djan’ghoul 🧟♂️
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nice to see EPL taking an unambiguous stance against censorship here
nice to see EPL taking an unambiguous stance against censorship here
Joel 🔪 May-Kill 🔪
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Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Robert W. Gehl
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FYI, the City of Edmonton is hiring a new Director of Marketing, Digital and Creative Services. An amazing opportunity for the right person.
https://edmonton.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=53212
Boosting this to the Fediverse is my attempt at DEI. ;)
FYI, the City of Edmonton is hiring a new Director of Marketing, Digital and Creative Services. An amazing opportunity for the right person.
https://edmonton.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=53212
Boosting this to the Fediverse is my attempt at DEI. ;)
Michael Bacon
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And with that bus lane, tha bus is avoiding the traffic jam and getting people to their destinations faster and more reliably than the cars. Without it, we induce traffic. When we don't invest in active transportation, that bus gets stuck in the resulting induced traffic, which makes people think it's not a viable mode of transport for them, thus inducing more and more traffic, causing worse congestion for all.
Remember when you're stuck in construction in Edmonton, that the entire reason roads are being shut down all a once is because we are DECADES behind on sustainable infrasteucture for a growing city. We can only induce so much automobile traffic before our streets shut down, and we reached that point decades ago... but continued on despite because our freedom of transportation and the safety of those who use it, was politicized. If not for the wedge politics against active transportation lanes, this could have been spreadnot over decades, and did not need to be disruptive.
If you are railing against transportation alternatives, then you have no right to complain about traffic congestion. Traffic isnnot caused by construction. Construction is caused by traffic.
And with that bus lane, tha bus is avoiding the traffic jam and getting people to their destinations faster and more reliably than the cars. Without it, we induce traffic. When we don't invest in active transportation, that bus gets stuck in the resulting induced traffic, which makes people think it's not a viable mode of transport for them, thus inducing more and more traffic, causing worse congestion for all.
Remember when you're stuck in construction in Edmonton, that the entire reason roads are being shut down all a once is because we are DECADES behind on sustainable infrasteucture for a growing city. We can only induce so much automobile traffic before our streets shut down, and we reached that point decades ago... but continued on despite because our freedom of transportation and the safety of those who use it, was politicized. If not for the wedge politics against active transportation lanes, this could have been spreadnot over decades, and did not need to be disruptive.
If you are railing against transportation alternatives, then you have no right to complain about traffic congestion. Traffic isnnot caused by construction. Construction is caused by traffic.
Alex Akselrod
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Edmonton! Close your windows!
Smoke from the industrial fire on the city's east border is now blowing heavy at ground level across the southside & the wind direction forecast all night is "variable" so it might go anywhere.
Edmonton! Close your windows!
Smoke from the industrial fire on the city's east border is now blowing heavy at ground level across the southside & the wind direction forecast all night is "variable" so it might go anywhere.
alcinnz
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I went to high school with this girl’s mom. Took off with some guy and left her phone at home. Could be in Edmonton, Leduc, and area.
I went to high school with this girl’s mom. Took off with some guy and left her phone at home. Could be in Edmonton, Leduc, and area.
podfeet
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A lake at sunset. It is still and the sky overhead is streaked with wispy gray and lavender clouds; along the horizon, the setting sun glows in a last burst of light on the right. A small forested island floats in the centre.
A lake at sunset. The smooth waves are gilded by the setting sun that turns the sky, the clouds, and the water gold. The clouds streak the blue sky in long stripes, and a small forested island floats on the left.
A lake at sunset. It is still and the sky overhead is streaked with wispy gray and lavender clouds; along the horizon, the setting sun glows in a last burst of light on the right. A small forested island floats in the centre.
A lake at sunset. The smooth waves are gilded by the setting sun that turns the sky, the clouds, and the water gold. The clouds streak the blue sky in long stripes, and a small forested island floats on the left.
Ernie Smith
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back in the early 90s, it was very difficult to find a means for connecting to the internet.
for the very few who did have (pre-www) internet access, it was via their university or (much less likely) through a large corporation.
and then, in october of 1994, a local nonprofit started Edmonton FreeNet: for $25 per year, you got an e-mail address, usenet access, shell access to lynx and pine, and 1mb of file storage
i hung on to my account so i'd always have access to a shell no matter where I was in the world. my friends used it as a cheap ISP for years; they would eventually add SLIP/PPP.
i always wondered how the freenet initiative got started - and learned recently that it was all thanks to the NPTN Blue Book: a National Public Telecomputing Network that distributed a software package called FreePort, containing all of the sub-modules necessary to delivery dial-up access to a small community.
the whole NTPN concept itself was way ahead of its time, and i'd love to read a book on it some day.
for the time being, i'm overjoyed to see that there have been many articles written on freenets, and @ernie's is one of the best:
https://tedium.co/2022/04/13/internet-free-net-history/
back in the early 90s, it was very difficult to find a means for connecting to the internet.
for the very few who did have (pre-www) internet access, it was via their university or (much less likely) through a large corporation.
and then, in october of 1994, a local nonprofit started Edmonton FreeNet: for $25 per year, you got an e-mail address, usenet access, shell access to lynx and pine, and 1mb of file storage
i hung on to my account so i'd always have access to a shell no matter where I was in the world. my friends used it as a cheap ISP for years; they would eventually add SLIP/PPP.
i always wondered how the freenet initiative got started - and learned recently that it was all thanks to the NPTN Blue Book: a National Public Telecomputing Network that distributed a software package called FreePort, containing all of the sub-modules necessary to delivery dial-up access to a small community.
the whole NTPN concept itself was way ahead of its time, and i'd love to read a book on it some day.
for the time being, i'm overjoyed to see that there have been many articles written on freenets, and @ernie's is one of the best:
https://tedium.co/2022/04/13/internet-free-net-history/
just small circles 🕊
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Had a great evening at WordCamp #YEG! Was happy to discuss #ActivityPub with like-minded folks.
Had a great evening at WordCamp #YEG! Was happy to discuss #ActivityPub with like-minded folks.