Source: CBC #news #novascotia
These women are travelling through rural N.S. fixing bikes and breaking stereotypes
Simone Mutabazi and her team are travelling across the province this summer fixing bicycles free of charge in rural areas where repair shops are hard to access.
@8bitpal I love this challenge! During the worst days of the crisis, when food was very limited and sourced almost exclusively from our farm and neighbors, it was amazing the things we'd come up with. We learned to prepare green bananas in what seemed like a thousand ways, and everything had yogurt or cottage cheese. Luckily there was usually lard and some kind of pork for flavor, eggs, and whatever came out of the kitchen garden. We never went hungry and have never been as healthy since.
Tired: Our business model needs a moat.
Wired: Our business model needs a trebuchet.
Inspired: Our business model needs a guillotine.
@johnmcquaid @pluralistic Looking at this with my lawyer hat on (I'm also a computer techie and Tesla owner): If a user modifies the embedded code in a vehicle the question of product liability gets extremely muddy.
Should a user change to "factory" code excuse all liability of the maker for flaws? If not, how do we find the boundaries of user vs manufacturer liability? (And are are arts of computer science up to the task of discerning a reasonable line?)
I agree that Tesla's user interface code sucks beyond belief. (I don't think the programmers even know how to drive or know about anything other than iPhone style interfaces.)
But on broad social concerns I would value having injured people have clear legal paths for redress above allowing a few to modify their vehicle code. It's a difficult balance.
BTW, my father, a TV repair guy, sued Sony in '80s over right to repair (and won).
Lewd Self Portrait
Day 23
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” ~ John Berger
#mollys365 #Nude #FemaleNude #Molly #Photography #SelfPortrait
I mean really?!? "They keep on shoving that gay shit down our throat"
Do you know how much media i watched with cishet relationships in abundance,and i still turned out queer?
But we're the ones that are shoving representation down people's throats? No. Instead,that representation is well overdue and fuck you if you think EVERYTHING should be Cishet
60 years ago. Prawo i pięść. The law and the fist.
Composed by a composer you've probably never heard of (unless you've heard Rosemary's Lullaby), but he was the best – Krzysztof Komeda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Komeda
Written by a poet you've probably never heard of, but she was the best – Agnieszka Osiecka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka_Osiecka
Sung by a singer you've probably never heard of, but he was the best – Edmund Fetting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Fetting
This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
Crab or chicken? Laetiporus sulphureus, unfortunately too old to eat.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.