Wikipedia, and the entire Wikimedia movement, has been a democratic, anti-authoritarian experiment since the day of its inception.

It's a project that matters, something I've been proud to have made a career of.

I spent my 20 years at the Wikimedia Foundation trying to further that experiment on a professional basis, and I have never been prouder of my former colleagues at WMF than I have been these past few months as we've been making @wwu a reality.

You should organize your workplace too.

Q: How does a capacitor work in Soviet Russia?
A: Dielectrical Materialism.

it's especially funny seeing the "aren't you worried about getting left behind?" argument about AI, speaking as a retrotech person.

Like, come on. I'm still writing software for DOS and Windows 95. What even is "behind" at this point?

I may be annoyed by how unnecessarily JS-centric a lot of news sites are, but on the plus side most of them serve up their content on initial load and *delete* it with JS if it’s paywalled so reader mode accidentally bypasses a ton of paywalls these days

🇧🇴 This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment.

Each town and village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades.

This is part of the general strike against Bolivia's neoliberalist government, now entering its third week.

#Bolivia #Strike

oh man, I just ran for a full kilometre / six minutes, and it wasn't even hard. I often begin the morning walk with a short sprint, but this time I just kept going and covered half the route without stopping running

we're actually getting fitter, god

If your webpage renders like this without JS, you should be permabanned from building webpages.

I'm sick of hearing how LLMs are warping projects & people I care about. Here's what I want to hear about instead.

You want to create something amazing, that'll reach & last? You need help. Build a team culture of respect, humor, genuine affection, curiosity, patience, sympathy, delight. Build a place where good people want to do the best work of their lives. Help them grow, help them leave.

It's not the commits. It is not the *fucking* *tools*.

It. Is. The. People.

Help the people.

Well there's your problem.
This chip has a pimple outbreak. 😅

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Someone on bluesky said they're "beginning to suspect" I'm "on the right wing pipeline" because I hate Gabe Newell and his armada of megayachts. If you're wondering how the start of my day is going

God I fucking hate bluesky

i am here to announce we have reached 100% memory safety by ceasing to produce memory at all

the danger is to the taste buds.
the flavor is still there in your time as it was in ours.
we considered ourselves powerful chefs.

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