Tobey Aumann (they/them)

It all came to a tragic end with the dreaded invasion of baby doll shirts and low cut jeans.

Good morning, what can you do if you live in NYC? You can commit to talking to your City Council member about our public libraries. Please sign up and we will get back to you re: what to do: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You are my people if you also enjoy clicking Random on XKCD for a jaunt through memory lane deplicator.github.io/xkcd-time-at...

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

Person with face obscured by nerd face emoji is hunched over a glowing table tracing a map. The table is made from yellow tubes, a lamp balanced on its side, and a translucent glass top. The background is cluttered.

Improvised a light table with tubelox and old IKEA finds so that the older kiddo could draw a map on graph paper for a new version of his board game. Currently plays a bit like a cross between Risk and DnD. Next parent job is to nudge toward collab instead of world domination.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Close up on the face of a brown tiger tabby cat with a white stripe down her nose and white fluff.

Old grey car sitting on a hand drawn map and paper plate spin-the-wheel.

Said goodbye to our old lady baby cat this weekend. Other slightly older cat cannot resist being the center of any board game we attempt.

Every conference should have a track dedicated to Gen AI applications. A whole track with all the Gen AI talks. Over there. Down the hall. Yep. Keep going. Just a bit farther. Okay, yeah now open the door. Uh-huh. Now close the door behind you.

YEP RIGHT THERE.

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work

Divide and Conquer: Practicing Security as One Agile Team | Agile Alliance In an environment increasingly focused on the “efficiency” of software development, it's often tempting to divide and conquer challenges, pushing security responsibilities to specialists. But what if ...

You too can be part of ensuring the security and safety of those around you. I'm giving a talk tomorrow 9 July at 11 Eastern about how to do this on software teams but you can apply it wherever you care about.

agilealliance.org/event/divide...

Quite! It felt equivalent to this post about #BVSSH Honestly the more I learn about Buddhism, the more it seems like a good candidate for an ethos of care to prevent any "it's just business" outcomes bsky.app/profile/jon....

Every morning, open to awareness of suffering and its causes and conditions; at the same time be open to the experience of happiness and its causes conditions. Act accordingly and you will reduce suffering in the world without the distraction of judging yourself against some imaginary future you

TIL the term Dutch tilt!

To put into perspective how astronomically high 87% is...

In 2012, 87% of Black men voted for Obama. Republicans like the way immigration is "being handled" as much as Black men liked Obama.

🤔I swear, I don't think some of y'all even talk to Trump voters before you claim that they don't like this.

Keynotes — Matthew Skelton with Matthew Skelton, co-author of ‘Team Topologies’ and originator of Adapt Together™

I now offer an optional half-day workshop with every keynote talk. The workshop can be on any topic for which I have published a slide deck (which is
quite a lot!).

Get in touch: matthewskelton.com/keynotes

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

But none of that will happen.🤷🏿‍♂️

Because in the US, we have absolutely no authority to hold cops accountable for this stuff.

Because both Dems and GOP like having a police force that can crush Black protest without accountability.

Like I said, racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first.

HBO’s Silicon Valley on vibe coding in 2019. I miss this show.

You don't need to be sure "the next right thing" is categorically, objectively the next "right" thing. Recovery involves LOTS of educated guesses. Just do your best, pay attention, remember your recovery goals today, & course correct as you go.

Easy does it. You've got this.

I realise this is a bit underspecified: in both pottery and calligraphy, you stabilise the arm and loosen the wrist to achieve more stable and finer control and responsiveness.

Tension at the edges makes for more friction and chaotic instability.

Looseness at the edges allows more adaptation.

I'm looking forward to DDD Europe next week! I'm leading a hands-on workshop, Expanding Your Design Heuristics one Experiment at a Time... where we'll be designing experiments and learning about sharing/collecting our design heuristics.

2025.dddeurope.com

Tech Interview Coaching - Tilde Thurium BIPOC or trans? Looking to brush up on technical interviewing? I'd like to help!During my 10+ years in tech, I've interviewed hundreds of engineers. I can offer practice interviews covering the follow...

The tech job market is brutal, especially if you're part of a marginalized group.

I'd like to offer a free practice technical interview to anyone who is BIPOC or trans and looking for a job. You can book time with me here:
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Cover of Ryan's Community Giving Guide - 2024-25 for Southeast Michigan. Main image is a photo of a sandhill crane, head bowed forward, with its heart-shaped crest centered in the frame ahead of a flurry of grey feathers. Bottom of the image has the Creative Commons attribution information (CC-BY-NC-SA) and a tag saying ' Created by Ryan Henyard (me!) v5.0 - henyard.com/giving - edit and adapt for your own community

text from the 'about the author' page: I originally created this giving guide as a way to amplify the challenges my communities were facing in 2020, and I’ve heard from lots of people who expressed a desire to help but don’t know where to start or who to support. I created this guide to highlight and uplift some of the important work happening, and encourage you to choose some of these efforts to support through donations, volunteering or mutual aid for Giving Tuesday and beyond. For our fifth (!) edition, I have made some additions and changes to the organizations listed in the guide, and expanded sections on programs. Our communities are filled with people dedicated to building a more just and loving future, and I’m glad to be able to share some of that with you. Because this is centered around my communities and values, it is not a comprehensive guide by any means; the guide and artwork are both available under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA) and I would be elated if others spread love for community-based work in their own communities. The best gift I can receive during this season is knowing someone contributed to these efforts after reading this guide, so feel free to share your support for these community pillars with me on social media or email. In love and solidarity, Ryan Henyard email: ryan@henyard.com instagram: @kuroganeig BlueSky: @radiantwings.bsky.social

example page of the guide from the Housing section: Avalon Housing avalonhousing.org/donate Permanent supportive housing with wrap-around services in Washtenaw County Freedom House Detroit freedomhousedetroit.org Housing, education & legal support for indigent survivors of persecution seeking asylum in the US Ozone House ozonehouse.org Inclusive shelter & support services for homeless youth in Washtenaw County Daytime Warming Centers of Washtenaw facebook.com/DaytimeWarmingCenter A community-run, rotating low-barrier shelter space for people to get warm during the winter Ruth Ellis Center ruthelliscenter.org Trauma-informed services for Detroit LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness or the child welfare system

example page from the giving guide - Justice section: A Brighter Way abrighterway.org Washtenaw mentoring program for returning citizens providing job skills, life skills & support American Friends Service Committee - Michigan Criminal Justice Program https://afsc.org/programs/michigan-criminal-justice MCJP works directly with people imprisoned in Michigan to advocate for and with them, with the long-term goal of prison de-population. Detroit Justice Center detroitjustice.org Legal services and transformative justice projects aimed at dismantling the carceral state. Care-Based Safety carebasedsafety.org Care-Based Safety is building an independent, non-police response program that will grow life affirming safety options in Washtenaw County. MI Liberation miliberation.org Grassroots network organizing against mass incarceration, criminalization, & the emergency release of prisoners during the pandemic.

Happy to share that for #GivingTuesday I've created my 5th (!) edition of Ryan's Community Giving Guide for SE Michigan. Please share widely, and let me know if you discover/donate to someone new through this work - it really helps!

You can grab the full PDF version at www.henyard.com/giving

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Ep 1 | Redefining Entrepreneurship: From Corporate Conditioning to Creative Freedom Choose Courage Inc. · Episode

1min 43sec in and already @ashcoleman.bsky.social is dropping diamonds:"Boundaries are for ourselves not for other people." This isn't your ave entrepreneurship podcast open.spotify.com/episode/7ewK...

Good job Methodists.

Crack up