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typing free software to break the shoulders of giants from golden handcuffs. i build tools to level the playing field. @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run

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d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· May 8

by @profferguson.bsky.social

cover of "your data will be used against you: policing in the age of self-surveillance" by andrew guthrie ferguson

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 29

why are lumiose city cops trying to entrap me

"You could play the robber and pretend to break into the museum for me!"

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 26

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 24

how your email finds me

gym leader blane with hippie glasses and long hair (wig) comes bursting out of his hotel to check upon an explosion in his volcano, clearly very upset. his hawaiian necklace swings from side to side with his hands in the air after pushing aside a curtain

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 24

logging on

red ink, looks like gel pen but with some dithering too? image of a girl's head with floofy hair and a turtleneck, a slight smile. she is wearing an overhead VR system labelled "3D". some japanese text is visible printed in black at top left

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 24

this looks fucking awesome en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity... > Wheelchair rugby is a full-contact sport played by wheelchair users. In spite of the protective features of the wheelchairs, the risk of injury is significant.[14] mad props to whoever chose this sick photo

super sick photo of wheelchair rugby match between us and canada men's teams. usa member with really cool beard is almost flipped over onto a team canada member whose hair is flying out, indicating some form of hard spinning has just taken place. wheelchairs are marked with team colors and have protective metallic guards around the base.

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 23

this is done with the mastocel image approach in mind so images are always at the bottom but it works with inline images they still get cut off at the appropriate vertical height. e.g.

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 8

interesting piece. it mentions a 2023 executive order. it doesn't seem to mention biden's 2024 national security memorandum directly contradicting the toothless executive order bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...

Lyons' letter said any use of the tool "will comply with constitutional requirements" and will be coordinated with the ICE Office of the Principal Legal Advisor.

The Paragon Solutions' contract was initially put on hold in 2024 to review its compliance with an executive order then-President Joe Biden signed in 2023 that bars the use of commercial spyware that poses a national security risk to the United States or poses a risk to be misused by foreign governments.

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 7

they absolutely mean spoken

radio button selector of a massive variety of spoken languages: Abkhazian, Afar, Afrikaans, ...

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 7

hey uh anyone else notice something about this innocuous little selector at the bottom of the github profile settings page on mobile trending repos sorts by........preferred *spoken* language?

there's a dropdown selector for "preferred spoken language" that claims

"We'll use this language preference to filter the trending repository lists on Explore our Trending Repositories page. "

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 7

i actually asked nicely—this was the second time circumstances.run/@hipsterelec...

propublica (the official corporate account) posts on mastodon a big square image: Text on graphic: We're hiring! Computational journalist. Remote-friendly. Full time with benefits. $120K-$140K.

there is a job description linked. the description mentions LLMs and generative AI. my reply (the circumstances.run link):

hipsterelectron - @ProPublica what does ProPublica expect to use LLMs and generative AI for in their newsroom?

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 7

immediately then recalled this double epiphany lightning struck twice in a row from you and @cloudquistador.bsky.social

@Blackamazon QT of @brianstelter, with reply from dwayn monroe/@cloudquistador. stelter's post:
> This is an excellent @AP story about what X has become: A platform chock full of "right-wing pseudonymous influencers who act as alternative information sources" and fill up timelines with false and twisted info

@Blackamazon QT:
> If you write an entire article on wokeness only starting in 2020 about how Twitter has transformed
>
> You’re aiding Misinfo by reducing the frame to a space that ignores WHAT THE RIGHT WING HAS SAID
>
> That in and of itself is misinformation

@cloudquistador reply:
> Yup. For example...The implied message of Doctorow's ballyhooed (pulling this word out of storage) 'enshittification idea is that, once upon a time, the environment was better but alas [insert name of villian they negatively celebrate]

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Apr 7

senior counsel at the electronic frontier foundation whose greatest concern about electronic frontiers during active warfare is the sanctity of parental controls

@davidgreene.bsky.social, whose bio reads: @ EFF's Senior Counsel, 1st Amdt prof @ USF, ex-SFSU. NOT any of the other David Greenes, like the ex-NPR host, the ex-UGA QB, or the 1 who directed Grease. Posts r mine only, so hands off.

3m ago: Has Congress yet called for better training for the President?

17h ago: People are like "Artemis II is going to be offline for 40 minutes" and I'm like "Dude, do you know how easy it is to hack those parental controls?"

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Feb 13

this satellite image makes that shit look like a sick halfpipe. best not to think about why NASA was photographing there

The Strait of Gibraltar as seen from space.
The Iberian Peninsula is on the left and North Africa is on the right.

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Jan 1

found this duke on the internet for you

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Dec 15

this is the critical moment in the japanese audio that suggests a faustian bargain. the english script has many more words and does not imply that giovanni could be the devil

giovanni facing mewtwo, a shadow amidst the flame in a yellow blazer: "You may very well be the mightiest Pokémon in the world..."

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Dec 15

found my old thread on the subject with screenshots

image of mew scrawled into stone, behind a silhouette of mewtwo and dr. fuji's shadows as mewtwo wakes up for the first time, wondering: "Is that my progenitor?" dr. fuji does not appear to notice the question.

dr. fuji with crazy fucking hair and little glasses, and a beard that could have been painted on a classical christian depiction of the devil, shrouded in darkness with other scientists behind him: "The only beings capable of creating life in this world are God and humans."

mewtwo, now surrounded by flames painting an electric foreground over an oil paint background, amidst the destruction of his artificial amniotic upbringing, brow constantly furrowed: "Is this power my own?"

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Dec 10

had something to say but was too busy crying. whenever i talk to people about who the free software movement let down it's never anyone except who software has always raised up who has ever had a problem with it

But I expected all that. What I did not expect was that over time, people I’d seen as bold progressives started to look quite different.

I always thought of Colorado Governor Jared Polis as a pathbreaker: the first openly gay man and first Jewish person elected governor in the state. Now, all I can think about is how he vetoed a law that would make it dramatically easier for people in Colorado to form a union … and a law that would have barred landlords from using algorithms to collude on rent hikes … and a law, passed unanimously in the state legislature, to end surprise ambulance bills … in two weeks.

I always liked how Illinois Governor JB Pritzker stood up for the little guy: for undocumented people, for trans kids. I love how he seems genuinely unafraid of this president. But it’s harder to see him in the same light after watching him veto a bill that would have protected workers at Amazon warehouses—where injuries are so frequent that the company puts vending machines on its warehouse floors that dispense not potato chips, but painkillers. Why can’t Pritzker fight for the people in warehousing?

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Nov 23

dirty pair movie

extremely vibrant and colorful control room with every surface covered in brilliantly lit panels of every color

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Nov 21

a beige air/space plane with bright blue rocket jets traverses the glittering teal sea: "Searching for an environment in which he could devote himself to his research, since he hated your control,"

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Nov 21

100000% chance this inspired the scene in the jungle with violet and dash escaping the henchmen in the incredibles

kei close up looking leftwards, with dark green brown yellow foliage visible in background

kei and yuri flipping over their air jetskis, maintaining control after an unexpected obstruction forced them both spinning

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Nov 21

THAT'S RIGHT

kei, in a blue tube top and necklace with five glittering silver rhombi, in front a neon sign: "Hey, what luck! A disco!"

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Nov 13

some of the wildest and most beautiful artwork i have ever seen

kei in a spacesuit reconnecting two massive jumper cables by hand with the help of nanmo the robot as the cables produce a massive spark that throws the rest of the spaceship engine hull into sharp relief

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Oct 24

sorry i blocked because i couldn't bear to see it. prithee mine eyes

@kthorjensen.bsky.social skeet "oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on twitter with the caption 'AI games are going to be amazing' totally seriously, you have to watch it. you have to. in full screen."

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Oct 5

oh i'm sorry i didn't intend for that to be correcting you. the talk i linked has slides on some ways text search can be done locally and how centralizing it is an expression of power. has this slide

Why is Text Powerful?
[2: Hidden Dependencies]
If you are unable to modify or deploy your code without employing an opaque external system, then you have a hidden dependency.
This opaque external system can then exert arbitrary control over your programming output.

Why is Text Powerful?
[3: Locality]
If you cannot reproduce a system locally, it becomes an opaque external system.
e.g. GUI IDEs, cloud services, Large Language Models.8

8: all Microsoft products

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Jun 28

also really liked this 🏳️‍⚧️ hued shot from the first episode of zeta gundam where kamille gets misgendered once and immediately becomes an anti-fascist militant lmao

a washed-out pink and blue scene with silhouettes of a teenage boy and girl. "...surprise, he's a boy."

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Jun 11

decided wong kar wai shouldn't be the only hong kong director i know

title frame from "long arm of the law" by johnny mak. there are thick blocky deep blood red kanji against a black background, with the english title in thin sans serif below it

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· Jun 10

found this in my downloads folder

a frame from the beginning of tarkovsky's STALKER, a classic midcentury russian film. СТАЛКЕР (the title) is embossed in big bold gold art deco font at center. behind it is a dimly lit room with someone who has just entered it through a door at stage back left

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· May 29

update: the same day i posted this and he started whining in my replies despite not tagging him he posted an opening explicitly for an "AI" engineer on fedi (mastodon), literally funded by microsoft and openai, for using LLMs in the newsroom werd.social/@ben/1145879...

post from the same guy but on fedi (mastodon):

However you feel about AI, it's a big part of the modern software landscape.

⁨@ProPublica⁩ is hiring a two-year AI engineering fellow in collaboration with ⁨@lenfestinstitute⁩.

We're not cheerleaders or naysayers; we want to explore ways that it might support the newsroom, while remaining anchored in real human problems and strongly adhering to our values, standards, and strict need for safety.

⁨https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4563500006⁩

⁨#media⁩ ⁨#journalism⁩ ⁨#ai⁩

d@nny disc@ mc²@hipsterelectron· May 27

"the cat is out of the bag" you blithely assert in werd.social/@ben/1131541.... yet here you maintain that we should "avoid unquestioningly importing Silicon Valley assumptions into our own decision-making."