and so it begins

EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE

EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE

EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE

Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania.

The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.

🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.

I use Focusmate as a productivity tool and it’s funny how within a 10 second interaction (intros and stating your goal for the session) you can tell if you vibe with someone or not.

*cron server

Not corn server

Autocorrect

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Crontab.guru - The cron schedule expression generator An easy to use editor for crontab schedules.

Also related - crontab.guru is so handy!

Related - make sure your corn server is running UTC, or avoid jobs which could run at 2 or 3am on Sunday. www.endpointdev.com/blog/2013/04...

Hey US on-call engineers - this Sunday is daylight savings time! Check to make sure that your servers are using UTC, and/or that your scheduled jobs can handle weirdness from the time change.

Trigger warning for horrific abduction of a woman by plainclothes ICE workers, tearing her away from her child.

bsky.app/profile/shan...

There is a post that is worth seeing but needs a trigger warning.
I’ll put a summary and link in the replies here.
The tldr is that ice abductions in the US are getting worse and worse.

Being able to sing while coding is one of the best perks of working remotely.

Fun fact - in my experience, singing is the best painkiller.
Tylenol is good, but singing is the best.

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

This is an excellent point. Zohran ran a textbook campaign that the centrists are always talking about, just talking about rent control and free buses and cost of living, and the centrist Dems tried to make it all about Israel/Palestine and other identity issues (his Muslim faith) to smear him.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

CNBC headline: "OpenAI’s Sam Altman sees AI bubble forming as industry spending surges"

Fortune headline: "It’s not just Sam Altman warning about an AI bubble. Now Mark Zuckerberg says a ‘collapse’ is ‘definitely a possibility"

these guys have been clearly, openly warning you about a bubble (they created) that's going to cause mass economic upheaval next year

they're getting lean not because AI is so great, they're getting lean because they know the check is coming due for their bad choices across AI and authoritarianism

Ugh. "content within a `<details>` element with `display: contents` is not accessible when expanded." bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi... — sadly unsurprising for Safari considering all the history that Adrian documents in his post.

#a11y

Poster about keeping kids fed this Halloween by handing out shelf staples. Text reads: Keep kids fed this Halloween. 40% of SNAP recipients are children! If you are passing out candy add shelf stable foods to your treat bucket. With no SNAP in November many kids will have less access to food.

Nice idea - Text reads: Keep kids fed this Halloween. 40% of SNAP recipients are children! If you are passing out candy add shelf stable foods to your treat bucket. With no SNAP in November many kids will have less access to food.

Ex-Masonry Display Type Keyword Poll See https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12022 for context. This poll intentionally leaves out `masonry` as an option, see https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12022#issuecomment-34172962...

There's a new #CSS Working Group poll to get feedback on different names for the infamous 'Pinterest' layout.

- Since it uses many of the grid-* properties, `grid` will be in the name somewhere
- We don't use metaphors in CSS names, so `masonry` is not listed here

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Screen shot of my setting screen. Settings > Manage Apps shows a list of apps that are connected to my account with the checkbox "Use by default" next to Gemini checked

Check Settings > Manage Apps in your Google Drive, Gemini was enabled by default for me. I only checked because someone had pointed it on Twitter

I find it incredible that no media outlet has run a story about it and how it clearly demonstrates how dangerously mentally ill the most powerful man in office is.

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

In the late stages of the bubble we’re starting to see multiple “people in tech don’t really believe in all of this, honest, we just act like it because we think we have to”, but the truth is that it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’ve been acting like a true believer and you are what you do

The Bluesky government accounts want unhinged engagement with their accounts to screenshot and provide to Fox News to justify their authoritarianism and I’m not going to do their work for them it’s my day off.

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

We aren’t typically trying to make the code “fun” or game like, but it is still a similar cognitive exercise to try and marine what future engineers will think and need to do with the code, and to optimize it for them.