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Jesse

@jaawerth.bsky.social

Yet another tech worker who bemoans capitalism. Sorry! There are a lot of us! I help maintain fennel-lang, a smol lisp that embeds in all the things. Always trawling for new music, esp. avant-anything. He/they works 🤷

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Micah@rincewind.run · yesterday

every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · yesterday

Not even the anodyne “controversial” thrown in there for good measure. When you are a megadonor the rules for podcasters obviously don’t apply.

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 2d ago

so are we gonna get a bunch of political analysis thumbsucker pieces about the cautionary tale of a promising youngish politico who torpedoed his career by latching on to the biological gender extremists who are attempting to drag the Democratic Party into hugely unpopular political waters or nah

Jesse@jaawerth.bsky.social · 3d ago

DuckDuckGo is avertising their desktop browser, and while personally if I switched from Firefox, it'd be to a fork, and I doubt they beat FF+ublock origin, you gotta admire the chutzpah of putting "FUCK YOU GOOGLE, WE ARE SPECIFICALLY GOING AFTER YOUR REVENUE STREAM" right in the ad copy

See ho DuckDuckGo compares. <Selection buttons>: Chrome Edge Safari Firefox Brave Then there's a table comparing FF (left) to DDG (right): Search privately by default: ❌ ✅ Chat privately with popular AI chatbots (optional): ❌ ✅ Blocks 3rd-party trackers from Facebook, Google, and others: 🟡 ✅ Blocks targeted ads: 🟡 ✅ Blocks cookie pop-ups: ❌ ✅ Watch YouTube videos without ads: ❌ ✅ Securely manages passwords: ✅ ✅ Blocks email trackers: 🟡 ✅ Deletes browsing data with one button: ❌ ✅ Removes personal details from sites that sell them: $ $
Jesse@jaawerth.bsky.social · 3d ago

DuckDuckGo is avertising their desktop browser, and while personally if I switched from Firefox, it'd be to a fork, and I doubt they beat FF+ublock origin, you gotta admire the chutzpah of putting "FUCK YOU GOOGLE, WE ARE SPECIFICALLY GOING AFTER YOUR REVENUE STREAM" right in the ad copy

See ho DuckDuckGo compares. <Selection buttons>: Chrome Edge Safari Firefox Brave Then there's a table comparing FF (left) to DDG (right): Search privately by default: ❌ ✅ Chat privately with popular AI chatbots (optional): ❌ ✅ Blocks 3rd-party trackers from Facebook, Google, and others: 🟡 ✅ Blocks targeted ads: 🟡 ✅ Blocks cookie pop-ups: ❌ ✅ Watch YouTube videos without ads: ❌ ✅ Securely manages passwords: ✅ ✅ Blocks email trackers: 🟡 ✅ Deletes browsing data with one button: ❌ ✅ Removes personal details from sites that sell them: $ $
Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 4d ago

I wrote about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack following my conversation with @melhogan.bsky.social on The Data Fix this week - more on how it happened, what it means, and why I still see "stochastic flocks" rather than "artificial hiveminds": mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...

Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

Emily Gorcenski@emily.gorcen.ski · 5d ago

Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields concert raising $20m for abortion care nonprofits (among others) while putting on an absolute banger of a show should be getting more play than it is in the millennial retirement home that is Bluesky

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 7d ago

Really hate this performative y̷̡̨̘̞̆̊̒̈́̒̋͠ą̷̧̼̠͚̱̹͕͛̈̈́̌̈́̉̃̾l̶̲͙̠͈̫̰̘̒̂̈́̎̈́̑l̴̘̙̤̱͂̄́̈̂͆͐̚ people are using to appear more like the e̶̪̻̿͌̀̆̓̚͠͝ͅṉ̴̢͉̮̝̲̑͂́̈̈́t̷̛͇̦̼̠͔̩̐̐̔̌̐̈́i̸̟̿̆̑̌͗͌̍̒̾ţ̴̙̟̜͎̘̓̋̑̍ͅy̴̲̥̰͍͊̆͊͘͠