“Tech is more political than ever | Go Make Things”
https://gomakethings.com/tech-is-more-political-than-ever/
Sorry in advance for my international readers, but the US being what it is, this probably affects you, too.
Yup. What happens in the US affects all of tech which affects all of us who work in it.
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“3 big ways a brutal job market paves the way for people like you - Stacking the Bricks”
https://stackingthebricks.com/bad-job-market-opportunity/
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“LGBTQ+ couples register marriages as Thailand legalize same-sex marriage | AP News”
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-lgbtq-marriage-law-c2162f07cd103ea86631a137d6b6d193
Something positive.
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I’m guessing the bit about being told to “reject the evidence of your eyes and ears” from 1984 hits a bit differently now to a bunch of people
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Still working on this for later this week. Over 3500 words. Definitely something wrong with me.
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Finally got around to exporting the archive and then closing my Twitter account. I haven't used it in for over a couple of years now but I figure there's plenty of reason to close it completely.
(Also, 4GB? WTF is in that archive?)
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“Moving on from React, a Year Later”
https://kellysutton.com/2025/01/18/moving-on-from-react-a-year-later.html
Let’s assume that making a JS change costs twice as much time a Ruby change, which I think is being generous to JS.
The reason why this is generous to JS is that client-side JS runs in multiple unpredictable runtimes and so needs to both be more thoroughly tested and coded more defensively
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The Icelandic media score card:
RUV (The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service): musk throws what looks like a Nazi salute, quotes a historian specialising in WW2 saying that it was absolutely 100% a Nazi salute
Visir.is: both-sides the story into bullshit
Mbl.is: Calls it a Nazi salute. (Guessing Davíð Oddsson either hasn’t gotten out of bed or personally dislikes Musk)
Heimildin: calling it a roman salute is propaganda invented by the Nazis
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A useful aspect to a completely unambiguous fascist gesture, even though it’s ultimately performative, is that you can use it to gauge which news media you can trust to call a Nazi a Nazi, which will obfuscate things with layers of “both-sidesing”, and which will outright be regurgitating propaganda
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Fuck it. Comfort rewatchings of favourite series is just going to have to be the entertainment theme for the year for me
(I usually try to let several years pass between watching a movie or series unless I’m specifically studying something)
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Fun Icelandic fact: we have two different words for ravens. “Hrafn” is the formal Icelandic word for raven and used in most writing. “Krummi” is the less formal and more friendly nickname
This applies also to people whose name is “Hrafn”, who are often called “Krummi” by friends and family
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Raven distraction
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That just sort of general feeling of massive anxiety, y’know? Then a twinge of guilt because being an Icelander I’m probably more insulated than most from the worst of it.
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“Taking the Internet back for God – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”
https://heatherburns.tech/2025/01/20/taking-the-internet-back-for-god/
For the foreseeable future, my research focus will be the impact of Christian Nationalism on tech policy under the second Trump administration and beyond. I will be looking into how the former, as a political movement based in an extreme theology, will be impacting the latter, in law, policy, and internet governance.
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So, Petrichor is shaping up to be much better than I expected. Decent thriller series with twists and turns.
https://imdb.com/title/tt33967948/
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Pretty sure corporate lawyers are also going to interpret the “if you distribute TikTok you’ll get nuked to glass with fines” clause as applying to CDNs, data centres, and other hosting services. What are the odds that it’s phrased vaguely enough for it to be applicable to VPNs if you squint hard enough?
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Again annoyed by US TikTok discourse.
No, that Apple’s and Google’s lawyers refused to trust Biden’s promise that he wouldn’t enforce the billion dollar fines for assisting TikTok—now a federal crime with a five year statute of limitations—for the five minutes that remain of his presidency is not something orchestrated by the Chinese government.
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“Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-frank-blame-holocaust
I mean, what the fuck are we doing?
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Moving what I own of Gaiman’s work over to the “asshole” section of my graphic novel collection, next to Warren Ellis and John Byrne.
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“Amazon's AI crawler is making my git server unstable - Xe Iaso”
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/amazon-crawler/
Training data crawlers are abusing the open web.
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