Cyd Harrell

SF & any SF #uglydogs especially, this is a friend's dog - please help keep a lookout in the Mission & elsewhere! 🙏

essential distinction (& deceptive use of language by companies doing this)

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

hey friends, sometime tonight I'll begin an internet break that will last a while - all is well; maybe send a search party if you don't see anything from me before early August starts to turn to middish August

someone pointed out to me today that 2007 is now *18 years ago* and ngl out of all of the "things in the past keep getting further away" that one felt particularly wrong

my boss gave me a chaotic neutral pin when I left 18F...

wait your dentist is open at 7am? (mine may be too, I've never tried it)

You really should, you know?

if you care about government tech, OR about your data & who has it, this is really something

Golden pup opens mouth to bite hose water.

Golden pup with blissful closed eyes relishes misty hose water.

Golden pup bites hose nozzle as mist rises behind her

Golden pup rises on hind legs barely visible behind misty hose water.

Summer is for splashing. #UGLYDOGS

A small gray rabbit looks at the camera seemingly confused.

When the day has been day-ing

yikes!! hopefully you're somewhere safe & don't need to travel!

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

:pissed off goose: what did I say about information wars & training data?

WeTransfer

Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service.

perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable

for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing

to reproduce, distribute, modify
prepare derivative works based upon
perform

technically, school lunch is a program of USDA, not DOE...but that doesn't mean that everything will continue smoothly for sure. (I couldn't say off the top of my head whether DOE is involved in eg identifying or certifying Title 1 schools for the program) www.fns.usda.gov/nslp

especially with Heather at the end

man, I hear you!

uh wait, they're against plain language??

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

this is always like "I designated my Austin house my primary residence for tax purposes because I'm mad - don't get me wrong, I'm still in SF all the time, staying at the house I own here, but I don't *live* here anymore" 🙄

My tee actually arrived this past Thursday, after I’d basically given up but hadn’t actually made a refund request. Great, but very confusing

riding in the way back, or even the back of a pickup, without any seat belts

werewolves were real. seriously, it was a whole thing. also we all wore astronaut helmets on astronaut day.

I thought a lot about this when my kid was in middle school & people would ask why she needed a cell phone - because she was taking public transit & *there was no longer a dense network of public phones with features like collect calling for emergencies*

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

that sounds scary as hell & also not weird for that time!

now THIS is some 1970s sh*t

I see a 252 pound tapir calf doing zoomies, I share a 252 pound tapir calf doing zoomies. Those are the rules.

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.