Always a friend of animals in need Julie rescued her beloved kittens Doc and Gordo, found Peach on her doorstep and adopted the elder angora Boz.
https://t.co/B64GcMAeU1 https://t.co/gHh9WUZAvP
Having landed in Minneapolis she immersed herself in the local art and music scene, lived in Uptown and followed the burgeoning careers of @Prince @TheReplacements and @TheSuburbsBand
https://t.co/1w4m48nTeJ https://t.co/44pGuPBNbM
In 1977 she graduated Kasson-Mantorville High School. She went on to explore her love of Russian Literature at @MNSUMankato, @UMNews and @StKate She was married to her first husband Sam Lucast and would turn heads in her distinctive Victorian garb. https://t.co/0r5xbHOUqI
Julie was born in Mantorville, Minnesota to Allen and Yoma Colburn. She enjoyed a childhood of reading books, climbing trees, rescuing bunnies, petting horses, and riding bikes. A natural explorer, you’d find her up north camping and on cross-country road trips. https://t.co/iP70lgpNKR
I want your hair
to cover me with maps
of new places,
so everywhere I go
will be as beautiful
as your hair
– Richard Brautigan
** thanks to @ianthe12 for use of "Map Shower" From "The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster".
A five year struggle with metastatic breast cancer took Julie’s life, and at first, all her hair. Undefeatable, it grew back more beautiful than before, just like one of her favorite poems:
Julie passed away Decemeber 12th, 2019 peacefully in her Oakland home. One of her favorite Sycamores songs was playing, softly. Her loving husband Paul and dog Gus were at her side.
My wife Julie passed away from #breastcancer last month. Today I published her obit in @StarTribune @SFChronicle @PB_News and at https://t.co/pH6ii9cwry
We knew right away that we completed each other and fell deeper in love for 27 years. She meant everything to me.
#thread https://t.co/cseUfQ1ZB9
Here's my bittersweet #workmusic for the week.
This https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrzxz5-dv4aaLEWS-y2WaCj-1BYt5k82N reproduces a mixtape from the early 80s. I took some liberty of substituting some live performances of the Suburbs; which is another only-on-Youtube thing...
What I need right now is a way to sort Google photos by image similarity. Appears that thumbnails and minor metadata updated versions were uploaded over the past years.
Or can you search by filename? Bunch of them begin with "thumb_"
Trying to plug a four year hole of missing data when my wife ragequit G+ in May 2016 after we hired moot of 4chan fame. Lots of 1:1 posts gone :(
Luckily she didn't downgrade Hangouts, so I still have those 28k messages between us.. (Many of which are "the gbus is running late, again")
We did migrate to Matrix.org that month and I do have all of that...
Is there something like this, but for hardware or software?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxFD-wxU4CoNb-gCM0-P9fjJchwUIfkep
Spent some time updating bugs/feature requests related to how we handle end-of-life.
The ability of Google to understand how to interact with death and dying is important as our userbase ages. Eventually we will have more deceased users than live ones.
I have suggested adding a date of birth/death to contacts and I think that should also be available for People&Pets albums that Photos generates.
If you are interested in doing something about this I would be happy to coordinate, as I have suffered a loss recently and would like to see our products handle these situations with more compassion..
A benefit for US Googlers I wasn't aware of until I was searching for advice internally:
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/us-benefits/family/care-com-services
Change isn't a sprint
Change isn't a marathon
Change is a relay race
-- Yancey Strickler, cofounder Kickstarter
https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-142-yancey-strickler-a-more-generous-world/
Good episode. And http://bentoism.org/ looks like an valuable framing tool..
In the interests of bringing you a G+ that's not gloom and pitchforks I present to you the 10 minute version of Devo and Neil Young performing Hey Hey, My My.
I saw this, so now you have to as well. Those are the rules.
https://youtu.be/Pv9ZGP1_JUo
Anyone worried about AI apocalypse stories should just point a nest camera at a TV and chuckle..
Time for "Managing within the Law" Bingo.
I hear that the course is better these days. Hope I can remove my M&Ms square.
Much of this reminds of the HP and Compaq merger...
https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-investigation-indonesia-lion-air-ethiopian-air...
Algedonic Meters? Real time citizen feedback? For Chilean people? Looks like Cyberfolk 2019!
https://twitter.com/cesifoti/status/1188143056878538753
Title: Quantum Supremacy, An Outsider's Perspective
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11MGmTiCSBKDF0l-UxSwaxVctex5SaRkz/view
This was a good overview of the recent quantum news.
Did you know your hard disk is descended from a streetcar? Learn how in "Solid State: Minnesota's High Tech History". Also includes Cray, the Oregon Trail and yes, Internet Gopher.
https://www.tpt.org/solid-state/video/solid-state-minnesotas-high-tech-history-35848/
via @tpt
Apple: Introducing Dark Mode for iOS 13
Android: Try our new Dark Theme in Android Q
PG&E
Expect outages of my #indieweb @withknown host 1500wordmtu.com due to @PGE4Me power cuts.
My low-power home server, solar panels, and batteries are pretty solid. ISPs? Not so sure....
https://gilligan.fandom.com/wiki/Electric_Generator
So looks like PG&E will be draining my home metro because their infrastructure causes wildfires.
Looks like my fridge draws 100 to 160W. My solar system has a backup outlet with up to 1500W so maybe I can work out a battery system before tomorrow
This is wild...
Individuals are therefore defined in terms of ongoing, bounded information processing units rather than lists of static features or conventional replication-based definitions which tend to fail in the case of cultural change.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269338907_The_Information_Theory_of_Individuality
Chrome GPU process is taking up 3GB of memory on Mac, even up to 8GB once. Help!
I tried looking for a way to report this and found some stale things on crbug. Anyone know how to address this?
I know about chrome://gpuclean but that doesn't do much. chrome://gpu doesn't show anything actionable afaik.
10 Years ago today: Sundar tells you why SideWiki is cool.
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html
10 Years ago today: Sundar Pichai tells you why SideWiki is cool.
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html
@sundarpichai
Like the fish that cannot see the water...There are times when the only way to perceive the system from within it - - is when it cracks. The fissures and fractures are coming fast now. -- Nora Bateson
Whoa... Cheap q-bits would be a huge game changer...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02781-4
This is the good stuff
Many AI ethics talking points aren’t specific to AI. They’re about technology in general and they’re nothing new.
https://medium.com/@kozyrkov/forget-the-robots-heres-how-ai-will-get-you-b674c28d6a34
Android Q disabled the http://Last.fm m App on upgrade until I launched it and confirmed permissions.
Lost a couple days scrobbling :(
BRB gotta finish rebinging the Plasmatics back catalog...
Ruha Benjamin presented this 1957 robot future by SuperGirl creator Otto Binder today. Prescient and horrifying at the same time and brings to mind Graeber's take on flying cars.
@ruha9 @davidgraeber
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/youll-own-slaves-by-1965/
Somewhat amazed that 'Carbon Copy' (Cc) lives on in the email vernacular given that most people have never had to deal with the physical version...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_copy
So has anyone made a poster with Udi Manbar's "It's our problem" statement?
It was one of the more inspiring things I had seen when I was watching old TFIFs (when we could do that..)
See the attached Noogler training deck and consider how things have changed today. (Also a reminder of go/gthink and the insight reports on https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/gthink/g/resources/analyst-insights-reports)
if users can't spell, it's our problem
if they don't know how to form the query, it's our problem
if they don't know what words to use, it's our problem
if they can't speak the language, it’s our problem
if there is not enough content on the web,
it’s our problem
if the web is too slow, it’s our problem
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZBLK7WfoLHRveZs8FiSlMvgVlkKWNKDhiEgi2Ocy4W8/edit#slide=id.i1...
tfw you get music recs from your VP.
Also, let's never let Google become ITT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jptR_YwCs3o
The latest by the always excellent Cassie Kozyrkov
#datadriven
https://towardsdatascience.com/your-dataset-is-a-giant-inkblot-test-b9bf4c53eec5
It's the 6502 source for Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set. (Released a while back, but new to me..) How far we've come....
Oh and MAKE1 MAKE2 and MAKE3 is your blaze build. Here's MAKE1:
CALL -151
3F2:69 FF 5A
BLOAD GPAK.OBJ,A300
BLOAD CDRAW.O,A480
BLOAD PCSA800.PIC,AB00
BLOAD DLIST.O,A910
BLOAD SWAP.O,D2,AA00
BLOAD TST.O,D1,AB00
BLOAD GOATARI.O,D2,AB45
BLOAD BOOT.O,D2,AE00
BLOAD BOOT2.O,AE80
BLOAD ZAP1.O,AF00
BLOAD DOWNLOAD.O,D1,A00
https://github.com/billbudge/PCS_Atari800
Bluetooth MAC randomization is not enough anymore... Prepare to implant a heartbeat randomizing defibrillator if you want privacy out-and-about....
https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/07/05/the-pentagons-new-heartbeat-detection-lase...
Small world. Bumped into @micropixie today in the Mission. A reminder to support your local artists and musicians. Also do check out "Dark Sight of the Moon" which is vg
https://micropixie.bandcamp.com/
Totally unconventional company...
[but we have a long way to go before we match Yahoo, Verizon and Oracle with sports sponsorships...]
https://tokyo2020.org/en/news/sponsor/20190627-01.html
Is a 3GB+ GPU Process on Chrome Stable normal these days?
Is there a way to debug that?
At least there's chrome://gpuclean/ now -- before I was just killing off the GPU Process by hand....
Logging into Dreamhost after a few years.
Yep, it's time to fix another hacked Wordpress blog for a friend...
Curious if Google's housing efforts won't have unintended side effects. Especially given the Prop 13 continues to be a limit-to-growth.
Maybe some of the 4514$ we give to non profits can be used to repeal Prop 13.
Also would be curious if Google will put property into a land trust, and if they intend to lobby for things that will systemically fix the underlying issue like a land-value tax.