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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

A game I play when I write a multi-part thread about a matter of public interest that I have expertise about is timing how long it will take before someone accuses me of having some loathsome position that is not even remotely hinted at or implied by anything I wrote.

Today's winner was 13 minutes.

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

**laughs maniacally, but in a fight for the human kind of way**

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I can't believe I got away with writing a TECH BOOK that's about SOFTWARE TEAMS and the research and science in it is fundamentally about COMPASSION and BELONGING and MOTIVATION and COALITION BUILDING

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.

it's hard to get across in microblogging format just how big of a dumpster fire this thing is, because what it "looks like" is "everything is done a dozen times in a dozen different ways, and everything is just sort of jammed in anywhere. to the degree there is any kind of coherent structure like 'tools' and 'agents' and whatnot, it's entirely undercut by how the entire rest of the code might have written in some special condition that completely changes how any such thing might work." I have read a lot of unrefined, straight from the LLM code, and Claude code is a masterclass in exactly what you get when you do that - an incomprehensible mess.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Mail in ballots have security features and a processing workflow that mirror that of in-person voting. Just about every mechanism that prevents you from showing up to vote in person multiple times or without being registered has an analog - sometimes a stronger one - in mail-in ballot processing.

The precise details vary from state to state and for different voters, but roughly:

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lukito@gamedev.lgbt ("Lukito") wrote:

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

okay sometimes bay area / python / software culture still does cool stuff

https://pypi.org/project/chalos/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
Catvalente@wandering.shop ("Catherynne M. Valente") wrote:

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-money-the-anthropic-settlement

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
ironicbadger@techhub.social ("Alex Kretzschmar") wrote:

Brutal.

When Microsoft acquired GitHub.

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

I am very tired of making the point that the known negative effects of LLM usage and funding/support are so extreme that there is no hypothetical amount of “usefulness” or “productivity gain” that can so much as justify experimentation with this technology.

It is simply ethically beyond the pale and I have a very hard time respecting otherwise intelligent peers who make an explicit choice to ignore all those harms because they have a massive boner for “fun new tech”, regardless of where it comes from.

Simply put, “Is it useful” is not a conversation worth even having and you suck for dragging it in that direction

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

If you are familiar with Claude Code, do you think every professional software engineer will need to be familiar with how to use LLM CLI tools for generating code.

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yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

If your team is doing thoughtful work in any of these areas, I’d love to connect.

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yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

I’ve often been told to narrow this down, but my adaptability is one of my strengths. I’m most invested in finding the right cultural fit and doing meaningful, impactful work.

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yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

At the same time, I’m exploring new full-time or contract opportunities in:
•Security and privacy education
•OSINT and investigations
•Program and product management

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yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

I plan to stay in the digital security space, continuing my work as a collective member at Lockdown Systems, through IWMF’s Safety Ambassador Fellowship, and on my upcoming book about investigations for No Starch Press.

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yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

It was a pleasure presenting our research at ShmooCon, @defcon's @cryptovillage, CypherCon, Enigma, BSides, NGO-ISAC, HOPE, and many other conferences I’m probably forgetting.

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yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

I also had the opportunity to collaborate w/ amazing partners, including Tall Poppy, PEN America, and @eff. Together we dug into the efficacy of people-search removal services, the audio capabilities of video doorbells, & ways social media platforms could better address online abuse.

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yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

Beyond Security Planner, I’m particularly proud of my work on projects that called attention to the risks of memory unsafe programming languages, hyperbolic VPN marketing, and the racial, income and age disparities in people impacted by text messaging scams.

(More shoutouts to CR's testing team and survey team, as well as our fellows.)

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yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

We also ran two full content audits to make sure every recommendation remained accurate and up to date. (Shout-outs to Significant Other, @jefflandale, and CR's UX team and design team, among others, as well as the amazing tool Citizen Lab built from the ground up in the first place.)

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yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

I joined CR as a contractor in 2021 to help transition Security Planner from @citizenlab before I was brought in full-time. We rebuilt the site’s design based on UX testing, boosted traffic, and earned backlinks from CISA, Apple, and Amnesty International.

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yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

A bittersweet announcement: I was impacted by the layoffs at Consumer Reports, alongside a number of extremely talented colleagues.

I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity and so proud of the work we did fighting for consumers and helping people stay safer online.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

His name is Ben Baker. What a soggy-looking piece of shit.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Ugh. Forgot that it’s the internet’s least funny day of the year tomorrow

Though given the state of the world, getting annoyed by the web’s yearly turn towards the unfunny is a bit like obsessing about your wet socks while you’re hanging onto a cliff’s edge by your fingernails.

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treyhunner ("Trey Hunner 🐍") wrote:

scripting language: a programming language that uses # to represent a comment

#Python #programming

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Friend: [...] the point is to be able to anticipate or avoid negative scenarios

Me: Your call for help is coming from inside of the negative scenario. Please hold for an operator.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

I SEE YOU.

i cherish you.

sending y’all big momma love and energy. you make me proud for living in your truth.

so, as i tell my babies every time they leave the nest: go out there, kick ass and take names.

be the wonderful you are.

#TransDayOfVisibility #HumanRights

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coltofox@fox.yt ("Colto Fox") wrote:

Oh, isn't he just fab-u-lous, like yaaaasss!

#TummyTuesday #furry #fursuit #FursuitPhoto #FoxFurry #FoxFursuit #LupeSuits #belly #BellyFur #CuteFursuits #AustralianFurry

Attachments:

• unknown: A rotund Colto Fox (orange, white, brown and red fox fursuiter) in full fursuit doing a sassy pose in a room.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
scy@chaos.social wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116321104173678252

We shouldn't be asking why furry conventions do HIV/STI testing.

We should be asking why other conferences don't.

Excellent post about the reasoning behind it, and the cost involved, which might very well be "zero".

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The president will have to do something else with his balls

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/31/politics/judge-rules-that-white-house-ballroom-contstuction-stop

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Difficult day today. Sometimes everything just adds up and the weight of the world is a bit much, the carefully-managed bucket of despair just overflows all of a sudden.

This is definitely the sort of storm cloud that will pass, but, oof.