The July 4th holiday, and the number on this weeknote post provide a potent realization: “Crap, halfway through another year…”

Yeah. Time really flies.

Due in part to that realization, I was thinking of a way to remind myself of things–goal oriented things, not a todo list things. Perhaps a personal, daily newsletter will do the trick. I do check my email in the morning, so that’s a good place to get something in front of me. There are myriad ways to do this; I chose to create a little Python personal newsletter mailer script, mostly for fun. A very basic version is getting sent to my inbox every morning. I’ll see if it helps…

This also gave me a chance to try out Codeberg as a replacement for github. So far, so good on that front. I don’t notice much difference since Codeberg seems to have the github features I use most often (git repos and issues).

In US Political news, congress passed a spending and policy bill this week that seems destined to drive this country off a fiscal cliff so that the most wealthy among us can become more wealthy while the rest lose what meager benefits they have. Also, they opened a concentration camp in the Florida everglades and gave it a cute name to distract people from the fact that they are warehousing people in cages, in tents, in a swamp. I really hope the hurricane resistance of those tents aren’t put to the test.

Links

• The Times’ Mamdani Vendetta
  Of course, The Times has started tearing Mamdani down.
• Numbers are in and NYC congestion pricing is a big ‘success,’ Hochul says
• Traffic deaths plummet in NYC, mirroring downward trend in murders
• Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in Full Self-Driving tests via @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com
  This test shows a Tesla mowing down a (child sized) dummy after dummy while passing a stopped school bus. Why is it that companies are allowed to beta test their self driving software in public spaces, putting pedestrians and other road users at risk?
• Weather Watching via Webcurios :: waxy.org
  A computer vision/AI version of looking out the window to see what people are wearing.
• The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple
• Multiple Studies Now Suggest That AI Will Make Us Morons
  Sounds like an Onion headline, but it’s not… via @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com
• AI Is Only Coming For Fun Jobs
• Concentration Camp Labor