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Next.js: the JS framework for Nazi bootlickers 🚮

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Something I should point out (again): Bluesky has *no* monetization. It's running purely on VC money. Someday they hope to sell user data, run ads, and license the code, but for now it's basically just an extended beta test. A blackout has literally no effect on the site nor its owners.

This #WorldAlzheimersMonth I'm sharing a pic a day from my Memory Seed Bomb series. Dedicated to those lost to memory disorders, each painting is a forget-me-not seed bomb based on a person/memory. Designed to be planted, the painting dissolves, but lives on in it's flowers. This is for my mom.

I'll be there too! Come hang 🍄

anyone calling me on the phone, literally ever

1. For poor white kids: If you have a job while in high school, and your boss texts you a schedule change and you miss it? You can lose that job. What percent of high school kids have jobs that they need and depend on to make rent? Which race of kids are most likely to work in high scool?

hey cis people. It really sucks to be trans right now. We could use your material support. For example, if you could throw in anything for my friend's top surgery I'd really appreciate it. chuffed.org/project/lee-...

'sup nerds. Does anyone have recommendations for training materials on using git/GitHub in a team context? I remember struggling with this in my first SWE job, but it was so long go that I forgot how I taught myself.

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

*deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

Whatever marginal decrease in near-term risk that silence buys is more than offset by the certainty that silence now ensures fascism's consolidation of power and an incredibly risky, bleak, future.

Moldy

every time I see a notable media person say something odd about the notable person who was killed this week, I remember how working at CJR taught me many white journalists find it easier to sympathize and empathize with right wing individuals than non-white journalists they actually work with

Remora House exists because we saw a need & just started doing stuff! You can just do stuff to help each other. Find other people also doing the stuff. Learn from them, don’t reinvent the wheel. But you don’t need anyone to tell you to make a lasagna for your neighbor when they need the support.

transmasc folx who have gotten top surgery with Kaiser in Northern California: How was the process?

This is a country of people who mostly can't get 8 people to a meeting consistently but who think others should get 10,000.

Mentally @ing every single one of you

I've seen a few posts pointing out a calavcade of ToS updates recently, and as a lawyer who's been part of that process in-house: it's probably not a singular law, but a critical mass of similar laws in various jurisdictions, in this case probably both AI and age-verification laws.

Wild to me that a CEO sets goals about outcomes that have nothing to do with the business (are customers more satisfied? Is the product more reliable? Etc.) Setting the goal of what % of code should be AI-generated is as useful as setting the goal of how many lines of code devs should write per day

I wrote about @iceblock.app, the developer's infuriating HOPE talk, and how it's unfortunately basically activism theater micahflee.com/unfortunatel...

wake up babe, new AI company logo just dropped

sometimes I (slightly!) delay feeding the cat, because she's so affectionate when she wants something

WIP for the annual mushroom art exhibition at Hellvella Art.

I scheduled my updated COVID booster / flu shot at CVS in SF. CVS has plenty of appointments available. I did have to check a box certifying I'm high risk. For once having depression is good for something lol.

you #vegansky, does agar agar go bad?

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For 2 years now I've been using my "spare time" to do UX consults on a new platform for artists - @armadillostock.bsky.social ! Today they've launched their Kickstarter to get the website v1 up and running: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia... Please spread the word, contribute if you can, etc 💕

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

FINALLY figured out how to get my Barco ScreenPro II-HD dialed in the way i want (translucent glitch layer on opaque non-glitch) featuring @annthurium.bsky.social

wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Tom Clancy's Savaged By SystemD

i think Third Way's "advice" to Democrats is a cynical ploy to tighten the grip their corporate allies have on the party, but for a moment let's all appreciate this statement of their principles, where the first principle is principle.

We’ve all clenched our jaw before. Most of us have clenched our buttocks. But have you ever clenched anything else? Your hair? A novel? Is such a thing even possible? At clench.ai, we aim to

Hey Cat mentioned one of my favorite new concepts I learned from her while listening to a podcast! So I’m gonna bring up another really brilliant thing from that podcast. Let’s chat about pluralistic ignorance and what developer experience people should know about it! 🧵

"the cobbler's children have no shoes" also applies on an organizational level.

I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing

Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader? I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.

Additionally no other country on earth has the policing capability of the U.S. And those of us who have spent our adult lives warning about what this would mean, can only say that people should have moved decades ago to shrink law enforcement and in some of our estimation to abolish it.

🤔 It will always be weird to me how many people refuse to believe their end goals, when they've been so clear and open about their goals and their plan right from the beginning. They view ethnically cleansing the US as absolutely necessary. Destroying the US economy is an acceptable sacrifice.

I have now reached the level of Bluesky where men are explaining my own jokes back to me 🙃 I didn't run into this back on Xitter until I had a much higher follower count. interesting

In some ways, transitioning is just redefining the problem set you'd like to grow old with.

I’m looking for my next role! Ideally in tech/web leadership. I’m very interested in web accessibility, privacy & standards as leader. I’m also open to mid-level browser engineering roles. My full CV is: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧵Below is a thread of cool things I’m currently doing

New rule: if you've never bothered to spend one (1) day volunteering as a poll worker and learning how ballots are actually counted, you don't get to propose legislation changing how people vote

Fascinating read. Maybe the tech industry needs to recruit some salts. 🤔

🧵 “Target is experiencing its 6th straight month of declining foot traffic, with store visits down nearly 8% and a $12 billion loss in market value following its rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.” Heads up, anti-DEI investors www.blackenterprise.com/target-decli...

Hester doesn't care about the internet. she just wants to eat greens and be left alone.