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“Foster enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in his late teens and had to leave for bootcamp two months after his fiancé had all four of her limbs amputated…[he served] as a flight mechanic until he was 19, when he was discharged to be her full-time caretaker.” https://www.statesman.com/news/20200725/austin-protest-shooting-victim-remembered-for-devotion-to-fianceacute-racial-justice
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i don’t even know what to say. my heart breaks.
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RT @KitOConnell: A protester has been shot at 4th and Congress in #AustinTX at the #BlackLivesMatter protest. Bystanders report someone got…
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The work continues. #BlackLivesMatter
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I had planned to tweetstorm about some of the stuff I found back at the workshop yesterday, but it lent itself better to a blog post instead. new screens, old wings, some ideas that might get built and some that might not. https://www.patreon.com/posts/bits-and-bobs-on-39701128
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Replying to @sredfern
yay!! Also FYI, watch out for one typo on the printed BOM spreadsheet in the envelope; the 0.47Ω resistor is R12, not R5. Details here: https://hackaday.io/project/168761-the-open-book-feather/log/180886-bom-errata-read-this-if-you-ordered-a-pcb-on-tindie
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“The point of open source is not to ritualistically compile our stuff from source. It’s the awareness that technology is not magic: that there is a trail of breadcrumbs any of us could follow… to create and run our own essential tools and services.” https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5863
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Replying to @cesarasep and @JoseCastillo_2
Naw, off by just a few years (UT ‘06). Hook ‘em!
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Replying to @JoseCastillo_2 and @cesarasep
Ya I’m pretty sure I’m not headed back to the UT dorms this fall! but to answer your question, way back in the day when he was still just the senator from Illinois, Barack used to follow back :)
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Replying to @josecastillo
This is just insane. Like, I realize that we’ve gone through a lot in the last three and a half years, but can you imagine what would have happened if President Barack Obama ordered feds into Austin and bragged about tear-gassing Governor @GregAbbott_TX? This is a horror.
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This is the President of the United States bragging on television about his goons tear-gassing the Democratic mayor of an American city.
It is happening here. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1286477992672268289
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Oh and THIS IS RAD: Tindie wrote a blog post about the Open Book! Especially stoked that it includes a paragraph about GNU #Unifont, which was such a huge inspiration for the whole project. Anyway. taking orders again! Note there may be a slight shipping delay as I ramp back up. https://twitter.com/tindie/status/1286696491210420224
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Out of isolation today. The work continues.
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Replying to @TrentonEmory
If nothing else, I hope this gets more people to become aware of the 1619 Project. Much as I’d love to see our kids taught this curriculum, a lot of our grown-ups could use it too.
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Replying to @blasse2
These are dark days; most everyone I talk to feels it. some might say that America deserves what happens next, for its ignorance, for its arrogance over the years. the thing is, the people who are going to suffer the most are the ones who deserve it the least.
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READ THIS THREAD. Between this and the pandemic, it feels like we’re writing the last chapter for the United States of America. Sick and impoverished, fascism ascendant, fighting for our right not to get beaten and tear gassed between now and a vote (that they might just ignore). https://twitter.com/JesseDamiani/status/1286042286460002305
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Last night federal thugs fired tear gas at the mayor of an American city.
It. Is. Happening. Here. https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1286244652044021762
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Replying to @p01arst0rm and @ZxSpectROM
The silkscreen didn’t turn out quite as hoped for on this one, but I’ve been wanting to add this board to the repertoire as well. A simple Feather that explains itself.
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RT @M_uh_lee: Unmarked federal officials tear gassing protesters is NOT NORMAL. Tear gas is a dangerous chemical weapon banned for use in w…
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Heartbreaking thread from a doc in TX. It’s bad there. “It used to be jarring. Seeing one mechanically ventilated patient after another lying on their bellies, their faces turned away as if unwilling to form any connection that might remind them of how they once breathed freely.” https://twitter.com/TheRealDoctorT/status/1285621154330415105
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RT @ZxSpectROM: I have just got this new book to read. It’s going to take a while, but when I’ve finished, I can cover it with components,…
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Replying to @ZxSpectROM
Awesome!!! Also FYI, watch out for one typo on the printed BOM spreadsheet in the envelope; the 0.47Ω resistor is R12, not R5. https://hackaday.io/project/168761-the-open-book-feather/log/180886-bom-errata-read-this-if-you-ordered-a-pcb-on-tindie
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“In 2017, the idea of unidentified agents in camouflage snatching leftists off the streets without warrants might have seemed like a febrile Resistance fantasy. Now it’s happening.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/opinion/portland-protests-trump.html
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Don’t let a failure of imagination leave you caught off guard between now and January. Start preparing yourself now for this potential outcome, both in terms of basic emergency planning and personal mental preparedness.
People say it can’t happen here.
It is happening here. https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1285504723831971841
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Replying to @tomfleet
reminds me of this essay (which feels uncomfortably relevant right now). “Look at the sum total of your possessions and ask yourself: Which of these items would cause the most damage to a healthy, 180-pound opponent? Begin training with it immediately.” https://medium.com/@everywhereist/the-hot-decluttering-trend-for-2018-american-apocalypse-purging-9a342b1e598a
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RT @ByMikeBaker: The man in this Portland video is Christopher David.
A Navy veteran, he tells us he went to the protests for the first ti…
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Replying to @timonsku
I think for ordering more copies of old boards (the current conundrum) I’m going to leave it be and keep to the Main/Secondary terminology in the docs, at least until I see what other folks end up doing. probably revisit the terminology if/when it comes time to revise the board.
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Replying to @joshu
note that the demo links will ask for microphone access and send WebRTC audio to anyone else connected to the instance, so be warned. it’s a demo, not a product, but if we could hack our space together in a weekend, I sense that someone could build a real product with the tech :)
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Replying to @joshu
I’ve been using networked-aframe to hang out with friends. There’a a demo link on GitHub but it’s very TRON; our space is a little forest. Positional audio lets folks wander off for private conversations, but the din of a party prevails. It’s been a blast! https://github.com/networked-aframe/networked-aframe
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Replying to @josecastillo
I wouldn’t be so bothered except, it goes on a silkscreen; it’s permanent. in code you can refactor technical debt over time, but this object is going to exist. documentation will need to account for it. I feel I have to make the right change once so as not to have to do it again
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well now I’m unsure again. SDO/SDI seems to be consensus, but MOSI/MISO has clarity when there are both controllers and peripherals on a board. COPI/CIPO retains that clarity, but CIPO has issues in the Polish language. And some folks say to keep the terms as Main/Selected. Torn. https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1284103460607139841
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RT @Mikel_Jollett: I’m just trying to wrap my head around how privileged you have to be to think basic hygiene is tyranny but tyranny isn’t…
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“Government-funded thugs, assaulting citizens, still conjure up repellent images of Hitler’s Brownshirts stomping their fellow Germans, and the street kidnapping of civilians has been the hallmark of authoritarian dictatorships.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/trump-shock-troops-portland-doomed
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Replying to @ravikanodia and @OskSta
it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
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Replying to @OskSta
works great for me! gave me a chance to start my day by building a soothing little island town :) though I did get a crash when I tried to quit using Command+Q (which was fine, because I was quitting anyway). Attaching the crash report as well in case it helps. Love the game!
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today it all felt like too much. The loss of John Lewis. The secret police in Portland. The sickness, the death, the stupidity, the injustice, the fear. All of it. It feels as if the long summer has ended, and now comes the winter of our unraveling. this is only the beginning.
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Replying to @josecastillo
I’m really curious what GPT-3 would do with this prompt; I sense that somewhere in the abyssal depths of its mind, it’s ingested some of Cormac McCarthy’s writings. also this: https://yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com/post/15243208646/chipotle-mexican-grill
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Cormac describes modern ML: “You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”
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Replying to @songsteven2
I’ve only seen “The Road”, and the movie was good, but the book was just phenomenal. Required reading for our new reality.
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I don’t know why, but lately I’ve been craving a Cormac McCarthy novel. (I mean, I do know why; it’s existential dread at being alive to witness the slow death of the world we once knew, but, y’know.) Anyway. Can’t go out to buy a book, but checked our house bookshelves. Jackpot.
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Replying to @josecastillo
(and I know there are more radical folks who say the system wasn’t great to begin with, so we should let it fall and build a more just one in its place. to that I say: look at the guys with the guns. when America ends, they get to decide what comes next. you aren’t gonna like it)
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If you have not seen the videos, they are shocking. Unidentified officers clad in tactical uniforms, kidnapping protestors in unmarked vans to government buildings. This is the endgame. If this goes unchallenged we will see the fall of the U.S. constitutional order by year’s end. https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1284212771392036868
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I recently had the opportunity to share some thoughts on the Open Book on @Adafruit’s blog, and specifically to talk about some of the products and learn guides that inspired and informed what the Open Book would become. Check it out! https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/17/the-open-book-pcb-on-tindie-ebook-circuitpython-feather-samd51-tindie-josecastillo/
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Replying to @anne_engineer, @adafruit and @tindie
it’s weird if, I go in my usual browser window it’s there, but when I view it in incognito mode it’s 404. maybe to do with being logged in?
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Replying to @Benathon
probably the IDK/results option? I guess i didn’t feel the need to track it separately because I’m planning to change it on my board regardless; this poll is, ‘among those of you renaming things, which are you planning to use’
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Replying to @tomfleet
oof that is… not great. still I do sense that there’s more of an intentionality behind the master/slave nomenclature, a learned bias written into the spec that seldom got questioned. (which is not to say there isn’t misogyny in the field, just that I doubt it informed COPI/CIPO)
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Replying to @skl_
I tried that backronym in early documentation for one of my boards, but the language feels a bit imprecise, and the old terminology is likely to persist as long as the letters are still there. besides, I’m ordering some new boards, and it costs nothing to update the silkscreen :)
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Replacing MOSI/MISO in your designs:
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Replying to @jo3rw and @realDonaldTrump
It was some kind of nonsensical theatrics involving deregulation, the red truck unencumbered by a crane (subtly labeled “TRUMP ADMINISTRATION”) lifting the weight of federal regulatory burden. 138,000 Americans dead in a pandemic and this is how he spends his time.
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I need to watch the film again but wasn’t this an actual scene in Idiocracy? Monster trucks on the South Lawn while a hunger crisis ravaged the nation? https://twitter.com/dougmillsnyt/status/1283873155774386176
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