but I get skeptical anytime someone points at local politics in Belgium and says “yes this sounds like the solution to our problems.” 😀

don’t get me wrong this weekend’s result is an Unmitigated Fucking Disaster which will see the city need to defensively engineer its traffic network against a hostile sovereign stuck in a 1960s fantasy about cars, and it identity politics around clearly unfit for purpose transport tech sucks.

drawing any border between “Stadt” (i.e. Us bzw Then) and “Land” (i.e. Them bzw Us) mistakes a dynamic for a static one, and is unlikely to fulfill the fantasies of either side even two decades down the road.

need to read more about why Basel split but my question above I think applies more to the first-ring suburbs of Zurich that are seeing and will continue to see a center-leftward shift as city folks are priced out of the city (one could argue that this is what has happened to Winti).

Was hat Winterthur gemacht, um mit Dinhard in einer Halbkanton Zürich Land abgeschafft zu verdienen?

(seriously though part of the reason the global hard right loves an unprincipled approach to sovereignty is to bait well intentioned people into the politics of separatism. When we fight they win.)

It's clear that our official embrace of torture after 9/11 was a point of no return for our country.

youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?... from @acollierastro.bsky.social maybe?

I see this ignorance about software development history all the time, making people «reinvent» the past constantly or forgetting the lessons we learned.

I think universities need to teach «history of software development» or we’re just going in a loop here, unwittingly reenacting past mistakes.

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."