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“It’s not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot,” he said at a 2020 conference. “For me, it’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90952175/this-spanish-city-has-been-restricting-cars-for-24-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it

The stadium’s going to have 22k people cheer briefly for Rapinoe tonight. Aaaand then it’ll be right back to a rivalry game. #baonpdx

I keep seeing people saying they are happy to use AI text generators as sources of factual information, because they're confident that when the thing generates an inaccurate answer they'll easily spot it.

Speaking from my experience of 20+ years of professional fact-checking: the errors you can spot easily are not the ones you need to worry about.

OH (many minutes long conversation): What’s the deal with this new Apple thing? They’re removing lightning? How are we gonna charge? Do we have to use the automatic charger? I don’t know! I know what a lightning looks like but I don’t know what the other thing is. Do we have to get a new charger?
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
https://www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-reasons-why-everyone-should-want-more-walkable-streets

Hey #opensource friends! It looks like I’ll be in Bilbao for the Open Source Summit in ~ two weeks!

I would love to hear from folks who are thinking about OSS security policy, sustainable funding models, new projects, and how proposed changes (like the CRA) are going to impact developers and communities.

DM me, or catch me in the hallways! 🙏

This was meant for @paris but my client seems to have not done a reply. I should learn how computers work some day.
If the world’s gone to turds, go to the turtles
This was meant to be in response to an AI job taking post. Lost a wee bit of important context there…
I really think the fastest to be replaced will be CEOs