there’s a vegan deli in Boston that serves Unreal Corn’d Beef that’s pretty tasty (not perfect, but on its own still enjoyable) mamalehs.com/kibitz-corner/
I figured that was Eric Adams.
I think a lot about someone's quip about the heat dome over Portland that was melting rubber off power lines (paraphrased): "What a beautiful infrastructure we built for a world that no longer exists."
OK...the NWS Bot collection is now fully populated and ready to go. I'm sure bugs will come up along the way, but I think it is 95%+ stable. There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.
unbelievable that Swarm/FourSquare is still working in the year 2024 but I’m grateful it has not done this
@griph.bsky.social it's so wild to me that old big CRT TVs have gone in my lifetime from "EXPENSIVE: A Good TV" to "FREE: The Old Kind That Sucks" to "EXPENSIVE: The Old Kind That Hobbyists Love" to now "FREE: The Old Kind That Hobbyists Love But Not Quite Up To My Exacting Standards"
This makes me so angry. AI companies can steal the web wholesale and regurgitate it as an anonymous mess, scientific publishers can charge researchers thousands of dollars so their work is accessible, streaming gives pennies to artists, and the IA is the pirate?
Hope everyone gets a chance to read this one today. My colleague Kate Knibbs visited the Internet Archive IRL. It’s in grave danger. www.wired.com/story/intern...
The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.
good luck babe