William Witteman

@willyyam
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Father, husband, data scientist, librarian, programmer. He/him.
Warning: bilingual puns
Webhttps://william.witteman.ca
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Neighborhood Emergency Response Team | SF Fire Website

Cosigning EVERYTHING in this essay. DO NOT SEND ME A MESSAGE WRITTEN WITH AI, I WILL TRASH IT OUT OF HAND. Not out of "how dare you use LLM tools" ire, but because I will assume it's a scam.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qvzn322kmcvd7xtnips5xaun/post/3mnzllmhxuk25

Q: We all know Lesbians drive Subarus, but what do Enbies drive?

A: They don't care, so long as it gets them/their.

(I am so... so sorry. You deserve better jokes from me.)

Martha G Wells: I wrote the popular novel series—with tv adaptation—The Murderbot Diaries as a warning not to create an outer space hypercapitalism that I named the corporation rim.

Real life:

I mentioned Sabrent's 8-port USB-C charger in a Level 2 Jeff video last year. It had a few annoyances but was overall my favorite multi-port charger so far...

Well they listened to feedback from our comments, and improved the firmware! Update video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twoAW0eLiXY

They made it BETTER!

YouTube
If ya'll gonna say it "aluminium" that implies there is also an alumaximum

I know why right wing leadership and powerful people don't like or care about right to repair. No one in leadership or with power likes right to repair left or right.

However, why don't right wing ordinary people vibe with us more.

"fix it yourself" has the very best of right wing vibes (rare IMO)

The tractor CEO says you can't modify the tractor you own. Ought to get everyone in the street together as I see it.

Anyhow.

Greetings fellow humans.

My podcast editor has suggested that I start uploading episodes to YouTube, and to accomplish this, that I should get some artwork done to serve as a wall-paper-y thing for the audio to play over.

Is there any chance that there are any artists here that would be interested in a small job? Might be a long shot, but someone that listens to the podcast will probably have great opinions on the vibe!

Hey, quick reminder to my Canadian readers -- I'm going to Montreal this week, so if you want a signed copy of OBSTETRIX, place an order with Argo: www.argobookshop.ca

Argo Bookshop
Argo Bookshop

Montreal's Oldest Independent Bookstore

Do you ever wonder how many fediverse accounts are actually C2 beacons using the distributed fediverse for resiliency?

Yeah, me neither.