Iris

@iris_meredith
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That problematic person who keeps popping up in your feeds. Blogs (or, according to HackerNews "seed[s] extreme left wing ideas into the minds of vulnerable HN members with my demented, violent writing") at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/posts
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Show threadIris1h ago
@ludicity @luyin @peritia FWIW, I've still not hit my "I will fucking piledrive you if you talk about AI again" moment, so you're still ahead of me on that point
Show threadIris21h ago
@whitequark True, but trying is an honourable goal, even if you fail. Imagine being a front-end dev for Polymarket...
Show threadIris21h ago

@whitequark In my experience, as awful as it is, it's still better than app development. At least in the DevOps and infra spaces, even if the app is useless, you can at least make sure people don't get their data stolen.

It's a pretty bleak win, but it is a win.

Show threadIris22h ago
@Garonenur People don't share other contact details?
Show threadIris22h ago
#TransDayofvisibility, I suppose. I know not what good tagging myself like this does: the part of me that's competitive doesn't need it and the part of me that's trans feels like it makes me seem a bit pathetic.
Show threadIris22h ago

rent. I can never be both. If I'm struggling to feed myself and pay my bills, I can"t be the person who writes those articles that everyone shares. If I'm the person who writes those articles, I can't be struggling as much as I am because I'm clearly fairly capable and socially adjusted.

I guess what I'd say for these days is that we can be *both*. I can be smart *and* need the help of readers to pay rent: neither invalidates the other. And yes, it should be different. But it isn't.

Iris22h ago
Today is the transgender day of visibility. I don't know what to say more globally on the matter, but personally: there is a part of me that is the heterodox tech thinker. I write articles: I get quite a few views, I am popular. Then there's the trans side of me: the person who can't get a job however good and socially well-adjusted I am. Those parts don't often cohabit in people's minds. I can be the clever person who write the things that people love, or I can be the trans girl trying to make
Iris23h ago
I love seeing the Microsoft Teams referral codes for some of my articles in my analytics. Who are the people sharing my work on Teams chats? What are they like?
Show threadIris23h ago
@marshray @dpnash @glyph Well, yes, but the people of whom we speak also can't distinguish between "most" and "all". Hence Boeing
Show threadIris1d ago
@marshray @glyph Unfortunately I'm trained and experienced in precisely the fields where it really, really isn't (engineering)