From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Update: The Associated Press sued White House officials today over ban on its access to White House events, Oval Office and Air Force One because wire service continues referring to “Gulf of Mexico.”
It asked court for emergency order rescinding ban:
I have one prediction for 2025 that I am most confident about.
2025 will be the hottest year on record (since 1850), just like the two years before it.
Of everything they could've questioned Tulsi Gabbard about, Dems chose to grill her for past support of whistleblowers and the Fourth Amendment.
Because now's a great time to signal hostility to people who may leak evidence of government criminality.
https://freedom.press/issues/trump-attacks-oversight-dems-attack-whistleblowers/
New blog post: Three years of #SecureDrop
https://blog.legoktm.com/2025/01/31/three-years-of-securedrop.html
This is the longest I've ever held the same position at a job, so a few notes on what I've been up to over the past year and what I enjoy.
Congratulations to the ACLU, EFF and everyone else involved in this significant win for the Fourth Amendment.
Happy #NYC #CongestionPricing Eve!
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There's about 100 people in below freezing temperatures at 60th and Lex to celebrate, also a few counterprotesters.
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Cars cross 60th St and pay the #CongestionPricing toll that kicked in at midnight.
Loudest cheers are whenever a bus passes by.
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Some profanity aimed at NJ Gov Phil Murphy for all his (failed) last minute lawsuits to try and block #CongestionPricing
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An ambulance crosses into the #CongestionPricing zone. EMS and FDNY response times have gone up over the past decade because of increased congestion - the toll should help speed them up:
https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-emergency-response-teams-set-record-slow-times-due-increased-congestion-report/15331864/
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I've uploaded my photos and videos from tonight's #CongestionPricing launch to Commons; you can find them in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:New_York_City_congestion_pricing along with other folks' media. All are available under a 
license that allows for free reuse (usually only requiring attribution)
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Streetsblog has a really nice explainer and summary for everyone who hasn't been closely following the #NYC #CongestionPricing saga: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/05/congestion-pricing-has-begun-here-is-the-only-explainer-you-need
MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners: Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs
Using Python uv tool as a replacement for Poetry for a small Python utility I'm writing. It feels a lot like Rust's Cargo.
All that I can say for now is that it is certainly a better experience than setting up a virtualenv manually.
I am writing this proprietary tool for a team of JavaScript developers. I think they will feel that it is just as easy to use as npm/yarn or whatever is the new hotness this week.
Yes, I keep coming back to the thought which is expressed here...
Before You Can Have Smalltalk, You Must First Defeat Capitalism. - Matthew Gaudet:
https://www.mgaudet.ca/blog/2024/10/28/before-you-can-have-smalltalk-you-must-first-defeat-capitalism
"If you want to build a future that involves beautiful systems like Smalltalk, you must first rebuild the economic environment wherein it could be built. Wherein it could succeed!"
A look at Uber Shuttle, the shared bus service that has rolled out in over 20 cities and completed ~30M trips globally, as Uber awaits approval in Bengaluru (Anisha Sircar/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/uber-shuttle-india-shared-bus/
http://www.techmeme.com/241207/p8#a241207p8
Food, meat [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
I made a "savory pumpkin pie" for Thanksgiving dinner. It contained bacon, onion, rosemary, cheese, and a bit of black pepper and cayenne. I think it turned out pretty well!
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Pie in pan on oven. The pie is covered with cheese.
Problems with Free and Open Source Software
https://njoseph.me/blog/posts/foss-problems/
My last blog post for September. After not writing any blog posts for 4 years, I wrote 4 in one month!
New blog post!
Using small AI tools on Debian GNU/Linux
https://njoseph.me/blog/posts/small-ai-tools-debian/
I am using the word #AI as it is meant to be used, as click-bait. 😉
check out this beautiful post by @jimmyhmiller on What It Means To Be Open
I have started quoting liberally in my linkblog (subscribe via RSS).
Earlier, I was only writing my own summary or opinion of the subject, but quoting adds more context. This is inspired by the writing style of Pixel Envy blog. https://pxlnv.com
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
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An X-ray of a broken femur. On either side of the fracture is a elephant (cropped from a medieval illumination) facing one another, in the livery of the GOP logo.