To all my trans siblings in the UK. May you find the resilience to defy and the unity to succeed in your defiance. Piss freely, piss righteously, piss honourably.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@dustyweb.bsky.social
Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings. https://dustycloud.org
This must hit different if you no longer believe in material reality
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
from each according to her hustle, to each according to her grindset
Embracing the future — Introducing GCD 009: Allowing LLM-assisted and LLM-generated contributions for GNU Guix codeberg.org/guix/guix-co...
009-genai2.md: Add initial draft.
* 009-genai2.md: New file.
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A lot can happen in five years 🏳️⚧️ #comic #art #trans #transgender #lgbt
even if we don't yet know the path to something different, believing a different way is possible is a start towards realizing it
in our post-sangha discussion, we talked about how large companies and The State have a vested interest in making us believe in the "inevitability" of their world view but we know each point of time has infinite possibilities
watched this lovely video last night, as it was recommended by @dustyweb.bsky.social ( on mastodon ) and was delighted to hear someone randomly bring it up at post-sangha coffee - even though it's only been on youtube two days!! perhaps this means tech optimism is spreading...
Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026
YouTube video by Software Should Work
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Hypothesis: The "it's not X, it's Y" pattern that LLMs are so fond of outputting can be traced back to a single, very prevalent phrase in the training data:
This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
openai.com
Faulty towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-... Reflections on how and why the use of genAI tools pulls even those claiming they will be principled towards their use to withdrawing from their understanding and participation of the creative process
Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
dustycloud.org
so old you broke your hip on the memory of a "punch the monkey!" ad banner
could someone please explain bluesky to me (the protocol used by the mastodon network)???
conservatives are state mandating transitioning from male to male
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w agoHegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting
worm-blossom.org#y2026w28 This week, Sammy and Aljoscha are at DWeb camp, and leave updates to Dan and Miaourt. We even get a guest comic from @dustyweb.bsky.social!
Thursday at @getdweb.net camp started off with a great conversation about distributed protocols @dholms.at ATProto & @dustyweb.bsky.social ActivityPub moderated by @bmann.ca Later @brewster.kahle.org debuted @onionpress.org There were so many awesome talks and presentations & chill forest baths.
so fun to have such an incredibly cool girlfriend as @dustyweb.bsky.social especially when she's doing the fun conferences
Good long thread here about the reality of life in the Land of Freedom for disfavored population groups.
Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · last mo.It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.
I enjoy my life, I go about my business, but I never forget the security I lost, and how quickly I lost it. I think a lot about grief, and in my quiet moments I mourn for the country I thought I was living in, and for the freedom and safety I had until so recently.
My life has changed from what it was before Trump took office. Being in Massachusetts is protective, but not perfectly. And the biggest mindfuck is that other Americans don't seem to know it. My sky has fallen and they tappa-tap on their keyboards like "Why is Erin Reed making trans people panic?"
Government officials have publicly linked trans rights speech to antifa to terrorism. I run a moderate enough little trans news site but anyone can go viral. If the wrong person feels embarrassed and blames Assigned Media maybe some government goon starts looking for a pretext to arrest me.
Every week I am reminded of the precarity of my care, and that I'm alone - no one is standing up for me. There's been no outcry outside my community.
If he can stop hospitals in Massachusetts from providing care to 18 year olds, he can stop them from providing my care. There's no limiting principle. So I take steps. Often I go a few extra days before a shot. And I carefully combine the leftover half-doses in my vials rather than scrapping them.