Lionel

Lionel

@digiacom.ratwaysanctuary.org

Rat dad at ratwaysanctuary.org in Portland, OR. Environmentalist & lifelong volunteer. Journeyman programmer & bit whisperer. A8c HE. Reality-based tarot reader. T1 Diabetic. Born 1983. Opinions my own! cara.app/lionel lionelweb.com aiisboring.blog

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Let’s canvass! Talk to your neighbors about why we need Mitch Green, Tiffany Koyama Lane, and Angelita Morillo on Portland City Council!

The Chrono Trigger android port has been fun! ... Except a few of the mini games could have been better adapted to touch screen, I'm burning through silver points over here 🫠

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As a political concept, the Planetary isn’t just an incremental addition to the social scientific toolkit, but instead deranges every traditional category — the citizen, the nation, the state, freedom, and indeed the political itself. My latest: www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-po...

theideasletter.orgThe Politics of the PlanetaryThe French philosopher Guy Debord and Danish painter Asger Jorn built their book Mémoires (1959) out of a collage of purloined material. Newspaper clippings, magazine advertisements, cartoons, cutups ...

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TODAY from 10 am to 2 pm at the Beaverton (Oregon) Public Library there will be a Gaza vigil with an emphasis on singing together. I'll also play some less sing-along kinds of songs, too. Come to Beaverton if you can, and bring your voice, along with banners and signs!

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All his crap will of course have to be torn down immediately

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Donald Trump is destroying the national capital to build Trump monuments. I wish liberal leaders would stop acting like it’s embarrassing to care. It’s an abomination, just like the war, the corruption, the racism.

What is your way of life? I didn't really think about it when I was younger, but now I think about it all the time. When we learn about other cultures, we learn about the ways of life that characterize those people in that place. How real places inform livelihood and how the ecosystems connect.

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There are so many amazing people trying to live differently and showing others how to do it - I want us to be open to the possibility that we could join them, and to really consider what living in a way we are actually proud of would look like piece by piece, day to day.

What I don't want to say is that we are individually at fault and must subject ourselves to weird austerity to balance our destructive society. I think it means a lot more collectivism: sharing resources, doing things together, and taking back our economy and governance from organized greed.

What is your way of life? I didn't really think about it when I was younger, but now I think about it all the time. When we learn about other cultures, we learn about the ways of life that characterize those people in that place. How real places inform livelihood and how the ecosystems connect.

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Less industrialized ways of life are exoticized - paradoxically wisely in step with nature, yet irretrievably naive. Somehow they are often idealized as both healthier, yet medically backward. Skilled, yet primitive. Like us, but alien. The flattering parts mean many people don't clock the racism.

Racist idealism about more sustainable ways of life suppresses our imagination and makes us less open to the idea that we could do that, too - which in turn stifles our curiosity about what makes more sustainable ways of life so difficult to cultivate.

What is your way of life? I didn't really think about it when I was younger, but now I think about it all the time. When we learn about other cultures, we learn about the ways of life that characterize those people in that place. How real places inform livelihood and how the ecosystems connect.

We all have a way of life, but are we proud of it? Is it dignified and connected to where we live? Does it lift up and involve those around us? Is it sustainable? Mine is often unconsciously wasteful, tuned to an economy focused on consumption over stewardship. I'm trying to be better every day.

Been thinking a lot about power mapping recently. It really is a core civic skill, but we so rarely practice it on an individual basis. Perhaps that's because it benefits so much from group intelligence. It really is one of the first steps to turning frustration into civic action.

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Power mapping is a tool for activists to organize themselves, identify partners and opportunities, and develop strategies and tactics independently. Sometimes it leads you to decide to join an existing effort started by someone else; other times, you might find you'll want to start something new.

So many people feel politically lost, and I think it is in part because many of us don't really know how our communities work - so we don't know how to change them. If you feel lost, try it: write out a map for any issue you care about. That might be all it takes to spur your political imagination.

Been thinking a lot about power mapping recently. It really is a core civic skill, but we so rarely practice it on an individual basis. Perhaps that's because it benefits so much from group intelligence. It really is one of the first steps to turning frustration into civic action.

Starting a power map is simple. On a piece of paper: 1. Write the issue/outcome you want in the center. 2. Brainstorm stakeholders along two axis: up/down is influence (decision-makers at the top) and right/left is alignment (allies on the right and opposition on the left). That's the basics!

It may be intimidating or embarrassing at first since many of us don't know how our communities work; where things are done, who's involved, and how decisions get made. You may need to research. Your first map won't be perfect, and you'll improve it as you try and learn things about your community.

We'll be there!! ✨🐀💚

bean baguette@thebeanbaguette.bsky.social

The Grand Season of the Rattus Approaches once more…🐀 👑 join us on October 1st, 2026 to celebrate all things RAT! #rattober #rattober2026 #beansrattober

My sabbatical ended today. I've has three months off of using AI for work, and I miss being AI-free already 🥲 With that I'm dusting off my AI blog to keep advocating against it from the professional side. If my industry insists on using it, I want to put that experience to good use.

The question I want to ask: "Which policies and procedures were supposed to identify and mitigate risks like these? Why did they fail, and is it possible they'll always fail?" Saying an AI system can "go rogue" sheds accountability belonging to the decision makers, system architects, and operators.

WIRED@wired.com

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.

Ultimately, the whole value proposition of AI agents relies in the same features which pose risk - flexible, universal contextual generation. Agentic harnesses introduce some mitigation, but also new recursive risks. Instead of depending on AI, let's do stuff ourselves. It's worth it I promise.

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𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 Prisciliano Trejo, aged 29 becomes the 50th person to die in #ICE custody. He was denied medical care until it was too late. His family was denied the ability to see him when he was finally sent to the hospital. This thread is one you must spend time on. We cannot ignore the atrocities!

Clip studio paint's aggressive license checking/"doodle mode" betrayed me and lost me a painting I really liked that I made on the plane. :( Krita to the rescue... Though I still lost a piece I loved. ❤️‍🩹

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Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

I've partly written like 4 articles/blog posts for my AI blog, but they feel like the wrong thing every time. Since I'm on an extended work leave and not having to use it every day, I think my brain is eager to think about anything else - probably healthy, but not great for building a writing habit

The computer at the pharmacy asked the tech to confirm my dosage for insulin at pickup. This information is already present on the prescription. Sounds like insurance shenanigans to me.