Tom Leo

Tom Leo

@tomleo.com

⠠⠵, Web Developer, ❤ FLOSS

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Looking at Claude Code summaries, it seems to favor British spelling of words? An interesting "behaviour"

Shout out to Jay Timmins for lobbying to rollback federal protections of 60-95% of US wetlands on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers!

I for one am sick of clean waters and healthy wild-life. Why do we need storm mitigation solutions that involve nature? Yuck! Also shout-out to the Supreme Court's decision on Sackett v. EPA!

"For years, [amazon] workers have been fighting for fair wages, safer working conditions, and sane schedules. Instead of working with them on a fair union contract, Jeff Bezos sent Katy Perry to space." -- thelaborforce.org 😂😂😂

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Idea: $1 yearly subscription for sites with user generated content. It would make bots semi-cost prohibitive and mitigate the need for sites to make the user an ad profile to sell.

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

This isn’t just about JavaScript. If Oracle can hold onto this trademark, what does that say about the trademark system as a whole?

Should corporations be able to warehouse trademarks indefinitely, even when they play no meaningful role in the things they claim to own? Even when they commit fraud to maintain them?

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Replying to @chriscoyier.net

Every single experience I've ever had with crypto has been bad. Who are we if we're not a product of our experiences? I simply cannot suffer it anymore. Show me provable, unequivocal, abundant good and I will slowly soften.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, ‘Well you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?’

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And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.”

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, ‘Well you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?’

And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is.