Infograph about censorship. It compares it to magnets.

Sorted my thoughts about censorship, so I can stop thinking about it.

Ok, the "Moon Knight" TV short series is actually really, really great.

I'm not much one for comic stuff, usually, but it's way better than I expected.

As a trans engineer who left the space industry in order to feel safe enough to transition: oof.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

"No," the swordmaster said.

"One does not refuse the king," the herald said.

"I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war."

"You will regret this!"

"No," the swordmaster said.

Understand that many of those who have a negative view on AI are not luddites, nor ignorant, nor are they unaware of the state of things. Many are simply approaching it with a different set of inherent values, and—for those of us who are large-scale systems folks—distrust born of experience.

Will the latter change? Very likely, as it becomes more efficient in its compute requirements.

Will the former change? Well, we currently use medical research that was gleaned in horrible ways, and it's possible our society will evolve its perception of what is ethical—if it survives the process.

LLM-based "AI" is incredibly useful for many things. It is also fundamentally unethical to use in any creative process. Whether you consider coding a creative process or not is relevant here.

Systems development using AI also has significant blind spots, and I am as yet unconvinced of its utility.

You know, statistically speaking, you're far more likely to eat a tentacle than be eaten by one.

I played in two championship hockey games over the weekend, one as forward, one as goalie.

Lost both by one goal.

I'm a loser, baby.

Ok, but farscape is awesome in any decade

Northernmost and Southernmost city in continental US!

#NoKings from the arctic in Utqiaġvik, Alaska the northernmost city in the entire USA!

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Microsoft was a key player in the destruction of humanity.

When I tell cis people how bad things are for trans people right now - and acceleratingly worse by the week - I get "that's hard, but-" or "that can't be true, I would've heard".

Frustrating thing for me is that I run one of those, but the users never came. I even tried to offer to consolidate some of the instances that were shutting down for cost or drama, but the owners decided that a pyrrhic exit was better than continuity.

I'm a professional systems architect and admin.

Harry Potter is the most base-level, paint by numbers, derivative fantasy slop and a remake is by definition more of the same. If your solidarity can be bought by that your solidarity is fucking worthless.

Amy Lee achieved popularity, but I feel never really got the level of respect she deserves.

Seriously, she has pipes. In this day and age where everything is processed and melodyne'd to death, hearing a singer actually nail notes like she does is a delight. Good phrasing and delivery, too.

I have a little author discord, and I could use some help testing a bot I wrote.

If anyone is really, really bored, I could really use a few people joining here:
discord.gg/aZ5MDh6Mgz

And testing my verification bot. ^_^

My kind of people:
lists.debian.org/debian-legal...

(I'm so sorry, please forgive me)

*hart

I honestly do think this is a good solution, but I'm open to contrary opinions.

I don't know if there's a right answer. In time, society might come up with one, if it survives.

I'm very divided on book CWs. I'm a classicist, but also strongly in favor of harm reduction, so I'm internally at war on the issue.

I write character-driven science fiction, but my books often deal with some very hard themes. Most are implicit, as I don't want to glorify them or trend macabre.

I don't really understand downtown Omaha… It feels like an incredibly busted town.

I wrote a little piece of prosetry yesterday.

foxprints.org/eternity/

As I was going through my list of friends to share it with, I realized had few people I was comfortable sending it to.

It was interesting to me that I have so many acquaintances, but few who are "safe" in that way. It's deeply personal, to me, for reasons that are impossible to explain.

I wrote a little piece of prosetry yesterday.

foxprints.org/eternity/