Mastodawn

(Incredible un)fun fact: the Muskrat’s trillion dollar net worth is more than double the GDP of his home country of South Africa (source: AP). … One person, with more wealth than his whole country. This is a malfunctioning of the system (in my opinion). 👎

alec May 17

Ben Lockwood, PhD May 17

Human consciousness is a transcendent product of biological evolution. It arose out of deep ecological possibilities of biodiversity, and this new so-called "AI" is its antithesis. These algorithms require grotesque infrastructure that pollute the environment, hoard water, heat their surroundings, consume vast amounts of energy, and loudly disrupt the sounds of nature; all to accumulate wealth by producing a crude caricature of actual intelligence created from robbing society's collective works.

alec May 8

Cool episode of Your City Could Be Better about Nashville’s bench builders & tactical urbanism. 25 min episode. Thanks for making #Nashville just a bit better, friends. 🫶

https://megaphone.link/CC7231982723

#tacticalurbanism #nashvilletn #pedestriansafety #cityplanning #publictransit #transit #urbanplanning

Meet Nashville's Rogue Bench Builders. Plus, Living in a High-Tourism City by Your City Could Be Better

Megaphone.fm

alec May 7

Why do *I* need to fill out a form in order to have my data not sold by an organization like Major League Baseball? Why is the *default* that a corporation gets to just sell my data? America’s so clearly corporations over everything else it’s insane. #mlb #corporations #uspol #USPolitics #usa #america #dataprivacy

alec May 4

@MemeMedianMode Woah, what odds! I’m new(ish) to Mastodon, searched ultimate frisbee. It popped up random people from all over and then Mark! What’s up, dude? #ultimatefrisbee

alec Apr 30

@treyhunner thanks for your content! I’m new to python. Just followed and also added your website to my RSS feed.

alec Apr 28

MySQL vs PostgreSQL vs SQLite

Recommendation requested!

Use case — personal data analytics projects, querying practice, and better understanding of setting up an RDBMS, schemas, data models, etc.

My experience — 1 year in a true data analyst role using SQL. (9 years sorta hacking through data in spreadsheets in the ads world prior to that)

Machine I’d local host on — MacBook Air (M3 chip)

#sql #sqlite #mysql #postgresql #mysqlworkbench #dataanalyst #dataanalytics #dataanalysis #database

MySQL

PostgreSQL

75%

SQLite

25%

Poll ended at Apr 29 at 11:32pm.

alec Apr 20

The Tennessee Holler Apr 20

Send this to anyone in Tennessee who cares about public schools. This is who voted to send $300,000,000 per year to kids already in private schools. (From @[email protected] ) #LeesVoucherScam

alec Apr 16

Hell yeah, Warriors! That was insane. 💪🏀

“Winning is a skill.” - Candace Parker …. No other way to put it. These Warriors skidded their way into the play-in. Tonight’s win was straight up champion DNA. 😤

More 4th quarter brilliance from Curry and Draymond shutting down Kawhi in the 4th.

#nba #nbaplayoffs #nbaplayin #warriors #goldenstatewarriors #warriorsvsclippers #clippers #laclippers #kawhileonard #stephencurry

alec Apr 15

Great read. Direct cash transfers make SUCH a positive difference. I’ve been donating to GiveDirectly who offers the same thing for impoverished areas abroad and the tangible improvements to peoples’ lives are incredible. Please consider donating to GiveDirectly or similar if you have the means.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/01/oregon-tried-giving-homeless-youth-1000-a-month-with-no-strings-attached-heres-what-happened.html

#givedirectly #homelessness #oregon #cashtransfers #empathy #incomeinequality #unitedstates

Oregon tried giving homeless youth $1,000 a month with no strings attached. Here’s what happened

The program helped 94% of participants secure housing while building financial literacy skills that could break the cycle of homelessness.

oregonlive