Posts by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
(DIR) Post #AYr9mXsYGEWteLWf5M by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2023-08-18T13:16:42Z
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Sadly the attitude of the average middle class Brit is we would like takeaways delivered quickly and very cheaply but for the (usually immigrant) delivery cyclist to be simultaneously invisible and polite.
(DIR) Post #AYzdI1K3IATxsbQep6 by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2023-08-22T15:29:41Z
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"Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap."https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/techs-broken-promises-streaming-is-now-just-as-expensive-and-confusing-as-cable-ubers-cost-as-much-as-taxis-and-the-cloud-is-no-longer-cheap-/articleshow/102916562.cms
(DIR) Post #AZQPewuwhusE98e8kS by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2023-09-04T13:25:16Z
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@Loukas Yeah I am an elder millenial and while I planned ahead to not do that myself it had not occurred to me that some of my once-progressive friends would trend reactionary!
(DIR) Post #AZfDnhOIGLBdIT6Vn6 by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2023-09-11T12:47:59Z
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We're gearing up to campaign on the streets once again at GoBike, the Strathclyde Cycle Campaign.Previously, we've won numerous protected cycle lanes and low-car streets.Covid interrupted our work, so this is a chance to really help us out and change Strathclyde region and the city of #Glasgow for the better.First campaigns team meeting is online, 7pm Wednesday 20th September.We'll keep it short and respect your time.https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86409678756?pwd=NGxoS2RTa1AycG5wcHRmN1FTZS9ZZz09#Scotland #Cycling #Urbanism
(DIR) Post #AZteIgukcRMUAUPIky by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2023-09-08T16:40:48Z
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#KenmureStreet was a citizen uprising in #Glasgow where we prevented the detainment and deportation of two local men who don't have UK citizenship
(DIR) Post #AanXRIcidSVt078V8a by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2023-10-15T15:10:08Z
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Saw grognards in youtube comments explaining to the younger generation that in very old school D&D you would bring a stack of character sheets and attempt a dungeon again and again."Oh like a roguelike? Roguelike D&D would be cool."Human culture and language is so amazing - they know what a roguelike is, but not that Rogue was essentially a computer game version of old school D&D!
(DIR) Post #AatTVWhcSkHKYLlVE8 by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2023-10-18T11:51:07Z
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Cycling on Queen Margaret Drive last night, a driver honked and then two cars close passed me at, I estimate by comparison with the other cars, 40mph. I got off and completed my journey on foot. The roads are out of control.I assume the honk was because I was daring to ride outside of the door zone of the parked cars. My lights were on and I was wearing a white jacket.
(DIR) Post #AatTpld4fvLGdgI5se by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2023-10-18T12:01:48Z
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@drgeraint Yeah I think they were still at the traffic lights when I got there on foot.The police did a brief daytime survey a while ago and found speeds up to 37mph on that street. It's so wide! It is getting a cycle lane though, I've seen the designs.
(DIR) Post #AbTbCMwJd1FcMvh368 by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2023-11-03T18:34:06Z
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BBC: "Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble"No, lots of us called crypto out from the very start. I was reading accurate critiques of bitcoin in 2012.Journalists and financiers and politicians got duped or didn't care about the truth when there was money to be made.Now you're trying to pretend nobody warned you? Get fucked.
(DIR) Post #Ad8nVLuRuSvA6TQejw by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2023-12-24T16:02:12Z
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Funny thing, there's people I follow here who I didn't like on twitter and do like here. I don't think I liked myself on twitter either. It was a constant battle not to be a dick.
(DIR) Post #AdToAqRNuecl7S0uMi by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2024-01-03T16:57:36Z
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@kissane @jalcine @danilo great design and user support and a million other things need full time attention which means paying people.FOSS is stronger where the private sector has an incentive to transfer value to the commons, eg Linux on servers, more recently Valve fixed Linux gaming to avoid the Apple/Google tax. We will always struggle elsewhere. I think government funding is the only universal solution, although some projects do do ok out of donations.
(DIR) Post #AiDirK3MqpIiWE3L7o by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2024-05-24T15:29:04Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I reckon the cause of endless sequels is intellectual property. Eg Disney pays $bns for Star Wars. Now it has a bookable value as an asset. Disney borrows against that asset. Now Star Wars needs to constantly generate revenue to justify its valuation or the debts need refinanced.
(DIR) Post #AkZiPhI4NvzAlj0bIW by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2024-08-02T14:40:44Z
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Crazy that Brat, the biggest album of the year, features one Glaswegian producer (Hudson Mohawke) and repeatedly references another (SOPHIE) but there is almost no recognition of that in Glasgow. We are absolutely sleeping on our role in electronic music.
(DIR) Post #Al1soT7oczyq2iXbWq by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2024-08-16T11:46:37Z
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My wife has a complaint about the Time Bandits TV series. In the last episode they travel to Bingley in 1996 and visit a goth party. She says there were only 5 goths in Bingley in 1996, she was one of them, and they didn't have parties.
(DIR) Post #Al1soXPKhoMxKCleO8 by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2024-08-16T12:47:20Z
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@briankrebs it's light-hearted family fun. More than a little Horrible Histories in there. I enjoyed it.
(DIR) Post #AvEoODgcjaddCUHEB6 by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2025-06-16T14:15:38Z
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Scotland made buses free for under 23s and it's driven record attendance at soccer games and a decade+ reduction in average age of attendees.Free public transport has huge ramifications for society and the economy.
(DIR) Post #AvXn1CiYOqUWxQhbdI by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2025-06-26T19:32:57Z
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A way of thinking about ~the present day~: the internet has exactly the printing-press-scale liberatory potential boosters claimed; it was (naturally!) seized on by minoritised groups; the powerful are trying to work out how to get the genie back in the bottle.
(DIR) Post #AvXn1KPhmoASpHwfMe by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2025-06-26T19:34:15Z
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Hate/harassment campaigns work quite well but platforms that allow them face commercial and political headwinds. Oligarchs are now self-financing platforms that allow harassment.Direct censorship is an option but is opposed by liberal values that aren't just commonplace but integral to various economic and imperial structures. It's being tried at the border in the US right now - people having their social media accounts demanded of them at customs.
(DIR) Post #AvXn1Pw9Fc5dxMA97w by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2025-06-26T19:34:46Z
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I am concerned that the right understands this, in that they are horrified by all the things and worse the people they see online and want it all banned, and their oligarchs have experience of manipulating social media platforms. The left is caught between consuming the product and "tech-skepticism"Which is a real shame because we actually invented an awful lot of this shit! It just got enclosed.
(DIR) Post #AzvMJSYbOpki0TXjMm by moh_kohn@mastodon.scot
2025-11-05T04:29:24Z
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@futurebird Babylon 5. There's shows I prefer, but it's one of the best, and very fandomable.