val town

Vals are snippets of code that live under your username, can be scheduled, called, and more.

Via Waxy.org.

Stand up tile counters keep diners moving at Los Tacos No. 1.

Fountain Society

Many public things are utilitarian; they are also interfaces to what economists call public or common goods, like security and education and health care, that ideally are accessible to all without restriction.

I love how Micro.blog posts to my Mastodon account. Can it work the other way? Posts on my Mastodon account shows up here? Would particularly love a nice way of showing boosted toots. cc @jean and @manton (I think you might be able to do this with a custom domain name)

Extra federal food stamp assistance ending leaving nearly 100k San Franciscans at risk of food insecurity

Research found that the enhanced SNAP benefits helped to keep 4.2 million people above the poverty line … according to the economic think tank the Urban Institute.

Solitude, end of the night, business travel.

The weather looks more dreary than it is.

How to stop the internet becoming a junk heap - Prospect Magazine

We might also benefit from rethinking the incentives that make the current internet work. Spam is a function of an ad-supported internet with constant competition for users’ attention.

Kenya: Supreme Court rules in favour of LGBTQ rights group

…the right to freedom of association is a human right, vital to the functioning of any democratic society as well as an essential prerequisite enjoyment of other fundamental rights and freedoms…

This is your brain on fraud apologetics

Search Google … and the top result will be a paid ad for a scam. Sometimes it’s several of the top ads.

The PARA method from Forte Labs. Big fan, with a tweak. I’ve added “Responsibilites”: PARRA. Areas are topics in which I have ongoing interest — democracy, civil society, photography. Responsibilities are places that I must follow and maintain — marketing, revenue, parenting.