Sam Whited @sam@social.coop

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!

Also train stations and fancier bus stops.

Considering running #FreeBSD or #NetBSD on my laptop again. Somebody stop me. Every time I do this it ends up causing problems.

Once you're done with all the parks; move on to libraries!

Blog post/social media idea: once a week visit a new public park in your area with the goal to be visiting every park in your city/county/whatever makes sense. Take a few pictures, write about it, post them places.

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

Oh damn, just heard that Nichelle Nichols died a few days ago :(

"Cryptocurrency fraud scheme busted by US securities agency "

Oh good, glad to hear that all cryptocurrencies are now shut down.

"Today is Aug. 1, also known as Dogust 1st: a birthday celebration date for adopted and rescued dogs whose owners can't pinpoint their exact birthdays."

Is this a thing, or is the county newsletter making stuff up?

Although, I just realized that having two library systems means separate max book limits so I can check out more stuff at once.