Doug Wade

If one were to take Jefferson’s position that we should write a new constitution every 19 years seriously, and decide that our most pressing need is to convene a constitutional convention to establish a more representative form of government, how would you go about doing that? Propose a […]

Personally, I would prefer if the Current did not win the #nwsl shield against my #reignfc tonight #woso

USL 2 is legitimately bananas because what do you mean the second place team doesn’t qualify for one of the 9 guaranteed USOC berths? I know that it’s hard to balance a league with 128 teams in it, but this does seem like a bit of an indication that something is not quite right with our USOC […]

thisisadomainformyseattlebasedmastodoninstance.com just doesn’t have the same sizzle as pdx.social though

From: @audiodude
https://sfba.social/@audiodude/115226739170663303

Quoot is pretty bad, but is it as bad as BlueSky’s skeet 🤔

From: @Fruan
https://kind.social/@Fruan/115219774480090854

All the cool kids are quoting

From: @FediTips
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115220480846307303

@zeyus @0xabad1dea I think you very much understand my conflict. My needs as a user, a contributor, and a maintainer are all very different, and when you are designing a registry, you have to choose to privilege one of those roles over the others when making design decisions. It’s easy to say […]

All I can think about is Bostrom’s ‘03 paper “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation” and trying real hard not to think about how that applies to artificial intelligence.

From: @tanepiper
https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/115218150597583677

@0xabad1dea I struggle with this take because I very much succeeded at contributing to foss in the js ecosystem due to the low barrier to entry for contributors and maintainers, but a low barrier to entry is not my top priority when choosing dependencies for serious projects. Rejecting npm very […]

@jef I thought, surely now that more established tech groups like Microsoft have control over npm, the security will surely get more rigorous, and yet…

You can even listen to me read! https://librivox.org/reader/19331?primary_key=19331&search_category=reader&search_page=1&search_form=get_results&search_order=alpha

I have a new project planned for this winter, continuing my work recording works by the women of radium age science fiction.

From […]

Miakoda (@hellomiakoda@pdx.social) Attached: 1 image @dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud @alice@lgbtqia.space I don't have those, nor the autism emoji.

mastodon.xyz has been good to me for many years, but seeing these custom thorns and timbers emoji made me yearn for an instance with sounders and reign emoji. Maybe it’s time to find an instance closer to home?

From: @hellomiakoda
https://pdx.social/@hellomiakoda/115210550357235933

So, heads up — it seems quote tooting has hit my instance. I quote a lot on other platforms, and I’m aware quoting has a fraught history in the fediverse, so if I ever quote anyone and it makes you feel uncomfortable, please let me know and I’ll try my best to make it right. And if any of y’all […]

I’m seriously considering heading down to lumen for this one, even though I wasn’t in the stadium on Sunday. I feel that NWSL got it right this time, when they haven’t always in the past, and I want them to know that fans will still show up when they prioritize the health and safety of the […]

@skinnylatte
If a Tan be moved away to New York,
San Francisco is the less
As well as if a promontory were.

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

Screenshot of The Guardian website. Headline: Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles.

Nope. Nothing I might add could improve this headline.

I work from home, and my boss wants me to run all of my slack messages, emails, code review comments, every written communication of any kind I have with any coworker, through ChatGPT to maximize clarity and friendliness, and it is the most alienating experience I can imagine a person can have.

Cascadia NOW

Photos of the corgis from the Howl-o-ween corgi parade here in #Seattle last weekend

NYT graph of productivity vs wages

never forget what Ronald Reagan did to this country

Got COVID while flying for work and it seems there are two camps

1) COVID isn’t real and can’t hurt you, shut up

2) This is your fault, what were you thinking, that’s irresponsible, during a never-ending global pandemic, you fool

Wish there was a third camp

3) COVID, which is a real thing […]

The task of a healthy publicly owned rail company is this:

To run as many trains as possible, within the financial constraints under which it operates

Note trains. It’s not “transport as many passengers as possible on the fewest number of trains”

That 5am train with a dozen building workers […]

@MissingThePt

“I" before "E" except after "C" and when sounding like "A" as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!!!!

- Brian Regan

DOUBLE DOINK GOLAZO!!!

#USWNT #FediFC

Sophia Smith with a chip deflected in AND off the post. #USWNT leads Germany 3-1 44’