Hey #historysky or whatever, does anyone in New England have a useful resource on the Overseers of the Poor and "Removal of Paupers?" Digging through some old docs and I'd love some more detailed / in-depth reading.
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Old prospector-looking Millbury MA native. Dad, husband, writer/columnist, occasional public servant, chronic overstarter, music/book nerd, all-around pain in the butt. masstransparency.org / bramanvilletribune.com / ifitstooloud.com / jeff-raymond.com
A casual reminder that these systems can cost municipalities upwards of six figures.
NBC 10 WJAR, Providence New Bedford@nbc10wjar.bsky.social · 24h agoPolice reminded residents to secure furniture and other loads properly and to bring unwanted items and other materials to authorized disposal facilities. https://bit.ly/3SQMTWt
It is truly shocking how close to my experience w/LLMs are to this. I haven't touched an LLM in years in part because this was functionally my experience. Good to hear we're so close to Skynet or whatever...
Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · 2d agoi'm dead 💀 opusfived.dev
Also, Massachusetts is a two-party consent state so this shouldn’t even be LEGAL here
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2d agoWatching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.
I don't think people understand the level of true believer status people in the tech industry have. It's part of why I'm not looking to go back. No, Claude is not going superhuman, and no, we're not going to all die. But they *absolutely* believe it.
Tim Maughan@timmaughan.bsky.social · 2d agoi dunno about this new pokémon, ash seems like a real downer
An outstanding and very fair article about Kristian Campbell's strange arc and the pros and cons of Driveline. Well worth the deep dive.
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 4d agothis is a really interesting read, and in particular it's about the Future of Analytics in baseball, ~everyone agrees how games are won and which players did the things that win games so the new place to find an analytical edge is development, not valuation www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/pol...
This might be too big an ask for a Sunday morning at 9am but: Are there any blues songs about cops that are in the public domain?
➡️ The White House Arcade is gross and everyone involved in it should be summarily guillotined ➡️ But the poasters arguing it's trademark infringement are wrong IMO. There's zero likelihood of confusion in the market, and at least half of the Lapp factors favor the White House
Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 6d agoI have reached out to SEGA for comment about the White House using its brand and IP to promote ICE abuse of immigrants in its new video game arcade. I’ll report what I hear from SEGA. www.cartoonbrew.com/politics/whi...
5 SEPTEMBER 1776, PHILADELPHIA: “It is amazingly dear, nothing less than 40s. lawfull Money, a Pound”: John Adams is dismayed to learn the tea he sent as a surprise to Abigail was instead delivered to Sam Adams’s wife, and he tells Abigail to ask Elizabeth Adams for it back.
REI has the opportunity to do something really funny and ignore this for 17 months and then respond at 4:58 on a random Friday to say that the request is overly broad and production of the requested records will take an estimated 54 years or whatever.
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: The Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed REI (yes, the outdoor retailer) for details on anyone who bought a specific green beanie in the Minneapolis area. It's one part of a larger, and very disturbing, effort to go after people protesting ICE:
People keep telling me the chatbots are getting really good and then I open my inbox and it’s 30 messages like this
I've been semi-addicted to "Sell Me This Pen" for a few weeks now, looking forward to this.
Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio 🏳️⚧️@katrafiy.bsky.social · last wk.the new altamira album is so freaking good omg www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlwF...
Every few years, I realize that I’m talking to you guys like you’re normal people, but you don’t pronounce the extremely obvious distinctions between Mary, merry, and marry.
I remember when my hometown signed onto the class action, saw it as "free money." There was never a plan, because the "intended purpose" isn't really one that can credibly be addressed in a lot of these municipalities for the amounts offered. Doesn't excuse framing OUD as public safety, but...
CourtWatchMA@courtwatchma.bsky.social · last wk."[S]ix locations [] have used opioid settlement money to fund contracts with Peregrine Technologies, an AI-powered software platform that integrates law enforcement surveillance data from a variety of sources." Including Chicopee, MA! Pushed by the Hampden County Sheriff. #mapoli
My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.
The Independent@the-independent.com · last wk.ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outage
Not that he has much of a chance, but I'm genuinely curious as to how this particular SCOTUS would rule on his qualification, given that he was born in Canada.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last wk.Ted Cruz isn’t hiding his presidential ambitions—and he is taking some digs at the presumptive front-runner along the way. on.wsj.com/4cVwGGa
The Mary Poppins Collection, only on Disney Prime
The best film featuring a lowlife new york hustler character study in the vein of scorsese or elaine may that also has a ressurected stop-motion aztec dinosaur god in it
ULTRA🛸BLAST@ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 2w agoQ: The Winged Serpent (1982)
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
My genuine reaction to this is that seems kind of low for the moon landing
Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · last wk.The Lake Ontario name change is insanely unpopular: just 14 percent support it. By point of comparison, 14 percent of Americans also believe that the moon landing was fake.
I somehow knew 8. Two of them bc of my son, two as names with no understanding or context as to why.
dame@dame.is · 2w agoit’s that time of year again, Rolling Stone released their list of the top 25 content creators, which is actually a test of how old and out of touch you are… the lower your score, the more out of touch i’ve heard of 11 out of 25
Humanity fell into sin the moment eve ate the breadstick in the garden of olive