hi everyone!! i'm ivy

this is my re- #introduction

at this point in my life, three things matter most to me

three: i think computer programs are alive, and i'm sad that we make them out of text. to program — to be present with the computer — i want to see and touch things as they dance through space. i want execution to have rhythm i can feel. this is what i'm trying to make my career about.

two: i think songwriting is one of the more powerful forms of magic. my partner and i sing to each other, "when you put it in a song, that makes it true." songwriting is more than lyric and melody. it's laying in the grass at night and screaming to the stars. it's leaving your body and entering any instrument. it's pulling something out of yourself, turning it into culture, and living with it as the years go by and you change and you discover new ways that it means something about you.

one: i think companionship is so important that it overrules almost everything else you can do or be as a person. being aware of other people, and feeling their presence in your life, is essential to being a whole person. i would go so far as to say that the definition of "human" extends beyond the individual body and mind. i want to spend my life growing closer to everyone who will have me in theirs.

it's lovely to meet you. may our paths cross many times.

If you are a European Union citizen, there is a concrete way you can support a peaceful resolution in Iran and Gaza: you can demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights.

#peace
#palestine
#iran

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It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE. 

They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon. 

They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times. 

He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.

Silverio Villegas González was an undocumented immigrant who was shot and killed at close range while allegedly trying to flee. 

He was dragged from his vehicle at a traffic stop after dropping his children off at school. 

The bullet went through the back of his neck.

Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA. 

The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that.

Renee Nicole Good was shot three times by an ICE agent who called her a “f*cking b*tch” after. 

ICE claims she was using her vehicle as a weapon despite multiple videos showing she was trying to drive away from the agent. 

2 of the 3 shots were through driver side door.

The ICE agent shot her through her windshield, moved out of the way of the vehicle and kept shooting. 

He was in no danger. But he didn’t stop shooting until he got the kill shot.

Independent autopsy confirms it was through her left temple and out the right side of her skull.

There’s been so much documented abuse of power. 

In addition to the shootings we have Liam Ramos, a five year old child who was used as bait and then taken by masked agents and sent from Minnesota to Texas.

There’s Geraldo Campos who was choked to death in an ICE camp in Texas. 

The medical examiner officially ruled his death a homicide, and DHS moved to deport the witnesses!

Chaofeng Ge was found hanging in ICE custody. 

They ruled it a suicide despite his arms and legs being tied behind his back.

Randall Gamboa Esquivel was in perfect health when detained by ICE. 

He disappeared while in custody. 

By the time his family located him, he was in a persistent vegetative state. 

They deported him to Costa Rica and he died soon after.

David Courvelle worked as a detention officer in an ICE facility in Louisiana. 

He sexually assaulted a Nicaraguan detainee for three months, forcing other detainees to keep watch while he abused her.

Silvia Reyna Mendoza, a mother of 8 who had been in the US for 40 years, was sexually harassed by an ICE contractor. 

He reportedly would tell her if she was good to him, he would be good to her. 

When she reported the harassment she was immediately detained.

Bayron Rovidio Marin had his leg broken during an ICE raid in LA. 

He was then held in the hospital under a fake name so no one could find him. 

He was chained to a hospital bed for 37 days until a court ordered his release.

There’s Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in ICE custody for almost a year. 

He was only two days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when they grabbed him. 

He’s being denied his prosthetics, he’s been placed in solitary and his health is declining

Now there’s Alex Pretti, another US citizen shot and killed in broad daylight. 

These are not just a few random incidents. 

It’s not a few “bad apples”.

It’s a systemic problem.

These agents have been allowed to hide their identities, filled with hateful rhetoric and told they have immunity.

People are being abused, assaulted and killed by ICE.

This isn’t about immigration or crime, it’s about control & creating fear.

It’s tyranny and no one is safe under tyranny.

The scariest part is these are only the cases we know about. 

At least 1,200 people are missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Elected officials are regularly denied access into the camps. 

We have to assume we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. 

Abolish ICE.

Close the camps.

Keep witnessing and speaking out.

#uspol #alexpretti #abolishice #minnesota #fascism

It'd be cool if you signed this petition.

https://www.change.org/p/defend-the-internet-archive

1/10 🚨 The 🇬🇧UK regulator’s final report is out and it’s clear: Apple’s browser engine ban harms competition.

Forcing all iOS browsers to use WebKit hurts developers, users, and the web itself.

Change is coming. 🧵

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-regulators-final-verdict--apples-browser-engine-ban-harms-competition/

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ Please boost for awareness, reach and to public shame Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Perplexity and other such AI companies.

#opensource #programming #Developers

"The texts we choose for our Markov generators should not be random. They should be chosen for their impact on the 'stochastic parrots' that will be trained to speak using our poisonous output. They should strengthen the AI's word-associations between conflicting narratives, where the resolution of that conflict undercuts the system's power."

https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/poison-as-praxis.html