Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

On the bros trying to build cities in Solano and elsewhere:

“What seems to be happening is people really want to ‘stay in San Francisco,’ but they want to exit society. … They don’t want to have to deal with the complexity, the differences, the poverty, the needs, the caring for others that was always part of urban culture. They want to escape. They want their own currency, their own culture, their own people. And they wanted it to look like Disneyland.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/city-campus-san-francisco-tech-diversity-19435406.php

#SanFrancisco

Another million dollar #police brutality lawsuit settlement in #SanLeandro. That is almost 5 million dollars in a week. https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/san-leandro-police-settlement-19379361.php?

I cannot communicate how much I hate the "long press--to do things" interface pattern.

What does it do? No idea; every control is different.

Is it discoverable? Only in the way the corner of a coffee table is discoverable by your shin.

Is it accessible to folks with motor control issues, or who use screen readers? Also no.

Gah. #ux #accessibility #badInterfaceNoCookie

I remember the 1960s crackdowns against war protesters. This is a repeat | Robert Reich https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/05/police-crackdowns-war-protesters?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When I was a kid I figured out that if I wanted to know how the magician did a trick I shouldn't look where they pointed. Then I figured out that this didn't just apply to magicians, but to politicians, media, clergy, and more.
A whole bunch of folks have not figured this out.

There is no red in this picture.
Your brain is filling the Red colour.
The picture is made entirely of light blue, black and white.
Zoom in and you'll see.

Organized right-wing groups starting violent confrontations with left-wing demonstrations to create a sense of chaos and get the state to intervene on their side is a little too on the nose for the 1920s and 1930s.

If you can’t beat ’em, nullify their votes: Trump’s latest lawsuit against Nevada's voters https://www.alternet.org/trump-nevada-lawsuit/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

So, why are so many executives and investors overlooking this very basic reality that code produced is code which must be maintained, and that an acceleration of code produced thanks to gen AI means ~more risk~, not just more $$$?

I have friends who are Principal Engineers asking themselves this very question right now.

And in response, I point us to the classic Upton Sinclair quote:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

I saw the original "Star Wars" the day after it premiered. A colleague of mine at the UCLA ARPANET lab and I walked over to Westwood to see it. As far as I'm concerned, the single best scene in the ENTIRE Star Wars franchise to date was the opening sequence of the star destroyer coming into frame overhead, that just went on and on and on ...

We’ve analyzed the House version of KOSA, and unsurprisingly, it is just as dangerous as the Senate version. It’s crucial everyone who cares about digital rights continue to oppose it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/us-version-kosa-still-censorship-bill

#meme

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
-- Bertrand Russell

#anarchism #quote #bot

Who knew all these college campuses had oil under them.

This is my yearly reminder that while many celebrate today as a Star Wars holiday, for me May the 4th is first and foremost the anniversary of the day that National Guardsmen shot and killed four college students protesting at Kent State University.

This year it seems particularly important to remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCS-g3HwXdc

Once again, I am asking for Canada to have enough trains that we can have novelty trains, as opposed to where we are now, that trains are a novelty.

https://mastodon.social/@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com/112380466710892122

This narrative is the same for every violent clash at protests in the past ~seven years (maybe longer, idk): a leftist group is peacefully protesting, a right-wing group shows up and openly assaults the protesters for *hours*, and police watch and do nothing. At this point it’s a playbook being run by the violent right and police in implicit coordination. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU0.AUdX.RBfy685XvxHg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

If build messages were 100% honest:

"Generating locales you will never, ever use. This may take a while."

While accurate data is hard to assemble, it now looks like around 8-10% of people who are 'self-paying' for private medical treatment are borrowing the money.

As the Tory defunding strategy has pushed more people into the arms of private healthcare so their chums in financial services are also starting to garner some more business.

That desperate people are being forced into indebtedness to pay for treatment is a sad confirmation of the Tory's strategy of wrecking the NHS.

#health #debt

Trump can't stay awake at trial, which is far less demanding than being president https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-cant-stay-awake/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon