Independent author & FOSS web developer.
Writer of 200+ articles on Medium.com for over ten years.
Main account: https://social.lol/@brennan
🇨🇦 29 | Métis | Queer
| Pronouns | he/they |
| Home | https://brennan.day |
| Poetry | https://bkpoetry.com |
| My Books | https://brennanbrown.gumroad.com |
There's a repo called open-slopware tracking FOSS projects that have let genAI into their codebases. The well is much deeper than you think.
I wrote about the two coherent responses: absolutism or harm reduction. And why this moment rhymes with free software absolutism, BDFL politics, and old arguments that we never finished.
https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/massive-software-projects-have-a-genai-problem-a437a5aa07e1
I've written 120 blog posts in the past 140 days and I still can't bring myself to take a break.
So I wrote a piece about what that's actually been. The patterns I didn't notice until I looked back. The ideas I keep circling. What I think I'm trying to say.
"I am working out, in public, what it means to be a person of genuine ethical commitment in a moment of genuine civilizational fragility without burning out."
https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/constellation-of-living-stars-e3feca599d35
understimulation as creative necessity. the default mode network. heidegger's boredom revealing time. cree mamahtowisowin and plains dream epistemologies as dispatch rather than symptom. my SSRI-thinned hypnagogic membrane. the kimchi metaphor
https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/fermenting-boredom-3b0aad122537
my nostalgia is hypercapitalist and i can't do anything about it
kraft dinner. mcdonalds playplace gamecube kiosks. msn messenger door sounds. limewire malware. omegle. liveleak. pawning the computer to make rent.
i cannot decouple my fondest memories from the corporations and the harm that produced them. i'm not sure i want to.
I'm tired of how we sort people into those whose deaths register and those whose don't. Whose suffering qualifies as the real emergency. Who gets the vigil and who gets the statistic nobody reads.
Universal human rights must be universal.
https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/a-more-perfect-morality-the-progressive-failure-of-ethics-a7839121eaef
Three months of tinkering on my personal site, and I finally wrote it all up 🌻
Building My Blog From Scratch: IndieWeb, New Features, and 3 Months of Iterations
Covers: webmentions, Micropub, service workers, WebSub, system font migration, Konami code sunflower rain, Zen Mode, and fun easter eggs.
Static does not have to mean simple.
the missing stair doesn't get fixed because communities would rather warn newcomers than have the conversation they've been dreading
Susan Neiman, Elinor Ostrom, the banality of evil, and a reader comment that broke something open in my thinking
https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/how-do-we-account-for-evil-ec7eedc7894a
Read the full poetry at: https://bkpoetry.com/post/810849180857909248/internet-gf
internet gf
i wrote an entire chapbook published
dedicated to an ex,
truth be told, i'd like to make another
for you
i don't know who you are
yet, but you write poetry
in another country, but
the distance is longing
& i'm a recent break-up
soft, getting long in the tooth
mending a healed wound.
stay up scrolling thru #spilled ink,
maybe love really is that simple.
url bookmarked @ 2 a.m.
screen the only l...
the linkedin advice to write in all-lowercase and drop em dashes so you don't get flagged as AI is ridiculous. you aren't fooling anyone.
write weird shit. the oil-slick prophecy in the gasoline puddle. the one-legged magpie. the tangible, chewed, spat out, swallowed again.
the first thought is the best thought
Yesterday was International Women's Day. Today is the day after, which means the work continues.
I wrote an open letter to the men in my life and around the world. Emotional labour, the manosphere, male loneliness, femicide, MMIWG, what it means to show up.
I don't know what positive masculinity looks like. But I know what the first steps are.
https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/we-as-men-must-do-more-and-we-must-do-better-7e3346ea7afd
