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stewf, 17 days ago to random

I’m a slow reader. One reason is that interesting articles or books will spark a thought that relates to my life and I’ll start thinking about that while my eyes continue to follow the text until I snap out of it and I realize I haven’t really read the last five sentences. Does this happen to anyone else?

stewf, 17 days ago to cars

It’s not only that some Americans prefer bigger cars, our government incentivizes them. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution

#Cars

LibrarianRA, 18 days ago to cars

1967 Plymouth Sport Suburban ad
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#Cars #carsofmastodon #Automotive #advertisement #retro #Vintage #Plymouth #Suburban #StationWagon

stewf, 18 days ago to random

At @letterformarchive I’m always wishing to share the many bits of object info our staff knows (or wonders about), but the public never gets to see.

Then comes @thisisaaronland of SFO Museum, who just posted a talk on using “tools in conjunction with ideas like an on-going curatorial file meant for public consumption, as a way demonstrate proof of life in our collections and to allow the public to engage with them on playing fields they recognize and understand.” https://aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf

#GLAM

stewf, 25 days ago to Oakland

Just voted in my local community council board election for candidates who advocate for more housing and inclusion, rather than those who push to maintain the exclusive status quo. The RCPC (https://rockridge.org) is one of the oldest neighborhood orgs in the country and has more sway with local governments than most. #Rockridge #RCPC #SFBA #Oakland

stewf, 1 month ago to Oakland

Very interesting @theoaklandside article by Jose Fermoso about plans to remove I-980. The highway split downtown Oakland and displaced Black communities to serve White suburban residents, just like many other ill-advised highways in the 1960s.
https://oaklandside.org/2024/04/10/remove-oakland-freeway-i-980-racial-injustice-gentrification-community/

#SFBA #Oakland #Oaklandside #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning

stewf, 1 month ago to GraphicDesign

I am thrilled to open the position of Curatorial Intern at @letterformarchive! This person will work with me to document new acquisitions and donations, research our collections, and write about them for our website.

https://letterformarchive.org/news/job-announcement-curatorial-intern/

Please share freely! (Though be aware this is not a remote position.)

#Internship #GraphicDesign #SFBA #SFBayArea #LetterformArchive #GraphicDesign #Typography

stewf, 1 month ago to random

Re: my last IG post. https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-creator-economy-trap-why-building-on-someone-elses-platform-is-a-dead-end

stewf, 2 months ago to random

It’s my 20th year on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/people/stewf/. Used it every one of those years and still love it. It’s also Flickr’s 20th birthday. @laureola and I are celebrating tomorrow with a photo walk: https://www.flickr.com/groups/sfflickrmeetup/discuss/72157721920127320/

#Flickr

stewf, 2 months ago to random

The more bummed I feel about the many ways corporate social networks trap us in their silos, the more grateful I am that we built @FontsInUse as a website, and invested in open protocols – HTML, RSS, and now ActivityPub.

When I see another bright young talent building their thing on a corp’s platform (IG) I want to shake ’em and say, “You will regret this later!” I get it, that’s where the eyes are (right now), but it’s not worth handing the keys to your future over to Meta. Put it on the web!

Luke, 3 months ago to random

Set this up again on a new machine because it's so annoying as a default in VS Code:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEFWw4ZOIfs

Closing this ang going back to Nova.

internetarchive, 4 months ago to random

Steamboat Willie in 4k, digitized from 16mm film: https://archive.org/details/steamboat-willie-16mm-film-scan-4k-lossless

In this scene from Steamboat Willie, a goat eats the sheet music for Turkey in the Straw and Mickey & Minnie Mouse turn the goat into a music player.

ivory, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Ivory v1.8.1 is now available (tap the link to update right away):

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

• Completely revamped polls (including multiple choice polls)
• New “Mono” accent color
• New option in Settings to turn off haptics feedback
• Can now copy more text from a user’s profile (by holding down on their display name, username, or bio)
• Various bug fixes

Do you like the poll improvements?

stewf, 4 months ago to random

My most poignant @letterformarchive visit in 2023:

The wise and warm Saki Mafundikwa told a story about studying at Yale under Paul Rand and Bradbury Thompson. The main difference? When students presented their work to Rand, he would regularly make them cry with harsh critiques. (He was particularly cruel to women.) When students presented in Thompson’s class, it was Thompson who cried, being moved by their effort. The experience informed Saki as to what kind of teacher and man he wanted to be.

stewf, 4 months ago to mastodon

Not only is @kissane a biting and insightful writer, I admire how well she articulates her values while still inviting us to consider our own, even if they may differ. She is both tough and empathetic, and worth reading whenever a controversial issue is on the table. This piece is a great example: https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

And these two bits exemplify what I mean:

#Mastodon #Threads

glennf, 4 months ago to random

Do your children or goods inheritors a huge favor. Recycle, shred, and otherwise sort all your old paperwork. My mother-in-law, rest her soul, retained seemingly every piece of paper across 50+ years of her personal and professional life. I can see why: most of it was useful for a few months to even a decade later. But then 100% pointless for her or anyone else. There's a huge effort to go in and process that…so she didn't. Now her children have put in ~100s of hours in processing it.

glennf, 5 months ago to random

I need some simple copyright permission and licensing agreements drafted/reviewed (I have a draft of both but would consider a standard form). I've been unable to find someone through referrals. Anyone have a paralegal (if that falls into their area) or copyright attorney who is affordable and could do that work? I need a permissions document (very simple) for libraries to be authorized to scan in-copyright work and a simple license to reproduce materials in my book.

Luke, 5 months ago to random

I have so many questions.

The percent chose stats are equally befuddling.

#WouldYouRather

https://wouldurather.io/?id=413

stewf, 5 months ago to random

A scene in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument: animatronics, AI, or actuality?

#BighornSheep #SouthernUtah #GrandStaircaseEscalante

Video panning slowly by a sandstone wall. On a ridge are two Bighorn Sheep. The male, with its massive horns, poses on a pedestal and turns its head as the camera passes.

stewf, 6 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

As Mastodon has no algorithm, there is no machine pushing posts into your feed. You only see posts from accounts you don’t follow if they are “boosted” (reposted) by those you do follow. This setup is great for users – you see all your chosen peeps in a chronological timeline – but it’s obviously limiting for creators who want to spread their stuff far and wide. So, despite my pref for Mast over all networks, I assumed there is almost no potential to “go viral” here. …
#Algorithms #SocialMedia

stewf, 1 year ago to Birds

Returning to an old birdsite tradition: the latest visitors to our bird bath.

Here’s this morning’s Steller’s Jay. (These crested beauties are sometimes misidentified by nonbirdnerds as Blue Jays, but those have white stripes in their head and they don’t usually appear west of the Rockies.)

#BirdBathCam #Birds #Birding #EastBayBirds #SFBABirds

An American Robin sized blue bird with a black crest perched at the side of a wagon filled with water, drinking several times by dipping its bill and then lifting its head back.