Adam Rice

I think this is accurate, and “venerating The Computer as a god” is also the not-surprising result of a few decades of releases of consumer tech whose inner workings are intentionally made totally opaque to the average user

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles “The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

AP The Associated Press @AP BREAKING: The Trump administration is pushing an initiative for millions of Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies. Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @GeauxGabrielle Hi! Epidemiologist here! Don't do this. In the 80s and 90s this was done by Depts. of Health during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. "Somehow" the lists they created found their way into the hands of cops, landlords, & job sites to deny people human rights. It's partly WHY the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act exists

reading on eink then shifting to the phone is a shocker

if apple had any innovation left, they’d be making the world’s best eink-type device

the youthz are OVER digital overwhelm and concerned about their eyes

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How was the gulf

Are you heading to Nola? How have you never been in Alabama?

What’s there

I had a few words at the Tesla Diner protest.

I grew up on these streets

Where do I see myself in ten years? Probably writing an email. Or reading one. Maybe deleting some to clean up my inbox. Email stuff.

It’s not too late if you missed it! Back up your stuff today! Back up your stuff every day!

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

They made a book about me 😳

Since 2016 the mainstream media (self included) has spent God knows how many hours fretting and gaming out and strategizing the right and ethical way to cover hack and leaked information. I don't see any way to justify doing this story the way the NYT did here.

A friend just shared an Apple TTF font with me, "mac-icon-standard", which was used briefly in the company's Mac-turns-30 web page from 2014. It holds vector-art icons for the first Macs! web.archive.org/web/20140124...

Me explaining my well-honed troubleshooting process:

screenshot of a set of choices "How often do you want to see AI-assisted answers?" and options are Often, Sometimes, On Demand or Never. Never is selected

Ruth St. Denis strikes a pose while wearing a long elegant white gown, outdoors in Yosemite Valley

While understanding that there is no such thing as perfect online privacy, I'd like to mention that there IS a tiny gear where you can turn off DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai "assist" Click the nearly-invisible cog in the upper right, choose "Never." Enjoy. #privacy

Apple abusing its Apple Pay notifications to promote its F1 movie is gross 🤮 www.theverge.com/news/692276/...

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

The Mac Finder icon as it's been for a very long time, a face with blue on the left and white on the right. Beside it is the bizarre new Finder icon for the upcoming MacOS Tahoe, which inexplicably has the blue on the right side of the face and the white on the left.

The last two surviving members of the Cheron species, Bele and Lokai, from the TOS episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield".

Someone looking at a Mac?! Did anyone else ever read it this way?

The Secret Rules of the Terminal, by Julia Evans - The cover illustration depicts three people doing arcane terminal magic in a temple with a smoking censer in the background. Each of the three people has curly brown hair and light brown skin. They are all wearing dresses, billowing cloaks, and utility belts with keyboard symbols on them. The one on the left holds a palette of paints and a brush. The one on the right has a staff with a $ symbol on it and a starfish at the top. The one in the centre has a sword and is reading from a book whose cover says “>_” and “./”, which rests on a lectern with a smiling snake wrapped around it.

delighted to announce that my new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is out today!!

You can get it for $12 USD here: wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

yep! unpaywalled:

Shameful they haven't left that platform