Lia

(Ibuprofen did nothing and is apparently not recommended, paracetamol is doing nothing, strepsils is doing nothing, the strep A test was negative so I'm not getting antibiotics and nobody offered any other options, hurray for modern medicine)

"Tonsillitis typically resolves in 3-5 days" my ass this started (again) last Sunday and I've been in intense pain for three days now

Ah, Proton now says the stuff in question came from Swiss authorities. Still bad, but not at the company level (there's alt-text in the replies, boo at Proton for now adding THAT tho) bsky.app/profile/prot...

Now, again to be clear, I don't know that LLM's are or aren't conscious, ensouled, sentient, whatever language you want to use; but I do know that we should be very suspicious of those who a) make money off of people thinking they are [C,E,S,w/e] & b) try very hard to nudge us into thinking they are

Sure is a choice on a week where there was an "AI"-related supply chain attack via unsafe automation

My personal bigger tell is a stream of US politics reposts typically without alt-text that leans progressive but is mostly righteous anger that still trusts in the system. It's like a Thing wearing the skin of an annoying US liberal, but not quiiiiite right.
And hobby posts that are still generic

No idea what actor is behind them but there's clearly a swarm of accounts on here that are just around to piss people off and sow division. I see then become minor Main Characters waaaaay too often.
Look for boring bios that are oddly CV-like but still vague, a lack of truly personal interactions...

Ooooh that account has some nice nice tells of being inauthentic and just existing to piss people off

I'll indulge sophistry about whether LLMs are lifeforms when tech bros can sustain the idea that disabled people, BIPOC and folks of marginalized genders are humans

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into so...

"AI in code is fine actually" meanwhile a ton of my coder friends say we're weeks away from AI worms launching attacks on various essential bits of web infrastructure, based on stories like this: grith.ai/blog/clineje...

Very amused that this is on a blog peddling a tool to secure something people should not deploy to begin with

While I'm at it, there is a marked pattern at least here of this bullshit work being mostly done by transmasculine people. I'd sure like to know what the hell is going on with transfem separatist orgs so proudly doing harm reduction and DIY support that it's just not a thing with most of them

It's about power. Yeah, no shit. What now? What does that translate to? How do you talk to people? What arguments do you use? What scale do you work at? What do the logistics look like?
Bonus points if you feel like working on the anti-HIV gays because they sure don't give a toss

Public health professionals have failed us hard - you don't need to tell me that 🇸🇪 - but unless you're out there doing the thankless work of getting people WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ON YOUR SIDE to give a fuck I would strongly urge easing off the simplistic theoretical reads

I really need people hot taking about public health strategies not being inherently antifascist to get off their ass and help us on the anti-covid beat in antifascist / queer / anarchist circles if they're so sure it's all just a matter of power analysis

Unironically a major reason I work in games! Our industry is fucked and complicit too, don't get me wrong, but at least my shit's less likely to end up directly responsible for killing families or denying someone their benefits

Assuming it's Rite of Rebirth yeaaaaah I just saw that and. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they should NOT tackle those themes, I just don't necessarily get the impression they're being especially mindful about any of it!

It is nakedly "he's badass" and "he was pushed to badness by society" and "he went way too far" all in one, IMO not especially well-executed because he goes way too far way too fast and that makes empathy difficult for people with anything resembling a moral compass

Much of the godawful difficulty discourse stressed that it was a good thing those devs got to make exactly the game they wanted to make. I think it's worth asking why that resulted in, so far, three instances of Hornet slapping pervs and two more instances of her body being directly encroached upon

It's a continuum with themes from Hollow Knight, with Radiance's whole deal, but the stuff there was a lot less direct, never explicitly sexual, not directed at your character outside of the ending.
It feels notable and like it'd warrant a content warning and/or critical discussion I have not seen

Yeah er I'm still only halfway through the playlist (how BIG is this game?!) but I think it's notable that Silksong includes very explicit, repeated themes of (sexual) assault and bodily intrusion directed *at the player character* now that the protagonist is explicitly female

Today in "LANGUAGES": خامع means mosque, like مسخد, but خامعة means university. Also تدرس is either "study" (تدرُس) or "teach" (تدَرِس) depending only on short vowels that you do not write by default

Every time there's Games Should Not Be Smoothed Into Indistinguishability discourse it throws the entire field of UX and accessibility under the bus and it's tiring

(Here, ICYMI lia-sae.net/articles/202... )

This kind of shit is why I wrote the following on generative AI:
"You shouldn't stop at "no means no", that's a bit dated. I am not saying that genAI is rape culture. I am saying that it showcases a similar disregard for the agency and integrity of others, in a way that is all-too-common with tech."

Without the sway of public health, however, we get nowhere without being some flavor of insider. And that means moving into spaces that hurt us, layering more armor and being seen as a cold monster for it, while everyone in there self-congratulates about how good they are at caring for each other

It's never one-to-one but in that regard I find a lot of kinship with what queer people of color describe as their experience. A wall of whiteness, assumptions unquestioned, leaving half of your self at the door lest you become a Problem

The difficulty of doing the work in the queer communities I wish I could exist normally in is that the two modes are forced to overlap. I want to just be myself, and that self is traumatized and angry and scared and righteously MAD. But I can't. It is, ironically, yet another way I'm forced to mask

The replies and quotes to that last repost are why I keep saying I have two modes.
There's pedagogy mode, where I *have* to understand where people come from, treat every tiny victory as good, affirm and support and repeat "harm reduction" like a mantra.
Then there's "when do *I* get to be mad" mode

i don't think most anti-vaccine parents are bad parents. we are drowning in medical misinformation. it's really hard! and a lot of these parents are more accurately described as vaccine hesitant than ideologically opposed. they have good faith questions that deserve to be answered with compassion.