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. #sfhistory
@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.
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?
@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
“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."
Interesting, Philippines dish that mostly involves deep frying pork bellies. Can't be the healthist dish. LOL. Apparently no veggies at the lunch counter. #fried#pork
Mainichi: "2 Japanese men die in river near Washington state waterfall made popular on TikTok"
"The beautiful but dangerous swimming hole along U.S. Route 2 has soared in popularity because of social media, Sky Valley Fire Chief Eric Andrews said. The falls, videos of which went viral on TikTok in 2020, have become a "hot spot" for drownings in recent years, he said. "
@ai6yr I remember hiking in Yosemite with a Back East friend who insisted on doing everything around the waterfalls they tell you not to do. I was like, if you had to write up the Monday sheriff’s blotter for the local paper, you wouldn’t be doing that stuff.
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:
@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.”👀👀👀
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). #birdsite#twitter (via @scruffy65)
@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.