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My name is Eric.
I try to do good and be well.
I'm not great at either.
Joined Nov 2023
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How did we go from from plastic straws wrapped in paper to paper straws wrapped in plastic?
"U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released text of the Senate’s bipartisan national security supplemental package and issued the following statement:
“As Ukraine runs low on ammunition to fend off Putin’s brutal invasion, it is imperative we finally extend our support. We must also live up to our commitments to our allies around the globe and quickly get more aid to innocent civilians caught in conflict, including in Gaza, where the humanitarian crisis is especially dire. I never believed we should link policy demands to emergency aid for our allies, but Republicans insisted—so Democrats negotiated in good faith over many weeks and now there is a bipartisan deal on border policy legislation. Ukraine’s fate and so much more hangs in the balance—it’s time for Congress to act.”
Summary and full text of the bill is linked in the webpage below:
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New blog post: “Why I Started @sublinks” https://jasongr.im/blog/why-i-started-sublinks/
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If you want all the gory details on how I migrated my Citation Needed newsletter from Substack to self-hosted Ghost, here they are:
https://citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/
Happy to try to help anyone else making this move!
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In the past 15 years, I think I've recommended Linux for private, personal use just once. I haven't recommended against it otherwise, but I haven't suggested to anyone else to use it as their primary OS on their laptop or desktop at home. In fact, many people I know don't even own a desktop or laptop computer. They use phones and iPads exclusively.
That one person I recommended it to was my nephew who was curious about what else can be done with a computer beyond Roblox.
When was the last time you recommended Linux? What was that conversation like?
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Stop. Recommending. Tiny. Random. Linux. Distros.
Please. It's a never ending source of support issues. Especially for newer users. Get them onto something easy like Ubuntu.
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I made a funny image inspired in part by what I've been reading/watching/listening from wonderful people like @pluralistic @molly0xfff @parismarx @davidgerard (Also name-checking @creativecommons because some of their symbols are in this image....)
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I had an "ah ha" moment when thinking about the angry responses to yesterday's blog post.
(This one, if you missed it.) https://terikanefield.com/section-3-and-the-spirit-of-liberty/
First, I'll share a positive response. (Screenshot #1)
The angry responses tended to accuse me of advising that people do nothing. #2 was typical of the angry responses.)
About 5 years ago, I took the tact of responding to "there are never any consequences" by listing hte consequences.
I figured, you know, facts. For example, see #3
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Teacher: William Shakespeare is credited with the invention of over 1,700 words. He was a linguistic genius.
Student: Can I make up words and use them in my papers?
Teacher: Absolutely fucking not.
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Important #NewLaw went into effect January 1 in #California :
"2806.5. (a) A peace officer making a traffic or pedestrian stop, before engaging in questioning related to a criminal investigation or traffic violation, shall state the reason for the stop. The officer shall document the reason for the stop on any citation or police report resulting from the stop."
No more "Do you know why I pulled you over?" from #cops in California.
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Thanks!
$50 million a year and ~40 million users.
So an annual donation of $5 pays for me and three other users - cool 😎
To pay for everything at just $5 a year would only need 1/4 of users to make a donation.
This makes it seem doable and worth donating to, I was wondering if it was even achievable, but this information makes it very clear.
Thoughts:
I can ask people to do this - it makes sense - it's a no brainer - a random donation is too vague.
Cheers 👍
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Messengers only matter if people use them. So, thank you for your support, for telling your friends, for getting your group chats on Signal, and for supporting our work with donations.
It’s an honor to build Signal for you. We literally could not do it without you.
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@james I believe this also has to do with a certain element of trust.
Because people are affected differently by disorders, it's often not possible to know if the standards you're holding them to are reasonable or impossible.
Did they not do the thing because they don't care? They're lazy? They're upset? They wanted to but they genuinely find it difficult?
You can't really know, and that means you just need to trust what they're saying to you.
🧵 1/2
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I've been maintaining my SO's business website for a couple of months now, and I think this could be a pretty neat side-gig. If you or anyone you know would like a Wordpress e-commerce site built, hosted, and maintained, then shoot me a DM, or email me at btp@brandont.dev.
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I'm needing a little help with federation, if anyone sees this post mind giving it a boost?
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Boost if you don't want to die/ don't want to kill on the road.
A part of my job that doesn't show: Every week I look at stats on serious injuries/fatalities and know that they're still going up. Comparing them to the previous year doesn't bring comfort even if a particular month is a little lower. Especially true in late Dec.: long dark days and New Year's Eve coming.
Drive carefully, or don't drive at all. Please.
#RoadSafety #VisionZero #SafetyOverSpeed #driving #DriveSafe #BikeTooter
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Every COVID Infection Increases Your Risk of Long COVID, Study Warns.
"Each subsequent COVID infection will increase your risk of developing chronic health issues like diabetes, kidney disease, organ failure and even mental health problems"
"This dispels the myth that repeated brushes with the virus are mild and you don't have to worry about it. It is akin to playing Russian roulette."
#COVID19 #LongCOVID @auscovid19
Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/every-covid-infection-increases-your-risk-of-long-covid-study-warns
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US Update based on #COVID19 in wastewater:
▪️ 1 of every 29 Americans is now infectious.
▪️ A room with 20 people is likely to include someone with COVID.
▪️ COVID is spreading more than during 95% of the pandemic.
▪️ We'll see 2M new infections daily before this peaks in two weeks.
▪️ We're adding between 600,000 and 2.3M new cases of Long COVID each week.
▪️ We could now be in the 2nd-worst surge of the pandemic. (We won't know for a week or two due to data lags.)
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Hey, @eff , I like you - I really do. So, when I got your email asking me to complete a survey, I was going to.
Instead, I'm tooting you my feedback - just a simple request, and a demonstration of disappointment: if you're asking people information by filling up a survey, please do not involve a third party - specially Microsoft. It is not just that I don't want to send any data to forms.office.com, I think you should not be asking/incentivising anyone to do so.
Here's a 49 pages list of why: https://www.eff.org/search/site/Microsoft
My name is Eric.
I try to do good and be well.
I'm not great at either.
Joined Nov 2023
