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Sunday Open Thread: 1970s Walking Tour

This 1970s walking tour as aired by KCTS (Channel 9) and shows some of the sights of the Seattle from an era long since past.

Someone else is watching a comedy show on Netflix. Some shrill white dude pulling out ancient Political Correctness Gone Amuck material like it's a fine vintage and punching down like he wants the boss to think he's funny. #nobirb

At the City Hall in #Seattle tonight- engaging as a citizen.

We all know that Google (with Chrome-ium) has at least close to 90% of the browser marketshare on the internet.

Which is your primary browser on your computer?

Remember that Brave, Opera and Edge are Chromium derivatives. I consider Safari to be separate since it's Webkit and not Blink.

Retoot this to get more votes in.

#poll #browser #firefox #chromium

Ebikes are pretty nice. I worry about the battery material logistics chain, but if we can get off cars as a society... maybe we can deal with the batteries

Don't be disparaged by national and international politics. People are organising in your local area. Check out how to volunteer and help with schools, libraries, local food banks. The people there may not have the same politics as us, but think of yourself as a seed. Your actions can be used to help grow a radical, verdant garden in your community.

The Fascists infiltrated politics by playing a long con. We can play the long game too. Go and play the civic game. When you run into a wall or resistance, organise with your fellows about getting around it. If the organisation you are working with doesn't do something you want, talk to the folk working there. Someone will want to help. There are always people looking to help.

Speak your heart. Listen to others. Take care of yourself. We will get through this. We are the Ones we are waiting for.

PSA:

#CoryDoctorow from the same podcast:
"Mark Zuckerberg will tell you that there's no way to imagine a search engine or a social media tool that isn't spying on you and taking your information and trying to manipulate you, right? He'll tell you that some dude came off a mountain with two stone tablets saying 'stop rotating thine log files and start mining them for actionable market intelligence, right? That never happened."

Very excited that @purism has managed to keep their promise of a Q3 ship date. This is one small step for smart phones, and one giant leap for free and open source software!

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/

ShareNow corner cases

Earlier this month, ShareNow announced a tiered pricing model where drives that left a car outside an inner “Zone A” would incur a $4.95 surcharge, and drives that brought cars back into Zone A would receive a credit of “up to” $4.95. A spokesperson from ShareNow confirmed that the latter phrasing simply meant that the …

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Worked through How to Be an Anti Racist book.

His conclusion is that you need antiracist policies. Not persuasion. Not moral interest. Just a plain application of ensuring equity policies across the board without much focus on ideological differences. I simplify. But that's his take.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTGTijNgN6o

It is unfortunately possible that the 6.4 Oregon quake is a foreshock; not likely, but possible. #OregonQuake #Cascadia #Earthquake

PSA to all #Seattle area folks. There's a new local Mastodon instance at https://social.seattle.wa.us/. It's pretty empty by now, but I think it makes sense to populate it so it becomes useful, and we don't have to subscribe to local Facebook groups anymore :-)

Monorail proposal raises fares to offset ORCA transfers, passes

As Martin pointed out Thursday, the Seattle Center will be holding a hearing on Wednesday, September 11, and taking email comments through September 18, on a proposal to raise monorail fares as part of the rollout of accepting the ORCA card, along with interagency transfers and passes. The published proposal focuses on the fare increases. …

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@priryo Yeah, not that I particularly want to make calls in Slack (or use it at all, really), but this "hey, have you tried Chrome" attitude isn't endearing them to me either.

"Unfortunately, #Slack calls aren't available in this browser. We recommend downloading the Slack desktop app, or you can switch to Chrome."

Take a hike, Slack, #Firefox isn't some obscure web browser you couldn't possibly support.

News roundup: worthwhile Canadian initiative

Tacoma now has a TOD Advisory Group ($). Lindblom deep-dives on engineering of the Link I-90 crossing ($). Everett starts downtown parking study. SDOT rolls out their latest bikeshare report. SBB summary is here. ST discounts ($) for Bel-Red affordable housing developers. Times reporters bring you a streetcar FAQ ($). Metro fare on snow days …

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