d@nny disc@ mc²

is there a tech aggregator that, unlike lobsters, doesn't pretend that tech functions in vacuum, with no human facet to it?

didn't realize how important the arduino brand was to people or how negatively qualcomm was viewed. all acquisitions are bad ofc. not really too important though

qualcomm bought arduino

why do they call it LaTeX when La in the source TeX La out the out TeX

overfull hbox? in this economy?

Finally, a decent decision from the Supreme Court. Today, the Court denied a petition to get rid of the per se rule on tying. This is incredibly important (E.g., Google ad tech district court decision!). www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

I have just seen 13 Waymos in a one mile distance on El Camino Real close to the San Fransisco airport.

This is going to have a devastating impact on so many workers. And it’s not even clearly safe. We are part of this big experiment in private driverless mobility/environmental disaster. 😞

Probably last point. Fuck the leadership at Bluesky. Fuck the folks who keep putting technology over people (this is *literally* the reason why this shit keeps happening).

freedom from and freedom to, or positive and negative liberties, are a useful way to break out of the positive feedback loop that results in only protecting the powerful. but really the platforming of an abstract ideal of freedom above all else should be questioned before it gets to that point

starting off by identifying the things to work against is pretty important because it turns out not everyone agrees on those and technology doesn't free you abstractly it accomplishes specific political goals. it's not even just about trading off conceptions of freedom it may not free you at all

one of the tells of fashtech is that they never shut up about decentralised open source and FREEDOM but then it turns out to be full of obscured central points of control

awful.systems/post/5833209

I reactivated just to say this: folks who can't understand the importance of safety (especially when it comes to Black people on the Internet) and wants to focus on bits and bytes over bodies is a fucking opp.

I'm by SRQ if you wanna do this shit in person.

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Wingull soaring from below. Its wings spread wide as it makes a turn in the current. Sketch 7 of 8. Suggested by my friend Doodleydoodah on insta✨ Drawn and painted 10/03/25 with ballpoint pen and watercolors. If I was drawing Wingull from memory, then I would’ve given it legs. So when I looked up the official art and saw that it didn’t have any. I could only imagine that it walks like flailing around like one of those inflatable tube men you often see in front of some stores on the curbside. I was really tempted to draw the shiny version, because I really liked the idea of making the stripes a mid to deep green, but the reason why I chose the original in the end was partially just because I wanted to capture what the old gba and ds game colors felt like to me and the blue was a nice color, too.

Wingull Just gliding by in the sky. (7/8)

I’m gonna pretend they just hide their knees. I need to see what a walking Wingull looks like.

#vibanibart #pokemon #traditionalart #illustration #fanart #pokemonfanart

or to rephrase: it's a necessary trade-off, like all policy discussions, which is being portrayed as black-and-white. i don't believe most citizens of the EU agree that the privacy of their most intimate thoughts are worth trading off for law enforcement.

i don't think it's libertarianism to believe the government should not have absolute power over its citizens. i think libertarianism arises from never wanting the government to have any power to regulate trade or violence. a convincing argument has yet to be made that encryption limits enforcement.

the tech implements a policy, much like the laws of a government. it is very akin to a universal declaration of human rights. the term "trust" is incredibly loaded. i trust the government to execute tax policies fairly. i don't trust them to make use of powers no one should have.

it's important to remember that the people making out that bad words about AI are *racism* are overwhelmingly eugenicists and race scientists

this is the right-wing trick of trying to coopt non-right-wing terms as a gotcha

e.g. hailey is a rationalist and they're race science all the way down

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

technologists when their solution is too expensive: i think the governments should do it =)

"trust tech, not government" is what you paraphrased her as saying when quoting her bsky.app/profile/wild... she has worked in precisely the adversarial US regulatory environment you mention because she cares about protecting citizens. your framing is lazy

calling meredith whittaker a libertarian when she's worked for the US FTC which is a government regulator is at the very least misinformed if not an active smear. recommend reading a single thing about who you're attempting to criticize

i'm from the python and rust communities but have been proposing standards for interoperable hosting and resolving (caching and performance being a special interest of mine). will be following along to see if there's any way i can help this project succeed. good luck

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

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i have lots of problems with libertarians for being *insufficient* as a basis for protection but it's so fucking lazy to act like meredith fucking whittaker is a us tech libertarian. honey she has better critiques than you

yeah that's a good thing actually because id be put to jail for being gay if your dumbass ideas of digital policy were implemented

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yea you know what i think im starting to remember why I don't do bsky much. i did not expect to be hit in the face with Laurelai Bailey shit

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