CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@thisismissem of course! thanks for everything you do – you deserve so much better than that BS.

It is appalling to see people conflate "pay me for my work because I must survive" with "selling out."

That attitude is too common on fedi, one of the more problematic inheritances from the early days of FOSS.

There is no virtue in suffering. And relying solely on volunteer labor is a demand that people suffer, or that contributors only be people of privilege.

Relatedly, @thisismissem is one of the most valuable contributors to fedi and she deserves our support: https://support.thisismissem.social/

@ramsey @jrbe That makes sense to me! My other half is giving a talk touching on that at North Bay Python this year — though he centers on frameworks, wherein there isn't going to be a big corpus because the idea is to craft just a few per language. SDKs strike me as similar in that way, perhaps even more rarefied.

Not the kind of thing an LLM lends itself to, even if it was ethically sound and grounded in humanity.

I'll be glad when we get to the real table flipping moment with all this!

@ramsey @jrbe Oooft. I'm gonna have to sit with that one for a bit. It does make me wonder. Open source _has_ always been a hack on broken and corrupted intellectual property laws... Reimagining it entirely starting with James' question feels proper.

. o O (It feels like we're entering a nexus of change as many systems we've relied on buckle under the weight of unsustainable things, including greed. I wonder what kind of world we'll usher in next. Anything feels possible, good or bad...)

It also didn't hurt that I was with some of my favorite people 🥰

The vibes were immaculate at today's Bay FC home opener against Denver Summit.

Didn't hurt that Bay won!

#NWSL #BayFC #SFBA

If we elect Joanna Paun in Sonoma County District 2, and Melanie Bagby in District 4, we will:

- turn the current corrupt majority vote on the Board of Supervisors into a minority
- have 4 women on a board long dominated by men who are sellouts

You in? https://ElectJoannaPaun.com and https://MelanieBagby.com

#SonomaCounty #Petaluma #Cotati #RohnertPark #Cloverdale #Geyserville #Healdsburg #Windsor #Larkfield #SantaRosa #SFBA

The first sighting of a California condor egg in Northern California in over 100 years 🤩

"Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of 26 condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022 have recently paired up, established a nest high in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-condor-21951147.php/ via @sfchronicle

#SFBA #California #Conservation #EndangeredSpecies #Birds

I almost forgot that H5N1 is still out there evolving. Doesn't help that our CDC has been eviscerated and is led by people who want more people to die.

Never too late to resume wearing a mask regularly, or to start the habit for the first time!

"7 elephant seal pups at a state park in the Bay Area have tested positive for highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, marking the first confirmed cases in marine mammals in California." via @sfchronicle

Client Challenge

(www.sfchronicle.com)

#H5N1 #PublicHealth #SFBA