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Totally. What spreads ticks - out of control deer populations that lack apex predators.

There’s a raging battle to decimate wolf populations in Montana. I’d encourage any and all to speak up.

https://fwp.mt.gov/aboutfwp/public-comment-opportunities Click on the dropdown for “Fall 2025–Winter 2026 Furbearer and Wolf Trapping and Hunting Seasons and Quotas.”

> Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MTFWP) is proposing new, despicable wolf hunting regulations that could allow up to 500 wolves to be killed. This would increase the number of wolves that can be killed next season by 50 percent, nearly half the state’s entire wolf population. MTFWP is also pushing expanded hunting and trapping rules, including allowing hunters to kill up to 30 wolves per person.

> This proposal comes despite livestock losses remaining near historic lows, with only 35 confirmed cattle deaths in 2024, and a significant drop in the number of wolves killed due to livestock conflicts. It is also worth noting that revenue from wolf hunting licenses is among the lowest ever recorded – which helps explain why these expanded rules are less about science and more about politics, profit, and desperation.

> The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will vote on this proposal at its next meeting on August 21. In the meantime, public comments are open through August 4, and wolves need your voice. In your comment, consider including the following:

- There is no scientific or ethical reason to kill this many wolves.

- Wolves pose no significant threat to humans.

- Wolves help maintain healthy prey populations by targeting the weak or sick, which may help control the spread of chronic wasting disease in elk and deer.

- Legal hunting can increase poaching.

- Traps and snares are cruel, outdated, and often harm pets and endangered species.

Will give this a trial, but just wanted to ask: does the svg export use SMIL or javascript or css? (If SMIL major props, I’ve been looking for a gui SMIL editor forever…)

I call it the trash compactor

The writing in the series is unfortunately terrible. It sinks the otherwise beautiful show with sterile and laborious narration/dialogue, telltale signs of over workshopped writing room slop, from which no real living plot ever emerges. Such a disappointment.

Everyone looks back at their old code with cringe. But more importantly you look back at the things you did and know you gave it your best with what you knew at the time. If on the other hand you decide not to do the thing then you will forever rob yourself of the chance to learn. So think of it as a gift to your future self. If nothing comes of it, whatever. That’s the normal course of things… On to the next one.

Link to close your account: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1379064/closi...

What I wrote about closing mine: https://pcmaffey.com/finally-i-closed-my-linkedin

5 years later no regrets.

My current theory is that it’s people in the throes of guilt, who voted for this, but can’t handle the daily reminder of the repercussions of their choices on the front page.

Highly recommend Hermes with a free Pandora account (Mac desktop app, no ads), if you just want to set a station and listen for hours.

https://github.com/HermesApp/Hermes

This is the primary reason I pay for TSA Precheck, to automatically opt out of the scanner without requesting a groping.

A search engine does not return a true answer. It returns a set of possibilities ranked by likelihood.

An LLM is just an aggregation of search results.

Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.

Culture warfare 101

I was just going to post this. Seems quite an obvious and significant distinction, that doesn’t need to provoke all the existential hand wringing. Making money off someone else’s content is a totally different moral and legal case.

That would be a wonderful outcome, if so. We need to protect our ecosystems from humans if they're to survive.

However, it won't happen because of wolf attacks. The big bad wolf is a fairy tale... Moose are orders of magnitude more dangerous to humans than wolves, and their reintroduction in Colorado does not keep humans away from wild spaces.

Ranchers are compensated for livestock lost to predation. In Montana, 137 livestock were lost to grizzlies, wolves, and mountain lions in 2023. [1]

For comparison, roughly 25000 cattle are lost to cold every year in Montana.

[1] https://liv.mt.gov/Attached-Agency-Boards/Livestock-Loss-Boa...

Also in base 6 all prime numbers > 2 have a last digit of either 1 or 5.

Your own website + email.

Also loom does not work at all offline, even the video recording…

The pendulum has swung too far. We quantify everything now, chasing numbers to the point of losing our sense of quality and craftsmanship. There's a huge difference between "going with your gut" and the ability to assess, qualify, and reason about something. To understand how and why something works or doesn't. Whether from first principles or experience.

Numbers provide a happy path for consensus. If the "why" of your project is to please as many people as possible, then web analytics probably works great. I'm not arguing they're categorically useless, only trying to surface the unspoken costs I see bear out in our industry from relying on them so heavily.

*Update: I removed the pagination and scrolling effects. The entire post can be read on a single page now.

(And I didn't need analytics to understand something wasn't working lol.)

Thanks for all the constructive criticism on the pagination. It's an experiment I'm playing around with on my personal site (which is what they're for right?). Definitely sounds like I should have tested it on a few more devices, lol. Will work on a more readable view.

In the meantime, a few helpers:

- Scrolling "past" the end of the page will move to the next page.

- Left arrow, Right arrow will nav back and forward.

- On mobile, swiping will do the same.

- Space and enter key will nav to the next page.

Try other grains besides oats. Barley, rye (flakes), spelt, triticale, buckwheat groats. I mix a few with sunflower seeds and various dried fruits into a large batch of muesli that I eat raw. But it makes a great “oatmeal” too if cooked or soaked the night previous. Plain oats is so bland.

We obsess about writing skills as a culture, and yet, almost never talk about reading skills. If people suck at reading they will suck worse at writing. And the internet has destroyed most peoples reading comprehension and attention.

Or put positively, if you want to improve your writing, read, a lot. Learn how to read analytical, for pleasure. Read stuff you dislike, disagree with. Understand why. Without a well developed sense of taste and comprehension, writing skills will never improve.

Would love to see bun work as a replacement for electron, using the existing os web browser, similar to neutralino, tauri, and muon. All told Im super excited to try this.

The answer is always some form of “share your knowledge.” But that’s the point where the well-trodden career path ends and you either hang out at the depot at the end of the road with the other lifers or you set out bushwhacking on your own to figure things out. There’s no pay-scale signposts. You become slightly unrecognizable. And everything becomes new again, which is extra challenging to your old-ass self, because you’re pretty comfortable in your ways. But, if you persist with it, I believe (I’m not there yet), there’s nothing more rewarding than seeing your knowledge sprout into a forest.

Why do we need to measure productivity? No one seems to ask that question. To me it seems that trying to measure the individual (people) parts of a system in some quasi-reproducable and transitive way does more harm to the total output of the system than good.

Do we measure trust (upon which all business is based)? If we relinquish individual productivity from our “measure all the things so we can improve them” obsession to the soft realm of the immeasurable, we might magically stop wasting so much time on stupid shit and accomplish a lot more meaningful work.

This is really nothing new for founders, who have always, generally speaking, wanted to optimize for control. And this path maximizes optionality. Hell even pg promoted the idea of raising a small seed and getting to profitability.

The problem is most early stage VCs don’t play this way. Their game is all about “selling” their investment to the next round up of VCs, who have a specific playbook for what that looks like. Rarely is that aligned with what makes most sense for your company.

Maybe in a post-boom era that’s going to change. Regardless, this blog post isn’t for founders. It’s for other VCs. So good for Terrence Rohan to try and evangelize the idea a little to the fast follow crowd.

Can you elaborate on the type of text content that would get the attention of authorities? I’d expect spam, and if multimedia was allowed, then that’s obvious. But I am perhaps too naive to have a clear threat model for text-based ugc that would need to be filtered.