nwchapman

nwchapman, 4 months ago to random

My mum wants Dungeness crab - done simply. Any suggestions for delivery or a place with a good parklet?

nwchapman, 2 months ago to random

Okay so this is an insane deal on 3M Aura N95 masks

440 of them for $60 - 14 cents each. 90% off the normal price.

It's Amazon, so stipulated that sucks, but if you are still masking (or anticipating a new surge or a new airborne pandemic or a bad wildfire) this is probably too good a deal to pass up

#COVID

https://amzn.to/3vqyW5L

nwchapman, 1 month ago to random

Regarding the concerns raised about Overdrive/Libby and privacy/data sharing...

I contacted SFPL and received a reply which suggests there may not be an issue, or as much of an issue, as it at first appeared.

The response I received follows

#PublicLibrary

nwchapman, 1 month ago to random Spanish

Everyone says we need a “fully staffed police department.”

It’s a weasel statement. Political posturing. Empty. 1/?

#SFpol
https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/meet-the-candidates-all-2024-district-1-supervisor-answers/

nwchapman, 1 month ago to random

It’s a valid question

nwchapman, 1 month ago to random

This is shocking - particularly when you think back to when librarians were so excellent about resisting requests for lists of borrowed titles a decade or two ago.

This should be raised immediately - in very firm tones - with SF Public Library

Michael Lambert, City Librarian
(415) 557-4236
Email: citylibrarian@sfpl.org

I'm ceasing all use of their ebook systems immediately.

#PublicLibrary

https://infosec.exchange/@longobord/112243109399209904

nwchapman, 2 months ago to random

How about …

zero tolerance for

• climate crisis
• corporate crimes
• fascists and attempts at Christian nationalism

Strikes. Sit-ins. Protests. Maybe even…

nwchapman, 1 month ago to random

The cherryist VW van I have ever seen

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nwchapman, 5 months ago to random

Forgot I’d bought the iPhone puzzle game, Monument Valley. It’s really good

nwchapman, 4 months ago to random

Got the shingles vaccine yesterday- strongly recommended by my GP.

It. Is. Kicking. My ass.

But having watched both my parents suffer with really miserable shingles outbreaks, I’m grateful there’s a vaccine and I could get it easily and for free. (Kaiser)

This is the first vaccine in ages that’s wiped me out, but I was prepared for it - why I got it on a Friday. I’d seen plenty of people reporting that it hit them hard and my GP warned me as well.

nwchapman, 27 days ago to random

"Without surcharges, restaurants will have to raise prices or absorb the cost of higher wages and local mandates"

To be clear, what is required is that the part of the price of the meal that was buried in the surcharge, now has to be shifted to the price for the item on the menu. It's not raising prices, it's just changing how those prices are shown. But restaurants such as Pacific Height's Spruce don't want to do it and are making it sound like an attack on workers and consumers.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/junk-fees-restaurant-surcharges-19430871.php

nwchapman, 7 months ago to random

Why we can't have nice cities:

Here's someone who works at a downtown hotel: "I live in Dogpatch, and I usually drive to work."

It's two miles. 11 minutes by car. But 16 minutes by transit or by bicycle. And Google says it's a 48 minute walk, though it wouldn't take me that long.

Why do they drive to work? Probably because they get free parking at the hotel. And it saves them... 5 minutes

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-downtown-apec-food-delivery-parking-18450729.php

nwchapman, 7 days ago to climate

Scientists have warned of increased turbulence, particularly “clear air turbulence” which is harder to detect or forecast, as global heating warms air at higher altitudes and makes weather more unpredictable.

#ClimateCrisis https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/severe-turbulence-london-to-singapore-flight

nwchapman, 5 months ago to random

Today in WTF:

Modern technology foiled by... cargo pants

"TSA told SFGATE cargo pants tend to set off body scanning machines because the attire is somewhat out of style and the technology isn’t trained on scanning pants with extra pockets"

I wonder how they do with kilts?

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/tsa-sfo-holiday-travel-2023-tips-18552616.php

nwchapman, 1 month ago to architecture

‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe
#architecture
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/25/technical-university-of-braunschweig-study-centre-named-best-building-in-europe-dusing-hacke?CMP=share_btn_url

nwchapman, 2 months ago to random

In the last few weeks, people in cubicles adjacent to mine have been at work with unidentified coughs (colds, RSV, who knows?), and identified pneumonia and COVID.

And some wonder why I prefer to work from home, or why I have a HEPA filter on my desk and wear N95s when I’m there

Do I miss team lunches? Well, yes, but not enough to risk the health of the at-risk people I live with. If I’d thought about people routinely coming to work with serious contagious diseases previously, I would have been doing this stuff years ago.

https://toad.social/@KimPerales/112145542303525710

nwchapman, 2 months ago to ai

San Jose is training AI to spot homeless encampments

San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment

For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize tents and cars with people living inside in what experts believe is the first experiment of its kind in the United States.

#Homelessness #AI #DoYouKnowTheWayToNoWayJose

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detection

nwchapman, 2 months ago to random

I knocked my toasted cheese off the plate and reaching over to deal with that I spilled tomato soup in my lap.

So… I think maybe just go to bed now?

nwchapman, 7 days ago to random

I wonder if US Congress members do as much for EVERY OTHER AMERICAN WHO VIOLATES THE LAW IN ANOTHER COUNTRY

or if it is just for firearms, which the US seems to think are their God-given right and as vital as prescription meds to bring on holiday. Or something.
https://abc7news.com/post/tyler-wenrich-american-arrested-turks-caicos-pleads-guilty/14853425/

nwchapman, 4 months ago to random

This used to be a bookshop.

Every closed bookshop feels like a loss to me. Some more than others, of course - I still experience pangs of grief every time I think of Other Change of Hobbit or Black Oak.

nwchapman, 6 days ago to random

Those were the days

nwchapman, 3 days ago to random

“Tear White Supremacy a New One”

#RadicalGraffiti bus stop ad alteration in San Francisco

nwchapman, 3 days ago to random

On Google's monkeying around with search:

"Google controls the roads. If tomorrow they decide the roads won't go to an entire town, that town dies. It's too much power to just shrug and say, 'Oh well, it's just the free market.'"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

nwchapman, 5 days ago to random

Yes, it was a Boeing https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/united-boeing-737-diverted-19474460.php

nwchapman, 3 days ago to climate

Forecasters are predicting that 2024's hurricane season could be among the most active on record. To understand what a super hurricane season is like, we spoke to people who have already lived through one.

#ClimateCrisis https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240523-what-a-record-breaking-hurricane-season-looks-like