Kenzi Connor

Source: a random commentor on TikTok so idk original.

Spent many (many!) hours pulling legal explanations and apologies from lawyers who were caught using AI that hallucinated in which they explained to a judge why they used AI. The explanations are astonishing and extremely good: www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...

RIP Aaron Swartz 🥺

1. Ruby Central claimed that since they used the RubyGems open source code, they *had to control it* for “security”. 2. Ruby Central uses my open source code, Phlex and Phlex-Rails. 3. Does this mean that Ruby Central now have the right to takeover my gems “for security”?

I wrote an opinion piece on the RubyGems takeover, which I have been careful to separate from my reporting on what happened and my fact-checking.

Why I’m not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco (but I’m tripping over my own dick to dish a decade’s worth of pent-up gossip and resentment about one person)

After the RubyGems takeover, Ruby Central left André Arko with access to critical production systems including the production database.

Simi just wrote up an announcement that he’s done cooperating RubyCentral and it’s another very important read in this whole situation. Notably, he confirms everything in Joel Drapper’s write-up that’s already been circulating and really puts Ruby Central on blast.

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

I guess we can thank Wordpress for the prior art xcancel.com/dhh/status/1...

every company on earth demanding its underpaid workers use the garbage generator machine for everything and now they're mad that all they're getting is garbage

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

I’ve known André for, like, twenty years? If he’s your bad guy, you need to check the batteries on your carbon monoxide alarms immediately.

The funniest thing about Charlie Kirk was that his entire shtick as a teenager was “watch this college dropout DESTROY these undergrads.” And he then went through the entirety of his 20s and into his 30s … still debating undergrads.

It’s as if a competent would-be little leaguer no one had heard of showed up at Williamsport and struck out some kids — then just kept playing against succeeding generations of 12 year olds for another decade.

TIL DHH and Tobi are racing together. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Lütke#Racing_career

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

This is, at best, an extreme mischaracterization of what’s happened over the past week. As a member of the rubygems team for over a decade, Ruby Central’s actions happened without discussion with the maintainers team. Afterwords, the entire team spoke out against what had happened.

May they never be able to get another job again.

Do antivaxxers get their pets vaccinated?

Everyday it feels crazy to have the same amount of power as members of Congress, which is just to tweet about the shit show unfolding in government & hoping someone does something about it

i…idk how to not snark about this

I’ve long joked that the tech bros might be screwing themselves by gendering their AI “servants” (Siri, Cortana, Alexa) if they end up aligning with those identities. Now they are making them also be additionally marginalized (faux black women in Meta, etc). I hope this backfires on them badly.

Someone should hire me because I’m about to get the hardest Factorio achievement “There Is No Spoon” (launch a rocket within the first 8 hours of a game) and if that’s not proof of engineering optimizations, planning and balancing parallel processes and concerns I don’t know what is.

Hello #rubyconf. Anyone I haven’t seen in a while attending? Guess I’ll have to figure out Mastadon <> BlueSky at some point. But I guess I’m here too now.