@blaine

Tweets from the mountains in unceded Sinixt territory. Future Wrangling at @fissioncodes. ADHD. he/they. Also: @blaine@mastodon.social / https://xitter.cf/t.co/nSbn2GaMgL

 Nelson, BC
Joined May 2006
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Crews have been notified, but finished a job near us about an hour ago and have presumably headed north to deal with the remaining outages in the area in Nakusp. Our issue doesn't show on maps, and we have no estimated time for crews to arrive.
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I don't think you're able to give me an estimate, but I would appreciate knowing who to talk to about improving the process behind reporting incidents like these. It's more stressful than an outage, and we'll have more like this as we were heavily affected by the Slocan fires.
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Replying to @bchydro
@bchydro we have a tree down across a power line and the only access road to our home. We're currently unable to leave, and have been effectively trapped here for 24 hours. We have power, and the lines are live, so we can't safely clear the tree.
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Blaine Cook retweeted
Ian Dunt
@IanDunt10 Dec 2023
This is terrible. Terrible. Just utter cowardice.
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth10 Dec 2023
Liz Kendall says that Labour want to make it harder for people in lower paid jobs to live with their foreign partner in the UK
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Being a journalist on X is like owning an independent bookstore and sending your customers to Amazon for the affiliate fees.
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Independent bookstores don't win by saying "Amazon has better deals with publishers and honestly it's where the people are, so we're just going to go along with it." It might feel daunting, but it's heartbreaking to see most of the posts here from journalists.
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Xittin'
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Personal news - For the next 11 days this account is now an official baseball stadium, travel and food photo account. #baseballstadiums #travel #food
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I agree, it isn't necessary to constrain the possibilities to single target skeuomorphic representation when you can combine elements in constructing a model. on proto I made a bird storm door voice to sing through.
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Generative AI systems are trained upon vast datasets of centuries of human creative and intellectual work. They should thus belong to the commons, to all humanity, rather than to a handful of powerful for-profit corporations.
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Replying to @geoffreylitt @inkandswitch
Perhaps the most important idea in the piece: creative privacy is valuable!! We shouldn't just accept always editing in a public doc. Our tools should actively let us decide when we're ready to share.
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It was an immense privilege to work with the very fine folks at @inkandswitch on Upwelling, an exploration of writer-focused collaboration tools: inkandswitch.com/upwelling/

Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.

Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is...

inkandswitch.com
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Collaboration tools for software developers (git, etc) have been deeply explored and are rich in diversity and features. Writers' tools: not so much. With Upwelling, we leaned into recent advances in CRDTs to experiment with possible UX patterns for collaboration on prose.
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The project opened up so many questions, which I think is critical. The prose collaboration space – currently dominated by Google Docs and MS Word – should be a whole industry. I hope that Upwelling can serve as a first step towards many new tools and approaches to serve writers.
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The Elon Effect is the Reverse Streisand Effect: if Elon's petty shit-posting tweets are making you more famous, you're probably a hero becoming more beloved by the minute.
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He's really raising the bar for this here Town Square. Maybe he can get Maya Rudolph in to help with marketing this new feature?
Dan Robinson
@danrobinson14 Feb 2023
My "For You" page is now entirely Elon replies
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Honestly, instead of using a password manager, just use random passwords and don't remember them or save them anywhere. Just make sure your email account is secure with a password you know, and you can always reset your passwords later. You're going to eventually, anyway. 😅
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Blaine Cook (@blaine) was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building fediverse infrastructure that will help Mastodon scale. thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter…

Why a Twitter Founding Engineer Is Now All-in on Mastodon

Blaine Cook was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building fediverse infrastructure that will help Mastodon scale.

thenewstack.io
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Blaine Cook@blaine20 Dec 2022
If I were @elonmusk I would just lean into the fact that blockchains are too slow for Twitter, but that Twitter has a global consensus model already, so Twitter Blue is basically a DAO and Twitter could BE Dogecoin2. Just sayin'. bbc.com/news/business-640348…

Elon Musk: Only blue tick users to vote in Twitter polls on policy

The billionaire says he will change the policy on Twitter votes after users say he should step down.

bbc.com
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