People really have to stop doing this. Yes, these overly broad efforts to attack drag performers and trans people will have some knock on effect on cis people doing the things that cis people do everyday, but the incredulous focus on where these laws will impact cis people is a deflection from the horror and trauma they are intentionally causing trans people and the larger 2SLGBTQIA community. This is about us, not you.

From: @MediaLawProf
https://mastodon.social/@MediaLawProf/110460136687941778

He Became Convinced the School Board Was Pushing “Transgender Bullshit.” He Ended Up Arrested — and Emboldened.

https://www.propublica.org/article/winston-salem-nc-school-board-arrests

I canNOT believe this but the woman making the program for my grandpa's memorial services couldn't find the poem that had been picked for the beginning and asked some LLM (I don't know what platform it was very confusing) to write the poem based on her vague memory of some lines of it and that's what she read and said was my grandpa's favorite

I'm honestly like, hysterically laughing about it and also hurt and horrified. What a time to be alive

It's been a long time since I blogged, but posting about long covid seems valuable.

TL;DR - this isn't over, despite what governments are telling you.

https://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2023/05/this-is-not-over/

My recent job search by the numbers

Applied to 115, rejected by 51, interviewed by 8, hired by 1. LinkedIn was my job-search HQ. Going to work for the U.S. Digital Service.

https://blog.kamens.us/2023/05/27/my-recent-job-search-by-the-numbers/

#OnTheJob #JobHunting #LinkedIn #USDS

A look at how puritanism took over fandom communities, the growing "anti-fandom" movement, and how the US' FOSTA-SESTA worsened sex positivity discourse online (Aja Romano/Vox)

https://www.vox.com/culture/23733213/fandom-purity-culture-what-is-proship-antiship-antifandom
http://www.techmeme.com/230525/p5#a230525p5

So this person, Maciej Cegłowski, gave a talk about Superintelligence in 2016. I stumbled upon the transcript, and it's great. If you're talking about or thinking about #AI at all, have a read. It's brilliant and makes loads of fun of tech bros.

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People > https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

As a hearing aid user myself since ~birth, and a technologist who likes to build things, this sort of situation would be a double nightmare: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/planned-obsolescence-cochlear-implants/

Imagine if your glasses stopped working without getting software updates. It's insanity, with shades of @pluralistic's "Unauthorized Bread".