Sarah K Moir

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Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from January 5, 2025, to January 12, 2025. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity remains lower than normal most of the time period due to protests, with a sharp drop on the evening of January 8. The drop in connectivity aligns with protests across the nation. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN', indicates the period of disruption.

⚠️ Update: As #Iran wakes up to a new day, metrics show the national internet blackout is past the 84 hour mark.

Years of digital censorship research point to these workarounds:

📻 Shortwave/HAM radio
📶 Cell towers at borders
📡 Starlink terminals
🛰️ Direct-to-Cell satellite

READ ⬇️ “They want us to scatter in fear, to give up hope, and to give up on each other. But we will hold more tightly to one another, plan more strategically, and care even more deeply. We will resist the normalization of their violence, the immobilization of fear, and the sense of inevitability.”

4 nested boxes with what I hear being the largest box, what I purchase being a box exactly 25% of the area in a darker purple color, what I playlist is 28% the size of the what I purchase box and the what I rate box is 68% of the what I playlist box.

I'm not done writing up my annual music data analysis post because I keep doing things like building a chart of total songs listened vs purchased vs playlisted vs rated by hand in excalidraw. This is peak blogging.

I want everyone with this many thoughts to have a blog

sometimes I miss megaupload and mediafire, google drive and dropbox links hit different

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Developing an AI strategy for documentation Content discovery is evolving. How do you deliver content for LLMs, AI agents, and AI chatbots, and what might you want to include in an AI strategy for technical documentation?

I've been considering what LLMs mean for the practice of writing documentation for years now, but didn't fully conceptualize what it means for how we provide content to readers... I coalesced my thoughts into a "strategy":
thisisimportant.net/posts/ai-str...

Save a horse, use a content strategy Technical content can be as pristine as a crystal clear mountain pond, but if no one can find it, they'll drink out of a muddy puddle instead.

"It’s not enough to write effective, accurate, and useful content. You also need to identify how people discover your content — invest in documentation discovery and evangelism."

thisisimportant.net/posts/docume...

getting people to care about your content, like horses and water...

I think it will really depend on what people try to do! The more folks realize what is possible to do on their own, the more they might try and experiment.

For example, I learned to code because I wanted to explore my music data, which meant I started learning how to write scripts to call APIs...

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All that is solid melts into code More computer, rather than more human.

"Automation never meets a task in the world and simply does it."
www.robinsloan.com/lab/all-that...

oooh so practical!

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what are your ride-or-die reference pages that you prefer over the competing alternatives?

Epoch Converter Convert Unix Timestamps (and many other date formats) to regular dates.

secondary shoutout to my favorite unix timestamp converter, www.epochconverter.com

shoutout to my favorite reference doc on the internet strftime.org

“Maybe we’re onto something.”

“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”

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trying to get back to a world where I'm avidly following all the cyborgology folks online...

Anyway if YOU feel like the algorithm has eroded your curiosity and you want to hear a bunch of varied and novel new music I strongly recommend taking part in THE WORLD CUP OF 2025 on @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social

how to actually be enjoyably well-educated (1 of 3) or: how not to allow AI-generated education advice to rot your brain

This pretty much sums up how I approach learning about things and existing (when I have the energy) so uh, highly recommend if you want to know more about more things: naomialderman.substack.com/p/how-to-act...

Weekend Reading — Cloud outages will continue until morale improves Kevin Beaumont Tech Stuff I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong I'm using Alabaster to see how I like it (PS it's an extension, not a theme): The problem with that i...

Weekend Reading — Cloud outages will continue until morale improves

labnotes.org/weekend-read...

Lies, damn lies, and shoplifting statistics For 32 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) — the lobbying group representing major retailers in the United States — has produced the "National Retail Security Survey." The survey, widely cited...

"The new NRF report acknowledges that retailers do not 'have a unified industry database collecting retail crime data,' and many retailers lack 'the resources or capabilities to collect and track retail theft.' Yet the NRF still issued a report claiming shoplifting has increased 93% in four years."

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