Why men great 'til they gotta be great?" -Lizzo Happy Holidays to all but my neighbor's toxic, rape culture pyramid climbing, little shit of a son. I'm trying not to end up in jail on X-mas Eve by chilling my hot head outside with some snow shou. Fuck the Patriarchy & what it makes of us all. 💔

New post: "The rebellion will be federated - 2025 edition" where I revisit last year's article with my pledge to champion FOSS and alternatives to Big Tech platforms. This is how I fared: blog.elenarossini.com/the-rebellio...

Governor Hochul just chose to let big tech keep selling private health data without app users' consent. Hochul keeps siding with the rich because she thinks Dems will forget her deeds by June or won't care. But with each such act, she is steadily pushing more orgs toward @delgadoforny.bsky.social.

“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable"

Archaeologists use Munsell books to describe soil colour all the time. I never thought to dig deeper into this colour system! 🧪 🏺

Don’t miss Emily’s interview with extern Sadie Colby, currently studying at Maine Law, as they talk about cash bail from an indigent defense perspective. Tune-in this Sunday, December 28 at 1:30pm. Listen live at 90.9 WMPG FM or stream: www.wmpg.org

substack.com/inbox/post/1... Maine Wire editor-in-chief Steve Robinson

Before I sign off for the rest of the year, I am pleased to present the complete and 100% correct BLOOD IN THE MACHINE guide to the best books, TV and film about AI and tech in 2025 (that I managed to read/watch). Enjoy, and happy holidays everyone www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-best-b...

Spoke with Dr. Takeisha Carr about how @blackskyweb.xyz is forking the internet and building a different kind of company from the ground up. (available wherever you listen to podcasts)

It was only a matter of time before they came knocking here in #Maine "The proliferation of AI is, at its core, an anti-democratic process to create a deeply authoritarian world. The lack of public input to this process is a feature of this technology, not a bug." Article by @cascobay.bsky.social

I can tell who's around for the mission, who's around for the money, and who's around because we have attention and I'm not kind to the latter two.

Electrifying development on EelTok @erinbiba.bsky.social

The "Natural Flavoring" of the tech world right now.

Had we but falcons enough, and time, This widening gyre would be no crime. Yet the blood-dimmed tide shall flow, Vaster than empires, far less slow. And if the center cannot hold— Well then, lady, let’s be bold!

Some Epstein files can be unredacted🧵 1/ "Someone on BlueSky noticed that they could select redacted text - eg the original text was still available just obscured, from US vs. Virgin Islands, Case No.: ST-20-CV-14... www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

Day 23 #artAdventCalendar is My hand-carved, hand-printed lino block print of the well-known, ancient Chinese folktale of the magpie bridge linking the lovers, The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, separated by a great river, which is the Milky Way, is printed on lovely Japanese paper, 11” x 14”. 🧵

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Maine Coons are great because they're cats the size of human toddlers and when they stomp around you WILL become convinced that someone has broken into your house and is coming to get you, only it's a three-year-old caliby with no thumbs who is dragging your bra around like a dead rat.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Reading my 100th book of the year (!) and accosting my spouse with loon facts at every opportunity: loons have solid bones, not hollow, and their average lifespan is around 30 years. Their eyes turn red around 2 years old, likely to signal sexual maturity. In conclusion: loons!! 📚

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Back when Twitter was useful, I asked historians and archivists about the things they found in the archives that made them go 'wut?' and wrote this piece about it. theconversation.com/i-asked-hist...

"It is not a substitute for what is held in these institutions, but I hope that my list has made it easier for people to locate and access documents that illuminate the history of those who have struggled...

"If your entire internet life happens inside TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, or Twitter, you’re simply mall-walking, and malls are fine: predictable, climate-controlled, food courts and chain stores on every corner, but... open.substack.com/pub/offlinec...

I've now updated this post to include the overwhelming poling data from crime survivors themselves. The fact that establishment figures lie to people about what crime victims want is one of the great shames of the modern Democratic Party and liberal punditry:

If your thing says Bluesky without mentioning Blacksky, it's cool -- I'm just going to act like you and your project and your company don't exist. It's atproto or stay on your side.

BSides Maine - community-powered hacker conference for New England’s builders, breakers, and experimenters. Happening on May 30 from 9am to 5pm at Hannaford Hall in Portland, #maine. More info and registration at https://www.bsidesmaine.org. #maker #hacker

Favorite winter activities include: sitting in my hallway in front of the wall furnace with a big cup of shou. #teasky

The real reason is that they don't want us to be able see the sheer scale of this warrantless mass surveillance because they know full well we don't want it and it's almost certainly unconstitutional! deflock.me/map#map=12/3... Cancel #Flock! 🚫 #deflock #alpr #surveillance #flocksafety

This is shameful, and it won’t get better under the Skydance regime.

Another shout out to @germnetwork.com for displaying the Blacksky logo for users hosted on our PDS. Also leading the way by calling it atproto and not just bluesky

Maine is set to limit local police involvement in federal immigration enforcement with a new law sponsored by Rep. Deqa Dhalac. The law won’t take effect until the summer of 2026, but advocates say it’s a crucial step to protect immigrant communities.

A little advent calendar of #ComputerSaysMaybe episodes coming your way. The first is an episode beautifully cut by our team to give you an overview of my time at @mozilla.org Festival in Barcelona, including some interviews with amazing folks. www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...

Y'all this one was fun. I love when the subject is actually more radical than I expected, not less.

Every once in a while I revisit @everest.bsky.social’s awesome directory of tiny tools for creative coding. Instant inspiration: pick a random tool and just play around with it. tinytools.directory

"We present a novel dataset that can support future reception research and serve as a benchmark for future Work-level clustering approaches... ...We share an open-source, interactive tool that allows users to explore checkout trends for any post-1945 NAAL author or work over the last 20 years."

TIL: Asperitas clouds!

Honestly, Hating the Computer is a critical motivator in developing better software. I do not trust anyone who does not - at least a little bit - Hate the Computer.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

"¡Crawfish Rock! detona ensimismado Cada coco enraizado. Ante el despojo fulminante La resistencia es constante."

I also did a prototype of a Molotov cocktail. Don’t like the glass combo and my lines are janky but it has promise as a pattern

The Harper's Letter test almost never misses...

"Huffman said she used the money to buy six months of car insurance and cover the cost of cremation for her father, who had recently died. She was able to travel to Nevada to reconnect with family. She had money for...

I created a Reddit account when we were expecting our first baby and it was so helpful through the pregnancy and continues to be so with her now at 16 months old. Just getting perspectives from other parents who have stressed/questioned the same things is so helpful.

She’s not the only one! I’ve started searching Reddit when looking for specific information, because so many of my (even-Non-Google) search results come back full of A.I. & Amazon sales link garbage websites they are drowning out the good data I used to be able to get.

searching reddit to solve problems is so helpful as an anxious person bc everyone giving their takes actually sounds like a normal person and gives it to you straight, you get multiple opinions in one link, and you don’t have to comb through a bunch of ads and bullshit to find a satisfying answer

I love that Google searches all basically now require the addition of "reddit" to be anything close to useful

I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...

Seeing the Sangh is the world’s first comprehensive map of the organisational affiliates surrounding the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh—which together constitute the largest far-right network in the world. rssproject.caravanmagazine.in