Kee Hinckley
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Passionate about making social media a safe place for everyone.


SWE with a BA in Anthropology.
Four decades on social media.
From Bell Labs intern to Meta TL in Scaled Human Review (it doesn’t). Currently consulting.
Previously nazgul, mooshjan, and coyotetoo (a long time ago) on Twitter. they/he

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Banner Art: ©️ Shadi Fotouhi. Four self-portraits of my daughter depicting various medications and the emotions they are meant to treat.


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Kee Hinckley

Boston-area peeps!!!

I'm in town seeing family. This Sunday (Jan 12) I'm going to park myself at Diesel in Somerville from noon to two. If anyone wants to drop by, please feel free! No prior interactions required.

I'll try to grab a table in the back.

(Looked to see if I had a photo of Diesel and the one I have is so old it's from the days when if you took a picture while moving (on my bike) it sometimes was distorted.)


Tags: #boston #somerville #cambridge #massachusetts #boston #somerville #cambridge #massachusetts

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Ian Betteridge

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Good lord, Peter Thiel really does have the brains of a 14 year old Reddit poster.

ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4


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Draw an iceberg and see how it will float.

joshdata.me/iceberger.html


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Trans Pride Molotov Men's T-Shirt | A. G. Quinn's Shop agquinn.threadless.com/designs


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Some thoughts on house fires (having had one).

I see right now they're saying over 5000 buildings burned in one of the LA fires, and 1000 from another. But the the number will increase.

In some respect having your house reduced to ashes is easier. You just build a new one. Assuming the money is available of course.

But a lot of people will find that they didn't insure the contents of the house for enough. And they didn't have riders for particularly unique items. Check yours; even if you rent.

Others won't have documentation of what they had in the house, and the insurance will want proof they don't have. Video your house while talking about stuff. Save receipts in the cloud for major items.

But there will also be homes that survived the fires, and maybe they don't even look too bad. But it's not that simple. The plus, you can document what you lost, and you don't need to start the house from scratch. The minus, rebuilding has complicated decisions. And what survived is not as clear as you might think.

A few decades ago we had a house fire when we were away. Halogen torchère lamp without a wire cover. Some papers fell onto it from a bookcase. Lamp was on a timer.

A neighbor spotted the smoke. The fire department got there quickly. The house was just a few minutes from the flashpoint where everything in the house would have gone up at once. The microwave melted. The finish on the newer furniture upstairs melted. The thermostat upstairs melted. It was very close.

  • An insurance adjuster came and spent a week inventorying everything in the house. He produced a 100 page spreadsheet. We had to put values on all of it.
  • I hired a friend to help me in the library. We went through every book, keeping those lower down that survived, tearing the covers off the upper ones so we could see what they were, and recording title and author of everything. My original US copy of The Hobbit looks like someone found it in Smaug's treasure pile.
  • Every piece of clothin,Cloth, rugs.... had to be treated for smoke. Only about a third survived the treatment. Leather was hopeless; it came out brittle.
  • Newer furniture with cheap finishes was hopeless. Some of the antique wood ones we had refurbished. They'd super lightly sand the grime off. But one of my dressers still smells like smoke on hot days.
  • And the smoke was the issue. We had two choices. Tear it down. Or remove all the interior paneling, and coat the framing in a sealant that would keep any smoke smell from escaping. Because that smell was embedded in every piece of unprotected wood in the house. We went with the latter, and it worked. But wow that was a lot of work.
  • Rebuilding took about six months. We had to rent a house. Friends donated furniture. Our kids were still able to go to the same schools. With a fire like this that's going to be much harder. Where are those folks going to stay? Where are they going to get contractors? Richer folks are going to be in a bidding war for contractors, prices will be insane.

I will say, USAA insurance was a dream. They even went to bat for us when the contractor tried to cut corners. Not sure if they are still that good though. And of course a lot of insurance companies have left CA, and this fire might bankrupt some. The current insurance (and the "you have to rebuild to get the money") model are not going to survive climate change.

We were very lucky. We ended up with a home that was even more personalized. I ran Ethernet to every room! (Just in time for wifi to make it unnecessary) And we lost very few things that were irreplaceable. It's going to be a lot harder for these people, and it's going to impact many many people who didn't even lose anything.


@nazgul
Lots of reports of State Farm pulling out of CA and lots of customers unable to connect to new insurance by the end of 2024 so they are left with nothing but the value of their land.

by Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦 ;

@nazgul Having just rebuilt after a fire that even damaged the concrete of the foundation...
Even if you have reasonable amounts of insurance, unless the limits on your policy were updated within the past year or two, it won't cover rebuilding: construction costs have exploded. My builders kept being surprised by some of the costs, and some things I priced out just after the fire were much more expensive 2 years later when we were ready to buy them.

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Tags: #housefire #fire #palisadesfire

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Tags: #maine #sunset #photography

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My mother's dog keeps reminding me...


Tags: #dogsofmastodon

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@Qybat @dzamie That's pretty funny given that the US has been at war with someone for 224 of the past 246 years.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_


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I keep seeing articles about how the new generation in the (U.S.) workforce "never grew up". And while every generation says that about the next one, this one feels a little different. In particular, when you dig in, what folks are actually complaining about is that newer generations have realized that "sell your soul to work so you can have a house-in-the-burbs, family, and retire" was never a good deal, and now isn't even feasible. (Never mind that it was a white-male-only fantasy in the first place.)


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Mexican President trolls Trump over his wanting to rename the Gulf of Mexico.

youtube.com/watch?v=eLPH3d-WkH


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@343max @designthinkingcomic I had the same thought the first time. But I mean, it is drawing me to the articles and sometimes read them, so I can't really fault it.
The comic usually seems to be about a third of the way down.


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No changes fortunately. But the rest of LA is not so fortunate, and very few of the fires under control. As one article I saw said, they're trying to fight a wildfire with city fire infrastructure. Over 100K people evacuated. And the insurance coverage fallout, both for companies and the state system, is going to be massive.

And yet conservatives are blaming DEI rather than climate change.


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It all makes sense now.


@nazgul Greenland Greenland Greenland
The island where I want to be
Eating sushi or pizza
Or just watching TV
Greenland Greenland Greenland
It’s the island for me!

by Zen Zero ☯️ ◯ ;

@nazgul There are few good things you can say about Trump. One of them is that he is no warmonger. He didn't start any armed conflicts. This looks to me more like the start of a strong-arm negotiation tactic, like those he would use in business. "I am bigger than you and could just crush you and take what I want. But that would be a lot of trouble and effort, so I offer you this pittance. You should take the deal I offer and make this easier for us both."

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@nazgul
Yeppers PIMP-putin his Biatch-n-them GOP C_CKS_KERZ Shitshow on SteroidZ.

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I have a suspicion that his ranting is about all that water in Greenland. What better way to acquire all the water rights.

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The Laken Riley Act, passed today by House Republicans and 48 House Democrats, “tramples on important due process principles – greenlighting detention and deportation for those accused, rather than convicted of low-level crimes.” americasvoice.org/press_releas


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@CptSuperlative Unfortunately they are both in Boston right now.
But some friends went and got some personal stuff that they wanted to save just in case.


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Well. The evacuation lines keep moving closer to my daughter's place.

Under a mile now. She's in the bottom left.

I can't imagine how overloaded those firefighters have to be.

If you need evacuation maps, this is the best I've seen and works well on mobile.
protect.genasys.com/search?z=1


@nazgul

This and the other fires are the #1 news item on the BBC.

The scenes are absolutely awful 🫤🤦‍♂️

by Simon Zerafa ;

No changes fortunately. But the rest of LA is not so fortunate, and very few of the fires under control. As one article I saw said, they're trying to fight a wildfire with city fire infrastructure. Over 100K people evacuated. And the insurance coverage fallout, both for companies and the state system, is going to be massive.

And yet conservatives are blaming DEI rather than climate change.

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@Rycaut Yeah. Last year I gathered data from our health insurance expenses and used that to adjust our plan. Looks like this year I'll do the same for dental. We didn't have a plan last year because we were spending a few months in Mexico and that was far cheaper than anything we could do here.


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@paul_ipv6 The thought did occur to me that there was a bad joke in there somewhere.


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Washington State peeps.

Do any of the non-DeltaDental ACA plans cover crowns?
I didn't spend a lot of time comparing, because no matter where I've lived or worked, DeltaDental was the standard insurance.
But it turns out the plan they offer doesn't cover crowns at all. And even if they did, the maximum they will pay for a year is $1000, which kes less than a new crown.

wahealthcarefinder.org would let me search for this, but only if I'm picking a new plan. There's no way to compare once you've picked a plan. (Why why why? I'm tempted to set up a dummy account just to find out. 🙄)


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Has anyone told Trump that Greenland isn't as big as it looks on a map?


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