Erin

@ChateauErin
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Games writer (Hack n' Slash), aerospace engineer at JSC, first queen of RPOP. Demon-frog apologist. Trans woman. Avatar: Shia the Cat.

I star posts very inconsistently and have disabled notifications about being starred. Please don't infer anything from me not using the star.

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StackExchangehttps://stackexchange.com/users/4865483/erin-anne
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Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...
I figured it out with an even-more-aggressive repository cleaning command. SOMETHING was out of date and not rebuilding, I just don't know what. I wish I'd found it and gotten the right things rebuilt. But now we're into different mysterious problems.
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "bulb." I made some garlic
Disabled people can have a solarpunk utopia, as a treat

@sundogplanets Note again to my fellow #HamRadio operators...they require a CORES account to make it nearly impossible to comment. And to get a ham radio license, you also got a CORES account. It's up to us to speak for the hundreds of millions they are preventing from speaking.

Go make a comment.

LLMs do not "democratize programming". A 4-year-old can learn to program. LLMs throw up stupid barriers by convincing you that you can't learn to program and you have to rely on whatever shit the bobot spits out. Every asshole that says that AI "democratizes" fucking anything is trying to scam you.

it's easy to notice Negative Youtube Changes but something they've done right recently (maybe I should say finally? idk) is that, rather than a Video just being on a Channel,
Videos have Authors now.

Which means that people can collaborate, and both their names are on the thing (not just semi-hidden in the video description) and I think it's really encouraging a lot of cross-pollination now.

Like Alton Brown and everybody else who cooks on Youtube apparently
https://youtu.be/0CcNxTkwrxE

Alton Brown Cooks Food | Bonus Episode! (With @bingingwithbabish )

YouTube

Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.

https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy

On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse

🖼️Cover Photo: Train at the Nairobi terminus of the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. It runs parallel to the Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901. The first fare-paying passengers boarded the "Madaraka Express" on Madaraka Day (1 June 2017), the 54th anniversary of Kenya's attainment of self-rule from Great

Do Flamingos Know They're Pink

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116290338892571761

🤦🏿‍♂️Actually, nevermind.

Why is everything like this?

The author supposedly went on an anti-woke, right-wing podcast to promote the movie while trashing other books and movies that do have a "woke" message or that have inclusive representation? But... why?

Why was that necessary?

New blog post! I threw together a little graphical script editing utility for the Magic School Lunar fan translation, which lets me visualize every line of dialogue as I write it in order to let me see how it'll look in-game. It all came together surprisingly quickly, and I'm happy how much easier this is going to make the script rewrites.

https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/03/27/forget-spreadsheets/