Daly
@daly.bsky.social
technologist, fibers, frisson. digital security for bodily autonomy
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
I want to see Oratorio For Living Things but I wonder if it’s just reanimating that kind of hypomania-inducing choral work that megachurches rely on
I had well over ten years of highly-curated playlists on Spotify, and I thought it would be sooo hard to move. IT WAS EASY. And I got to leave a bitchy note to them on the way out.
Resist List@resistlist.bsky.social · 10mo agoSpotify is doubling down on decision to run ICE ads ‼️ Help us spread the word to #BoycottSpotify | boycottspotify.com
RIP Major. I learned so much from you, and will continue to learn from you, long after this.
Centering Sylvia is the move of a real one. I know, no stanning politicians, but this got me choked up. Feels like a birthday gift
Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10mo agoUNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
that shirt that reads, “I AM A CRIME AGAINST GOD AND BIOLOGY” but on the back it also reads, “BIOLOGY ISN’T LAW, AND LAWS—LIKE GOD—AREN’T REAL”
going to be a sad day when I run out of my Prisme Libre powder that still has talc
cops lying about use of flock cams to track someone down for SMA. Despicable and entirely predictable.
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 11mo agoNewly obtained documents confirm what law enforcement and Flock Safety tried to deny: A Texas sheriff’s office used license plate readers while investigating a woman’s self-managed abortion, not to find a “missing person." www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
It's impossible to separate Hegseth's vision of "warrior culture" from his storied history of violence against women in his life, fundamentalist faith in the patriarchy, and his own pathetic insecurities. I have zero faith he won't entangle us in wars to validate his own flailing gender identity
Battle of the Sexes | Jasper Craven
Pete Hegseth has used his many perches—from Princeton to the Pentagon—to agitate for a kind of trickle-down masculinity.
thebaffler.com
ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.
ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint
A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.
newsweek.com
the full recording is here:
NOVUS Renewal: Undivided
The world premiere of ”Trans Requiem“ anchors a program focused on music as a vessel for visibility, pride, and belonging.
trinitychurchnyc.org
The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · 11mo agothis is fucking epic, and i do not use that word lightly. holy shit. @sadqueer4life.bsky.social
Remember the international response when there was a fire at Notre Dame Cathedral
Andy Khouri@andykhouri.bsky.social · 11mo agoBuilt in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.
I guess it’s not a big shock that a tech product most famous for being inaccurate would go with one of the most unreliable and problematic age verification schemes, but it sure is annoying
evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 11mo agoSo how is OpenAI going to know that a user is under 18? "We’re building an age-prediction system to estimate age based on how people use ChatGPT." openai.com/index/teen-s...
NEW in @chron.com: Hundreds of LGBTQ+ books were found sitting in a surplus warehouse at Texas A&M University, and the university won't say why. As first reported by @joyurcaba.bsky.social, the books include a memoir by Matthew Shepard's mother and academic texts. www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Why are hundreds of LGBTQ+ books sitting in a Texas A&M warehouse?
"It just felt really slimy on the university's part."
chron.com
imagine if the murder of Sam Nordquist had caused even half of this hubbub
Living with my own cat as an adult helps me understand Donna Haraway’s work so much more
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
nbcnews.com
wrapped up this joyous day by seeing Ethel Cain at the Kings Theater
You know how software devs use “boilerplate” for reusable starter code? I propose we use “sloper” from now on, partly because it’s more accurate to the metaphor and partly because it dispells the faux-masc vibe of the former.
As management cybernetics founder Stafford Beer famously wrote, “the purpose of a system is what it does.” When I look around and see wanton economic and social devastation, fear and suffering a despair and bewilderment, I think of this observation. The purpose of a system is what it does
he’s probably trying to buy more time by luring victims into the lament configuration
