April 2024 Forty-two posts

• 19-Apr-2024

  
  We saw this sea gull retrieve this McDonald’s bag from a trash can. Sea gulls are stubborn. We didn’t attempt to intervene.

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• 19-Apr-2024

  
  First Swell at Wedge 2024 Some great waveriding. From BEEFS TV & Brad Jacobson. The Wedge – Biggest and Gnarliest Day of First Swell 2024! (RAW): Massive Waves Kick Off the Wedge Surf Season See also: Dirty Old Wedge, The Wedge (wikipedia)

  bodysurfingOrange Countysurfing
• 18-Apr-2024

  
  Shenanigans on getting involved A few weeks ago I was approached in the water by a surfer whose head was bleeding. I walked with him the 150 yards to the lifeguard tower. I carried his blood spattered surfboard. There’s a photo. And a month ago when I was walking back with folks we’d picked up from the airport we...

  memories
• 18-Apr-2024
  URLs remind me of train and bus schedules Over on Mastodon, Steve Randy Waldman posted this which struck me as true: the practice many browsers have adopted of truncating URLs in the address bar to the hostname is emblematic of the decline and commercially driven infantilization of the web. understanding URLs — their roles and the ways and whys of how they are...

  mastodonmemorieswayfinding
• 18-Apr-2024

  
  danah boyd, “moral crumple zones” What danah boyd told us about AI and ethics by Alex Howard, reporting on a talk danah boyd gave a talk at Georgetown University’s Center For Digital Ethics Bracing for Impact: AI in the Wild. A quote from Alex’s notes: danah gave us an important concept to consider for the rapidly expanding, emergent uses of...

  danah boydethicsGeorgetownsocial-software
• 17-Apr-2024

  
  Worked late, hit the beach before sunset. Saw @quantumprimordial in the water and told him about the sale on fins at the OB @birdssurfshed; saw dolphins. Fun quick sesh. #stoke

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• 16-Apr-2024

  
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  scam
• 16-Apr-2024
  It’s Tuesday From Cam, to “thought leaders” Please stop writing posts like this. Where you make every sentence its own paragraph. To try and make your writing sound more insightful or profound. I have done this sometimes: it can be effective maybe! But it always reads self-important. And when you have that attitude as you write it’s...

  misc
• 15-Apr-2024

  
  Front End Study Hall I’ve been attending great and inspirational IndieWeb events for several years now, have even helped co-organize a few. Sometimes CSS and HTML questions come up that seem to call for a deeper dive into those things and imply deeper questions. My idea for Front End Study Hall is an open hours / office hours type...

  eventsindienewsindieweb
• 15-Apr-2024

  
  I appreciate a lifeguard even when made of bronze.

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