Software Engineer by trade
I'm interested in digital privacy, the intersection of technology and society and looking for ways to use my skills and knowledge to make positive impacts on society.
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Jeff JohnsonRE: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@macstories/116255585273477515
"Transitioning from the instrument player to the conductor of the orchestra"
I don't think this analogy is good, especially for an indie developer. A 40-piece orchestra needs a conductor, but a 4-piece rock band does not. In any case, the musicians are always the talent, a conductor merely a coordinator. Moreover, in classical music, the conductor is not even the composer.
@db @neil @pluralistic This was shared by co-workers in a Slack channel and I wanted to share and hope more people can see it. I think this is fucking stupid and I don't see how people can celebrate this as a good thing. It's just continuing to remove humans for involvement in anything. I, for one, enjoy writing code as part of my job. If this shift continues and SEs are nothing more than code reviewers, I guess it's time for a career shift.
https://nitter.net/praveenTweets/status/2033627282418655711#m
Publicly owned corporations may be the worst invention in history. Indeed they may destroy the future, if they haven’t already wrecked the present.
The diffuse and ephemeral ownership tends to eliminate all elements of humanity from a company, turning into an impersonal profit machine. And the prospect of an IPO corrupts company founders, enticing them with an unholy grail.
Electronic Frontier FoundationIn defending free speech, privacy, and the right of young people to access truthful information about themselves, Rep. Leigh Finke was not radical—she was right. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control
What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.
Eugen RochkoTechnology is not inevitable. We've decided not to have asbestos in our walls, lead in our pipes, or carginogenic chemicals in our food. (If you're going to argue that it's not everywhere, where would you rather live?) We could just not do LLMs. It's allowed.
404 MediaAn internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/
iiradnedWriting is a critical skill, it teaches you to organize your thoughts so we can communicate clearly and concisely.
Using LLMs to churn out writing assignments is like asking others to do your thinking for you.
Writing vs AI @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/
Not only is Josh Johnson an amazing comedian, he is spot on about everything with 23andMe.
