If anyone needs an experienced (~9 years) #Go developer who can bring a team of professionals to help finish your project, I'm looking for clients! https://willowbark.org or reach out to me directly and we can chat about your project!
@sam Also if you enjoy doing this, please figure out how to edit #OpenStreetMap. It's a lot of fun to add ways and details to the map!
Bad comparison: one of the best character arcs in any movie is Yvonne from Casablanca (here is a great article that analyzes the best scene in the movie and talks about her: https://seveninchesofyourtime.com/cinemas-greatest-scene-casablanca-and-la-marseillaise/). I'd like to posit that the "rat thing" dog in #SnowCrash is a similarly satisfying 1 minute of screen time (albeit with less character development). It's a brief aside that tells an entire story (while letting you fill in the details) and gives the main story some depth and color. #books
I also facepalm hard at the idea that some exec at Facebook read this and was like "So you're telling me that the world has gone to shit and hyperinflation has put corporations in charge of everything, but rich people can sit goggled in to a virtual world to escape from reality while the poor starve in the streets all around them? Awesome! Let's make that! Should we change the name? Nah, we're proud of what we're doing, keep it."
Just finished reading "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. The weird mix of sci-fi, anime tropes, 90s cyberpunk hacker culture, and ancient-knowledge conspiracy set against a right-libertarian hellscape was absolutely fantastic. The chapter where the good dog realizes that the nice girl is in trouble had me both crying and laughing at the same time and might be one of the best things I've ever read. Can't recommend it enough. #books
covid, tests, us
Recently reminded that if you have insurance in the US you can get 8 home tests every month per covered individual reimbursed, or under many plans, free. But it's probably hidden under a bunch of dark patterns to make it seem like a hassle. We just re-upped here heading into the new school semester we'll be back to weekly family testing, and it was only mildly infuriating through CVS to get them at no-cost.
Hey Social.Coop, *notice* The Finance Committee for operations will meet for the first times on August 11th and September 7th. We invite new members to join the committee. We invite your encouragement, ideas, and friendly provocations. Current FinCom members include @CaitlinWaddick (that's me!), @ntnsndr, @LeoSammallahti, @GuerillaOntologist, and @mattcropp I know we should crosspost to operations and discussions on the Loomio platform: it's how we manage Social.Coop! 😍
"This is going to sound wild to anyone who lives in the US, but for any two-story rowhouse in Tokyo, the owner can by right operate a bar, a restaurant, a boutique, a small workshop on the ground floor — even in the most residential zoned sections of the city. That means you have an incredible supply of potential microspaces."
Via: https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2022_07_tidy_workflows/
I love #Radiohead and I love #RodrigoyGabriela. In this age of crossovers and multiverses, this is the one I didn't know I needed:
#RodrigoYGabriela version of #Radiohead's Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7CDVqkIK98
Just beautiful!
Although, I just realized that having two library systems means separate max book limits so I can check out more stuff at once.
Cooperator , Atlantan, probably wants to be out backpacking ⛺🥾, climbing 🧗, or mountain biking 🚵.
#nobot #fedi22 #biking #bicycles #climbing #bouldering #mountain_biking #coops #backpacking #Atlanta