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Join us this Saturday, 5/27 at 8 p.m. for a screening of 'Machines in Flames' (2022, 50min), a film about a clandestine group of French computer workers in the 1980s. We'll have a virtual Q&A with the filmmakers afterward. Presented by the South Philly Autonomous Cinema Association. https://iffybooks.net/event/machines-in-flames/

climate pol 

earlier today I was in a conversation about how tech could support climate justice movements and I believe I deserve a little treat for showing restraint and not saying "cyberattacks on oil and gas infrastructure for sure"

academic/tech gripe 

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta make kin with the large language model

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academic/tech gripe 

I know it is very rude and not cool of me to hold this position and yet I will never be able to take people trying to make "feminist AI" a thing seriously

Google really fired Timnit Gebru only for its CEO to recycle her warnings as talking points every two weeks a few years later.

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pol feels 

feels pretty dumb to be working on my silly little research into supply chains and climate change stuff when states are trying to legislate people I care about out of existence!!

academia shitpost 

a provost implies the existence of a convost

can't tell if my continued annoyance and feet-dragging on this grant proposal reflects how much I don't actually want to do a PhD or just how much I hate writing grant proposals

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: underwear and a cowboy hat, a kiss between brothers, bowls or thrones, staph seeks

pol, software, industry goss kinda 

old enough to remember when Mapbox did demo blog posts about mapping drone strikes and now one of their top customers is Palantir

“Oh, you want to ‘participate in society’? Take it indoors! I wish I could!” https://hellgatenyc.com/parking-spots-are-historic-nyc-outdoor-dining

dog medical stuff, :/ 

anyway I'm very behind on a grant proposal and I'm crying because of how much I love my dog, TGIF I guess

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dog medical stuff, :/ 

also we are buying an enormous ramp for our bed because teaching her not to sleep on the bed is simply not an option lol

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dog medical stuff, :/ 

Kitty is on six weeks of rest for a disc injury and while it's a far better doctor's orders than the alternative of needing major spinal surgery, it's a reminder that she's getting old and we don't get infinity years with her. I love her so much and I just want to give her the best life I can for as long as I can.

bought a bunch of vintage graph paper for some drawings I want to make guess you could say they'll be in.....grids 😎

It's fun living with a software engineer who's never touched geospatial stuff and explaining things like the standard file format for spatial data in the industry is actually four files in a zip and watching the will to live drain from his eyes

seeking examples of website designs that handle footnotes nicely, please share thank you

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.