San Francisco has among the best transit in the country, yet it also has among the highest Uber rates in the country. Why and how do we fix that?

I'll take this over the Thomas the Tank Engine lesson that people have to be "useful" in order to have value.

Those Christians are trying to groom my kid into being a Christian by way of Veggie Tales.

Oh, well. It's fine.

@CodingItWrong Goats are eating the software!

@ilyess It is, at first. I was there when "Project Clementine" was undertaken to actually delete people's data. My guess is that this is happening during the window between when the user thinks it's deleted and its actually being deleted. I don't remember the actual timeframe, but it's set by law. The moral of the story is the sooner you delete your data the safer you'll be.

An Air Force vet who worked at Facebook is suing the company saying it accessed deleted user data and shared it with law enforcement
https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-facebook-staffer-airforce-vet-accessed-deleted-user-data-lawsuit-2022-7

@djsundog I think the challenge is that the bigger you are the less you have to pay other providers to connect, and at some point they start paying you. And Netflix puts servers in your POPs.

The bigger ISPs also get right of ways for free that you have to pay for.

So it's not complex; you're just locked in a completely different category forever with little hope of even breaking even much less earning an income.

It's because early digital audio was recorded on videotape at 3 samples per line. 245 lines per field in NTSC, 294 in PAL. 245x60x3 = 245x60x3 = 44100.

Well it looks like we're driving less, at least.

"In the U.S., the summer driving season has had a lackluster start as average gasoline prices hit $5 a gallon for the first time, the IEA added. Pointing to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, it said gasoline deliveries fell 2.7% from a year before in May."

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/federal-reserve-meeting-interest-rates-june-2022

We should really be asking why gas prices are still so damn low given that we're driving the planet over a climate cliff.

@mpjgregoire There's a good chance my friend would still be alive if he hadn't had a loaded gun lying around. It was a very spur-of-the-moment decision.

OTOH I suspect his brother also committed suicide, with a motorcycle.

And even though I said I didn't want to debate the correctness of voters' beliefs, here's the article that convinced me the data aren't clear cut. It's 10 years old now, so perhaps there's better science since then. I'm happy to look at more recent overviews; individual studies are very difficult to evaluate on their own.

https://boingboing.net/2012/12/14/what-science-says-about-gun-co.html

Oh, here's Gallup's poll data: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx

@mpjgregoire I had a close friend and a great uncle shoot themselves, but personally I find the suicide argument for gun control uncompelling. Better mental health care is a far better way to reduce the suicide rate. But of course the American relationship with mental health is similar to our relationship with guns, with a lot of overlap through our weird flavor of individualism.

@flowb Perhaps the answer is that everybody on the planet is entitled to an IPv6 /48 and the right to run servers with a minimum of 100MiB without any filtering and if you can’t provide that you don’t get to use any right-of-ways. And you’re not allowed to offer any services beyond IP connectivity. Which means probably municipal Internet for all.

@flowb The Internet also requires this, but there’s a lot less vertical integration with the Internet. That may point to a possible solution, but I don’t know what.

@flowb Cable and over-the-air TV and radio are much clearer enclosures of the commons. It’s obvious with radio spectrum but even with cable they’re using right-of-ways they had to be granted special access to by the government.

@flowb I think the drive to monetize attention comes largely from the enclosure of commons, which provides the opportunity to do that. Even if Facebook appears to have “built” the commons, the true commons is the interpersonal space that has moved there. Same is true of search engines. It seems like these should be public resources, though I have no idea how to implement that.

@flowb This is a major reason I’ve started using an RSS reader again. I’ve also subscribed to a bunch of publications. Putting thought even just into what I put in my RSS reader has helped a lot, though RSS doesn’t seem like a usable solution for the masses. News apps that are oriented toward subscriptions can be, though. Learning aggregators of free content definitely aren’t.

@flowb I think this does tend to be the result when the feedback loop is relatively tight, as it tends to be with ad-supported cable channels and social media. I think it’s less true with subscription media, because the loop is slower and I think people are much less willing to pay monthly or yearly for “quick fix” kind of stuff. I think once we slow down our higher faculties tend to kick in.