I write about power dynamics in engineering management
Insecurity Princess. Clod Security leader. Queer femme mathematician. Dismantling systemic barriers in tech, one fencepost problem at a time
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The "logic" of blocking content from being archived on the Wayback Machine to prevent it being used for AI training blows my mind.
Locks only keep the honest people out. In this case, all you're doing is restricting access for quite probably the best, and possibly the only, long-term durable archive of the Internet. The downsides for society are countless.
Breathless headline, but good piece, from Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/
Someone requested baby goat noises, so enjoy! It's SO CUTE
RE: https://floss.social/@newinlinux/116412162295179602
Buried lede: “recent geopolitical changes have caused his him and his family to feel unsafe remaining in the United States.”
SAN FRANCISCO—Following reports that a 20-year-old man had been arrested for throwing a Moltov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home, the suspect stated Monday that he only initiated the attack because he was following a ChatGPT recipe for risotto. “I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much […]
NASA's photo galley from yesterday's lunar fly-by are bonkers gorgeous
full gallery here: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
My fellow people of the United States, if I have anything to teach from what Minneapolis just lived through, it is this:
Nobody is coming to save us.
Not Congress. Not the courts. Not the ICC or the EU or NATO. Not the generals or the rank and file. Not the press. Not the markets. Not the elections. Not some mythical version of “The People” that materializes out of nowhere as some messianic external force.
We’re it. We’re all we’ve got. If we don’t stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it.
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In the first days of December, as it became clear that the ICE invasion was a real thing that was really happening to us, as groups of us gathered swapping rumors about the kidnappings and clearly inadequate tips about phone security, we had no idea what to expect, no idea what would happen, no idea what we were going to do. As much as we’d planned, heard from other cities, tried to be ready, we had no idea.
Only one thing was crystal clear: nobody, absolutely nobody, was coming to save us.
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Tim W RESISTS
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