THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

🐍 PyBay 2025 Talk 🎤: Maggie Moss “Increasing Types in Large Codebases with Pyrefly and AI Tooling” Typed Python at scale: learn how Meta built Pyrefly to boost coverage, improve dev experience, and scale typing across huge codebases. 📅 Oct 18th | 🌐 pybay.org | 🎟️ pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-...

Google controls Streetview data. They spent billions to collect it and they'll happily sell it to you. But with Mapillary, everyone can add to the data and use it as they please for free or nearly free. @openstreetmap.bsky.social is a major partner- it's like Wikipedia for maps!

reminder that bsky.team only has jurisdiction over what happens on their servers. If you self-host or are hosted by blacksky.app they cannot remove your posts. they can hide it on bsky.app but it will still be up elsewhere. signups and migrations are open.

🐍PyBay 2025 Speaker Highlight🎤 Alla Barbalat “AI, IP, and Your Code: What Developers Need to Know” Who owns AI-generated code? What risks exist around copyright and training data? Alla will unpack the legal landscape and share best practices for developers. Details ITT 🧵

Migrate to BlackSky instructions: 1. tektite.cc, disable 2FA 2. Login w/ real pw NOT app pw 3. Click migrate to blacksky button 4. Add handle, new pw, use dropdown if non-Black user 5. Click Migrate 6. When done transferring, enter code sent to your email 7. Complete! blacksky.community is site

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Bernát Gábor “What's new in Python packaging?” Python is now the #1 language on GitHub. In 2024, packaging took huge steps forward to match that success. At PyBay 2025, Bernát Gábor will share the TL;DR on what is new in Python packaging, why uv is leading the way.

🎤 PyBay Speaker Spotlight: Guido van Rossum Structured RAG > RAG. 🔹 Faster, smarter Q&A across text + images 🔹 Basis for long-term AI memory 🔹 New Python library coming this summer Catch the talk + demos at #PyBay2025! 🎟 pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-...

🐍PyBay 2025 Speaker Highlight🎤 Chris Neugebauer “Guardrails: An alternative view of safely working in Python” 📍 Catch this session at PyBay 2025 in San Francisco on October 18th, 2025 🎟️ Tickets: pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-... #PyBay #Python #PyBay2025

🐍PyBay 2025 Speaker Highlight🎤 Pamela Fox “Just because AI can write your tests... should it?” 📍 Oct. 18, 2025, San Francisco, CA: pybay.org 🎟️ Tickets: pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-... #PyBay #Python #PyBay2025

🐍 PyBay 2025 Spotlight: Lisa Roach “Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire: Converting Multiprocessed code to Free-Threading” 📍 Oct. 18th in San Francisco, CA 🎟️ Tickets: pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-...

💯 I was at a show where a mosh pit opened behind me and started to pin me against the stage, and some random dude managed to get his body between the pit and me and braced himself around me and against the stage. Then other folks noticed too and helped him get me safely out. ❤️

🐍 PyBay 2025 Spotlight: Munachimso (Muna) Nwaiwu “Python's Role in Resilient Network Infrastructure: From Automation to Validation” 📍 Oct. 18th; San Francisco, CA 🎟️ Tickets: pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-...

We’re definitely still looking and if you’re an experienced frontend dev who wants to contribute to an open-source tech project that supports a small but impactful humanitarian aid org, then you should most certainly shoot us a message!

TIL it’s standard procedure to do a uterine biopsy *without anesthetic*. Inserting an IUD without anesthetic is bad enough, but a biopsy?! #FuckThePatriarchy Also fuck white supremacy and ableism because they’ve done and still do worse to Black women and women of color, and disabled women.

I’m speaking about what we've learned while spinning up a network of #AcademicOSPOs for the #ScienceOfCommunity track at #FOSSY on Friday! I can’t wait to meet more people working in this space and hear what they're up to. 😊 2025.fossy.us/schedule/pre...

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Listening to @404media.co talk about this article and I’m sincerely shocked to find it never refers to AAVE… ever? This vocab *didn’t* come from Gen Alpha, and that’s actually a much more important angle: these models aren’t being trained on a diverse set of dialects. www.404media.co/ai-models-an...

We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...

Thanks to all our members who contributed and in particular to: Bethany Philbrick, Bill Branan, Megan Forbes, @david-lippert.bsky.social, @labarba.bsky.social @Emily Lovell, @lauralangdon.io, @slieggi.bsky.social, Fang Liu, Jeff Young, Jacek Plucinski, Kendall Fortney, and @sayeedc.bsky.social.

This was great fun!! Thank you @lauralangdon.io for hosting! #UCOSPO

The word "community" is generally co-opted to mean "audience" or "demographic" but when I use it, it represents mutual accountability and/or dependency between the one and the many. That grounding principle can be rooted in many things (sometimes destructive, sometimes generative)

more seriously, this is an absolutely insane victim mentality. like, what do you mean white people from the midwest have been discriminated against? what are you talking about? show us on the doll where the discrimination happened, marc

The $$$ effort to crush Mamdani’s candidacy is now kinda openly an effort to crush young voters into cynicism, apathy, and inaction. An establishment absolutely devoted to burning its own future at every level.

Just watched this and opened up so many tabs to look up projects and ideas mentioned! Thank you so much to the whole panel, and to @dairinstitute.bsky.social for hosting it!

Energized! For all those who missed the live conversation, it looks like the VOD is here: www.twitch.tv/videos/24725... Grateful to @are0h.bsky.social and @dairinstitute.bsky.social for including me on the panel, along with the crew and our fellow panelists @sotreu.bsky.social + @rudyfraser.com 🙏🏾.

I dont want a Sinners sequel. I do want a Choctaw vampire hunter movie. I need that real bad.

And my partner would have me add that poor white rural folks are always counterprogrammed during white reconstructions as the “good” poverty compared with dangerous Black poverty

As promised - #blackbirdersweek proving to be an exciting one around here! 🪶 I've really come to adore Trumpeter Swans these past few years and I'm really lucky that I only had to drive 10 minutes to check on this nest every day

I loved talking with @rudyfraser.com. He's one of the most visionary builders and thinkers of the social web today. He helped me realize that the success of the social web is not about killer apps. It's about killer communities. Once you internalize this insight, the entire world looks different.

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

The future is decentralized, and composed of communities! Such a good interview with @rudyfraser.com about building BlackSky. ❤️ dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/rud... @mmccue.bsky.social

When professors experience racism (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) at work, that’s part of their service load. It takes work to deal with that and still come back and do your job. That’s service to the department. It’s deeply unfair service. But it is service.

AI is no adding an extra level of hardship for marginalized students Because we know they are getting accused more And have to preemptively plan because they can’t afford their lawyers

THREAD: So what did I hear at the oral argument in the birthright citizenship case this morning? What was clear from when the cert petition was filed: Trump & his lawyers tried to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Trying to squeeze a win out of his serial losses in federal district courts in….1/

The reason why I cry listening to these old songs isn't because I want to return to the past. It's through music that I get to bear witness to all my past selves. I can see the girl and woman I used to be. She doesn't know I'm there. I know my future self is here, right now, watching these tears.

The right is afraid that white christian people are going to go extinct and/or the tables will turn and they will be prosecuted. And if they become the minority, they are planning to pull from the Apartheid playbook. This is foundational to basically everything they're doing.

Yes it’s funny but I really want us this time to start recognizing the ground work being laid for the continual system antagonizing of a Black woman as a PR win And go NO before it becomes a thing

If people who have nothing better to do can go after payment processors to target sex workers, Kiendria (and the rest of us) can do the same to stop racists profiting from being vile! 👏👏👏

Sinners was exquisite, gut-wrenching, with more layers than a fancy pastry but also so dense with nuance it could have its own gravity well. I think I'd need to see it quite a few more times to feel like I'd seen all of it. And watching Wunmi Mosaku could never get old, anyway.

I haven't been to a movie theater in six(?) years, but Sinners sounds too good to miss.

Listened to @pfrazee.com on DotSocial and he mentioned something I wanted to read but I only caught one word of the title so I'm now searching "Paul Frazee postmortem", sorry Paul.

At this point, the perpetuation of harm feels fully intentional. But even if it's not, I once again point you to the words of @debcha.bsky.social: "Any Sufficiently Advanced Neglect Is Indistinguishable From Malice"

🙏Thanks to Dr Angela Newell, Dr Alex Marden, Ying Wang, @david-lippert.bsky.social, Collin Capano, @willgearty.bsky.social, Allison Kittinger, Tom Hughes, Ashwati Iyer, Bill Branan, Megan Forbes, Zach Chandler, Violaine Louvet, Vessela Ensberg, @lauralangdon.io Emily Lovell & Kendall Fortney.

@npr.org for every minute spent talking to a non-autistic person about autistic people's needs, you should be giving at least 2x that amount to actually autistic people— & not just in written stories, but on-air. Apply said rubric to any other group under attack right now for their lived realities.

Remember when they said if we raised millionaires' taxes, they would all move out of state? There are actually now more millionaires here in Massachusetts than there were before the ballot question (and about $2.5 billion more a year for education and transportation). www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...