John Chang

Winning elections and running a government are very different competencies. It's the rare case that people/parties are good at both. The common case is the former, because that's the fitness function of the system! How can we fix this?

Learn from my mistake: Always tick the "Dishwasher" filter on Airbnb.

Generations of wireless communication technology

Why aren't elevator floor buttons toggle buttons? Like if you accidentally push the wrong floor, you should be able to cancel it.

TIL "quite", which means "a lot" in US English, means "a bit" in UK English www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvWU...

I just signed a petition: Kill the Cookie Banner. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ki...

Sweden 🫶

My Bluesky data is now hosted in Europe. move.eurosky.tech Thank you, @eurosky.social

The Stockholm metro symbol is like "Ⓣ". One of the suburbs is Tensta, where there is a Tensta Gospel Choir. Here's their logo. Good job, designer!

First day of tennis training at Haga Tennis. Wish me luck! I feel out of shape, esp after eating lots of heavy Bavarian food.

Configured Bsky to be tolerable. Namely, I stopped relying on Following/Muting accounts & the built-in Feeds. Instead - made a List of friends (IRL) and pinned to top - turned on push notifs for a few friends - add muted words like "Trump" - made & pinned Lists for some topics - add foryou.club feed

Franconia has impressive (and affordable) food/bev options, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Like in the countryside, not even near a highway. My friend says these places get a lot of hikers, & they actually serve as hiking destinations. I knew Germans were big into hiking. Now I really get it!

Hello, Bluesky. I've decided to try to use this more, to post more thoughts and observations here and break them out of private conversation silos.

I'm in Germany. Upper Franconia, to be exact. It sure reminds me of Indiana (my home state) sometimes.

Sorry, AfS. We're not compatible. voltsverige.org/valkompass

🇸🇪 Welcome to Sweden, @audreyt.org! A few of us members of @voltsverige.org @volteuropa.org 💜🇪🇺 are super-excited to hear your talk about participatory democracy in #Gothenburg tomorrow! rightlivelihood.org/news/audrey-...

@gruber.foo Re "Aluminium OS: Google’s ‘Android for PC’ OS for Googlebooks", the bottom of that website says "This is an informational resource about Aluminium OS. Not officially affiliated with Google."

So purpose, abundance being the new ones. Looking forward to heading more about this from meaningalignment.org

🎉 Former President of the Republic of Estonia 🇪🇪 Toomas Hendrik Ilves joins Volt! 🎉 💜 Read our joint message: loom.ly/f1_LC3o @ilvestoomas.bsky.social @francescaromanadantuono.volteuropa.org @reiniervanlanschot.volteuropa.org

My email provider @fastmail.com added an API for AIs. Their approach: 👌❤️

So much to shun, so little time.

internet, AI, intelligent agents, neural networks, tablet computers, virtual reality… The 1990s are here!

Achievement unlocked. 6 countries, 43 hours of train/bus

"mail or fax this form to NeXT Technical Services"

This is fantastic. @trts.bsky.social revived an app I wrote 20 years ago and got it running on modern macOS. Impressive work!! Code sometimes lives a lot longer than you'd think.

"Only unpickle data you trust."

YT recommended this remake of the Civ 4 intro to me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Cb.... It was fun to compare it to the original. But it becomes clear that humanity has no better idea of The Future than escaping Earth and living in outer space.

Bret Victor: Instagram on every phone is like McDonald's on every street corner www.youtube.com/watch?v=PixP...

this was not obvious at all. posting for others. "You need an adult to buy this. / We can't send a request for this one, so you'll have to ask another way" Solution: go to account.microsoft.com/family/, the child's account > Spending, and temporarily turn off "Require approval for every purchase".

www.reddit.com/r/programmin... the top comment suggests EC2 was invented after Amazon bought a ton of HW to deal with non-performant microservices (lol), though the timeframe mentioned is Q3 2006, which is already when EC2 is announced. Hmm

@pontus.granstrom.me here's the thesis behind the (now defunct) Icelandic startup doing "graphical recipe" software: skemman.is/bitstream/19...

I just want to enter a date in 2029, but it won't let me type; I have to click. And the click target keeps moving. If & when you mess up, it resets to the current month. (Also in this locale, the first weekday should be Monday.) Why pay €€€ to build this, instead of using a native widget? Sigh.

Someday