“Denaturalization and Asylum in Interwar Europe” by #EdWalker https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/21/denaturalization-and-asylum-in-interwar-europe/

on the theory that the science of contemporary politics is maximally trolling the other side, i would point out that Hunter is not so old.

Biden ‘24

@admitsWrongIfProven it’s the imagined people shrieking at you that makes writing text so psychologically difficult, yes.

@scott the key is always when there’s a greenfield, near or far, find a way to build dense mixed-use. but that’s not what “the market” will do, for a variety of reasons, and SF’s municipal government has been reactive and risk-averse in destructive ways. (SOMA, such an opportunity, such miserable urbanism.) our problems in general are governance problems.

@exchgr often abusive ones...

@scott I'll disagree with you about de novo (although neighborhoods are as good as cities). i think you just don't get the scale of transformation that we need in any plausible (or desirable) infill only world. when tokyo was growing its fastest, it did it by "new towns". singapore does to this day.

i share skepticism abt the way they are planning. meritocratic professionals from afar are likely to do a flashy, bad job. (my #microcities linked in the followup explains my preferred approach.)

My sister #AdelleWaldman did an audio piece about her experience in part time retail. I can't claim, perhaps, to be entirely unbiased, but I think it's great. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/opinion/low-wage-workers.html

@Alon We'll see! (Or maybe we won't, they've generated some backlash the way they went about their plan, and there's a lot of well earned skepticism towards their investors. We will see in November if they can overcome that.)

@Alon At least the plan here is right: cars on the periphery, walkable and (very short line) transit in the interior. I think the jobs here are likely startups and remote. Given the location, there's not much of a risk of vacancies for lack of economic activity I think, if it is architecturally and socially attractive. Of course that's potentially a big if, but for better or for worse, the plutocratic buy-in probably helps.

@Alon are they dense?

@DocAtCDI three million files! https://github.com/search?q=fuck&type=code

as a psychological matter, writing software is so much easier than writing text.

the debunking of the op was itself an op, for which a counter-op is already underway.

which isolates a person more from the people immediately around them?

the people who are indifferent to your presence will be indifferent to your absence.

@NoraReed i think you should wash your hair of them.

"upper class people, broadly defined, do not simply get married. Rather, they get married to other upper class people. People like Wilcox, Kearney, and Douthat do not, in fact, marry the kinds of people they are imploring others to marry! The elites, in general, have made it very clear that they personally do not find these individuals to be marriageable." #MattBruenig https://mattbruenig.com/2024/02/21/brad-wilcoxs-wife/

In the US, the worst people are suing to get our new super-right-wing Supreme Court to declare the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional.

Finland has its worst people too, apparently. Something analogous is being tried. Hopefully Finland's strong and vigilant labor movement will ensure their worst people do not succeed.

See #TatuAhponen "Understanding Labor Unions in Finland" https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2024/02/21/understanding-labor-unions-in-finland/

if you have a dependency with version 0.0.3 and a new version 0.0.4 appears, do you consider it a patch version suitable for automatic or near automatic upgrade, or kind of a major version since it's a bump in the first non-zero digit?

if you use automated tools to keep dependencies current, how do they handle cases like this?