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

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

> Read against the speech itself, Lorde's argument seems less concerned with whether antitrust law can break up monopolies and more with whose knowledge counts, who gets to define the problem, and what gets systematically erased when liberation movements reproduce the exclusions of the systems they are opposing.

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
I want to teach a class on repurposing electronics. We could start out just taking some broken things apart and seeing if we can fix them, but every student would have to pick something to repurpose or revive as a semester-long project. Maybe they want to turn an old propane lantern into an LED lantern, convert a cordless drill with dead nicad batteries to lithium, or jailbreak an e-bike. Everyone should leave the class with a device or appliance with a new lease on life. A community college should hire me for this
Fun view up an electricity pilon yesterday with the clouds in the background. Feels a bit like a quilt pattern.

I will no longer be able to effectively maintain open source packages. I am looking for new maintainers for the following packages:

- https://github.com/notgull/unsend
- https://github.com/notgull/async-dns
- https://github.com/notgull/win-syscolor
- https://codeberg.org/notgull/smol-axum
- https://codeberg.org/notgull/smol-hyper

I would prefer people who already have a track record in maintaining crates, but please reach out to me if you'd like to take these. Either here or at my email (see my website) will work.

GitHub - notgull/unsend: Thread-unsafe async runtime

Thread-unsafe async runtime. Contribute to notgull/unsend development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
I really appreciate the vulnerability that comes with writing something like this and releasing it to the public. We need to do a better job of recognizing these traits and supporting one another. 💕
https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give
Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give

I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency. I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in...

Kenneth Reitz
Persist against all odds
so just to be totally clear AI is "democratizing" programming by taking something that used to free to do and making it so you pay a subscription fee to an American corporation to do it while being barred from ever actually understanding how it works, am I getting that right?

The ants can't just tell each other the size of their armies, also even if they could the enemy might lie!

So they all pair off holding each other's mandibles and beating the other ant on the head with her antennae.

If there are only a few unpaired ants that means war would be a bad idea and so they just skip it.

When pavement ants (the little reddish brown ants you see in sidewalk cracks) have intra-species war they use the concept of a one-to-one correspondence to determine who has a larger army.

Ants pair off locking jaws with another ant of similar size.

Any leftover ants from the larger colony will gang up two on one against the other colony.

Then based on things only ants know either they all go home OR one colony overwhelms the other.

But most of the time only a few ants die.

There's this myth that automated spam detection is hard because spammers are all very clever masters of disguise.

No. Spammers are stupid as a shoe. They have dog shit for brains.

Automated spam detection is hard because the line between spam and "legitimate" marketing activity is a fiction.