Author: harold

Human mobility networks reveal increased segregation in large cities | Nature

“This means that, contrary to expectations, residents of large cosmopolitan areas have less exposure to a socioeconomically diverse range of individuals.”

Thank you, real world’s statistics for showing how a lot of people need to be quiet about increasing density in cities. These mfs can’t stop arguing that it brings melting pot vibes! No it doesn’t.

Higher density means higher homogenization of rents, which displaces a lot of folks of a different socio-economic background. High density means worse tolerance from anyone, for anything. The only winners are real estate companies, who don’t need to win anything.

It’s criminal that cities act as if they didn’t know all that. Cities need to do two things in 2024: sprawl so that folks don’t kill each other over a parking spot or a noise issue, and build and rebuild sustainable structures at a decent pace. For the kids! For God! I don’t know, find a good reason y’all.

Someone posted some music. First you need to listen to the song. Then it will make sense.

I can’t help myself.

Just saw OpenAI’s Sora. It’s fucked up.

It kind of single-handedly completely changes film/TV production, right there. The logistics of film location have been transformed. “fuck this”, the Executive Producer will say. “let’s prompt that Mexican beach resort evening shot”, he will giggle.

Film and TV crews are about to shrink faster than a snail in salt.

On the other side, who will have enough imagination to create vibrant, coherent and lovely videos with those brand new tools that are still in beta? I don’t know. But I feel like there will be a shortage of folks able to do that.

We’re living incredibly fast times.

This is absolutely hysterical.

Battling my hosting company which started to charge a subscription for email services, out of nowhere, making everything 400% more expensive.

My email addresses have low traffic, but they’re essential to my digital life since forever. Storage is cheap. I don’t cost them shit.

This was a fine company and they got bought out by a lot bigger company a year ago. The insane price increase started last summer, communicated at the very bottom of a stupid .pdf file in an email talking about “some changes”.

This is why we can’t have nice things, I hate it here, etc.

Fascinating! Let’s look closer at Europe and France.

• France is the only Western Europe country where cannabis is illegal.
• Black and brown people are the main cannabis customers in the world.
• France has the biggest black and brown people population in Europe.
• White French people will tell you that no, it has nothing to do with racism, like at all. Black and brown French people will tell you “exactly! ;) ;) ;)”

How a secular country known, loved and respected internationally for its freedom and intellectual openness can be that fucking dumb about cannabis for that fucking long, I don’t know. Oh wait, I do!

Around 2007 I told my parents that cannabis needed to be legalized because illegal traffic was creating violence and a second economy, which are very much detrimental to our society. They scoffed.

Today Marseille is basically run by gangs. It’s Ciudad Juarez down there now: kidnapping, torture, limbs missing, murders. Good job, French people!

Oh, also probably 90% if not more of all French people born after 1975 have smoked some cannabis and understand that it’s no big deal, including the current president on his second term.

Embarrassing AF. Keep drinking and beating your women to death, my dear old country. Actually, no. Stop lagging and get your fucking shit together, goddamn.

It was one of those antic TikTok (2022 I think) about how palm trees only live for a hundred years and that most of them have been planted in Los Angeles a hundred years ago, which meant some kind of apocalypse very soon. Think hundreds of trees falling left and right, dead.

Well. It hasn’t happened yet I guess. I was looking at those when doing laundry. They are so tall. Not sure that was supposed to happen either. Plants adapt too. They live longer than expected, in better shape. So do we.

January 2014 was the longest January of my life. It’s always a long month, but that year it felt like it would never end. A divorce and bracing yourself for all the things that need to happen to recover and thrive, will do that to you.

Ten years later, it’s probably the fastest one? It’s basically almost done.

Great projects, beautiful and trustworthy people around will do that.

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I took this 2024 version at an understaffed CVS, which could be anywhere in the nation I imagine.

My pharmacist was processing orders, answering the phone, leaving voicemails, filling out forms and giving vaccine shots. He probably does security and restocks the workroom as well as closing the whole building at 10pm.

He was 30mn late with my appointment due to one of those customers who are at the pharmacy every single day of the month.

“I saw the we’re hiring sign at the door, I see that you could use some help!” I said. He replied “yeah, that’s fake they won’t hire. Maximizing profit, all that.” I nodded and hummed slowly.

Also fuck that virus forever.

“Developers will not accept a 30% fee just to be hosted on app stores. That’s straight up robbery, there’s no way they accept that.” -me in 2008

Oh, I was so wrong! Developers are fantastic at business /s. They only see a shiny new toy and if you give them the ability to play with it, you can do whatever you want to them.

In 2024 though thanks to the EU, Epic’s lawsuit and a bad economy, folks are starting to wake up. ’bout time.

Y’all need to fight harder and faster and stronger. This app store insanity needs to fucking go.