Opening a codebase I wrote over a year ago...

i am begging on my hands and fucking knees for people who are "privacy advocates" and "security advocates" to stop fucking using ai slop images in your work. it makes me devalue everything you do the instant i see it. fucking quit it.

Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here’s a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.

Gosh I have so much work to do... but I'm too angry because the engineer who built the fucking space mirror for Reflect Orbital and then quit openly admits that it won't actually provide solar power and that it's just for "Maybe there's some, you know, grand party in the desert" But they're […]

"Accessibility in Tech Communication" a new blog post by me ✨ > As we enter into the enshittocene, the era of mass enshittification — the phenomenon where all parts of the internet we used to really enjoy is turning into shit — it becomes incredibly important that we take note of how much or […]

"Why We Fight For The Internet" a new blog post by me > There are a lot of things in this world worth fighting for. Things we would like to see improved in our society. Wealth inequality, corporate and political corruption, civil rights for queer people, especially trans and gender […]

‼️New blog post by me‼️ "Against Pessimism" > I know that it feels wrong to celebrate a small victory when so much else wrong is going on, but I promise you we won't be able to make it to the end if this is our outlook on life. If everything is terrible and nothing good ever happens or is […]

Trump's own declassified docs confirm Russia ran the Burisma/Biden smear with US officials to help Trump win in 2020. He released proof he was the beneficiary of foreign election interference. In a speech about foreign election interference. #ArrestTrump #indictrepublicans #USpol

"Tonight's speech is intended to add the predicate that he needs to declare an emergency at or about the time of the elections," says former White House attorney Ty Cobb. https://to.pbs.org/4fEBoK5

I wrote a non-technical guide to getting started on the Fediverse ("Social Web", as some have taken to calling it). I'd appreciate it if you gave it a read and shared it with your friends who are still stuck on commercial social media. I'm trying out a thing lately where I communicate about the […]

I think it's really nice when somebody takes the time to hit like on a few of my toots before they follow me, so I get an idea what interested me to them. I have a public account so it's not informing decisions, but I just think it's nice :ablobcatbongokeyboard:

Started reading "Good Friends" by Priya Vulchi on my car trip to see my sister. Only one chapter in and she's already discussing queer theories of relationships, questioning the patriarchy, and discussing race. And surprisingly to me, it seems she's even […] [Original post on defcon.social]

Today, the European Commission preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook. The investigation focuses on features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the platforms’ highly personalised recommender […]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116898329613173808 If you use Instagram, you probably want to read this.

#privacy #digitalsovereignty #kidsact #chatcontrol

RE: https://indieweb.social/@lonseidman/116892974921542237 Wow, we're now at a point where the Google situation is so bad, that publishers feel comfortable leaving the platform without even coordinating together about it. Not quite the same thing, but imagine what could be possible if the […]

Thinking of doing a series where I look for open source projects that get a lot of AI-assisted contributions, then use git blame to find parts written by agents. Then, I try to re-write any low-quality sections so it's less obfuscated, and conveys intent better. Mostly as a kind of career prep […]

Feeling very upset about the realities of our gendered society lately. Why must we organize our society based on weird bioessentialism. Let me be who I want, this is dumb. Why must I be boxed in?

funny how that works

It’s fascinating to live in a time where the majority of global consumers are just fed up and hate everything new on the market. Hate removal of physical media Hate forced AI Hate video surveillance in cars and homes Hate micro transactions Hate digital subscriptions What a time to be alive!

If you are a member of Codeberg e.V. please take the time to participate in the poll that was just sent out about banning vibe-coded projects on Codeberg. Please agree to the proposal. Slop can live on GitHub.

Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for […]

Elon #musk’s PAC sent out pre-filled ballots in 2024 to get #trump elected. That’s election fraud. The state of Georgia has begun proceedings over it. https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk

RE: https://godforsaken.website/@threeofswords/116874757547101904 I never understood why the battleground on "should trans people be allowed to play sports" debate had to fought at the government level. It seems simply ridiculous that the proponents of banning trans kids from playing 10th […]

My instance recently updated to whatever newest version introduced UI changes. Wasn't a fan at first, but after a bit of time looking at it, honestly these changes are really nice. Makes it a lot easier to skim a profile and see the important stuff, while keeping less important details smaller […]

It’s wild and depressing that in the space of 20 years, we went from: “I can now share my furry fanfic or my penis puppetry show with the entire world without worrying about any government or tv channel censoring or gatekeeping me out.” To: “I can’t spell the word s*x, or anything a 1960s […]

It's a beautiful day everyone. I got my Writerdeck¹ set up just recently. Did some journaling on it this morning in a beautiful Windows XP theme on Linux², which also led to some pretty fulfilling breakthroughs in own personal development and some things that have been nagging at my mind for a […]

DAMN STRAIGHT! #scotus #GOPHypocrisy

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glad we're all in agreement that its gooseposting time today :honk_pride:

The more time I spend thinking about open source and the future of the fediverse and the free and open internet we're trying to build, the more I realize that nearly every important problem in tech is a problem requiring *humanities*, not just STEM. We can't program our way out of social […]

‼️ New blog post ‼️ "A Reasonable Analysis of the Social Web: or, How Not To Promote A New Tech Alternative" Wherein I discuss the promise of the Social Web (fediverse), ask some questions about what all it could be become as it matures, and throw some modest criticism at the ways that our […]

i found a fax machine and an answering machine in my basement so please: disrupt my day call me, leave me a voicemail or send me a fax https://line.supitszaire.com

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lyss_lain/116790811291730339 If teaching girls how to use Fedi makes me a bad influence then consider me GUILTY AS CHARGED

[incredible exchange from the hardware store] cashier: oh, i’ve never seen that name before! I like it! customer: thanks, it’s Gaelic cashier: happy pride

Currently working on a a kind of web app wrapper for 11ty that handles both editing and publishing a static site. It's nearing the stage where I can actually start to test it out, so I'm wondering if any of the #indieWeb folks have any good recommendations for […] [Original post on defcon.social]

‼️ New blog post ‼️ "Big Tech, Mutual Aid, and the Social Web" In which I talk about the need for community ownership of our online spaces. I also discuss the fact that basically everybody who's actually trying to get some good done in this space is scaring away regular folks by using Nerd […]

Over the past week I’ve been working with a group of organisations from the world. Plans are underway to launch a new global movement to oppose restrictions such as bans or device scanning that harm the open net. Formal Announcements we can expect tomorrow in the meantime […]

Computer Science truly belongs to the Humanities department -- usually Anthropology -- but everyone wants it to just be Engineering, so that's what it is, I guess

Big Tech is spending $10 Million to try to smear a NY politician for daring to create a piece of legislation that barely had any teeth, but which was intended to regulate the AI industry. They're trying to make an example out of somebody who has done functionally nothing to actually regulate AI […]

It’s honestly embarrassing how some people post screenshots of some of their AI convos to prove something one way or another. Take me back to astrology and quiz posting

See the iPhone was fucking shit compared to other smartphones at the time, like it was YEARS behind, but apple did that thing where, like, remember how they did it with MP3 players? Instead of saying stuff like "four gigs of space, six hour battery life" they said "A thousand songs in your […]

‼️I wrote a new blog post‼️ "An Exploration into Reinforcement Learning" I talk about how RL is different from modern generative "AI" systems like LLMs. I also go over how specifically RL works, including a decent amount of algorithms and math. I also talk about a little proof-of-concept […]

This is on my mind for several reasons bc I've been witnessing in a few different places lately, but wow, I just wanna say that representation really matters. I mean, it's just transformative. And not just "tell the story of our struggle"¹, but also, it's important to tell the story of us just […]

I filed an amicus brief this week for Techdirt arguing that Louisiana's social media age-gating law, like all Internet age-gating laws, violates the First Amendment. I filed it at the Fifth Circuit, which struggles mightily with upholding the First Amendment... Here's a post about what we […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116677899531441884 slowly, corporations are finding out some jobs can't be replaced by markov chains that talk like joseph Goebbels.

Any language learners got any unconventional tips for the best way for an American to learn German? I've took out some books from the library[1] to get me started, cuz I'm a very textbook style learner. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking maybe Wikipedia articles might be something? I already […]

I've of course heard a lot about AI Data Centers lately, but I've not yet seen any good investigative journalism about them that felt like it really gave the topic enough room to be fully understood. This video in collaboration between PBS Terra and Floodlight is a really good piece about data […]