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I've been remiss in mentioning that I'll be at #Disinfo2026 in October for a panel with @cathleen.eurosky.social and @camillefrancois.bsky.social, where I will talk about Trust and Safety on Decentralised Platforms and what that looks like in practice!

Evelyn is doing cool stuff. See their Sifa profile 🛠️ @kandake.africa

This might fix me

The most important thing I’m going to read all day!

I hate the idea that the inherently queer stance is anti-AI that some people seem to think is the default. I've had people question if I'm even a woman, and call me a tech bro, and it's like they're in active psychosis lmao. If you can't respect me as a woman you're a bigot, AI or not.

Related: I’m still looking for leads and help on jobs, fellowships, and freelance contracts on drones, GIS, aid, disaster, OSINT, tech ethics, and journalism. I simply will not work for evil people and/or weapons manufacturers, which is also why I haven’t had paying work since Trump 2.0 began.

Finally, I’m also (equally god help me) beginning to consider getting back into journalism jobs. I have a lot of highly technical OSINT and data journalism skills and investigative reporting experience, and some people with questionable taste seem to think I’m funny, hit me up….?

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

"This blog is about celebrating that friendship" with open source developers. That was our first post in Feb 2008. Today, all 1,557 posts (2008–2026) live in the Atmosphere as verified @standard.site records: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/02/welcome-to-google-open-source-blog.html

National borders have *never* been containers for politics and political processes. I don't have time to write a full thread, so here are some resources.

Pu meahtest fandian Engliscne word-boc to brucanne, for þæm þe, swa Microsoft þe secgan mæg, nis þæt Bryttisce Englisc naht soþes. Hit nis buton yfel stæf-cræft.

Just installed my 26-year-old copy of Word on a new desktop. I will never pay subscription fees for software I already paid for. I will go live in a shack in the woods first.

I'm not a morning person but this is still great because it means you have a lot more time for activities before the sun goes down.

A better link, as it is from the authors: "Individuals with the most negative views of women and gender equality are the most likely to support [transgender sports] bans."

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

My immediate concern here is that the Trump administration will back this likely effort to attempt a coup, rhetorically if not materially. It would hardly be the first shameful thing the United States has down to our neighbors to the south, but it would be a very shameful thing indeed.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Bloomberg has called it for Lula

This story is about the tiny minority of tenants who oppose the city’s plan to replace their crumbling old buildings with new ones—with zero tenant displacement!—because they want the city to spend money it does not have and will not get to renovate the old buildings instead.

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

There is blatant voter suppression happening right now in Brazil: flights cancelled and buses suspended to Northeastern capitals where Lula holds the majority, polling stations changed to thousands of kms away last-minute, voters in London told they need to go to Edinburgh… This is criminal.

2:30 on a sunday probably a horrible time for a launch ! oh well, wish me luck ! screenie.cam

Just as an advisory, if anyone else is using the labeler relay at relay.labeler.community, it is down until I can get a copy running on OVH, which probably won't be until after dinner or tomorrow.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Used to be you would ship off excess young men to the frontier or on a crusade. This, of course, was horrific in its human costs. Fortunately science has given us another option.

No one is Assigned Marine at Birth. Marines are made, and they get really mad if you tell them someone who is a Marine isn't a Marine.

Critical touching grass update: In the process of touching grass, this wolfy boi was captured also touching the vegetation

Regardless of what SMART says, this appears to be a disk failure and I will never financially recover from having to replace it.

That this is how people are discovering that the Marine Corps is a cult (laudatory) is kinda great.

I'm sorry but banning non-English speakers because machine translation is unclean is more fascist than anything in the AI space except maybe Palantir's XAI enterprise account

I cannot conceptually comprehend this. My basel metabolic rate is something like 1,300 calories a day. I need something like 1,900 to 2,000 a day to sustain my a decently active lifestyle. This would kill me

the horrifying realization I kinda had for work is that "smart guy with bad office skills" is a position that got absolutely kneecapped by LLMs, if you don't get good at office work you're out. Which for ADHD I'm picking the LLMs, they're a legitimate disability aid.

Okay wait, this could be fun. Brigade, the game, but you have to scale up to cheesecake factory scales of service

My little mini-PC that I use as a server has started going down hard nightly, with the disk going into readonly mode on the latest crash. The disk appears healthy and I have no idea why this would be and it's very annoying

Bluesky, what is the current recommendation for folks’ first 3d printer? My P1S is slightly dated and Bambu annoys me as a company

Boston people @scarnecchia.net was talking about doing the same. Engage peer pressure as appropriate

The spate of used cooking oil thefts hitting the North Shore and southern New Hampshire is probably directly attributable to the Iran war.