Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 9

i know it didn’t come with the original helicoid but i figured for $100 (wayyyy less than the usual price), i could figure it out ?

i adore my travenar 90mm portrait lens and 135mm telephoto

https://u42.co/Lens-Design/M-TRAVENAR-MAKRO-TUBUS-A.Schacht-Ulm-2.8-50-R-Info/M-TRAVENAR-MAKRO-TUBUS-A.Schacht-Ulm-2.8-50-R.php

I truly and genuinely do not understand why people _ever_ thought Musk was competent. Where did this even come from??? Why did people like Gruber actually think he was good??? (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/10/27/musk-twitter-open-letter)

It seemed patently obvious years ago that he was a predatory, conniving, grasping acquisitive animal of a man. A completely incompetent drag on society as a whole. With nothing to his name to contribute back.

I mean, the guy literally blighted the sky and set back the entire field of astronomy. (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01420-9)

Why didn't his horrible practices at Tesla and SpaceX get noticed? (https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376)

Why didn't people hold his shitty cars to account? (https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-placed-bottom-consumer-reports-reliability-rankings/)

Why didn't the "full self-driving" bullshit raise an alarm? I mean, people DIED. (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/tesla-autopilot-crash-public-transit/)

I'm not even gonna get into his fucking Boring Company bullshit, his weird Grimes relationship, naming his children random collections of letters and numbers, the flagrant SEC violations and stock manipulation, and more than I can even think of.

Why did _Twitter_ of all things finally change public opinion? What the fuck???

When Elon was losing class action lawsuits for his blatant, egregious, and widespread racism against Black people, and Black folk were decrying his Alt-right antics and the harm that they cause, everyone was fine. Tesla drivers weren't all the devil. People still cheered SpaceX launches.

Now Elon's Alt-Right antics have come for a much wider circle. Now everyone that stays on Twitter is the devil, and an irredeemably bad person? ??

This one-way solidarity ain't it.

Oh, hey, learning a new computer language works better if I take my ADHD meds, I should try that tomorrow

it SNOWED.

#azwx #photography #tucson

This morning I woke up, got out of my AI bed, went into my AI kitchen, and made some AI tea using my AI kettle and drank it out of my AI mug. I looked out the AI window at the AI city, then used my AI phone to take an AI photo.

We need to treat immigrant workers better. While a rich foreigner can get permanent residence by investing $1.8M in a business, the rest of us have to live on a knife’s edge, beholden to a single employer for many years, until our number comes up, always ready to abandon the life we build in 60 days whenever the company decides to terminate our employment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/02/24/temporary-visa-h1b-tech-layoffs/

It's all based on really gross transphobic tropes.

A lot of people genuinely seem to think they have some sort of right to know if their coworkers or acquaintances are trans. That's absurd. They don't. It's a wild invasion of privacy.

So they push for policies that make it easier to clock us. It's a big old sexist attack.

So many people proudly taking the Sullivan “You’re just making stuff up” line in my responses. When this, below, is what’s happening across the U.S.
 
There is no plausible deniability for this level of willful ignorance or bigotry. You’re just telling the world who you are.

https://twitter.com/alliraine22/status/1623661865694814209?s=46&t=_53cm4rOvmKcHLu6st0Jpg

The Starlink Gen2 sats are apparently each 7m x 3m and 1250 kg, the size and almost the same weight as a Ford F-150, in case you were wondering.

But of course, this isn't actually public information that you can find officially anywhere, because private companies are awful, so I'm just gathering this from press releases.

it snowed today!

thomas woke me up ass-early so we could get out the door and to the national park (about 500 feet higher elevation) before it all melted.

#photography #tucson #snow