LoriHC @lorihc@qoto.org

Two pictures that both show about 30 people getting a coffee.

We have to break #carculture

#BikeTooter #ebikes #ebike #waroncars

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

Extremist right-wingers have been eyeing the takeover of school boards across the country for a while now, with an agenda of extreme censorship and an anti-science mindset.

In 2023, there will be school board elections in AK, AR, CO, ID, IL, IA, KS, KY, LA, MN, MS, MO, NE, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TX, VA, WA, and WI. Make sure you get involved.

Link to elections: https://ballotpedia.org/School_board_elections,_2023

Story: https://www.kttn.com/conservative-moms-for-liberty-m4l-group-sets-sights-on-school-boards-and-book-bans/

A year of dangerous passes. AKA a 40 second argument for why we need massive, urgent investment in safe, dedicated facilities for people traveling by bicycle.

Every street for everyone.

https://youtu.be/5RBoS4va4Aw

#SafeStreetsForAll #BikeTooter

The crazy thing is, I don't even ride that much. Between commuting, the school run, and occasional errands, I average <20 miles on my bike a week.

And still, I have motorists threaten my life on a weekly basis.

Y’all, we need to have a Talk about relatively well-meaning but sexist assumptions. I’m not singling anyone out - this happens to me a lot.

I get routine pings to speak, present, or serve on boards related to educating kids (especially girls) on tech, and build DEI programs. The people who ask usually start with “because you are an expert on it”.

I am very happy to be an expert on a few things - namely digital forensics and incident response and industrial cybersecurity. I’m passable at threat intel and OSINT. It wouldn’t be embarrassing for me to talk about martial arts.

However, I have zero training on DEI or girls in tech initiatives (that’s a whole real career field), and I have no children. I’m don’t even have biological nieces or nephews. If you’re saying you think I’m an expert at that, it means someone is just looking at how I appear and making assumptions, then asking me to do free work. Others may not be as chill about this.

We’re hiring a few more product engineers at The Browser Company! HMU (or DM Josh on Twitter) https://twitter.com/joshm/status/1635747595611148289

Nothing says pro-life better than death penalty

Corporations want to bring back child labor, and some states are on board.

Arkansas: 9 year-olds can now be hired to work without parental ok.
Iowa: 14 year-olds could soon work in industrial freezers, meat coolers, and mines.
Ohio: kids may soon work year-round until 9pm

An underrated downside to filling so much of our country with non walkable suburban hellsprawl is that many drivers are totally inept driving in downtowns and are trained to do things like "speed up to beat the light" (because in sprawl stroads have painful minutes-long cycles) or roll through stop signs that present mortal danger in pedestrian -heavy areas

Interesting article (from October) about various topics related to animal protein and plant protein.

Unlocked WaPo article:

https://wapo.st/3JyjSaB