ladies, is your programming
- a field dominated by rich white men
- driven by fashion trends
- practiced as a demonstration of status
- funded by vanity projects for failsons
- filled with queers trying and failing to break even
that's art, sorry
I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive
Like, people who have become suddenly individually wealthy have always been running their mouths in ways the rest of us find horrifying about the ways they have to core out their humanity in order to achieve their standing, and we've been making fun of it since pre-Dickens.)
Dont forget my loves, these ghouls must spend their every moment living in fear and activation in order to maintain sufficient momentum, the richest men in the world must spend all their time and money to maintain this stranglehold, and still power is constantly slipping from their grasp
I wish I'd gotten it done earlier, but #undeadformatweek is the perfect excuse to finally get the billows pried of this old Kodak Monitor Six-16. The lens looks and works great and the rest of the camera is functional, but nothing about it is light tight right now.
Join us for The Past/Present/Future of TARC, a panel discussion about the complexities of Louisville's public transit. We'll cover a range of perspectives & topics showing obstacles & opportunities for world-class transit in our city & why funding TARC matters! ALL ARE WELCOME!
The thing is trying to use my car less and bike more has made the suburbs basically repellent to me. I declined an invite to Korean barbecue the other day because that seemed better than dealing with Hurstbourne Lane!
But we need more than wolf containment. We need a reclaimation of the essential humanity of education. Empathy, kindess, curiosity, people at education conferences roll their eyes at this. The terminally online roll their eyes too.
And that is exactly why we can win this fight.
6th Street and Park Ave. Louisville, KY. 1922. The 6th street line paralleled the 4th street line and eventually carried travelers to Iroquois Park via Churchill Downs and Taylor Blvd. This corner is in Old Louisville, on the corner of Central Park.
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The corner is largely unchanged today, save for some minor curb alterations. Central Park is still a beautiful neighborhood gathering place. Immediately behind the camera in this view is the Witches' Tree, a gnarled neighbor where small offerings and local myths can be found.
We're kinda in a reverse Monsters Inc situation where the initial web 2.0 pitch was that you'd share silly little jokes (pics of cats that would like to haz cheezburgers or whatever), but then it turned out that scaring people was 100 times more powerful, so in the end we switched to that.
Okay so now that journalism has been well and truly dead for a decade, what are folks getting up to in order to meaningfully and substantively inform the public, hold power to account, and safeguard the sort of diverse, well-rounded civil public conversation that reproduces society?
"why doesn't this tech journo know about programming languages" unfortunately, my dear brothers in christ, a tech journalist is just a business journalist who knows the hot keys for copy and paste
the job is to talk about consumer products, stocks, and mergers not hash tables and sort algorithms
A Louisville and New Albany streetcar rounding the corner at 3rd and Liberty. Louisville, KY. 1920. The main interurban terminal would have been just around the corner-- this train was carrying a load of commuters from New Albany into Downtown Louisville.
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A Louisville and New Albany streetcar rounding the corner at 3rd and Liberty. Louisville, KY. 1920. The main interurban terminal would have been just around the corner-- this train was carrying a load of commuters from New Albany into Downtown Louisville.
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Today this corner features a lot less density, a lot more parking, and the same clock, which was restored around 2014. I love the drama and scale of the original image! This commuter line was the last electric commuter train the city would see, with service ending December 31st, 1945.
Fun fact: The parcel that the Omni sits on today was supposed to be a grand unified terminal for all of Louisville's streetcars and interurbans, containing offices and retail space in addition. The great depression caused financing to fall through.
A Louisville-bound streetcar from New Albany, damaged in a crash, on the bridge approach. Louisville, KY. 1921. Streetcars on the K&I Bridge shared tracks with various heavy rail operations, and the train control systems of the time meant accidents were not uncommon.
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The K&I Contained Gauntlet tracks in various configurations over the years. Different companies controlling the line used either standard gauge or 5ft gauge streetcars, depending on the era. Eventually, the Louisville Railway Co. would take over the line.
Public autos were welcomed on the bridge until an accident in 1979. There have been various grassroots efforts to revive these into bike+ped lanes, but the railroad is extremely resistant. CN ran specials over the street-running section of this line as late as the early 2000s.
On deep level these people are just rejecting society itself. They do not want to participate. They do not care how society has benefitted and continues to benefit them. They don't care what happens to anyway else.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
the trans people in sports debate is actually very exemplary here because on one side you have all the arguments and on the other side you have cis people who feel like men must be superior because god created them that way
Octopus is the easiest thing to cut out of your diet on moral grounds because it’s basically never around, probably has dreams and emotions and tastes like a tire.
Parkway Field, Brook St and Eastern Parkway, Louisville, KY. 1926. Home to Louisville's Minor League, Negro League, and College teams for second quarter of the 20th century. Highest attendance was over 18,000, shuttled in and out by the Louisville Railway Company.
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The site is part of UofL's campus today. The grandstand was torn down in 1961, although it was still used by UofL as a baseball field until the late 90s, with unmaintained pitchers mound and dugout vestiges left until the early 2000s. Today, part of the site is a new engineering building.
I think a lot about the billions of dollars that are poured into making the average person hate trans people, and how so many liberals will look you dead in the eye, and insist that they can't do anything until you get out there and "win hearts and minds."