterms-w520302
I need MORE PEEBLES ISLAND in my summer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peebles_Island_State_Park
Every day just before 10pm I hear Taps playing in the distance. And every day I wonder where and who it might be playing for, and then forget until the next day.
@kweerious hellooo there!
On this Juneteenth let’s acknowledge that incarceration is a continuation of Slavery. Watch Ava DuVernay’s 13TH, it’s on Netflix.
We tell each other to self host in order to escape the big corps. But when we die, all the self hosted stuff is going to get wiped and history will only remember the archives that got stored by the big corps. And you know how history is written by the winners. Do we need a way to automatically hand over our sites to archive.org or similar? Or send them disc images? Nobody expects to get run over by a car but some of us will, today. I made no plans for this.
This week’s OTM is v good.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-2018-06-01
Made it to Bergen! https://social.coop/media/sRARacODpZ8HCWGk7MM
Back in the green valleys. This one has some prop airplanes tooling around, but they don't really show up in photographs. https://social.coop/media/JhW0dnxCG1Zjp16QH8c
I can't get over the color. https://social.coop/media/HROt-LLlfRg76Ep95LU
The river is now running in the same direction as the train. https://social.coop/media/qIGJDfgAfiCgYW3LxXw
Everyone is at the window snapping photos and then we all take accidental tunnel selfies. https://social.coop/media/Pa6oMiSsf6BLElWSGZc
Tunnels and covered stretches of track arrive unexpectedly. I kinda like the visual patterns they make.