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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 01/10/2026

Periodic reminder to NYT, The Atlantic, and any other non-Fox media who might contemplate platforming John Yoo: don't

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 29/09/2026

Dia Compe, world leaders in making objects that radiate "this was made cheaply" and elegance in equal amounts

Picture of a DiaComp 128 brake lever looking both 1920s Art Deco But also like it was made out of the simplest metal but elegantly designed so everything fits together very well despite low cost of the materials.

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 27/09/2026

More Klaus Theweleit citing should be done

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 26/09/2026

I got you all in Czech... well Germany anyway

German license plate that begins with Wü ha. The rest of it is cropped out of the photo.

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 26/09/2026

These concrete eagles, from the borderlands between Art Deco and Brutalism, are the most 1940s objects I've ever seen.

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 26/09/2026

Alameda Point Fields are this weird combination of broken-window dilapidated WW2 base buildings surrounding a lively field full of kids playing soccer. Post apocalyptic Renaissance vibes. Imagining a WW2 officer time dropped here, what they would think.

First of two pictures taken in the same location, one facing the dilapidated broken windowed Army base building

View in the other direction from the same spot of four or five soccer games being played simultaneously. Art Deco WW2 facade in the distance.

Feel free to ignore me or let me know if I'm being annoying with too many questions, but I wonder this stuff all the time when I'm riding around, why parking protected is not more common.

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Okay, but now I'm trying to figure out the logic of that regulation. Why is there a required buffer from parked cars on the passenger side, but not from parked on the driver's side and from moving traffic?

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The only one I can think of is to use the bike lane sort of as a delivery and breakdown lane to prevent obstructions of car traffic. But I'm curious if there's a better reason than that.

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 23/09/2026

I'm just curious, what's the reason that parking protected wouldn't be an option here? Like, can't they just (in their bicycle lane option) swap the position of the bike lane and the parked cars?

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Being able to SSH to a Kindle probably should not bring me so much joy, but that's just the way it is

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 23/09/2026

I jailbroke an old Kindle, and wrote a server script that generates an image of our family Google Calendar and weather forecast. The Kindle fetches it & updates every hour during the day. It's e-ink, so we can do this for two weeks without charging. It makes me unreasonably happy.

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 18/09/2026

Keynes: "By 2026, everyone will be working 15-hour work weeks." Modern Conservatives: "Don't worry, we'll have everyone work 15 hours a week just to heat their house and drive their car"

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 18/09/2026

Obligatory note of respect to Zach D. Carter's Price of Peace, which made me a Keynes stan. Short, funny, conveyed an ideology and a history and a story all at once.

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 18/09/2026

Keynes: "By 2026, everyone will be working 15-hour work weeks." Modern Conservatives: "Don't worry, we'll have everyone work 15 hours a week just to heat their house and drive their car"

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 17/09/2026

Pretty cool podcast interview with him. Listened to it a couple of months ago songexploder.net/dj-shadow See also tapenotes.co.uk/project/tn40... (different album longer form interview)

songexploder.net

Episode 91: DJ Shadow

"Mutual Slump"DOWNLOAD: iTUNES · MP3In 1996, Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, released his first album, Endtroducing...... It’s been hailed pretty much universally as one of the bes

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 15/09/2026

In my retirement I'm going to open The Rorschach Cafe where you get random latte art.

Macchiato with latte art that looks sort of like a duck

Cortado with latte art that looks sort of like an eggplant with a bunch of dots around it.

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 14/09/2026

My lemon tree seems to want to become a weapon.

Lemon tree branches that are over half as long as a human index finger.

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 14/09/2026

"Detainees were not locked in" is some amazing levels of gaslighting and bullshit. "Yes, we made person-sized metal cages with locks, but we never *locked* anybody in them. We just put them in there and watched them carefully".

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 13/09/2026

Sold the longtail ebike, end of an era.

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 12/09/2026

This is not something I probably would have done without AI because the setup's a little bit finicky. Having LLMs as highly skilled text generators and Linux as a highly text-based system works very well together

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 12/09/2026

I just got LUKS hibernation set up on my Ubuntu machine and it's super cool. You can power off your computer and have the disk be encrypted (no worries about data loss if stolen) but then when you power it back on it's right where you left off. #Linux

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 05/09/2026

Since you wrote "each father" I felt compelled to go look up number one, who is a dancer with the last name Millepied.

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 03/09/2026

What I learned from jumpcut -- the long-defunct video editing website, that I made an awesome long video on and then lost when they shut down -- is that every platform is likely to let you down eventually.

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 03/09/2026

This is what I've been using for ~5 years. No syncing except what you do yourself but that's sort of a feature also, in that no cloud version of your unencrypted passwords exists. KeepassDX for android; and there's iOS apps. More like adopting a file format (kdbx) than a single app.

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 02/09/2026

I've been trying bigger models after I got a GPU recently and it seems hard to beat Parakeet unified. It's the most recent nvidia model and it does inverse text normalization -- putting numbers and other things in typical formats -- better than anything else I found

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 02/09/2026

Parakeet Unified 0.6B is the way to go if you have a big CPU or GPU or willing to wait a little bit. Canary 180M flash is the fastest for your phone or if you are otherwise in a hurry and accuracy is not so important.

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 31/08/2026

forgot all text. "Note on a refrigerator that says darkness is my cloak and fear is my knife" signed with the child's name (removed for social media posting purposes )

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 31/08/2026

Fridge note to let me know that a child in the house has been reading a lot of fantasy novels lately

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 30/08/2026

A chicken and egg problem perhaps

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 26/08/2026

The fact remains that the Netherlands has the lowest fatality rate per kilometer travelled in the world, so if we're going to spend airtime talking about bicycle safety, where the concrete goes is much more important than where the polystyrene goes

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 23/08/2026

My BMW-hater and war on cars sentiments grow deeper. Concrete separation of bikes and cars is the only answer with people like that loose in the world.

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 23/08/2026

Just about got run over by somebody in a BMW X4 backing out of their own driveway (had to tell "stop" at the top of my lungs) who then had the temerity to call me an asshole and flip me off as they drove away, after I asked them to please watch for bikes because they almost killed me.

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 23/08/2026

Really enjoying Poppy Aykroyd -- an affinity for loops like Four Tet, but is really accomplished pianist and music theorist and so I was able to implement a lot of variation and musicality with it. See also Hidden Orchestra which she contributed to b

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 22/08/2026

I knew there was a RAM shortage that was causing it to be more expensive, but I had not realized that the price has quintrupled in a year, until I thought of upgrading about upgrading a laptop

Camel camel camel listing for crucial 16x2 32 GB memory kit for a laptop with one year history increasing from $78 to $390

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I read the first volume of Barbarism and Religion several years ago and somehow came away with an impression that it was written earlier in the 20th century in England (probably read the first paragraph of his bio and stopped). Just now realizing It was written in Baltimore in 1999.

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Also respect to the guy who I passed on the way home whistling Walk Like an Egyptian in perfect tune. Unrelated, except that you just hear and see more cool things when you're biking than in a car.

Nothing says "Everything is alright; this city is awake and peacefully going about its business" like a group of 65-year-old ladies doing graceful motions in synchrony.