Stop posting on X
To everyone I know: If you still post on X, which is allowing users to generate and distribute non-consensual sexual images of women and children, please know that I am…
Posted inAlways Something We Can Do Tech
Tell the SFWA to ban “A.i.” entirely
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association recently announced new guidelines that left a door open for works using "A.i." to be eligible for the Nebula Awards. Hundreds of people…
Posted inTech
I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative…
Posted inTech
How and why I moved from a Bluesky server to a Blacksky server
Since Twitter turned into a fascist hellhole under Elon Musk, Bluesky has become my favorite social media site. But Bluesky has its own issues, primarily centered around a series of…
Why I deleted Threads (and Instagram)
UPDATE: 01/23/2025: I deleted Instagram, too. This week Meta announced new moderation policies that specifically allow anti-LGBQT rhetoric that was previously disallowed. It's even worse than it sounds: The new…
Posted inHelping Hands Politics Tech
Finally added a real newsletter to this site!
Big news: I've set up a Personal & Political newsletter to accompany this site! I've been thinking about this for a year or two and finally had the time to…
Bluesky hygiene and safety
In the weeks since the election and in the midst the giant surge of new accounts on Bluesky, I've seen multiple people talking about bad vibes on the site due…
Posted inTech
The WordPress/Jetpack/Tumblr/Automattic “A.I.” feed and Firehose situation and how I’ve tried to opt out as best as I think I can at this point
3/4/2024: BIG UPDATE! I just heard back from Brandon Kraft, who describes himself on Mastodon as "Director of Engineering with Automattic working on the Jetpack plugin for #Wordpress." Kraft had…
