Notices by soaproot (soaproot@sfba.social)

@jeridansky I haven't been following that redevelopment plan much, but I go over to the recently developed area on the other side of the Caltrain station from time to time (OK, to the beer garden there, let me be specific).

@jeridansky @BobHorowitz @TheEddieShow I've been watching the slow closure of the Westfield mall but nice to see there's at least some progress towards redeveloping it. I'm curious about a lot of things including whether the financing will come through (conversions to residential are very much not cheap).

@jeridansky Not shown: view of the ocean (or rather there would be if the fog were not in the way)

@jeridansky @teadrinker People are complicated and scientific knowledge about pathogens too small to see and immune cells also not directly observable is..... not something I'd expect everyone to get. Still, I can understand why you are a bit shook up by that conversation.

@essjax @jeridansky If Asia Minor is part of (some version of) Asia I suppose Arabia is too. But in the business world it is common to divide EMEA (Europe+Middle East+Africa) from AP (Asia Pacific).

@jeridansky No, I left Square 10 years ago, didn't mean to imply otherwise. But there is a strong sense of community among ex Squares.

@jeridansky On the plus side there are lots of people to talk to in the Square alumni group, in case you are wondering how I've been spending the last few days 🤪

@jeridansky You have more buses than Portola Valley (which I was trying to get to recently) although I'm sure more would be helpful.

@jeridansky Larry outlives yet one more.

@jeridansky @tc_morekindness Exactly! The whole newsletter boom is about handing control back to authors, so migrating from one host to another is very much built into the model (and/or should be).

@jeridansky It is a fine line to encourage alt text without being counterproductively scoldy about it. But I do value the alt text. Especially when I'm on a slow connection (like, most of the time out of the home/office) and I use it to decide whether to load the image.

@jeridansky Heh, yes I was sidestepping which newsletter platform to recommend. Not that any journalists are asking me, but if they were I would hope I'd gently steer them to the good ones.

@jeridansky Looks like in this case the request is "now looking for work, ideally in Kyiv." If any of these journalists are starting newsletters or podcasts or anything, we should help them spread the word.

@jeridansky That's actually pretty well done. People who know FAFO will chuckle and people who don't will start looking it up.

@jeridansky Every once in a while when I'm on Bluesky (checking, among other things, when I'll get my invite to move off the Bluesky PDS), I see a bunch of vaguely odd, uninteresting posts. I wonder what happened to my feed. Invariably it means I somehow ended up on the algorithmic feed and when I click "following" I'm back to normal (and it seems to mostly remember I want to be on that tab).

@jeridansky My blind friend has been using a whole bunch of technology for years and he was super excited about the current crop of computer vision systems. I think now he's a bit more aware that sometimes they are making stuff up, but I'm not sure that translates to wanting to go back to an earlier generation of computer vision systems which were much less colorful to interact with.

@jeridansky I could see that, I've blocked people for vaguely similar things (although what sets you off is, it seems, different from what sets me off).

@jeridansky I think some European government bodies are customers of the joinmastodon.org hosting.

@jeridansky I listened to PJ Vogt back in Reply All days and was somewhat loosely following some of the issues which blew up that podcast. Part of me thinks I should have a theory of his politics or business practices and whether they are good or evil, part of me doesn't feel a huge need to learn more about it or take some kind of side.

@jeridansky Oh I don't know, agreed with you about that particular message but on the thread overall I'm not too worried about his responses. I mean, sure, some of the things people are worried about could happen, but my "must protect the fediverse" immune system isn't being especially triggered by this. I suppose time will tell but I hope we don't run them off before much of anything has even happened.