I’m not awkward but I am awkward-passing.

Hartzog said lawmakers need to create more specific rules tailored to the unique threat posed by the combination of facial recognition and nearly undetectable surveillance technology before it becomes ubiquitous. Those laws need to target not only people using the technology, but also the companies behind it, he said. “A lot of these conversations tend to focus on, ‘is it OK to use these glasses or this tool to surveil other people?’” he said. “What often gets lost in this conversation is, ‘is it OK for companies to design these really socially hostile tools in ways that will foreseeably lead to massive violations of privacy?’”

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I'm selling my Leica M7 0.58 à la carte (with box, manual, and custom Luigi Crescenzi case) and my 35mm Summicron ASPH v2 (with Leica and custom 3D-printed hoods). I just don't use it enough, and it's so special and rare; someone will love it more than I can. Discount for queer folks! Please DM!

YOU - “What's it like to miss someone?”

TOMMY LE HOMME - “What's it *like*? Good. And bad. An ache that brings you joy.” He smiles warmly. “I think of them a lot. I dream up these silly scenarios, in great detail. Of living with them... it comforts me.”

This is the line of division / Terminus Est

Severian and Thecla from The Book of the New Sun

BASEBALL YURI (1/5)

counterspell: computational theater you participate in is the actual innovation of videogames, anything that requires another person is something better replaced by an activity done outside on a field

it feels like such a massive concession of ground for ppl to be constantly defending "learning" and "gaining experience" as good things. like the teacher is letting their worst student stop the whole class dead every day.

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manga panel of a smiling schoolgirl saying "come to think of it, today's april fool's, isn't it?"

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

Screenshot of a quote of text that says: I don’t like the sound of that: that these are my books. They’re not mine. They’re just temporarily living with me. And they do that: they live. They live because a book testifies to life. Not to the bland, back-of-the-cover-copy version of life, with its glib emphasis on the human and the joys and sorrows of social existence. A book testifies to the wider, stranger, more terrifying and fulfilling life we know when we are most inexplicable to ourselves. I’ve known this wider life when I’ve experienced any love whose existence I couldn’t fit into my vision of the order or disorder of things. Every gift points at this wider life; I’m sure of this. And I’m sure that each book is a gift.

The ever-lovely @kenlikescarbs.bsky.social on books that live with us for a time

Origin of Symmetry is one of the great records

first date

Oh my god this looks amazing

Ada Loveless explaining why ChatGPT and other LLMs are not now nor ever will be “AI”:

Girls by Emily Moore
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Subvert — The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace A music platform owned by us all. Join Subvert to sell your work, support artists, and shape our shared future. Sincerely Ours.

subvert.fm is a really, really cool more-than-bandcamp co-op, and their alpha already introduced me to so many cool (queer and trans!) artists

This is good and if you're a leader in a software company you have to look out for this. There's no substitute metric for talking to people, honest relationships, and some baseline of psychological safety around disclosure

Kagi Small Web Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

This is cool—it's effectively a Stumbleupon for the indie web. With this, Kagi is doing more for blogs than Google has in a long time.

kagi.com/smallweb/

hrt.wtf

Number of Donations Received by Size Range (or, How to Crowdfund $12k of Care w/o Taking "Too Much" from Anyone so Relax About It) 132 $1-$25 donations 80 $26-$100 donations 13 over $100 donations

@stella flagging this for if ghosts bother you tomorrow: not to be all ancient anarchist and shit but while community care helps the impacted person it also really really gives the community a needed fucking win sometimes

Two things that gave me peace during moments of shame and guilt last night: a chart of donation distribution helpfully labeled to shut me up, and some sage wisdom I really needed to hear from an organizer who Gets It

I read hundreds of manga each one

It exposes their whole ass in a way that's become okay to criticize _on LinkedIn_, so it's good that it is, at least, appropriately deemed Clown Behavior by the small talking heads of Business

In case you were wondering about the state of free idea exchange in academia, this is where we are.

I appreciate colleagues reaching out. But I wish they'd say it publicly, especially if untenured. That's the only way to change this insanity where experts are afraid to speak up.

theory-of-everything books like "Sapiens" are most accurately described as part of the conspiracy theory genre, i will not be taking further questions at this time

A red Corolla AE92 and a yellow 3G Prelude on the roof of a parking deck at sunset

ketchup/mustard

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