Griffin

I'm bad at self-promo but I am currently on the job market looking for industry gigs. If your team needs a compiler engineer, language developer, rust programmer, or language tools person, drop me a line! All my details are on my personal site.

It's not just Sounds Profitable. Numerous networks/events continue to partner with TDW (like Podcast Movement). The podcast industry truly does not care for queer people (and ESPECIALLY does not care for trans people). This isn't an instance of one company making a bad decision, It's endemic.

It's not hard to know what TDW stands for. Look at Walsh. Look at Shapiro. Look at Peterson. Browse their socials for one minute. Tune into any of their talk shows. I know Bryan and Sounds Profitable are aware. They're smart. They just don't care. Once again, money matters more than queer folks.

British people are not any more transphobic than anyone else, "TERF Island" is just a statistical error. Transphobia Jo who lives in a cave and does 10,000 transphobias a day is an outlier and should not have been counted

You simply should not buy the wizard game. You should give that money to trans people instead

I miss doing voice acting 😭

an entire people is being deliberately starved to death

With the Oblivion remaster taking up the hype cycle, it's probably a good time to re-up that the Palestinian-led BDS movement has asked for a boycott of Microsoft's gaming products due to the company's ongoing and enthusiastic technical support for the IDF's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Hey you know how we've been saying for the past decade that it's really bad that there are centralized databases listing everyone who takes ADHD meds?

Wrote another little something, this time it's the advice I find myself often giving new or prospective PhD students. griffinberlste.in/blog/what-ma...

Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People 🔗 www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

There's a vast gulf between trans and cis understanding of what it means for a trans sex worker to say she needed to sell sex to pay for surgery. We read that the same as if a diabetic said they needed to sell sex to pay for insulin. Cis people still see our medical needs as frivolous, a choice.

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"sure, the stove hurt last time, but this new stove seems safe and very touchable"

We are back to lack of object permanence as a compelling explanation

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

Been a minute since I wrote a non-academic thing! Finally got around to sketching out some stuff that'd been rattling around my brain for a while. griffinberlste.in/blog/do-the-...

“you’re just trans for the attention” girl the attention is the worst part

there are only 3 kinds of systems designers. I will not explain

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Now and forever, fuck Joe Biden

multiple tells here that this isn't Zuck just bending the knee to Trump, or trying to compete with Elon for influence he's personally transphobic and wants to hurt his own employees

I’m sick of living through Wikipedia entries.

This cannot be construed as apolitical maneuvering to advance business interests, this is actively and openly hostile

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

I am so tired of all the gambling ads I get and so worried for those who will be pulled in by them

It’s cool Twitter also didn’t want to create Twitter, good or bad, and were absolutely unprepared to run it. They had no fucking idea and that turned out… Hold on I’m getting an update. That badly? Wow. Damn. Okay yeah we might have some problems here.