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lwtong, to boston
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Taste of Dorchester
Thursday, April 25, 2024
6pm - 8pm
IBEW 103 Local Building
256 Freeport St
Boston, MA 02122

Unlimited samples of Dorchester-neighborhood restaurants for $40. Proceeds benefit a fantastic nonprofit assisting people to become homeowners.

Registration: https://mahahome.org/tasteofdorchester

lwtong, to boston
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Part-time job opportunity in Boston:

Public Art Ambassador for Now + There
Deadline April 19th (Fri)
https://www.nowandthere.org/public-art-ambassador-2024

lwtong, to boston
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Happy Boston 3/11 Day!

Reminder for Boston residents to download the Boston 311 app to report issues you want fixed in your neighborhood. Pothole reporting usually jumps up in the spring. But, you can also ask the city to address issues such as graffiti, uneven sidewalks, and syringes on the street.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.cityofboston.citizensconnect

Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bos-311/id330894558

Web: https://311.boston.gov

  • If this is your first time hearing of Boston 3/11 Day, it’s because I just made it up.

lwtong, to boston
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MA Senator Ed Markey celebrating the creation of the Boston Community Solar Cooperative (BCSC) becoming an actual cooperative in Dorchester.

BCSC is a ‘for-profit’ cooperative that aims to generate income for low-income residents (e.g., as a worker member). Their biggest challenge is identifying roofs for solar sites.

Learn how to be involved by signing up here:

https://bostoncommunitysolar.org/contact

molly0xfff, to random
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lol at the guy who was shocked when i asked for a consulting fee when he wanted me to give him feedback on his idea for a web3 project

it's apparently "ironic" to do so based on... my talk about how web3 is bullshit

lwtong,
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@molly0xfff Might be good to do a similar blurb @emilymbender does on her webpage to point people to who try to do that.

http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/contact/

molly0xfff, to random
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My Citation Needed newsletter is no longer on Substack!

https://citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/

lwtong,
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@molly0xfff The website looks much slicker (with not having to share brand space with Substack and other newsletters).

FYI:

  1. The Choose button looks inactive to me with it being a gray color.

  2. Sign-in link email confirmation does not work with Protonmail too if that helps with debugging.

lwtong, to random
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@davidpierce I know the @verge is just linking to another article. But, still surprised a large publication like Nikkei Asia (same owner as the Financial Times) made a mistake calling a mirrorless camera an “SLR”.

Guess the public has a hard time shaking off ‘professional camera’ = ‘SLR’.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/17/24005357/the-sony-alpha-9-iii-is-coming-in-february

nervous_jessica, to random
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This is the first necklace I ever designed: the Radiolaria Necklace. We still sell it today! The lasercut silicone rubber necklace has an intricate, geometric structure inspired by radiolaria
https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product.php?code=3

lwtong,
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@nervous_jessica @nervous_jesse Is that part of Gund Hall? I was lucky to get a tour of the student spaces from a friend who studied there. Loved the interior architecture execution.

lwtong, to boston
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Voter turnout in the 2021 Boston Municipal (“the Local”) Election.

Overall voter turnout in Boston was 33%.

  1. Lowest voter turnout by far was on college campuses (Boston University, Northeastern University) and the Longwood medical area.
  1. Boston Harbor Islands has 100% voter turnout because there was exactly one registered voter who voted.

Another heat map will be created when the 2023 local election results are available.

gruber, (edited ) to random
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iPad Safari users, where do you stand on this preference in Settings: Safari: Tabs?

lwtong,
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@gruber I want to use compact tabs on the iPad. But the horizontal tab width feels more claustrophobic with it enabled, and as you switch from landscape to vertical mode. Whereas the horizontal tab width is more generous with separate tabs; it also stays a fairly consistent width when switching from landscape to vertical.

It’s pretty obvious if you look at the Daring Fireball and Garmin tabs.

daringfireball, to random
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Downplaying the Fact That Apple Shot ‘Scary Fast’ With iPhones
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/10/31/downplaying-shot-on-iphone

lwtong, (edited )
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@gruber I think a pessimist view of Apple’s Scary Fast event is that its success isn’t as dependent on the iPhone’s camera as people make it seem…but that’s been true with standalone cameras for a while now, for many creative projects.

One of my favorite series was Kai Wong’s Cheap Camera Challenge. Philip Bloom took a better short video with a Barbie camera than I could with a $5K full-frame camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrOwLLAp6Wk&t=28s

lwtong, to animals
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Why hello there.

sdw, to random
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Took a big risk once: we gave our big v2.0 away for free to all Halide v1 users, hoping it’d make our users happy.

We also gave users 2 more years of updates on top of that —and made sure Halide aways kept working, with an optional paid upgrade for new features.

In return, we get these reviews. This stuff is so disheartening.

lwtong,
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@sdw I'm not a Halide user. But, I follow you guys because you're obviously passionate about your work, and work hard to push your business forward.

It's unfortunate when some in the community request a "lifetime" license, but automatically think that means free labor to keep it updated with each OS. @pixelmator got some slack with moving towards subscriptions as well. But, they were willing to offer a lifetime option knowing they will have to deal with this as well.

lwtong, to boston
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Roslindale Porchfest will start at 1 pm today through 6 pm!

Musical sets span covers of Nirvana and the Beatles to rap, a harpist and original songs.

Performers: https://roslindaleporchfest.org/performers-2023

Program Overview: https://roslindaleporchfest.org/s/RPF2023-Program-Sept-30-dlh8.pdf

lwtong, to boston
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For people looking for something fun to do in Boston today, Dorchester is closing a large section of Dot Ave for Open Streets during 10 am-3:30 pm.

https://www.boston.gov/calendar/open-streets-boston-dorchester

lwtong, to boston
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Deadline for Boston residents to request a mail-in ballot is 5 pm TONIGHT for the preliminary municipal/district/neighborhood election. It took me seconds to request one here:

https://www.sec.state.ma.us/MailInRequestWeb/MailInBallot.aspx

This narrows the field before the general municipal/district/neighborhood election on November 7.

Sept 12 (Tue) - Preliminary Election
Nov 7 (Tue) - General Election

Voter turnout in 2021 was as follows:
Preliminary: < 25%
General: < 33%

lwtong, to news
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How do people decide which news organizations/people to financially support? For example, I currently support the following:

Boston Globe - Local news
@damemagazine - Female editorial reporting
Financial Times - Financial/foreign coverage
@themarkup - Consumer data privacy
@ProPublica - In-depth investigative reporting
@TexasObserver - Southern editorial reporting
Washington Post - Broad domestic/foreign coverage

@molly0xfff - Tech briefings

lwtong, to news
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Our friends at the BBC (@BBCRD) are running a six-month experiment to test whether running own instance (social.bbc) on the fediverse is worth it. Please follow and boost the accounts they’re testing to show your support!

BBC News and Media:
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4

BBC R&D:
@BBCRD
@BBC_News_Labs

https://www.bbc.com/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Sheril, to science
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Today is my dissertation proposal defense. That means I'll give a public lecture about my research in front of my committee.

As some folks may know, I'm doing another round of grad school, mid-career, focused on scientific decision making in the U.S. Congress https://sheril.substack.com/p/a-dissertation-on-democracy

In terms of PhD-ing, this is kind of like the pregame. I passed my comprehensive exams last year & will officially defend my dissertation & finish this Fall. So here goes...

lwtong,
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@Sheril Good luck!

RuthZ, to boston

Come on , really? Heading to the Cambridge Jazz Festival and I really wanted to take the T. I really did. But when you see that the next train is 20+ minutes away and you know you’re then going to hit slow zones? And your GPS tells you it will take 35 minutes to drive and over an hour on the T? Then the T doesn’t seem like a great choice, and , we really have to deal with that.

lwtong,
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@RuthZ I wished the T showed the message “ETA: We don’t know” instead of “20+ min”. It gives the false impression they actually know when it would be better to be honest with people so they could explore other options like a Blue Bike/Lyft/Uber.

daringfireball, to random
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Shohei Ohtani Throws 1-Hit Complete-Game Shutout in Game 1 of a Doubleheader, Hits 2 Home Runs Game 2
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/07/28/ohtani

lwtong,
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@daringfireball Is there another sport where the phrase “once-in-a-generation talent” is actually an understatement to one of their players like Ohtani?

mekkaokereke, to nba
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🤯 25 for 27 in a 3 point contest? Mind blowing.

Sabrina Ionescu only missed 2 shots.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CfPsyMkLAdQ

lwtong,
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@mekkaokereke I thought the performance was probably better than most elite NBA 3 pt shooters. Turns out it was the best 3 pt All Star performance period.

mekkaokereke, to nba
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I know fans are all excited for Victor Wembanyama, but the surprise breakout of this year is going to be Kenny Lofton Jr.

He's going to continue to over-perform. And added bonus: he does extra well against the super tall super guards: Durant, Chet, Victor, Bol.

Kenny Lofton is not built like a basketball player, so folks have a hard time believing his stats are not just a continuous series of flukes. They are not a series of flukes. He's that good.

lwtong,
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@mekkaokereke Wikipedia backs you up.

seachanger, to random
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daily reminder that no one gets to tell you how to mastodon (or how to fedi)

lwtong,
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@seachanger @design_law It’s crazy what some people expect/tell others to do here. Especially after a person made a choice to follow the other person.

It’s like going to someone else’s house and telling the homeowner not to wear shoes in their own house.

Or going to a restaurant and telling the waiter to replace their water glass with another because there’s a Coke logo on it.

Sheril, to random
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In personal news, my incredibly talented producer Nicole Zaremba & I took home 2 regional Emmys for Serving Up Science last night!

I’m so grateful to the entire WKAR family. Our PBS series is only possible because - from camera work to editing, lighting to sound - they are truly an outstanding team. It’s an honor to work with every one of them to share stories about science.

lwtong,
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@Sheril Congrats!

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