Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse
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You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
Charlie Loyd
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Hey friends, @beep's exceptionally good, concise primer on unionizing your tech workplace, You Deserve a Tech Union, is ALMOST HERE.
I've read it and it's *excellent* and of course Ethan's the best.
You can pre-order it here, and there's even a link to email the publisher if you need a pricing accommodation. https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union
Or there are lots of other ways to support the book: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/street-team/
@a_l I saw this post, lest you think I didn’t favorite it because I didn’t see it.
Charlie Loyd
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HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS got an amazing (starred!) review from Publisher's Weekly, with a really wonderful summary of the main themes of the book and concluding with:
"Written in a distinctive style that is both conversational and erudite, this is an accessible and enjoyable account. Readers will be engrossed. " [!!!]
Charlie Loyd
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2020: “It’s so beautiful to see the whole world united to prevent mass suffering and death.”
2021: “well maybe people don’t understand that the vaccines don’t block transmission but at least high vaccine uptake will reduce hospital load”
2022: “eventually the math will just work out that enough people will know someone personally with long covid that they’ll realize they need to act”
2023: “yeah there’s no upper limit to the amount of suffering and death people will tolerate.”
Charlie Loyd
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I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened
Charlie Loyd
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Watching the scramble to figure out if LK-99 is an Actual Thing™ is fun, but I'm hearing comments like "If it's real it'll mean high-speed trains everywhere!"
My dude, we could ALREADY have high-speed trains everywhere. The resistance in the wires isn't the thing that's blocking it from happening.
Big week for federal news, which means that as a person raised in Washington I have a continual headache from beaming powerful hate rays out of my forehead at people who refer to DC as Washington.
@midendian Ah good, trucks.
@midendian It’s very first-mover disadvantage stuff, right? But the saving grace is that if you can fly x/ton out of OAK or x minus a bit/ton out of SMF, it catches up reasonably quickly. (Redrafted because of confusing typo.)
@midendian I think the realistic best case is: force OAK to have high standards, thereby force SFO/SCJ/SMF standards to lower, then let the rising bar of public expectations catch them.
OAK, my local airport, wants to expand. I encourage other East Bay people to submit comments: https://www.oaklandairport.com/terminaldevelopment/
Here’s my draft (open to phrasing advice until I send it): https://gist.github.com/celoyd/e0d6fd9cd43d5b18517e8a62cea0f19f
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My FYP was pretty rancid so I reset it and it turns out it could have been much worse all along.
Is Allosyncarpia a eucalypt, the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
This is the third draft and I will never post it: https://gist.github.com/celoyd/2f32a5a7e177f9935e130e5cb5f82ad0
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@migurski No technically expired but still good tinned fish?
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@migurski Yep!
Charlie Loyd
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So one of my volunteer projects is preservation of a specific type of Malay textile, and the team is launching a suite of socmed accounts. I want to help set up and run a fedi account for them... Anyone has a good instance to rec on that theme? Or else I'll simply pick one. Probably either history or art or handicraft-related. (Too bad we don't quite have a generalist SEA one yet. XD) #fedihelp
@aredridel Jooiiin usssss!
- charlie@planet.parts
- work
- geographical pixels
- where
- Xučyun/Oakland, Ohlone land, western Laurentian accretions
- who
- him
You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
