Alec Perkins @alec@perkins.pub

First time riding a next gen CitiBike. They are really something!

Never before has a program satisfied my expectations so perfectly

The most correct take on the Amy DeGise hit-and-run https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-stress-podcast/id1584766301?i=1000574767917

The segment https://www.npr.org/2022/08/01/1115001897/how-a-new-jersey-city-has-achieved-0-traffic-deaths-in-4-years

Good segment about Hoboken’s vision zero success on All Things Considered today, featuring Ryan Sharp. I’m glad it’s getting national attention!

Camera bike falling over really emphasizes just how steep that finish is. 24%! #TDFF

Whenever I change a bike tube I think about the guy who told me, sincerely, that Presta valves are a conspiracy by Big Bike to make us repeatedly buy small, easy to break parts.

Bun bum

It turns out that a bike from the dump is kind of dumpy. Who knew.

Westworld found its groove again.

I am tickled that the phrase “that was a terrible tweet” is now part of the Congressional record.

Also reminding me I need to clean the gutter.

I knew intellectually how big ravens are but I was not prepared for how big ravens are

And then I see a real life counterpart to the allegory in The Stone Sky: https://twitter.com/jimmyjenkins/status/1547631501323292672

Late to the party but I finally finished N K Jemisin’s “The Broken Earth” trilogy, and it more than deserves all the awards and hype bestowed upon it. Easily one of my favorite reads the last few years.

“It's so much energy that I have to use just to exist in a room with you, because I don't trust you. That, I feel, is a very good metaphor about how computationally blockchain works, and what is the underlying philosophical idea behind it, which is, 'We want a world without any sort of centralized authority because we cannot trust any of them ever.' And that is the opposite of what we want as a society, in my opinion.” https://www.pcgamer.com/developer-turns-future-of-gaming-talk-into-a-surprise-attack-on-conventions-nft-and-blockchain-sponsors/

Meanwhile, Vega is like “wtf I’m right. here!”

We are so small.