"My local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide."

I actually think it's kind of important that all those opposed to the nationalist repressions on the march around the world today figure out ways to be in solidarity across borders rather than participating in the same kinds of nationalist essentialism motivating our enemies.

Don't blame me I voted for Kodos ass discourse

I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.

Altium365 implies that they either overshot their target by 5 degrees, or that the product isn't designed for February 29th.

Favorite sci-fi trope: Lever action energy weapons

Reclassifying all Internet arguments as CFIT

It feels like American trans women might do well to pick up some survival tactics from Russian trans women for the coming decade

Day off hacking: my command-line password manager (rbw, a bitwarden client) can now act as my ssh agent: any ssh keys in my password manager will automatically be queried when connecting to a remote machine, and `ssh-add` will now add keys directly to my password manager

yeah, they really are.

The skills, tools, and materiel of our own liberation are all around us, if we're only brave enough to pick them up!

Hoping for the best, but I remember who shot and killed David McAtee outside his business, miles the fuck from the protest zone back in the summer of 2020.

Okay look I'm not prone to nostalgia but I do think it would be really cool to listen to aphex twin again for the first time

antirez’s post is almost entirely about how AI lets you build more, and i’m honestly so tired of that take. it’s rooted in capitalist bullshit that demands we produce and produce and produce. more, more, MORE. i don’t care about building more. i care about building _better_

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

This line of thinking is a political dead end. Don't worry about how you can't change the mind of a fascist sympathizer, they're in the minority. Worry about educating, organizing, and mobilizing the millions of people who already oppose fascism but don't know what to do about it.

if u loved me u would buy me specialty adhesives

the open secret of course is that the police really run every city in this country. if you ever "mostly agreed" but called abolition unserious or impossible, at this point it's clear you need to spend a couple months in a Time Out before you're allowed to have an opinion like a big kid

For the love of God please

What if I made 1:160 scale-accurate LED signs and tram signals with electroluminescent paint

Spent my day yesterday building an airbrush fume hood

Academia has known this stuff since I was *in highschool*

Last night, 64-year-old Denise Lamont attended the first protest of her life. She said watching the video of Good’s death in Minneapolis “changed her” and the quick federal defense of the ICE agent angered her. She marched in Louisville, KY with a piece of cardboard taped to a soup spoon.

Checking on the constituent reaction to Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg’s AI chief video. www.instagram.com/reel/DTOWaRs...

If you agree there shouldn't be AI art and we shouldn't replace writers with AI or tv translations or whatever other decent job you can actually get, I just don't see how you can square that with gleefully transferring power even more to the tech executive class. Maybe I'm missing something.

Lol apparently I can't email my city government anymore, because they block Swiss (well, probably non-US) mail transfer agents

listen. progress is not a straight line but people were much meaner 20 years ago

ngl I lost any desire to apply for or work at oxide the minute they pushed out that absurd ai policy

Practically shaking in anger at the capitulatory nonsense that Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg pulled, and that the council has done nothing to address

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

Always disappointing to see a fellow marginalized person in tech go all-in on GenAI coding tools. Girl, these tools are hateable on their own merits! Nevermind the horror of who they empower and how they are empowered!

saw my first non-tech job listing whose first requirement was, "Be experienced or enthusiastic about AI dev" this is gonna get rough isn't it

New article with Natasha Quadlin and Jordyn Wald. Regrets, she's had a few. Women with computer science and engineering degrees are unusually regretful of their major choice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hell yes great write up about downtown Louisville’s glut of surface parking and why it’s a problem. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

I like being trans because it keeps you humble

i love how this piece of journalism presupposes that the reader is driving a car and is absolutely not a pedestrian

Everybody has two kitchen appliances that will change their life. The problem is, they're different for everybody.

Demolish I-64 and rebuild the Daisy Line, cowards!

Happy #TrolleyTuesday In the early 90s, Louisville had a light rail commission that included a subcommittee for an "excursion train". A waterfront trolley service that would mostly serve tourists, connecting the McAlpine Locks to the Wharf by the Belvedere.

New Year’s Eve didn’t just mark the end of 2025. It was the end of an era, as Baxter Avenue Theatres — one of Louisville’s last independent cinemas — screened its final films. www.lpm.org/news/2026-01...

if you need an ai to make programming fun for you, maybe you'd be better off just avoiding it

As I'm going through some old files at the beginning of the year, a snippet of conversation between me and a friend after her mom clocked me trying to boymode after 6 months of HRT:

this might be the year of nixos on my desktop

i'm still not sure which part of generating yaml or copy pasting example code from github at speed requires ddosing the internet, or extended roleplay sessions with a markov chain, or tacitly ignoring the deaths of vulnerable teenagers, but as ever, i guess i am simply too european for this

"What do you want the Dems to DO exactly?" is kicked dog behavior. Elected officials are not meant to do insider trading and occasionally give a 4/10 speech about civility. They are an expression of the values of those they represent, you're damn right I expect up to and including physical action.