mazz

@mazz@mastodon.wellperns.com

Wellpern since 1993; retired journalist and educator 🪬"I'm not your crone. I'm not anybody's crone." -Ursula K. LeGuin Header: pica pole, column ruler, proportion wheel

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mazz, to baseball

All I can say is that Northwoods Radio has been a game changer in managing my occasional 3 a.m. hamster wheel brain. I don’t know who these guys are and maybe I don’t wanna know, but good job, them.
https://www.sleepbaseball.com/

mazz, to random

hello, I wrote my master’s thesis on you!

mazz,

that was several years after I learned how to search online databases using this machine.

mazz, to television

quotes no context

ai6yr, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Yes, yes, that's a GREAT idea, let's arm robot dogs with flame throwers! Great idea! (they are pitching this for prescribed fire burning for wildfire prevention and "snow and ice removal from driveways"... at least until they find a military buyer, I am sure). #robot #dogs #weapons #flamethrowers #dystopia https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/company-unveil-robot-dog-companion-with-flamethrower-attached/vi-AA1nvoEb

mazz,

@ai6yr Fine, but do I have a constitutional right to own one or do I need to be well-regulated first?

DavidGallagher, to random

Crissy Field, Jan 1964
I'm sure you know that before it was big grassy field and reclaimed marsh, Crissy Field was an airstrip in the Presidio. and yes, that's the decrepit original Palace of Fine Arts in the background.

mazz,

@DavidGallagher @luis_in_brief Lived in the city 1962-69, honestly do not remember ever seeing planes there! Of course, the Presidio was still a working military base at the time, so access was limited.

kissane, to random
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A few weeks back I encountered a FOSS guy here explaining that when he sees open source devs ask for money, he blocks them and then stops using their code because they're morally wrong and he only wants to work with tools made by people who are doing the work for the right reasons. (I'm paraphrasing to avoid indexing the post.)

I've resisted writing about it because I'm slammed, but the question I can't shake is: Who benefits from the ideology of "pure" volunteerism?

mazz,

@kissane Whew I remember attending a feminist consciousness raising session 50 years ago that featured a blistering analysis of whose work was supposed to be “volunteered” and whose wasn’t

ai6yr, to Insurance
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LA Times: Upscale Westside L.A. neighborhoods hit hard by State Farm home insurance cancellations https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-10/westside-l-a-hit-hard-as-state-farm-cancels-home-insurance

mazz,

@ai6yr State Farm is set to drop 30,000 home insurance policies in some California ZIP codes. This map reveals if you live in one of them. (Includes all of CA)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/ca-statefarm-nonrenewal-map/

ai6yr, to climate
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Forgot to tag the thousands of travelers stranded in Big Sur this weekend with

“We came here just to have lunch and go home, and now it’s like everyone is trapped here...The couple went to a general store and bought some emergency supplies: water, hot dogs and instant oatmeal."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/us/california-highway-1-collapse-stranded.html

mazz,

@ai6yr It’s beginning to feel like having a Highway 1 is a futile exercise.

18+ ai6yr, to random
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Interesting, Philippines dish that mostly involves deep frying pork bellies. Can't be the healthist dish. LOL. Apparently no veggies at the lunch counter.

mazz,

@ai6yr @cookiesinheaven Hey, ube is a vegetable! Also: pancit.

KarlBode, to random

I wrote about the Vice Media implosion and why I don't think the U.S. media industry is capable of being honest with itself as to why this keeps happening:

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/27/the-vice-media-collapse-was-entirely-the-fault-of-incompetent-fail-upward-brunchlords/

mazz,

@KarlBode “More broadly, there’s simply no financial incentive to fix or reform any of the underlying rot in an industry peppered by people who view journalism as a purely extractive profit-taking exercise. The kinds of folks that make $835,000 incompetently implementing a new hare-brained pivot every seven months in the pretense they’re helping very much like things the way they are.”👀👀👀

ai6yr, to random
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Is your boyfriend/girlfriend really apologizing, or are they just saying that?

mazz,

@ai6yr Would love to get “Babe, I know I messed up, I’m so sorry” from a utility company.

ai6yr, (edited ) to twitter
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Interesting, apparently that "other site" is blocking links to at least one academic website University of Bristol (UK). (not that anyone here should be surprised). (via @scruffy65)

mazz,

@ai6yr @Lazarou I’m mad about that, but given that my request for an iPad for the student newspaper was turned down by the IT department as “unsupported technology” — in 2010 — I imagine any requests to set up a Mastodon domain are still at the first level of department review.

mazz, to random

“If, as is widely speculated, officers secretly stopped making arrests to protest reforms and coerce public sentiment against ​‘liberal’ policies, that would be a criminal dereliction of the police duty and oath that demands disciplinary action.” https://www.cjcj.org/reports-publications/report/california-law-enforcement-agencies-are-spending-more-but-solving-fewer-crimes

ai6yr, to Health
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NY Times: Wildfire Smoke Will Worsen, New Study Shows, and Protections Are Few

Climate change is amplifying wildfires, and more smoke means higher risk of heart and lung disease from inhaling tiny particles that can drift far and wide, researchers said. (Gift Link) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/climate/wildfire-smoke-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU0.QyKX.B5qu6Y_cuj0D&smid=url-share

mazz,

@ai6yr …so I hope some of those N95 manufacturers stay in business.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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What's the most unhinged children's television show that you grew up watching?

mazz,

@BlackAzizAnansi My husband grew up watching an alien, a caveman and a marionette band together to fight evil across the universe, and I can’t top that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lEhYJdygMEQ

mazz, to random

Not sure whether to be outraged or impressed: Somebody stole the entire 200-foot broadcast tower for a licensed AM radio station in Alabama. @ai6yr
https://www.insideradio.com/free/an-entire-200-foot-tower-stolen-from-wjlx-am-jasper/article_2d4a5234-c470-11ee-8d1e-5fff768fd725.html

mazz,

@wollman @vees @ai6yr @mazz Seems very likely lol

mazz,

@wollman I am uncomfortable with assuming that, though. (Journalism habits die hard.) @vees @ai6yr

jnfr, to random
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From @\144pBangtan on twt. Less than 500 days! (that's too long)

mazz,

@jnfr Kang Tae-oh should be out in like a month, though

mazz,

@jnfr I love your pure heart

jeffjarvis, to random
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Jeesh. They want to blame The Algorithm for everything:
The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/16/the-tyranny-of-the-algorithm-why-every-coffee-shop-looks-the-same?CMP=share_btn_tw

mazz,

@futurebird @jeffjarvis How did fern bars become a thing before Instagram?

skinnylatte, to Oakland
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Haitian food at T’chaka in Oakland is delicious.

mazz,

@skinnylatte rice with djondjon?

glennf, to random
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I'm flying a week from Monday and I expect EVERYONE ON THE PLANE TO GODDAMN PAY ATTENTION TO THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS' SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

mazz,

@glennf please be an airbus please be an airbus please be an airbus

annaleen, to random
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I'm trying to find a good introductory essay/article (or video/pod) about government media regulation in the U.S. Something I could teach to undergraduates. Any ideas? Everything I've looked at is out of date.

mazz,

@annaleen If you can be more specific about what aspect of regulation (broadcast? 1stA?) I might have a pod or video recommendation.

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