my ideal relationship little house on the prairie, 2026

I wrote an update on the dispute with Ruby Central over Bundler and RubyGems. I'm sad it's reached this point, especially since Ruby Central's conferences are a big part of what convinced me to join the Ruby community back in the day. andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/rub…

guys can we please play the video game 😭 #ScoobyDoo

¯\_(ツ)_/¯@office-anomaly.bsky.social · 2y ago

[repost] FULL COMBO #ScoobyDoo #artph

LRT: learning to ride a bike as an adult was one of the most meaningful and life changing things to happen to me. i love bikes so much, and being able to ride one has made me enjoy life more. i love the feeling of freedom it gives me! i've had so many fun adventures on bikes

riding bikes is also vastly more pro social than driving a car. you pay so much more attention to the world around you and are so much better enmeshed in your community.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2w ago

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

i'm at siggraph for the next few days! anyone else i know attending?

a friend told me that i'm the most anti-ai person she knows and you know what? i'm very honored

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 2mo ago

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

just saw a truck drive over the barrier that was set up to prevent vehicles from being in the bike lane in order to park in the bike lane 🙃

so the thing about luddites is they recognized that sometimes technical innovations are used to consolidate power and exercise additional control over labor here's your new mechanical loom! great huh - but too expensive for YOU to own ofc. it'll be owned by some rich dude. BUT you can rent it! wow

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

one of my issues with trying to sleep early is that it's kind of like a meeting—when i have a meeting scheduled, i can't get anything done until after the meeting bc i feel sure that if i jumped into something i'd hyperfocus on the thing and lose track of time and then miss the meeting

most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.

Violence in Blue

‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’

granta.com

does anyone have recommendations for writing communities?

Encounter

1993

does anyone else get overstimulated by discord? i try to join communities and then just get overwhelmed.

over the past few days i've gotten so much value out of watching brandon sanderson's online lectures about his writing process

wow what an amazing episode of love island that was

lol even after being tired the whole day my brain comes to life at 1am 🙃

walked home from a dinner yesterday and love island was playing on someone's tv in one of the houses i walked past—and immediately felt kinship with them

was thinking that i don't feel much excitement once i finish designing a project, bc next is the manufacturing stage. that stage is so much back & forth & following up; it takes forever & feels like torture. then i remembered i have the following up disease. of course manufacturing is hard for me

had some fun and made a zine for manifesto jam

The Future is Possible! by sweetfish

manifesto for the NEW and the NOW

sweetfish.itch.io

my college reunion reminded me that college was when i had the most friends i've ever had. also, my various friend groups had lots of conflict. i miss that time a lot & it's also a reminder of how human interactions are complicated & messy. i think there's no avoiding mess when getting close to ppl

i'm in a few creative discords and one thing that i've noticed about community is that a lot of people are more interested in getting support than giving support people who post their art or writing hoping for comments/advice/feedback, but don't comment/give feedback to others

ao3 being one of the nicest websites to interact with right now (no ads, no infinite scroll, mostly nice commenters plus helpful moderation tools) is definitely contributing to writing fanfic being my current favorite creative outlet

went to my college reunion last week and felt relieved that all my friends who studied CS with me all hate LLMs and genAI as much as i do 😭

so fed up by how ads creep into every form of communication and make it nearly unusable for communication with other people—mail, phone calls, emails, texts, social media

trying an experiment—i'm not turning on my lights when it gets dark at night and trying to make myself get sleepy by natural light. i notice i get sleepy at a reasonable hour when i go camping or experience the sun setting outside.

And @strange.website nails the key point: it doesn’t matter if so-called AI “works.” What matters is that the value of your labor goes down, and workers are pushed further into precarity. Of course, what *really* matters is what we collectively decide to do about that. henry.codes/writing/it-d...

It doesn’t matter if it works

Ultimately, whether LLMs "work" as a technology or not doesn't matter. The widespread adoption and deployment should be regarded firstly as a threat to the labor force.

henry.codes

These are amazing. Come make postcards calling for an "A.i." moratorium for NYC schools this Wednesday in Prospect Park, friends! Bring your kids! Hang out with @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and @comixaction.com! And tell the mayor what you think about "A.i."! comixaction.com/2026/05/31/2...

2026-06-03 – Join the Comix Action contingent at the A.I. Moratorium coalition’s Postcard Party in Brooklyn! - Comix Action

Comix Action is sending a contingent to the A.I. Moratorium for NYC School’s Postcard Party in Prospect Park on Wednesday, June 3, at 4 pm! Come join us to hang out and write postcards to Mayor Mamdan...

comixaction.com

Craig Garrett@betatronic.bsky.social · 2mo ago