Notices by RX-69 🍕 Gundam (rrix@cybre.space)

Northwest Tea Festival is this weekend

https://www.nwteafestival.com/2019-festival-program

#tea #seattle

Don't forget to vote http://seattlechannel.org/port-of-seattle-commissioner-position-2-
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There is a #tea festival in #Seattle on September 29/30 and it looks mad fun. Let’s go.

:eyes_happy: http://www.nwteafestival.com/

The program looks legit as heck. Brewing technique workshops, artisan tea tastings, tea growing workshops, bunch of vendors... 15$ entrance fee and some work shops cost more or have limited capacity, but even just the door fee includes plenty of opportunities to taste nice things and learn cool things and a tasting cup to boot.

It's fucked up that the web is just okay with propping up google's hegemony over the web and allowing google to abuse the web's labor with reCAPTCHA.

In the past you could say that there was a true cultural benefit as it was scanning books and old newsprint prior to Google acquiring the company behind the tech and quickly abusing it to train their self driving car models.

Implemented CW filters as an advice function in the mastodon.el client since I hate that not a single client can do this.

Okay this "query language" for #emacs org-mode entries looks very dope https://github.com/alphapapa/org-agenda-ng

The GPL wasn't written for the developers installing code from npms or githubs.

It was for the user whose printer drivers didn't work with their new OS.

It was for the user who discovers a bug in a system they rely on every day to out bread on the table.

It was for the user whose needs extend beyond "does it work" to include "will this keep me from being hurt?"

Free software exists to give voice and medium to people who otherwise wouldn't have it. We'd be wise to remember that, since it cuts both ways.

This tech is still so extremely cool to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO#Display

The OLPC-XO 1.0 had a specialized LCD display which could act in a 200dpi e-paper like monochrome mode if you turned off the backlight, or it could use a crazy diffraction grating with the backlight to provide one color per pixel to work as a color display. I so very wish that this had caught on more, especially with modern LCD/plastics tech. Color mode wouldn't be very sharp, but you could use it in bright sunlight.

@djsundog @HTHR :litthink:

if there's one thing I've learned from being a part of the fediverse this year is that those spaces can exist, in spite of the rest of the world.

love each other and continue to build loving communities. fight back against anyone who stops you from building those spaces.

May your 2018 be characterized by radical empathy and a simultaneous expulsion of everything toxic or harmful to your communities from their spaces.

dis my shit http://spacetalin.tumblr.com/post/142088213069 https://cybre.space/media/XGy2ptuJE4FtM6-vXpE

@iliana @awg @mangeurdenuage

Or when its done implicitly by third parties outside of our control like in the case of credit reporting ...

The exchange here is "exist in modern society" which is not an equitable or consensual exchange, both literally and figuratively. There's a reason Equifax has 143mm Americans' information and it's not cause we're all super fucking excited to participate in debt-based society.