The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

How to start a fight among developers today:

I asked the historian, who studies the dark times, how it has come to this and she replied: it’s because we have failed to take care of each other. So I asked her if we will get through this and she replied: if we do it will be because we took care of each other.

hi, cis folks! trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too. we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi info & script in the🧵⬇️

Jesus fucking christ i am exhausted of people who refuse to take even 1 class that would introduce them to ideas like the social construction of rules, laws, tech, & definitions of "crime," & who continually learn the wrong lessons from every science fiction story they ever meet. I mean holy shit.

After they go after the trans community, they are going to come after us cis women who are queer and don't conform to "traditional" femininity. Or y'know, just to sexually harass people. That's one reason why we need to be allies to the trans community.

and if you don't know much about tech, that's ok! you should donate to support projects like these in your communities, or even better, learn some tech basics and start your own! below is a great website if you want to learn about alternative networks 3/3 othernetworks.net

projects like Broadband-Hamnet, Freifunk, and the Open Root Server Network are examples of communication infrastructure that is built by and for everyday folks, not tech oligarchs. they need to be seen as mutual aid and community defense 2/3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Ro...

i get this question a lot, and fortunately there are many things we can do and people are already doing. it's developing open source software. it's finding and patching security flaws. it's creating alternative infrastructure so we're less dependent on big tech 1/3

when information flow and production is managed by a subset of our ruling class (the vectoralist class), you'd think the left would have a response. but instead leftists lack frameworks to make sense of our digital dystopia, arguably bc many of us are still stuck in 1917 2/3

bout time folks caught up, huh? here's some essential reading about vectoralism if you would like to learn more about a framework that acknowledges the role of tech in new modes of production for the modern era 3/3 theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mcke...

as a leftist it's quite frustrating to see a lot of established leftist voices completely silent on age verification 🙃 and this is indicative of a broader ignorance about tech issues among leftists, which is unacceptable given how much tech dominates our modern world 1/3

the above is not all of the principles Steven Levy included as part of his 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. read more on Wikipedia about the others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_...

it wasn't that long ago that hacker ethic was defined in ways with an anarchist bent and while this ethic was not perfect, it is very rare in hacker circles today bc of deliberate depoliticization that detached it from the rest of the world let's make hacking radical again!!

sadly many in tech were seduced by high salaries that lulled them into a false sense of invincibility. most saw no need for a union, organized labor, etc, until they realized that their jobs were also on the chopping block, just like any other worker

i remember when i was 5 i was confused how anyone could own land because, how does it make sense to claim ownership over part of the earth?? and honestly, still feel the same

we wouldn't be in this current battle over age verification and the future of the internet if tech workers and hackers had spoken up about it long before it was implemented instead, tech workers have no class consciousness or awareness of shared struggles with other workers

This is all 1000% true.

Microsoft continues to be gross as hell and the current regime of generative "AI" continues to harm and oppress the most marginalized. Genuinely fuck this.

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Then lastly Lune Loh has her court hearing tomorrow in Singapore over her solo protest on Trans Day of visibility. She's asked for people to show up in solidarity & is still raising money to cover potential fines. gogetfunding.com/help-lune-de... 9/

I honestly wasn't sure how much traction this campaign would get on here and am so thankful that so many people have taken an interest. 🙏 It's at $5,213/$8000 (Singapore dollars) now & I am hugely grateful to everyone who has re-posted it, shared it &/or donated. Y'all great.

A friend of mine, Lune, was charged in Singapore for protesting the incarceration of trans women in men's prisons. She faces thousands of dollars in fines, just for this act of dissent. Given it's Pride Month, I hope fellow queers can step up for her defense. #pridemonth #lgbtq #transrights

"we can solve climate change if we detonate a bomb with a yield 1600x the largest bomb ever built and tested by humanity on the seabed" I wonder if these people ever listen to what they're saying; this is why we don't let techbros affect policy or public infrastructure decisions

After the 2016 US election, Vihart made a video (now removed): "A Mathematician's Perspective on the Divide". She describes the political swing to the right as an age gap in "a world of increasing information technology." I disagree. It's not an age gap. It's a sense-making gap. 1/

To understand technofascism, and why Big Tech appears to have swung far-right (hint: they always have been), you need to understand what vectoralism is. The way forward from here is for hackers/tech workers and the left to unite, build community owned/run tech and take control of tech from big tech

To understand technofascism, and why Big Tech appears to have swung far-right (hint: they always have been), you need to understand what vectoralism is. The way forward from here is for hackers/tech workers and the left to unite, build community owned/run tech and take control of tech from big tech

Completely 3D printed GBC shell by my friend randomprintco! Filament is Sakura pink pla+ by sunlu

. @captnamy.bsky.social and I are in the paper today about fleeing Florida. Also at www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/as-trump-b... without a paywall.

Yesterday I was in Berlin, and made a trip to the Magnus Hirschfeld memorial. It's close to the site of the world's first gender identity clinic, raided by the Nazis in 1933. Not on most tourist itineraries.

This shit is just fucking KOSA under a new name, and they will keep trying every time they get a fucking chance. Please call your representatives and demand they vote against this blatant attempt to make it illegal to know about being born certain ways. bsky.app/profile/mike...

Again: They're trying to frame anything having to do with literally just existing as an LGBTQIA+ person as "pornographic" or "obscene" in a way that would never ever be used against cis-het people, even when they're talking in actually explicit terms about their sex lives. This is hate and prejudice

I've made great progress towards 3D printable shells for the 3DS family! I've completed swaps for the 2DS, new 3DS XL, new 3DS, and 3DS XL (not pictured). I'm really happy with how they're looking, but they need some fine adjustments for them to assemble perfectly. Stay tuned!

Chinese media outlet Xinhua news had confirmed the "repatriation" of 40 people involved in "illegal immigration" from Thailand 😧 Plane flew from BKK to Kashgar overnight. This is a heartless move by the Pheu Thai govt coalition.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Fell asleep during a video call, and when I woke up I got told that I saying "nyaaa" in my sleep repeatedly??? I wut? Am I secretly a cat?

The Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine at the TSMC Museum of Innovation - I really wonder what the yields are like for this chip. Sheesh that's huge!

貓娘和小鯊鯊來到了台積電！ Catgirl and Blahaj goes to TSMC!

我搭乘高鐵來到新竹幹嘛呢？ I took the high speed rail to Hsinchu! Guess why?

Blahaj go fly! Where are we off to next?

This needs to be shared, to not disappear. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology—members of the Hall of Honor like Elisabeth Friedman and Ann Caracristi—and People of Color in Cryptologic History honorees—like Wash Wong and Ralph Adams. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity order. /2

As a former NSF Postdoctoral Fellow... this is devastating. This Fellowship launched my career, and supported my young family through several important life moments. This was money I spent supporting students, educating people in a rural community, and publishing career defining work

similar strands of thought to TESCREALism also exist in China. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has noticed the similarities btwn the Industrial Party (工业党) online community and the TESCREAL bundle. the 工业党 folks are pretty explicitly longtermists! madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...

for those who don't know, the TESCREAL bundle is a group of ideologies coined by computer scientist Timnit Gebru to describe the ideological (and eugenicist) strands of thought in Silicon Valley that is fueling the current genAI craze firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

is there a reason DeepSeek's Twitter specifically mentions longtermism in an English-language bio? are they trying to signal ideological similarity to the US tech world? longtermism is the L in the TESCREAL bundle after all

trans people in Canada aren't safe either we have stories about cis people trying to use our being trans to take our children from us ASK ME HOW I KNOW I'm not Erin Reed, I'm some unknown terrified mom we need writers to know we exist too. we have the same fights with zero resources