First time to Japan (in Okinawa), and so much about it is rad. The US could simply never sustain cloth curtains on a public bus.
Some fun shots from town today.
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mastodon 4.7.3VP of Vibes at a PR joint, but my career doesn’t define me.
Former journo for a site you might have read. Western Mass community evangelist, town representative. Star Trek defined my political consciousness, forever dreaming of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism.
Posts about phones, Android, tech, keebs, kayaking, my sweet-ass cabin, and my rad van. Occasionally 💩s on hateful conservative ideologies — unapologetically.
I turn my phone off on weekends and vacations.
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@grimalkina@mastodon.social I work in PR and this is my life, and I understand it isn't uncommon.
I think it's one of those "bravery isn't the absence of fear, it's just not letting it control you" things, except with your own self-cringe.
Spiritual sequel to Simac’s Mastodonia!
Fuck yeah.
Full disclosure: I am working on this account, and with my MS I’m intrinsically biased to think the subject is cool. But seeing some of the recent developments in accessibility like this has been heartening for me given everything else that’s going on.
Strutt ev¹ Wins Red Dot: Luminary 2025 | Innovation Meets Design Excellence
It is 2025 and somehow I still can't rely on a phone camera to reliably and consistently choose landscape vs portrait correctly. And, worse, the process to fix that before sharing a photo is still more than a single extra tap.
Thank god I have a bunch of Al features I'II never use, I guess?
Gotta pay the troll toll to hike behind the cottage.
I actually do use one, with a caveat. Every weekend that I can, I turn my smartphone off and switch to a dumbphone.
I’d do it full time, but my job wouldn’t be compatible with it. The joy of fully disconnecting is real, though.
Cooking is one of my favorite activities. I insist on cooking breakfast every single day, and I feel like I’m starting to get sort of adventurous with it.
Today’s is jalapenio, shiso, and onion rice porridge topped with fried bacon, sweet potato, and poached eggs, with sesame oil and ponzu.
There’s this combo Google Drive/project management system called Feishu (or Lark) that a lot of our clients use, and it’s the single most sociopathic, unintuitive, garbage UX I have ever experienced.
I hate everything about it and despise that it even exists.
If the AWS stays down for more than 15 minutes you are legally allowed to go home, it’s the law.
We’ve reached a point where new gadget is just a long con for a bunch of VC to turn something you come to depend on into something that makes your life worse for profit.
It really doesn’t have to be that way, but we never hold them accountable for it.
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@pb4000@infosec.exchange Also recommend putting some dunk-derived liquid from the can down the drains once in a while. They can hang out in your u-bend down there and come back over time from their hidden little colony.
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@pb4000@infosec.exchange Gonna sound weird, but: mosquito dunks in your watering can. Kills the early lifecycle gnats over time but not any other beneficial fungi/bacteria, harmless to pets. Smells funky though.
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@jbqueru SO many of the performance enthusiasts I’ve talked to shill hydrogen and I do not get it. Just worse in every way, from engineering and reliability to the very performance they claim to crave.
I wonder if the petrochemical companies that are promoting petroleum-derived hydrogen have just thrown around enough marketing money to conflate the arguments? I don’t get it.
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@Popehat I went to BU and this sounds absolutely like President Brown. Dude is consistently a douche and more concerned with increasing the margins on his business than the process or value of education, and a history of stifling speech that he disagrees with.
Really wish I had gone to a better school, as I had the opportunity.
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To be clear: the work they specifically did doesn’t yet have direct clinical applications as far as I know, but it’s guided other research that has, as science tends to do!
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@wander1236 I have heard really good things about their ODM partner there, though I am unsure how much Nothing participated in the engineering outside some industrial design or color choices.
My Western Massachusetts fellows: Dave Hayes (of The Weather Nut fame) just released his weather app. Finally, accurate weather for the Pioneer Valley area on your phone. iOS-only for now, though.
97% of my social networking is just DMs and group chats now. Much better vibe.