Notices by Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs I brought watermelon to a neighborhood 4th of July block party, chatted with neighbors, and watched kids having fun in the blocked off street. I ran back home to refill the watermelon platter. Someone had put up flyers and I decided to get the watermelon, prepare it, and walk three blocks on the day.

@skinnylatte I rediscovered some mathematics education online activities that way when searching for "monte carlo methods". Some of them date from the 1990s!

I really miss the University of Minnesota Geometry Center but other sites still persist.

@skinnylatte @RnDanger Escape rooms at Mox are news to me!

There are Seattle (on Leary in the Ballard neighborhood) and Bellevue locations of Mox, of which Seattle's used to be the Card Kingdom storefront, rebranded to be less specific to MtG cards.

@skinnylatte OHAI waving from across town!

@thomasfuchs O Fortuna!

@thomasfuchs The little ones had a warren under discarded concrete bridge sections on the construction dump site east of Tucson. Pretty hard to dig out a warren from above.

The big jackrabbits I don't recall seeing when I lived in Tucson, but in the low flat ground next to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay.

Other Tucson wildlife: a tarantula on a stucco house wall in the Foothills; a transparent gecko clinging to our windowpane near the University of Arizona, a roadrunner by the Desert Museum, a dramatically colored black and yellow horse lubber grasshopper in the Smith's grocery parking lot, crickets in the house, a coyote behind the KFC, and cicadas, many cicadas.

@thomasfuchs Took me a while. Could have missed the bun-bun in real life if it just sat still.

We have wild cottontails roaming the streets and yards of Seattle, but they're a little less cautious and easier to spot.

@thomasfuchs I must say that "Hugging Face" gives me ALIEN vibes.

@thomasfuchs Financialization ate us for lunch.

@thomasfuchs ; DROP TABLE STUDENTS --

The guerrilla integrity testing that keeps on giving. Especially when control and data are fatally intermingled.

@skinnylatte Shiny happy people ringing bells!

And chalkboard painted art.

@inthehands Called to add my encouragement to Rep. Jayapal on this point.

You underline an important point: Even if your representative is likely to vote as you would wish, it's signal from constituents that the issue is important, you are paying attention, and the rep's actions matter to you.

@inthehands Online Encyclopedias, they're pretty good, many of them. Things that you would have to seek out via the Z section of LoC and get from interlibrary loan. Handwork techniques.

I still miss the University of Minnesota Geometry Center. If I had a code modernization budget, I might say "go make that work again".

@inthehands Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, "Founded in 1964" ! https://oeis.org/ 💙

@skinnylatte Ah, Rufo. Give that duck a milkshake.

I had vainly hopes that when we laughed him out of Seattle that we had heard the last of him.

16th/Mission in SF is a busy corner with a BART station whose entry plazas have a variety of people doing things and living lives different from mine, but I wouldn't hesitate to go there.

It's not a good world when there are people only hearing Rufo's account of a place.

@skinnylatte Would he be working on a time machine, or on deployable housing units?

I guess far enough out on BART or the Capitol Corridor, maybe a house trailer in Vacaville?

@thomasfuchs The Sanctuary movement for refugees was strong in Tucson when I lived there in the 1990s. I wonder about the continuity of attitudes and issues into the ICE era.

@thomasfuchs The Bat Signal!

@inthehands I love cases where fundamental computer science concepts get used to examine and compare choices, like how the design of ATProto (informed by Twitter, undoubtedly) compares to the design of ActivityPub federation for participants.

I imagine the Blacksky group (partly separate ATProto stack) has a very concrete feel for the comparison.

@skinnylatte @recursive Bellevue's downtown is very new, many high-rises in a tight cluster replacing a suburban town center. I like the bus transit center across from City Hall and the light rail station; I was a bus commuter for a year and a half.

But downtown seems under-designed, hotels and infocomtech office boxes and high-rise residential towers, with shrubbery maintained with gasoline powered landscape crews.

One of the residential towers, above a luxury store mall by City Hall, seems designed to appeal to Chinese speaking residents.