Andrew Gioia @andrew@gioia.social

We finally got a few days where we could use these! #photo #daniel

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority...” —Carl Sagan

This was the biggest hit by far this Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

To defend against an Antitrust lawsuit, they decide to form a bigger Trust together... https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-facebook-agreed-to-team-up-against-possible-antitrust-action-draft-lawsuit-says-11608612219

Really cool 20 min documentary of a 1950s foundry/locomotive manufacturer. Absolutely insane lack of protective equipment O_O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67iHmxQFB-s

Reddit's 52MM daily active users is surprisingly low to me, and this is up 44% since last year. I guess this is why they keep cranking out dark patterns and why that won't stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25303423

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary Oliver

Christmas lights are up! Cant wait to get some shrubs on the front hill next year to make that look better for lights too.

Christmas music doesn't get any better than the Vince Guaraldi Trio 🎄

@mike dang those look real! I want that big one at the bottom left

I think that YouTube as we knew it is going to be done soon. The latest monetization move with minimum compulsory ads on top of already heavy ad volume, 3-minute sponsor reads, Patreon plugs, product placements, all in ~10 minute videos (!) is on the downward half of the curve. I've loosely noticed I just don't use it anywhere near how much I used to.

All things will invariably end up like cable I guess.

#Daniel has been picking his clothes out more lately and I love it! #photo

Found out about two awesome #foss #privacy tools yesterday: https://nitter.net as an alternative privacy-minded Twitter frontend and a fantastic FF extension to auto-redirect to it (among other similar services): https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect. No more Twitter login nags and way more UI control.

Adding Vimeo to the list of companies that both secretly enable auto-renew and have a really hostile refund policy. I really wanted to like them but this ensures I never use their service again unfortunately.

This form factor is incredible, seriously considering this over putting a Pi together for Daniel this Christmas 🤔

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/

In retrospect 50 pretzels may have been too many, but we’ll have them for at least a week 😜

Getting to that sweet spot where “chores” are still fun and exciting, but #Daniel is big enough to actually get stuff done! #photo

So close to signing off on this one, just need to get a ton of gravel to fill it in and to test out the fireplace! #project #photo

None of the seed I threw down (late) germinated but grass grows in these hay bales!?