Roland Tanglao

Walked to Pharmasave at 1808 Kingsway and got a walk-in appointment and my 8th COVID vaccination today

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Draft created: May 9, 2026 04:11 (UTC).
They don’t appear to be busy and have plenty of doses of Moderna. Get yours today seriously!
Previously
October 23, 2025:: ME:: called my local pharmacy at 1808 Kingsway and got a walk-in appointment and both my 7th COVID vaccine and my yearly flu vaccine today! ; 2025 COVID-19 immunizations - Province of British Columbia

Garret Vreeland:: 'We will stop treating moderation as an afterthought or a moral cudgel. Moderation is infrastructure. ' <-- Amen, G! Garret:: What We Will Refuse to Build Again ¦ dangerousmeta!

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Discovered: May 9, 2026 01:55 (UTC) Garret Vreeland:: ‘We will stop treating moderation as an afterthought or a moral cudgel. Moderation is infrastructure. ‘ <– Amen, G! Garret:: What We Will Refuse to Build Again ¦ dangerousmeta!

ME:: I'm betting on the people of ActivityPub and ATProto :-) ! Great summary of ATMosphereconf 2026 March 28-29, 2026 at UBC Vancouver ; Britanny Ellich Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Discovered: May 8, 2026 02:26 (UTC) ME:: I’m betting on the people of ActivityPub and ATProto :-) ! Great summary of ATMosphereconf 2026 March 28-29, 2026 at UBC Vancouver ; Britanny Ellich Why I’m betting on ATProto (and why you should, too) <– I attended but was too lazy and overwhelmed by learning in the best possilbe way :-)

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One of the cool things about this community is that many folks are willing to give up parts of what they’ve been working on individually in the hopes of creating something that’s interoperable. That can be rare in developer spaces. A lot of times, people are working on the thing they want to work on and don’t want to make concessions to build something that works for more people. This makes sense if you’re building something to make money on it… one person owning something generally results in a better return on investment than three or four people sharing ownership. But the incentives around ATProto don’t reward that kind of selfish building. Yes, there are situations where it makes sense for a specific app to be its own thing, but there are also a lot of reasons for the community to work together, and the community is filled with incredibly smart, talented, and dedicated humans who are all working towards the same goal.

Professor Samantha Lawler:: SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighbor’s Farm. Here’s What Happened Next ¦ Scientific American

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Discovered: May 7, 2026 05:58 (UTC) Professor Samantha Lawler:: SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighbor’s Farm. Here’s What Happened Next ¦ Scientific American <– nobody knows the worst case scenario here?!?

joan westenberg:: The war between fast and legitimate is here

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Discovered: May 7, 2026 05:56 (UTC) joan westenberg:: The war between fast and legitimate is here <– QUOTE: Pick a side and commit. Find a functional substitute for the legitimacy you lack, and find it before the next scandal makes your shortcomings impossible to ignore; or find a way to remain relevant despite your pace, and stop confusing the pomp of authority with its substance. ...The hybrids will struggle. The pretenders - the institutions that perform speed without being fast or perform legitimacy without being legitimate - will be eaten first. ... I'm not certain anyone "wins" this in any way the word "win" is usually applied. But in a war between institutions, the folks on the losing side are usually the last to figure out they're at war in the first place.

ME:: tl-dr quoting: 'The demographics are unrelenting. 73% of Americans live in car-centric suburbs and exurbs. When millions of them can no longer drive, everyone has a problem. ' ; LLoyd Alter:: Many older drivers don't see the road ahead

Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Discovered: May 2, 2026 15:40 (UTC) ME:: tl-dr quoting: ‘The demographics are unrelenting. 73% of Americans live in car-centric suburbs and exurbs. When millions of them can no longer drive, everyone has a problem. ‘ ; LLoyd Alter:: Many older drivers don’t see the road ahead <– QUOTE: “We have 75 million North American baby boomers, almost all of whom will not be able to drive at some point. We need accessible housing, and walkable communities with good sidewalks, corner stores, medical facilities and coffee shops within a reasonable distance. We need good, safe, accessible transit for when we have to go further. We all must prepare for a non-driving future. And as the AARP study shows, almost nobody is.”

ME:: omg the cargo culting of all things Karpathy continues :-) oh well some of these Claude.md 'spells' :-) are worthwhile i grudgingly admit :-) Stephen Downes:: forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Discovered: May 1, 2026 14:24 (UTC) ME:: omg the cargo culting of all things karpathy continues :-) oh well some of these Claude.md ‘spells’ :-) are worthwhile i grudgingly admit :-) Stephen Downes:: forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills <– QUOTE: I don't use this exact CLAUDE.ms file telling the AI how I want it to approach programming tasks, but my own version is very similar. "A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls." The key instruction: "Don't assume. Don't hide confusion. Surface tradeoffs." Now that I think about it, it's probably pretty good advice for life in general. Here's a version you can paste into your project.

ME:: Play all of the versions LOUD and on repeat! ; Ben Werdmuller:: All You Fascists (Bound to Lose) A collection of Woody Guthrie covers

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Discovered: Apr 30, 2026 14:48 (UTC) ME:: Play all of the versions LOUD and on repeat! ; Ben Werdmuller:: All You Fascists (Bound to Lose) A collection of Woody Guthrie covers

Courtney Nash:: 'The person who seemingly 'caused' the incident is almost certainly the same person who prevented a dozen others that nobody ever wrote about, because all practitioner actions are gambles taken under uncertainty, and we only call them errors when the outcome is bad.`' from '“Human Error” Is an Illusion: A Response to Om Malik ¦ Resilience in Software Foundation

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Discovered: Apr 30, 2026 14:30 (UTC) Courtney Nash:: ‘The person who seemingly “caused” the incident is almost certainly the same person who prevented a dozen others that nobody ever wrote about, because all practitioner actions are gambles taken under uncertainty, and we only call them errors when the outcome is bad.`’ from ‘“Human Error” Is an Illusion: A Response to Om Malik ¦ Resilience in Software Foundation

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Read the whole thing: Courtney Nash:: ‘Human Error’ Is an Illusion: A Response to Om Malik ¦ Resilience in Software Foundation

This matters because complex systems don’t operate in a safe, neutral state waiting to be disrupted by careless people (or mischievous machines). They are, as Cook puts it, always running in degraded mode: containing ever-changing mixtures of latent failures at any given moment, held together not despite their human operators but because of them. Practitioners are the adaptable element of these complex systems, constantly making real-time adjustments that regularly prevent those latent failures from compounding into catastrophe. The person who seemingly “caused” the incident is almost certainly the same person who prevented a dozen others that nobody ever wrote about, because all practitioner actions are gambles taken under uncertainty, and we only call them errors when the outcome is bad.

A fun story I should read :-) ; A Colder War - a novelette by Charles Stross

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Discovered: Apr 29, 2026 14:55 (UTC) A fun story I should read :-) ; A Colder War - a novelette by Charles Stross

Roland Tanglao

Walked to Pharmasave at 1808 Kingsway and got a walk-in appointment and my 8th COVID vaccination today

Previously

Garret Vreeland:: 'We will stop treating moderation as an afterthought or a moral cudgel. Moderation is infrastructure. ' <-- Amen, G! Garret:: What We Will Refuse to Build Again ¦ dangerousmeta!

ME:: I'm betting on the people of ActivityPub and ATProto :-) ! Great summary of ATMosphereconf 2026 March 28-29, 2026 at UBC Vancouver ; Britanny Ellich Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)

QUOTE

Professor Samantha Lawler:: SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighbor’s Farm. Here’s What Happened Next ¦ Scientific American

joan westenberg:: The war between fast and legitimate is here

ME:: tl-dr quoting: 'The demographics are unrelenting. 73% of Americans live in car-centric suburbs and exurbs. When millions of them can no longer drive, everyone has a problem. ' ; LLoyd Alter:: Many older drivers don't see the road ahead

ME:: omg the cargo culting of all things Karpathy continues :-) oh well some of these Claude.md 'spells' :-) are worthwhile i grudgingly admit :-) Stephen Downes:: forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills

ME:: Play all of the versions LOUD and on repeat! ; Ben Werdmuller:: All You Fascists (Bound to Lose) A collection of Woody Guthrie covers

QUOTE

A fun story I should read :-) ; A Colder War - a novelette by Charles Stross