Victor Villas' Feed

Two parties coming out of nowhere and doing better than COPE and OneCity is wild We are so over @grids.reillywood.com https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxqc6fi5nqfh5giucyskyxgv/post/3msbqrqqq3c2g

Project Hail Mary, 8 out of 10 A bit silly and the humor style is totally Ryan Goslig’s whole thing, but the story is great and the visuals have their wow moments.

The Odyssey, 8 out of 10 Beautiful landscapes and expositions, well executed renditions of the challenges, like the whirlpool and the animal shape shifting.

sigh… It was fun while these were just associated with outdoor activities.

I’m watching people plug claude opus into everything, including things that can be done in 10 ms combining grep & sed; and organizations applaud the use of AI regardless of efficiency — the opposite really, the over the top approach is easier to sell as p…

The Menu

As if I needed another reason to stop using #Google Search… cant search things while AirPlay’ing something to the TV because Google will include videos **which will autoplay** as I scroll the search results, hijacking the TV Give me a three page AI summary

Homework, 8 out of 10 Really dig Da funk, Alive, Burnin and Around the World.

Crazy budget in the midst of “zero means zero” cuts aside, I’ll be rooting and try supporting the Granville pedestrianization extension twice as much as I did the Gastown pilot.

The Modo #podcast is surprisingly interesting as they bring lots of small scale community building orgs working in the #Vancouver metro region

A world scale game of the prisoner’s dilemma, where the biggest and most powerful prisoner is a power tripping rich senile rapist… so I’m activist in the streets and hedging my defeat in the sheets.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@villasbc/116805870458452938 I get it now.

The power of propaganda.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116687314955490592 Consistently villainous behavior from Montague and Sim, supported by a team of sidekick enablers

Excited to see the 20 year mark of the Bitcoin paper and maybe see a refresh of this article: https://web.archive.org/web/20171223005413/https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100

Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias

If that's waterfront, why is this 45 km beach route not counting?

Is this a waterfront greenway?

"Vancouver has the world's longest uninterrupted waterfront path.

TÁR, 7 out of 10 A story of power imbalance, abuse and misconduct.

No Other Choice, 7 out of 10 Another well executed "slice of life hyperbole", a little bit of drama and a little bit of surreal and absurd.

That was surprisingly short #Canada census questionnaire.

Weapons, 7 out of 10 It feels like a good thriller, with some compromises.

Coisa de Rico: A Vida dos Endinheirados Brasileiros, 8 out of 10 O foco não é pragmatismo científico ou político, não é buscar ajustes para uma definição concreta de “rico”; pelo contrario, o foco é evidenciar o embaçada impossibilidade de definir uma pos…

I remember when back in São Paulo we had 10 different digital wallet apps fighting to death powered by blowing furnaces of VC-money.

Limite, 7 out of 10 Um dos pioneiros e campeões do cinema brasileiro.

Updated notes/now with new content: I've owned my domain and this website since 2019, but social media has been a much easier path to communicate with others.

Updated notes/now with new content: My image of a good life has remained simple and consistent since I was a teenager: 1) skate to work eating an apple; 2) dine and chat with interesting people; 3) chill under the shade of a tree.

These #bcparks #camping reservations are becoming harder to get than concert tickets, it's wild.

Updated notes/now with new content: I'm still working at AWS, with manageable levels of stress and off-hours work.

Updated notes/now with new content: It took me a few decades but I'm finally satisfied with my formulation of my life's purpose.

Updated notes/now with new content: It's spring in Vancouver, but I'm currently eperiencing Rio de Janeiro's Autumn.

I’ve had this #indieweb setup for a while now of aggregating on my personal website the things I say here on mastodon and my media tracking from neodb - Post-Elsewhere, Syndicate to Own Site (#PESOS); and besides putting it together on a home page, it gen…

Coisa de Rico: A Vida dos Endinheirados Brasileiros Peguei esse livro para complementar a leitura de "Os ricos e os pobres: O Brasil e a desigualdade" do sociólogo Marcelo Medeiros (que enfatiza como o problema da pobreza é um problema de desigualdade, e o

Os ricos e os pobres: O Brasil e a desigualdade, 6 out of 10 Interessante conhecer mais sobre os tipos de desigualdade, as características das métricas de desigualdade, medição de renda e patrimônio, definições de classes sociais etc.

Os ricos e os pobres: O Brasil e a desigualdade O tema da desigualdade é mais antigo do que a própria democracia; me bateu uma curiosidade de saber como anda o debate nesta década.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, 9 out of 10 So ingenious.

Books about Books Books on and about reading and books

Cinema Brasileiro https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_dos_100_melhores_filmes_brasileiros_segundo_a_ABRACCINE

Limite

Bugonia, 6 out of 10 A different kind of suspense and thriller, definitely current given the rise of conspiracy theorists in latest decades.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler I’ve read Invisible Cities last year while traveling, and it became my overall favourite book; so I’ll take the easy way in and pick up more Italo Calvino for this years big travel

Got this book looking for interior design and decoration expertise but got advice on which salt to use for a ritualistic bath, which precedes a “vibe” cleansing ritual to shake up the energy of the home, reading blessings as you go. — Find Yourself at Hom…

Vancouver had a blessed weather week and mood is fully restored.

I miss 2024 when people just said “tool” instead of “agent”.