At the end of the board meeting for our local school district, the president of the Salt Lake City Board of Education commemorated Transgender Awareness Week by reaffirming the district's commitment to policies that recognize and protect trans students, even in the face of hostility from state and federal governments. Local politics matters

Wow, *two* big outages today, in the top web frontend (CloudFlare, in front of about 25% of sites), and the top git forge (gitub, with something like 97% of public git repositories). Stuff like this is why I built

Are We Decentralized Yet?

A site with statistics regarding how concentrated user data is on various web services

to keep an eye on how centralized some of the services we rely on are.

Problem: You have your printer listed twice for some reason, only one of them works, and you can never remember which one Solution: Delete both and re-add the printer Results: You have three copies of your printer listed

I was having some serious writer's block on stuff I need to have done soon, and my spouse asked me if I'd tried writing it out by hand. I was like, what, you want me to get a chisel and carve this proposal on a cave wall? But I did try it (on paper, not stone) and bless their heart, it is working!

It sometimes surprises me to learn that there are people who don't know that one of the first really big datasets used to train and evaluate computer language and social models was (and still is) a bunch of internal emails from Enron. Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into its collapse.

Enron Corpus - Wikipedia