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I just wish I got mistaken for @patricklindner instead. Volksmusik is better than Neoliberal Politics!

 

Everything I know about German Politics comes from mistaken rage mentions for @c_lindner

Sadly it appears that the centrists once again prefer fascists to leftists. Also see "The Iron Law of Institutions"

https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-afd-kingmakers-in-german-state-election/a-52268385

 

@TheCurrent @twinkiejiggles Would love to hear Mr. Blue Sky by ELO. The perfect sunshiney song. It's from Paul in Oakland remembering Julie tonight.

She originally requested it July 26, 2014 from @thewombatt

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrzxz5-dv4abR0FVHQEY92y7EcYuWwCDh

 

Thank you @BillDeVille for the heartfelt dedication of my request this morning on United States of on @TheCurrent

And thank you to Frank Randall of the Sycamores for this song and his kindness.

http://www.sycamores.com/lyrics/red-wing-boots/

 

Ya my flight just landed. What's up in MN?

https://twitter.com/pyry/status/816458480399880192

 

Spanner without arbitrary CHECK constraints is a sad thing...





 

Will be attending the DWeb SF Meetup tonight at @internetarchive Quite the lineup including @ara4n and @bluesky

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-sf-meet-up-january-tickets-88949818301

 

about Nightcore via @RadioK

I think it's the only way I'll want to hear 80s music from now on.

 

Converted my withknown instance from docker to podman. Replaced docker-compose with a pod. Upped Known version. Fedora 31 here I come...

 

@zshapiro @StarTribune @sfchronicle @PB_News Thanks Zack, many good memories of our time together at hi5.

Also that job meant we could afford a house in Oakland, which make Julie very, very happy.

 

@mkruz @jflindner Thank you, I was very fortunate to have someone that helped me find the beauty that exists in people and everyday objects.

 

@alexhanna @metavivor @BCAction Thank you, it's hard to express how much good she brought me and the people around her.

 

@metavivor @BCAction Check out Julie’s follow list if you want to get some of her style in your feed, including Dog, Design, Lit, or Minnesota Music Twitter.

https://t.co/8F40IeVzze

Thank you for bearing witness to Julie’s life, for the condolences and for honoring @jflindner's memory.

Paul & Gus. https://t.co/NKbYwc3CeZ

 

Instead of flowers Julie would want you to support your local live music or arts venue and the artists they serve. Donations should go to your local animal rescue group or metastatic breast cancer organizations like @METAvivor and @BCaction.

 

Julie is survived by her husband Paul, her parents Al and Yoma, her brother John and aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, friends and family too numerous to list but not forgotten.

DM me to learn more about celebrations of life in Mantorville and Minneapolis at @BryantLakeBowl

 

Julie always kept her connection to the Minnesota music scene and loved the new wave of conscious hip-hop personified by @doomtree, @yeahrightpos, and @dessadarling. To the end she never missed their live shows.

[and proudly wore gear] https://t.co/xFGJboLxkx

 

@BNPPARIBASOPEN Despite the side effects she managed to reunite multiple dogs with their owners, sponsored the @Milo_Foundation Horse Sanctuary, and made sure abused animals got the surgery they needed at @Friends4Lifeorg @nationalpyr and other rescue groups.

https://t.co/ePL8AKdds5

 

In 2015, Julie was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer. Through the treatments she focused on spending quality time with family and friends. She took trips to where she enjoyed the warm weather, modern design and tennis tournaments.

@BNPParibasOpen https://t.co/uqW0IntLjL

 

In 2008 Julie made the trip across the bay to a tranquil, midcentury-modern house in the Hills. She tastefully restored the house and filled it with her own unique, quirky, minimal style. Tommy, and then Gus, became fast friends with the deer, turkeys and neighbor cats. https://t.co/oZk35nR3vr

 

@MontreuxJazz @LeZooUsine Arriving in in 1999 Julie embraced the industrial live-work aesthetic at her new home in the Lighthouse Lofts. Her passion for local organic food and agriculture would find her at Farmers Markets and dining al-fresco with her adopted Great Pyrenees Tommy. https://t.co/6VMELAxgxx

 

The next few years Julie explored the world. Trips to Ecuador found her hiking the Andes and dancing on bartops. With cats stowed in carry-on she started life in Geneva, enjoying music festivals, @MontreuxJazz and modern design. Fondue, and shows at @LeZooUsine became the norm. https://t.co/E97WnkPwlc

 

After meeting at a @FirstAvenue New Band Showcase they could be found regularly at The Uptown, 7th St Entry, the 400 Bar and other venues sharing their passion for local music. In between shows Julie expertly restored their craftsman house in Southeast Minneapolis.

 

In 1992 she married Paul Lindner, having met on an email list devoted to “Grunge” music six months prior.

[ the full story about how Paul & Julie met on GRUNGE-L at https://t.co/nan2NE7ACc ] https://t.co/HiDN7FSTTH

 

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 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.

https://t.co/cseUfQ1ZB9

 

Here's my bittersweet 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..





 

Wow, the Rosenham work might have been fake...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03268-y





 

Time for "Managing within the Law" Bingo.

I hear that the course is better these days. Hope I can remove my M&Ms square.





 

 

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.





 

Do other people get random job seekers emailing them CVs and cover letters?





 

 

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 @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