Steve Zissou @SteveZissou@social.cleverlibre.org

During my decade in tech I've quit twice. Both times due to incompatibility with new leadership ideas of how to "steer the ship". Both times over things dramatically more subtle than what's happening over at hellsite. Both times I ended up at better paying jobs where I felt happier and more fulfilled with what I do.
Tech is (still, even now, with all "the economy" stuff going on) a massively privileged sector where people, have pretty good options all the time.

#riptwitter

#30DayMapChallenge 19:Globe

This is what Topi meant by Globe, right? 😉

Helsinki, Finland. Data from https://kartta.hel.fi/, overlays © OpenStreetMap contributors, rendered in #rayshader #rstats

YOU CANNOT STOP ME

#30DayMapChallenge — A map without a computer

Middl Earthcadia

Hit up the @observablehq notebook for details.

https://observablehq.com/@hrbrmstr/2022-30-day-map-challenge-day-17-a-map-without-a-computer-midd

when you boost your own post, it's a "boast"

As long as the topic of image description has your attention, I'd like to try & reproduce on Mastodon something I & several other volunteers organized on Twitter. It’s 2 hashtags to assist with image description.

The first is #ALT4me — blind & visually impaired individuals can reply to an image that lacks ALT text with this tag, so that sighted volunteers can then reply with a description. The strength of crowdsourcing this is that each person adds unique details from their own perspective, that when combined, form a detailed & meaningful conception of the image. It also allows one person to give a quick triage description, & then others can fill in details as they see fit.

The 2nd is #ALT4you — if you come across an image that is particularly striking, or one that you believe will quickly become iconic & part of a shared visual imagery/memory, please describe that image & tag it with this tag. This is particularly important during unfolding news stories that quickly break & change, leaving behind indelible visual impressions, that then shape most peoples memory & consciousness of the event. Obviously, for the blind/VI, without a description, search images, no matter how important, remain perceptual and informational black holes.

Thank you all again for the outstanding image description I have encountered so consistently in my limited experience on Mastodon.

Figured I should explain this here in case folk are wondering why my finger is often in my photos - I have scale bars tattooed on my index fingers, the lines and dots are 5mm apart and they’re super useful for quick field photos 😅 Demonstrated here with some gorgeous crinoidal limestone from Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

tl;dr why all the crypto co's are long fucked, not just FTX:

all the crypto co's are broke because the dollars all left in May, and the co's now have to pretend these billions of dollars in illiquid cryptos are worth their book value, when they just aren't

Leaving Dublin is going to be weird. It's been the stage for my adult life, career, marriage and little family. Now the compulsion is to savour. Like taking a deep breath when you hug someone goodbye. The good takeaways, the pubs, the Botanics. The walk to the café.

There's a chance of panic. Why am I going somewhere that's not at the same level for these things which suddenly mean so much to me? And then you catch yourself. It wasn't 20 years of hugs, was it?

I logged into mastodon just now & the first post I saw was someone advocating for content warning tags over all self-promotion of books or writing. And just like, hell no.

One, writing is my job, & telling me to hide it feels terribly wrong. 1/

There have been efforts to archive a lot of social media material from the 00s and early 10s, but it has not had the kind of state funding and institutional backing that could create the kind of archival structure historians have relied on for centuries. That needs to change.

Paper style pixelart world map, i made for an asset pack.
#pixelart #art #MastoArt #gamedev

Debt for climate swaps in Latin America: green new future or load of hot air?

Forgiving debt in exchange for action on climate change is an increasingly popular political proposal, but can it move beyond discourse?

"Leaders often point out that what they are doing is what many Global North countries did decades or centuries ago to achieve their current prosperity."

https://piratewireservices.substack.com/p/debt-for-climate-swaps-in-latin-america

From another sense, this is false. The old organizations can't recognize who truly understands the issues, who has the skills to architect the next one. It devolves into internal political debates among genius engineers who want to build 2.0 "free of technical-debt".

From one sense, this is true. You can't design a perfect v1.0 from scratch. You truly don't understand the issues until you've built it the first time. Only after building the first one will you understand how you should've built it.

This is actually the unspoken engine that drives Silicon Valley. Big companies are always trying to build "next generation" products, but they usually end up building a next generation product from smaller companies.

Seaglass is such an accidental obsession, some years I’m more into it than others so kind of tide like with the passion. And out of that obsession a better understanding of the coastline, sea & history has emerged, accidental learning if you will. The glass in the images is locally found, admittedly the top end of seaglass free from chips and breaks. Anywhere from 30/40-200 years in age and maybe longer for the deep black glass.
#seaglass #cornwall

Mornin' everypeople...