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2025 (8 posts)
Feral Tech
I think the shitty pedagogy and false assumptions that underly the LLM boosters' beliefs about how human knowledge operates will have similar risk profiles to unleashing a preschool class without supervision in Times Square. Lots of people will be harmed, in ways that we can't even imagine, because those little fuckers are creative, fast, and have no idea what dangers they should be watching out for.
Stop Fucking With Trans Lives and Rights
Trans people of all ages deserve a world where their identities are validated and celebrated. A world where healthcare is obtainable, is not surrounded by a bunch of paternalistic, insulting concern and questioning. A world where they are understood to be the experts on their bodies and their identities, and the rest of us are respectfully curious and celebratory. A world where trans joy flourishes everywhere.
Two Book Recommendations
In the past week I finished two books that were extremely generative in my ongoing quest to make sense of this fucked up world we live in, and I liked them so much I want to write a quick recommendation post.
Motivation, Systems, and Power
A response to a recent blog post "Thoughts on Motivation and my 40-year career"
Some Rough Thoughts Against Automation
what i see that concerns me the most is that in a moment where we need experimentation and to open space for myriad new possibilities, we are instead trying to cement into place the world we have by gathering up all the data we have available and automating things _as they are now._
A Story I'm Telling Myself
We are, in this moment, in a battle between the existence of many complex, richly diverse, thriving futures, and the existence of a simple, complicated, fragile future. The people who have siezed power in the US are actively building the latter vision; but the vast majority of people want the former. I will explain my thinking.
What if We Plant Some Seeds
In the past few years I've been reading a great number of authors who are thinking about how we make better worlds. From them I've gathered a collection of ideas that have congealed into something that feels like a workable strategy for fighting the Horrors and resisting burnout. A strategy that does not require anyone to suddenly find superhero strength and endurance, but instead assumes that we already have everything we need, in our current state of being.
40 Things That Helped Me Become the Current Version of Myself
Today I turn 40, so here are 40 things that have had a large impact on my life!