Call me the Edmund Fitzgerald the way twenty-nine good men lost their lives going down on me.

hey so if ever was a time to love trans people it’s now

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

it's only a clique if it's from the warlord period in china, otherwise it's a sparkling friend group

huge thanks to everyone who came to my talk just now! Slides are here: github.com/eli-miriam/t... The worked example of ECDSA can be found within these slides: github.com/eli-miriam/t... (after the explanation of ECC curve parameters) #Oredev

you have to be earnest. you have to.

Yet another instalment of "tech company just can't resist overtly supporting white supremacists, even if it is strategically a massive own goal"

So, @frame.work decided to be the J.K. Rowling of tech then. community.frame.work/t/framework-...

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

when you become a boss you lose the right to chop it up with the employees in the break room. you gave that up in exchange for power. if you want a business AND the camaraderie, start a co-op

- informed consent in primary care - bulldoze every gender clinic - hold inquiries into the abuses that went on there - apologies + damages to patients denied care - bosh ✊ If someone wants to transition, at any age and for any reason, that’s their business.

this is basically portland's version of a haka

I felt 'being Mother 24/7' like a sniper shot to the nape of the neck

"i just use it to generate ideas"

Oh look, it's that easy. 🤷🏼‍♀️

actually the UK prime minister has unilateral power to declare universal basic income at any point. the way this is done is by making every single citizen a member of the house of lords

We are consistently told certain ideas are the only possible correct ones, and deviating from that makes you insane. And yet these ideas are demonstrably bad, shitty, self serving pablum that result in bad outcomes whenever they are tried. Where is the echo chamber?

Another highlight from #PyConUK! Katie Bickford gives a junior's perspective on doing difficult things. Contains advice for both junior developers *and* (importantly) the senior developers working with them! This is a topic that doesn't normally get enough airtime. youtu.be/7yfGMMei0b8?...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

if transgenderism is a dealth cult then why does it make me want to keep living my life to the fullest

Beautiful women. Let’s hear it for beautiful women

they believe that women are commodities and trans women are counterfeit women. it’s just pure misogyny. they do not think women are people, and plenty of feminists are fully on board with this logic

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

It's also not as simple as "CPTSD is trauma that started or happened in childhood." Adults are absolutely vulnerable to CPTSD-- and adults are no more to blame for their CPTSD than children are.

This was the final slide from my Reasons To Be Cheerful talk yesterday at #DDDPerth and it seems to have resonated with a lot of people so I’m sharing it here.

im gonna be my hot gay transsexual self regardless of how much they're trying to genocide us. i'd rather they not, but like, im not gonna stop anyway

I also feel stressed and one of the things I’d recommend is intentionally building trusting supportive relationships with another human being where both parties can support each other through the highs and lows of life. And if not that I’d recommend getting into the saxophone

thank goodness that there is still beauty and love in the world no matter what fascists would have you believe

can't believe I forgot: I'm god's specialest little boy and I'm always gonna be ok

oh god what an unutterably depressing list of people I used to like

Zack Polanski in his first speech as Green Party leader: "My message to Labour is very clear. We are not here to be disappointed by you. We are not here to be concerned by you. We're here to replace you."

why the fuck are so many of my loved ones Going Through It right now. mercury in gatorade or whatever

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

new tech thing after AI should be love

Welcome to Bluesky.

tech ceo: we poured all our money and resources into creating you. please tell us how we can turn a profit ai superintellegence: i don't know. you guys kinda chunked it ngl

Technically a Caesar cipher is military-grade encryption. They don’t mention *which* military

so the only legislative victories of labour, the uk's "centre-left" party are thus far 1. legal to kill grandma 2. all trans people banned 3. like 65% of all adults are now technically terrorists 4. do you have a loicense to read wikipedia

"Military grade encryption" by which people mean the password input for the key derivation function for the AES key is written on a post it that's stuck on the wall visible from someone's webcam

Good thing the UK government hasn’t gone all in on promoting AI, then, because I’m pretty sure the largest cooling load requirement in data centres comes from the vast amount of data required by generative AI. But it’s cool we’ve got the first “tech” version of paper straws.

god is testing me today and brother i have not studied

And then the tech people told each other that we were too privileged to need to unionize

Social constructs are incredibly important because, and here’s the thing, we are social

will gemini also get yelled at by my boss for me if i show up to work 15 minutes late?

hope is a discipline.

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

With Trump's tariffs hitting imports hard, software engineers should learn languages like C, C#, Rust, and Ruby which don't use `import` statements. This week, I hope to submit a Python Enhancement Proposal to change the `import` keyword to `use` to avoid tariffs. `from humor import bad_joke`

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.