Notices by Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)

@onepict My main reason for not protesting Dorsey is that he’s mostly small fry. I would not do him the honor of protesting him and pretending he matters that much.

@onepict I’m deeply curious what the hell they were thinking.

@skinnylatte I’m in the south side of the Mission, so just a mile and a half to the SOMA Costco. Easy cargo bike ride. (I don’t really Prime all that much anyway, though I suppose that’s famous last words 😂)

@skinnylatte Yeah I’ve been wondering if it is finally time to do a Costco membership to replace Prime.

@skinnylatte Also it turns out that when you don’t hire pharmacists it is hard to sell pharmaceuticals; sun rises in East; etc.

Signed, guy who finally switched to Amazon Pharmacy for everything that’s not burningly time sensitive because waiting for hours in a Walgreens aisle is unappealing

@ocdtrekkie @cwebber @eloquence And that has failed at all to attract or retain any of the normies from the other half of the list? Much love for mastodon but half of us don’t know who the celebs on this list are and the other half will attack you for even caring who a celeb is.

Great Sunday morning long read for SFans: @sfpublicpress.bsky.social on radiation experiments at Hunter’s Point. This is a return to what SFPP does best, and does uniquely: historically-informed deep dives that are neglected because not “news”.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/exposed/

@kingrat Limited, right? That’s where social.coop currently is.

This is essentially my take on Threads. I am glad that social.coop is having a coop-y discussion and vote about this (check your email, instance members!) but if it results in complete defederation I’ll probably finally move to sfba.social.
From: @adam
https://social.lol/@adam/113810663343513922

I don’t think you can do this for Facebook, but I grabbed all my Twitter interactions and sorted the list to find out who I’d interacted with most. And then emailed one of them a day for weeks. It was great.
From: @vkc
https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/113805847867961551

@scott So how do we get her off the fascist site and onto sfba.social or at least Bluesky (non-trolly question, genuinely)

(And don’t always agree with her, as you know, but so obviously correct on this issue)

yo @mozillaofficial (and moz friends) what… is this?
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113771882893603942

@glyph @aeva why do the magic spells not work

I was promised they were magical

@simon genuinely inspires me—his method of learning is creative, persistent, and dedicated to sharing. His LLM year in review is a great example of talking about a burgeoning field in a thoughtful, low-hype, high-value way.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/

@ntnsndr I guess it can’t hurt to poke @Markoff and see if he suggests further reading on the topic :) I wish I had his book to hand, but in a situation that would have blown the minds of many of his protagonists I am typing this on a pocket supercomputer while 30,000 feet in the air…

@ntnsndr @JMarkOckerbloom there’s an underexplored thread in Markoff’s What The Dormouse Said about a very early split in computing about wanting users to learn command line “vocabularies” of commands, and simplification/ease of use (not necessarily dumbing down). I assume there’s a deeper literature about that, and how emacs (and excel?) became outliers (with maybe modern IDEs as sophisticated bridges between the two worlds?)

@ntnsndr @JMarkOckerbloom also modern tools tend to make UX decisions early on that inevitably make extensions second-class, because the most easily accessible features get first-class-“space” in the UX (biggest buttons, shortest commands etc.) which demotes extensions to less-good interfaces. Emacs predates that so all extensions are first-class (which means none are).

@ntnsndr @JMarkOckerbloom I wonder to what extent that’s inevitable once you build popular general purpose extensibility into a tool that reads and writes (eg as compared Mozilla, very extensible but not very good at writing, mostly optimized for reading).

@jwz obviously like other great San Francisco techno-cultural institutions EFF and Wikipedia, you need a @craignewmark memorial toilet

@mekkaokereke but then pretty soon you get into the hard core stuff. Adding fruits, nuts, fancy jams, pretty soon you’re looking at waffle makers.

And then your kids start joining you at the waffle maker 🥰