Jonathan Schofield

Cyclist, ex Ultimate player. Socialist, conservative designer who wishes England had a Welsh government. Born 98ppm ago.

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2024-08-02 11:30:27

A letter to Adobe
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Hello,
It took more than a 1,300 word exchange with chat agents before they would surrender to me the email address I’m sending this to. That in itself is an issue, but that aside…
This is my 36th year of being an Adobe user, and my 21st year of being a customer who pays for apps themselves for my business. Adobe apps have been a great boon to me, but I am emotionally assaulted by the drip drip of AI into Creative Cloud which is at its most insistent in Photoshop.
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2024-05-16 08:02:46

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 regardless of sentencing… https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112449699397790762

2024-05-11 12:55:04

Campbell’s Law:
“The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
Implications for the level of #greenwashing we have yet to see

2024-05-10 17:33:55

Born in St Louis, had a thirst for knowledge
He tried then dropped out of NYU college
Where supply
Caught his eye
He started Twitter and soon he was loaded
But then Blue Sky became his new tombola
And he was "Fine"
But then in thirty-seconds time he said
Don’t wanna mix with all these common people…
Don’t wanna do the hard work that common people do
Don’t wanna moderate common people
Don’t want common people like you
#jackDorsey

2024-05-08 23:16:23

“A habitable Earth can no longer afford the rich – and that could mean me and you”
https://climateuncensored.com/1485-2/

2024-05-08 22:33:29

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@npub16uk…pv7k I just read up on what bird.makeup is supposed to do but it doesn’t seem functional to me. Had someone suggest another Twitter ActivityPub username at me the other day and got the same thing 🤷🏼‍♂️

2024-05-08 22:29:01

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@npub16uk…pv7k @kateraworth@bird.makeup
Thanks Dave. But I couldn’t find her earlier, and that username goes nowhere for me.

2024-05-08 22:19:20

I take no credit for the words above the linked post. They’re Kate Raworth’s. But it is nice to overtly strike a chord with more than 70 people over the course of 10 hours.
The same thread posted on Twitter has had precisely *zero interaction*. I’ve been prevaricating but this cements what I need to do next there.
Thank you Mastodon for being so convivial x
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112405489240743581

2024-05-08 11:30:20

Last year, Kate Raworth put together a definition of capitalism. She prefaced it with:
“Let’s open up the black box of capitalism. I discussed what it means and what it does with Bernie Sanders and Martin Wolf on BBC Radio 4. Here’s how I defined it – how would you put it differently?”
Unfortunately, she put it in an image without an image description, so here follows the text in this image…
1/4
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/405/330/005/710/684/original/0ac67fab1a26b231.jpeg

2024-05-08 10:17:44

Driving ever heavier vehicles on
surfaces derived from the bottom
of the oil refinery stack.
Surfaces dependent on
governments hell bent
on austerity.
Hmm.
Or…
We could
mandate that
vehicles are as light
as possible to eke out
the irreplaceable fossil jackpot
while we figure out how not to use it.
#climateDiary

2024-05-06 09:54:59

“Studies found a fifth of genetic data in papers was affected by Excel errors”
https://mastodon.social/@ewolff/112389603399246955

2024-04-28 08:24:28

Just won a staring competition with a neighbour’s cat 🏆

2024-04-23 11:04:41

“I, and other Holocaust survivor descendants, have been regularly attending these London protests with placards showing that we are ‘openly Jewish’. We have, so far, not experienced any antisemitism at all. Many others on the regular Jewish bloc have had similar experiences.”
—Mark Etkind
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/palestine-march-antisemitism-london-gideon-falter-b2532585.html

2024-04-20 08:27:03

You know,
we could just
*not fly*.
It’s real easy
#climateDiary

2024-04-20 07:52:28

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@npub16mu…qy4m without more context, I’d be inclined toward the latter.
Thoughts?

2024-04-17 08:56:02

I think the most JavaScript I have ever written for a single page’s context is about 70 KB.
I know large payloads of JavaScript can be held in cache, but it is one of the more stupid decisions we’ve made to swap apps of, say, 100 MB on disk for 15 MB web apps delivered billions of times across the wire.
Wonder what the emissions footprint of those two paradigms is?
#climateDiary

2024-04-17 07:55:33

A year and a half’s rain in one day in Dubai https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/dubai-floods-uae-rainfall-weather-forecast
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/285/484/962/202/619/original/87d5ac65be154f8d.jpeg

2024-04-15 10:06:38

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@npub16u7…uend good read. It’s an even bigger issue than Jim writes about though
See this thread https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112246136337590311

2024-04-14 08:26:01

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I’m asking myself what are the alternatives? I have a few thoughts but I’m interested in what others think https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112268579140623987

2024-04-09 07:53:20

“in the 4 years of the [Balkan] war, the international community stood by as Bosnian Muslims were decimated. But these were, primarily, acts of omission. The West did not arm Republika Srpska with its best bombs. Bill Clinton did not fly in to hug Milošević. The slaughter was not accompanied by the constant refrain ‘the Serbian nationalists have the right to defend themselves’.
What we are seeing now [in Palestine] might be the first advanced late capitalist genocide.”
https://birds.town/@lycophidion/112239782903252868

2024-04-07 08:16:23

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@npub15zu…s7lx I was bitten by a tick while on holiday in Wales. We were having a picnic in a campsite field that had been grazed by sheep some days before.
Had to go to hospital to have it professionally removed

2024-03-31 12:16:00

“Machine Learning systems have *profound* difficult to identify vulnerabilities
…
One of the hardest things in the world is to figure out whether a distribution is random. If I give you a thousand digits of pi, unless you know that they’re a thousand digits of pi, they will seem random to you. But they’re not random, they’re deterministic, they’re a thousand digits of pi!
…
It’s very hard to look at the data that you’re feeding to the algorithm and say ‘Is this random?’”
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111521762417609592

2024-03-31 09:07:11

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I saw this article, right alongside another one, and noted the disparity https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112189333722481886

2024-03-30 13:50:16

https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow/112184760106790696
Shades of @npub1hyk…3p33’s ‘Unauthorized Bread’ story in Radicalized, coming soon to a home appliance near you
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

2024-03-25 22:41:32

#climateDiary
Reading about the 2038 problem – https://www.codereliant.io/the-2038-problem/ – and feeling like if we don’t work on the 2024 problem and the 2025 problem and the… you get the idea … the 2038 problem won’t get a look in.
Especially if lots of someones are, as per the article’s final sentence, still contemplating flying anywhere near the era of 2038, or 2037, or…

2024-03-23 13:34:36

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@npub1z4e…jhuf indeed
What the Kushners are saying is a trailer for how they wish to navigate our future

2024-03-23 08:52:25

My wife and eldest daughter are trained as anthropologists. My younger daughter is a sociologist. My son is a historian.
They are all truly much better people than I but, because they are people, they’re bundles of contradictions just like me.
The important thing is to *try* to understand, and anthropology is us collectively trying to go around the crazy current instrumentalisation of education.
Treasure it.
Hold on to it
https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112144067417740154

2024-03-21 14:50:32

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@npub132h…f594 I was just thinking earlier today how lucky we are not to be quite as advanced on the path to illiberal authoritarianism as the US seems to be.
But we seem keen to catch up 😬

2024-03-12 12:48:56

A #climateCrisis thought experiement.
Since the financial crisis in 2008, we’ve pumped about 563 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.
The average kerb weight of a European car is (I think) roughly 1.1 tonnes.
So that’s like 512 billion cars floating above us.
At 510 million km2, the surface area of the Earth is neatly aligned with that 512.
So, **just since 2008**, we’ve shat into the air the rough equivalent of 1,000 cars per km2 hovering above us

2024-02-17 11:07:35

I thank Prof Chris May for unintentionally clarifying something https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/111946209680729004
I kind of already knew. But sometimes you need to have it shoved in your face.
Degrowth is a terrible neologism. Awful.
It is guaranteed to be misunderstood and misrepresented. Like Chris did.
But Chris is a good egg.
But but one should always consider how one’s *antagonists* are going to use a term. And the political right will rip the word ‘degrowth’ to shreds as it enters mainstream discourse.
So…