Zachary Waldowski

This must be how the Elcor evolved in Mass Effect.

TWO MILLION DOLLARS RAISED FOR @doctorswithoutborders.org!!!!!! You ALL made this happen, and now it's TIME FOR MARIO KART WORLD!! 🏎️🍄🌍 #SGDQ2025

United States *declares independence*

Bluesky 1776: oooh! A strongly worded letter!

finally a source for all the frankly bizarre claims around LLM water "use"

literally nothing about LLM-related compute uses more water than any other compute activity, focus on Actually Objectionable bits around LLMs like degraded infosphere

if you tell Zoomers about the Great Recession, they literally do not believe that 2022 wasn't worse than that

Man returning a shopping cart in the parking lot of a grocery store and another man says I see you’ve gone woke

It really is that simple

keep coming back to this essay from @quinnae.com on how social media allows us to demand a world that reflects our id back at ourselves

sometimes that means power fantasies--but equally it can mean self-justifying frenzies of fear and terror

www.liberalcurrents.com/meta-mirror-...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

🚨 PSA: If you are trans, do NOT mail in your passport to attempt to change your gender marker. The State Department is currently collecting them unchanged and will not give a public timeline for returning them. You could be without a passport indefinitely.

Twitter’s 3 remaining engineers wandering around a server room all going “pspspspspsps”

Lots of people who think everything is a huge own goal by democrats think a bipartisan veto proof bill to make an app that helps argue everything is a huge own goal by democrats divest is a huge own goal by democrats. Very surprising.

I've seen the future and it's stupider than you can possibly imagine.

It very much starts with a recap. 🤷

It’s that angry millennial commenter voice that tickles me. “But what do I know?” Not much, correct! Thanks for playing.

Engagement-chasing disguised as well-meaning conversation starters can stay on Threads, or preferably nowhere.

Maybe that one is too self-referential. Who’s to say?

Just incredible things from the VLC folks

Just, like, one of the few truly bright spots of the world that unambiguously models the future I/you/we want. And now I’m weepy again.

- GDQ blazed the trail for online-first community orgs run right; inclusive IRL events with no-nonsense CoCs
- Tech, ops, talent crews and runners are chock full of lovely, dorky people being their lovely, dorky selves unapologetically
- Wholesome cringe

- Speedrunning as an activity is the closest thing we have right now to the bad-art/heart-enriching/utopian pastimes like in Star Trek
- Linking streaming to acts of service and charity is transcendent, a model of help and hope to young nerdy types

I have noticed that people who "just want to burn it all down" get very upset when the things they care about also burn.

Oh, RN

Lets see if this site is a great at finding talented developers as that dead bird site used to be.

We're hiring in Cupertino, San Diego, Seattle and Vancouver BC for a bunch of different roles.

jobs.apple.com/en-us/search...

rook

buddy

pal

you can fight dragons, you can do backflips and stab darkspawn in the kidneys, you can trade barbs with Solas with ease

please learn to swim

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Emma holds a microphone as she delivers her victory speech.

Emma speaks to the crowd and news cameras at an election night watch party.

Emma covers her mouth, crying after receiving the news that she won. She’s standing next to two white men looking over her shoulder at the election results.

Emma hugs her campaign manager moments after her race was called.

We’re all hurting. I don’t have all the answers.

But I know that things won’t be this bleak forever.

I ran against a MAGA incumbent in a “safe red” district in KY as a progressive, openly queer, 28-year-old trans woman.

And I won.

Please, don’t let your heartbreak turn into apathy or cynicism 💙