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Erin

@biscuit.quest.bsky.social

Gay they living in Providence, RI, by way of the South. Former digital librarian now working in civic tech. PVD, bikes, UX, IA, a11y, etc. erinrwhite.com

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I even let my picture be taken, willingly! Those who know me know what a commitment to this project is represented here!

Sign up for the book release conversation, me and my pal and colleague Barrye Brown from the Schomburg!
Oct 20 7pm EST
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06.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
trumprx.gov Federal US website registered. Content may not be visible yet.

πŸš€ NOTICE: Federal US website newly registered.
https://trumprx.gov

Action taken by the Executive Office of the President at or around 2025-10-06 06:13:44.

06.10.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 24

Style inspo!! Also your gray streak is really popping!

03.10.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

01.10.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1908    πŸ” 602    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 41
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Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

01.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 529    πŸ” 280    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 15
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Home β€’ States Newsroom Fair. Fearless. Free. The nation's largest state-focused nonprofit news organization, with reporting from every capital.

States newsroom - state-level reporting for all 50 states. The team at @rhodeislandcurrent.com does some fantastic local reporting and it feels great to support them. statesnewsroom.com

01.10.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just witnessing the most unhinged shit imaginable and then logging on to my next meeting

30.09.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As federal shutdown looms, Alabama clergy lead protest against Medicaid, SNAP cuts | Alabama Reflector The protest, part of the Alabama Poor People’s Campaign Moral Mondays, was organized by clergy and pastors from across the South, and led by Rev. Carolyn Foster of Greater Birmingham Ministries.

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: About 80 people gathered on the front steps of the Alabama State Capitol Monday to protest the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and to call on Alabama U.S. Sens. Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville to restore funding cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.

29.09.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"

"Yes, that's right."

29.09.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Oh friend 😰 hope y’all are all okay

29.09.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rebooting The Blogosphere (Part 3: Integration) Start with part 1 (activities), then part 2 (interaction). Sorry this 3rd part took a little longer than intended to come out. In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I covered some types of activities (r…

How blogging can learn from what made social networks successful to draft a vision for the β€œopen social web.” Part 3 in a series by @stephtara.bsky.social. Collect them all!

29.09.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Trying out SimpleAnalytics with no (external) Javascript | Erin White Trying out a lightweight, privacy-focused analytics tool for my site after 15 years of Google Analytics bloatware.

Tinkering with a low/no-Javascript analytics service for my website and saying no to Google Analytics bloatware defaults; or, making shit as a way to stay grounded through fascism erinrwhite.com/no-external-...

28.09.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Text β€œBorn on this day in 1906, Dmitri Shostakovich” over a black and white photo of actor Daniel Radcliffe (born not-on-this day in 1989)

Text β€œBorn on this day in 1906, Dmitri Shostakovich” over a black and white photo of actor Daniel Radcliffe (born not-on-this day in 1989)

Today in Facebook AI slop: Shostakovich, boy wizard

26.09.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AND new Amanda Shires?? Cate le Bon??

26.09.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t wait to listen! So excited for the new Neko record too

26.09.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart at the 1997 Oscars. Extremely incorrect caption on the photo: β€œTIMELESS FACTS:
In 1967, the film Titanic made Oscar history: for the first time, two actors Cathy Burns and Michael J. Pollard received Academy Award nominations for playing the same character at different ages.”

Photo of Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart at the 1997 Oscars. Extremely incorrect caption on the photo: β€œTIMELESS FACTS: In 1967, the film Titanic made Oscar history: for the first time, two actors Cathy Burns and Michael J. Pollard received Academy Award nominations for playing the same character at different ages.”

Today in Facebook AI slop: ah yes, the Oscar-nominated 1967 classic film Titanic, a tale of gender transition

25.09.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks for this!

25.09.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great tip on DeleteMe too. I was able to find discount codes easily with a quick search.

25.09.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, another lesson that should probably go without saying: don't expect your institution to protect you, or to have resources for you. If you have a union, reach out to them.

25.09.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Hooper! We met forever ago through Twitter maybe? Or mutuals in Richmond? Good to see you here - hope you're hanging on. If CR is profiling you, I know you're on to something good. Keep it up ❀️‍πŸ”₯

25.09.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY β€” THE BITTER SOUTHERNER The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.

Chilling dispatch from Mario Guevara, the journalist trapped in ICE detention for...doing his job.

23.09.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 525    πŸ” 332    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 12
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AI-Generated β€œWorkslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce β€œworkslop”—content that appea...

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath.

Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it.

It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

23.09.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 372    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 18

Thank you! Great excuse to bike, great excuse to blog πŸ˜„

23.09.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not a moment too soon! Bike folk, join me.

Here's my writeup from last year's challenge, to give you an idea of how #coffeeneuring works: erinrwhite.com/coffeeneurin...

22.09.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The people ARE the process Cutting down on collaboration tricks you into thinking you're going faster, but it destroys the divergence effects that make the design process valuable.

A lot of advice for improving team velocity looks like speedrunning: sequence break as much as possible, any% everything in between.

But life isn't a video game, and shoveling crap at colleagues and customers is not a winning long-term strategy. No LLM can stand in for actual human teammates.

21.09.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A (not so Swift) rant… I've got a BIG rant for you this week, about Taylor Swift's new website. A site this high-profile, with a huge design budget, backed by of one of the biggest record labels in the world, still bypasses...

Articles like these that point out *specific ways* websites are not accessible, and how they could be, are extremely useful (especially for people like me who learn by studying examples). Also, we know Tay Tay can do better.
www.laurensherrard.com/blog/a-not-s...

22.09.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prisons, Prose & Protest | Prisonculture | Substack This is a monthly newsletter of my rants, musings and some other things. Please support our Giving Circle: https://ko-fi.com/prisonculture. Click to read Prisons, Prose & Protest, by Prisonculture, a ...

My newsletter goes out tomorrow. I muse about imagination and liberation. prisonculture.substack.com

22.09.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for letting me know! Will investigate. Planning to stick with it for now because the bar from all these other search engines is truly in hell

19.09.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, *and* it looks like it can be turned off (not possible with Google atm)

19.09.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh. Tell me more? Like, no external accountability?

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