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The 's endorsement of Gonzales is a betrayal of its readership and the city the paper is meant to serve. wweek.com/news/2022/10/1
As usual, The Mercury's endorsements are on point: portlandmercury.com/endorsements-2
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Again, the Mercury's endorsement is worth reading. It outlines the things Hardesty has done well and for which she gets little credit, and just how awful Gonzales's campaign is.
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For all the WW's "we need change at any cost" doomer attitude, they are also opposing charter reform. The WW is not advocating change. They're advocating an eternal status quo that benefits the rich at the expense of the vulnerable.
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Gonzales's campaign is based on a lie: that there's a quick and easy way to end crime and homelessness, and that it's incarceration. This is as untrue today as it was 4 years ago when we first elected Hardesty. We need more like her.
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In response, the police retaliated by trying to smear her with provably false allegations and through a work slowdown that exacerbates the city's crime problems.
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and other business interests that have fought real change in Portland for so long. Hardesy is one of the few city counselors to challenge that status quo in any meaningful way.
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There are numerous problems with this logic, foremost among them that Gonzales doesn't represent meaningful change. Despite his claims to the contrary, he is the status quo. He represents Portland traditional centers of power: the police unions, real estate developers,
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WW is suggesting by implication that Hardesty is so bad that Gonzales couldn't possibly worse, as they are not able to come up with any good reason to vote for him other than "Portland needs change."
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WW's endorsement reasoning is unbelievably bad. It's based entirely on the fact that he's not Hardesty, even though they admit that she's being unfairly blamed for the city's issues and has much to recommend her despite her mistakes.
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Who are some young comic book creators who I should be reading? Under? 40? Under 30?
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I can only think of a few fairly high-profile characters under 40: Ales Kot, Vita Ayala, James Tynion IV. Not sure how old Matthew Rosenberg and Sloane Leong are.
(webcomics, webtoons, and manga all totally count btw!)
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Also: "66% of people experiencing homelessness in Portland said they’ve never been approached by an outreach worker" and "75% of unsheltered Portlanders contacted by a housing worker never heard back" oregonlive.com/portland/2022/ oregonlive.com/portland/2022/
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A thing I wrote four years ago that (unfortunately) seems more relevant than ever: portlandmercury.com/news/2018/10/1
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New on Sewer Mutant, just in time for Banned Book Week: the inside scoop on what happened with Cry for Dawn from Joe Linsner, Joe Monks, and Robb Horan.
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Life after you land in tech: asks 3 tech professionals about milestones, mentors, and meaning.
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I'm on the newly relaunched ReadME Podcast explaining my favorite metaphor for understanding functional programming. Plus: it's been September for 29 years, open source pitfalls to avoid, and how to increase your luck
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Hear me out: open source makes developer minimalism uniquely possible, because you can go all the way down to any level you want and take just what you need.
Thoughts?
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A look into the bright future of the ever more powerful command line.
#programming #sysadmin #coding
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I have a new article out today. I haven't been this excited about a story I wrote in a while.
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There are a few projects that I wasn't able to work into the story that I think are worth a mention (though some of them are in that Awesome Terminals round-up linked in the article).
The Cobra library is a huge one:
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Other stuff worth a look includes:
Tmux: github.com/tmux/tmux
Kitty: github.com/kovidgoyal/kit
Alacritty: github.com/alacritty/alac
I'm sure there's lots of other stuff I don't know about as well.
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