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If you threaten to kill one person that’s a TOS violation. If you threaten to kill a million people that’s discourse.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Other drivers honking their horns at me is cancel culture

"the left is ignoring the usefulness of AI" no it's more like it is kind of central to left leaning politics that causing massive negative externalities for your own personal convenience is a shitty way to live. you're just saying you do not like the implications of this position

how's the "tech is full of wokescolds" bit looking now that anyone critical of the numerous socialised harms caused by genAI is increasingly framed as an anti-progress killjoy even by their own peers

why would democratic leaders say that, give us that they are currently finding ways to continue to vote for more funding for ICE? why do we keep inventing fake democratic leaders in our heads instead of dealing with the fact that the ones that exist are fully compliant and must be replaced?

US people: today is your last chance to submit a public comment in support of transition-related care for youth, and against bans on Medicare/Medicaid funding to facilities that provide such care. Personal comments are best! go.eqca.org/a/cms-comments

"by enforcing the use of inherently addictive technology in the workplace, employers are (whether intentionally or not) making their workers addicted to work."

I have very serious political beliefs. My main tactic is telling everyone that everything they are worried about is a distraction from the real issues.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Yes, and another important question is: do you trust the government to decide who is evil enough to be locked in a cage? If not, congratulations! You're an abolitionist.

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

If there's a moral difference between telling teenagers to commit suicide, and building a company that makes a product that tells teenagers to commit suicide: why?

My theory that AI maximalists don’t know how to use a computer remains undefeated so far

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

"When you stand on the law, you're standing on something that's not yours." -- @nhold.bsky.social

To wit: this isn’t the easiest thing to do, but if you’re wondering if the new guy at the action/protest is an undercover, and they use the term “narcotic” in conversation, you have your answer. It just slips out of them.

Throughout the ICE raids, local and state police who answer to Democrat politicians have consistently done the dirty work to enable ICE to continue its campaign of ethnic cleansing. Politicians who talk about "maintaining order" are complicit in this campaign of terror. It's up to us. Just us.

Seen: “Decolonize Your Vision Board”

Spicy take: I wonder how much the push for LLM usage in software engineering is about pushing people with a conscience out of the industry

Igalia’s compilers team did a ton of awesome work in 2025, and we "compiled" it all for you in a blog post! Read it here: blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...

Purity testing also means "wow you guys sure care about genocides committed on foreign nations a whole lot what's up with that". We have standards and some don't like that. The bar is 'human rights for everyone'. How is that a big ask lol.

Most times I see purity tests mentioned, what they mean is "please stop caring that the candidate has a history of anti-trans stances". So I'm at the stage where anyone using the term needs to explicitly describe which policies they think are optional, because I'm not tolerating dogwhistles.

One thing I’ve learned that is that arguments in favor of something that does measurable harm to your community — using genAI, skipping vaccines, not wearing masks — are generally not reasoned or based in science or even deeply held beliefs. The actor simply does not want to *have to do something.*

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your AI coding assistant didn’t figure out how to do anything, it ripped off someone else’s code who wasn’t compensated and sold it back to you.

Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make. www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...

It's not too late to start again!

teaching a course with time and space for discussion makes most classroom technology unnecessary

I thought a lot this week about how coming up in the humanities inculcates a healthy view of how to incorporate negative feedback to improve yourself, versus how many in tech presumably missed that lesson, so bristle and start elonposting as soon as they hear any pushback, no matter how justified.

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Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

Wrote a blog post about the work I've been doing at @igalia.com to implement the Temporal proposal in JavaScriptCore: blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...

OH: “It was like a turducken of pope”

Sure is weird how much misinformation and rumors about Signal being insecure, being hacked by the FBI, being unnecessary and overkill for protesters, etc, have been circulating on the web lately. What a weird coincidence.

The only bad thing about boycotting Target is that it makes it harder to shoplift from them

#AbolishICE and #AbolishDHS to be sure. But why not just #OpenBorders? What are you scared of?

Sorry for the cursed liberal content on your TL, but it’s shit like this that I’m talking about when I quote Audre Lorde re: the master’s tools

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

you can't build genAI without first extracting, without compensation, all the existing intellectual and creative works you can get your hands on. genAI cannot be produced if you actually pay for its inputs, and the people building it are on record saying as much

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

there is a post from the US gov 'department of war' on here that includes video of them actually murdering people and threatening to murder more people & it's been up since november

*looks at a carceral state designed to oppress Black and Brown people* I look forward to when this state prosecutes and arrests white oppressors

We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.

So NOW can we have that conversation that the United States having the world's largest carceral state, the most (and most heavily armed) cops, the most prisoners, and the most cages, has never been about safety and always been about institutional racism and suppressing dissent?

I would argue there is a throughline here with every Palestinian in Gaza being called a terrorist

Biden had kids, infants, appearing in immigration court with no lawyers, no parents, and no hope of being treated like a human being. No one wanted to hear about it, let alone try to stop it while a Democrat was in the White House. ICE is a bipartisan monster for the last 25 years, not just now.

remember that when Israel bombed the first hospital in Gaza, they dissimulated, lied, and argued, expending tremendous resources to "complicate" the "narrative." a month later, it was the new normal

Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency" ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.

If you imagine justice as the maintenance of cages and rotation of their occupants, maybe work on your imagination.