Fear: "superintelligent AI will replace me". Cruel dystopian reality: "a dumb one will suffice".

A sharply-defined wall of clean (AQI 0) air is sweeping through the Portland metro via Tualatin & Columbia River valleys, beating back AQI 150 - 160 #wildfire smoke-filled air that's been trapped in the area for the last few days. Slowly advancing block by block

De-HTML #intheparlanceofthetimes.

Starting to think that the only company that can save us from bad TVs (unwanted smart functionality, crazy spying, lack of firmware updates, etc) is Apple. There don't seem to be any scrupulous TV makers or non-dealbreaking TV models remaining.

Are you in the western US and living near slopes and woods? Concerned about fire? Watch this interview of Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) by Zeke Lunder (@wildland_zko). Gaining understanding is far better than living fearfully, especially with fire. Learn:

“collateralized banksy options”.

IMO the web is now aging our laptops faster than LiOn battery chemistry does. Present-day Ableton Live runs great on an elderly Macbook. A present-day web page does not.

Drought improvement in the Pacific Northwest Aug 31 2021 to Oct 5 2021 ( frames via: @DroughtCenter )

Reddit should present a more official search engine facade to the world. For a lot of research these days, I'm adding " to google searches because the rest of the net is basically borderline or outright fraudulent when it comes to a lot of queries.

I wish @zillow was a multiplayer co-op game I could play on my xbox.

(to yield a higher framerate).

RT @b0rk: questions about signals

Go O’rangers.

Asimov describing physical distancing between an earthman, a robot, and an offworld colonist (1956)

Looking for a super simple introduction to infection simulations, quadtrees, and visualizing data in React while gaining some intuition about the benefits of physical distancing? Head on over to @jherr's excellent video on building a DIY virus simulator:

I guess we’re gonna have a pretty good idea of who’s ready for a long long trip to Mars after this.

“that Vice documentary about the young people in of <faraway country> who do <authority-defying stunt> on their <scooters | motorcycles | soviet-era cars> and listen to <unexpected musical genre somehow involving/glorifying their vehicle>” is a fractal.

OH’d at #kubecon2018 (from an AWS rep): “you shouldn’t treat your k8s clusters as pets”. #thismetaphorisrecursive.

My two favorite technical pockets of twitter right now (that are unrelated to my own field) are 1) seismology 2) weather and climate.

Strava is a social network for the hunter gatherer layer of your brain.

RT @geek_dave: 🤩 I'm speaking at #GrafanaCon 2019! 🤩 . Explain it Like I’m Five - What I Learned Teaching @Grafana to My Son. He's already….