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Benjamin Fry

@bluejekyll.bsky.social

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Rust, Rusty Bikes, and making everything safer. Berkeley, CA.

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · Nov 22

I just went to the Berkeley Transportation and Infrastructure Commission meeting to recount this story.

That was hard. I barely kept it together. I hope I did Ben justice.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · Nov 19

On Thursday, Nov 14th, I was riding home from BART. At Rose and Josephine in Berkeley, an intersection that I have always treated with care, and especially after dark, I ended up witnessing this tragedy. I saw a car hit a pedestrian (Ben I later learned).

Walk Bike Berkeley @walkbikeberk.bsky.social · Nov 18

Beloved, long-time Berkeley community member Ben Brown was the pedestrian killed on Rose Street.

Please consider donating to this GoFundMe to help his family with funeral expenses and travel.
gofund.me/c4cb551e

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1h

I called last week.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1h

Even the Good Samaritan would get lynched by this mob.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 3h

Worst part, probably were rushing to get some kids in that van to school before work.

I commend that kid for not swinging that bag and knocking that person out.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 21h

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 22h

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, me and all my bike book club friends.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 17h

Let’s invent a new language that the only thing it learns from SegFaults is that you need to protect the memory. But you ask, doesn’t that mean the program will still crash? Sure, but the OS is safe!

Oh and check this out, two decades later and Go does the exact same thing.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, Java. Still throwing your NullPointer and ConcurrentModificationExceptions.

Never change. It keeps us real people employed.

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 19h

I can’t wait to see the talk in SF.

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Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org · 1d

Residents of all ages and abilities are taking to electric bikes — used for commutes, school drop-offs, grocery trips and joy rides.

Why electric bikes are everywhere in Berkeley

Residents of all ages and abilities are taking to electric bikes — used for commutes, school drop-offs, grocery trips and joy rides.

www.berkeleyside.org

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes: SF's Bicycle Advisory Committee is proposed for deletion by the streamlining task force.

Prop. E was supposed to rein in S.F. mayor's power. Instead, it’s recommending the opposite.

People who campaigned for Proposition E, which created the task force, now say that it has gone off the rails.

missionlocal.org

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 2d

Except there was a good man trapped under that fog in LOTR.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks. Mines stuck on this connect to computer screen, and even after doing that, I can’t seem to get it to update.

Ugh, now we have to take into Apple.

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 2d

Was this a police chase gone awry?

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 2d

Any solution? Just happened to my daughters. I’m not able to recover it as of yet.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently some drunk driver in a newly bought Audi crashed their car this morning at 3am on Hopkins St.

What is wrong with people still drunk driving? They crashed into a parked Mercedes. Luckily the neighborhood is pretty much all asleep at that time, so it sounds like all property damage.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 3d

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 4d

Solar panels & windmills do not explode.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 4d

But wind turbines kill birds sometimes, so who’s to say which one is better?

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 5d

Although as the saying goes, “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

It’s never easy to figure out when the bubble pops.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 5d

I was sitting in a bar the other day, meeting a friend for a drink. Overheard behind me, “…put your money in the stock market. It’s a great time, all of these AI companies…”

Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 5d

If you needed more evidence we are in the "this time it's different" phase of the bubble.

"Bubble good!! Bubble friend!! Bubble never pop!!"

Protip: This time is not different.

headline: Jeff Bezos hails AI boom as "good" kind of bubble

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now. In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has transformed America, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself

@pemalevy.bsky.social looks at the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it.

Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built It

"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."

www.motherjones.com

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a good reminder of why two party systems are bad, first-past-the-post, winner-take-all elections are bad, and non-representative upper houses create disproportionate representation in the legislature leading to unpopular laws.

Pick any one of those and welcome to the US.