I really want to get into stained glass but the place in Seattle that runs workshops has had a closed waitlist since before COVID. I know how to solder, but I'd love to learn glass cutting technique as I'm so good at injuring myself.

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

One of the best things about quitting my job is getting to curl up with a @tkingfisher.com book on a Tuesday entirely guilt-free 📚

Link getting suspended may be the last straw for me here.

Went apple picking today. You never know where you’ll find unpatched OpenSSL in the wild.

Ahhhh the neverending game of Portlander or #Monktoberfest attendee while sitting at The Speckled Ax 😂

Time to renew energy for the year with some of my favorite people at #Monktoberfest! On my way to Portland today, and will hopefully feel up for the boat cruise on Wednesday.

Can your stylohyoid ligaments grow back once removed? Intuition says no, but that same intuition says they shouldn't have turned into bone in the first place. I swear that logic is on a smoke break every time questions about my body come up.

We are so beyond “we have to run anti-choice Democrats” in order to win. We’re fighting fetal viability conditions now tyvm. Not the right to abortion in the first fucking place.

Pants are the tools of the oppressor!

and who says that collective action isn't effective?

So my legs have decided that they are on strike today. It's very effective. I will cave to their demands of...no pants.

CW: Death, Loss, Grief This Friday marks our beloved @tinu.bsky.social 's first yahrzeit. It's a very hard time for everyone who loved her, especially since so many of us have been dealing with the loss of loved ones this year. Do what you need to take care of yourself right now. cont...

BsOOOOOOO

Y'all pluralizing SBOM as SBOMs when you know full well that it's SBsOM

FINALLY FEAR THE OCTOPUS IT GOT BIGGER

same same

The more I learn about disability, the more it shows how little the world gives a shit.

FINALLY FEAR THE OCTOPUS IT GOT BIGGER

ssh [email protected]

I haven't slept through the night for months now, being woken up by spasms and muscle cramps. I am so beyond tired.

The Good Wife and The Good Fight were really underrated when it came to tech commentary.

"Probably hates plants" is my new code for "hateful person in the open source community".

That's how I feel about defenders of "AI literacy" in the classroom; you've added additional tasks for your students to perform critical evaluation of tools that nobody asked for (except administrators and LLM salesmen). 5/5

Shoehorning "AI literacy" into every single class strikes me as the same way "AI" and "productivity" is justified in the workforce. "AI" may save time (which it doesn't by many empirical studies), but the time taken on new tasks (e.g., checking outputs) has added much more time to the task. 4/

But I've taught data analysis for social scientists. I don't make students then critique the system design of Jupyter notebooks or Python as a programming language. I've taught on data and classification. I don't ask students "wow, isn't it wild what it makes up about Bowker and Star?" 3/

I want to teach X in the classroom. I have a set of learning objectives which are independent of the use of a particular technology. If I was teaching a class on LLMs, sure, then evaluating of LLM might be a part of the pedagogy. 2/

Something I see often in defenders of "AI" in the classroom (especially those who discuss "responsible" uses) is that, in using LLMs and then "critiquing" its output, we can then teach students to become more AI literate. This irks me to no end. 1/

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sunday's off to a great start— partner found me on the kitchen floor after my legs stopped working for a bit doesn't everyone like waking up with a bit of adrenaline (and paralysis) ?

Is anyone from @metr.org at #AI_dev today? I would really love to chat about the work you are doing!

Love being excluded for things I can't control. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy* inside. *Like a rotting corpse

I gave a whole-ass lecture on the history of machine learning in the booth today. Not to be confused with a whole ass-lecture. Very important distinction.

Pull requests don't respect conference schedules, but if you're at #OSSummit EU, I'm more than happy to chat (even if I look busy)! Come say hi and ask me for pins or stickers or unintentional puns 📌

Fun fact: my signal username contains a reference to Alias, the best spy show of all time.

Feeling the small smugness of someone who ordered delivery, didn't get the requested utensils, but who travels with her own.

If you are alarmed by the rise of these attacks on the open internet and what it’s doing to destroy platforms you love, @eff.org is fighting to keep the internet open and stop horrible ideas like identification checks. You can support that vital work here: eff.org/anil

Well, it might be a terrible call on my part, but I'm on my way to Amsterdam for #OSSummit EU. Would love to see you, if you're there 💜

First flight in quite some time and I've already been shoulder checked by a tall white dude in a hurry to get on the plane... *checks watch* ...45 seconds before me.

This sounds awesome. I would love having friends over who were totally chill hanging out on the bed with me watching something brainless and maybe gesturing at the idea of doing something that we won't remember starting.

"the work IS the product" I love this. We shouldn't devalue the experiences and feelings that go along with trying, failing, succeeding, falling down, getting back up, inspiring others, being inspired, and putting all of that into our craft.

Joy comes in many forms. ☺️ Guiding others in accomplishing their goals 🌱 Recycling yogurt containers into planters for starting seeds 🌊 Turning bottles into sea glass in a rock tumbler 🫧 Dish soap

The amazing event @alexhanna.bsky.social and I got to do with @karenhao.bsky.social about our books, moderated by @tamigraph.bsky.social and hosted by @datasociety.bsky.social now has a transcript available: datasociety.net/events/chall...

<taps sign> The Luddites were not against technology per de; they were against technology that devalued their work. And they certainly weren’t unfamiliar with technology. We should all be Luddites vis a vis AI.

"I mean, I would think that if you are getting attacked by a guy wearing flaky fish as a codpiece, you would haul ass in the opposite direction"

The Weakerthens

Walked into Elliott Bay Books, took two steps to the local section, and picked up The AI Con (@emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social) and The Incandescent (@emilytesh.net), and checked out—all before they had been open for five minutes. I love this place.

Let me be clear: there is no getting better. I'm at peace with that. No, I'm not throwing in the towel. I'm acknowledging that my future is limited and my energy is precious.

Oh hey. Nothing in life is constant, except change. I'm coming to grips with the fact that in my case, that change is decline. It's not an easy conclusion to contemplate.

Real talk: I'm not sure that things have ever been this bad in my life. That's saying a lot. I have survived stalking, abuse, assault, murder attempt(s), medical malpractice, and more. I have great capacity for thriving in the face of adversity. But right now, it is bleak.