My coworking space has these decorative stacks of books in different colors and this is perhaps the most cursed collection of titles
Molly Jean
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Poet, software engineer, sewist, sunscreen power user, reader, running idiot, clown academia fashion person, queer Catholic, golden hour enjoyer, parent, partner, in love with the world https://www.mollyjeanbennett.com/
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry
We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
RIP to one of the smartest, kindest, most talented members of our species
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Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 2w agoThe second World Forestry Center Log Lady look-alike contest drew visitors from as far as Finland to the Portland museum’s celebration of the beloved character portrayed by the late actor Catherine Coulsonfrom in David Lynch's Twin Peaks. www.portlandmercury.com/movies-and-t...
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has paused a lower court’s ruling that blocked key parts of President Trump’s order to restrict mail-in voting for this fall’s midterms in 23 states and Washington, D.C. U.S. Postal Service work on Trump’s order remains blocked nationwide
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Pleased with how the colors for this little wall-hanging scrap project are shaping up
My 4yo yesterday morning, while unlocking the front door: “Everyone locks their doors at night. Because we don’t want any owls to come in!”
Cheez-it box color story today. Everything homemade or secondhand. #DaughterJudy #AdamsPant in gold upholstery jacquard sewed by me, and the jacket is from a trade with another IG sewist.
A wild story that sums up so much about this moment. Rare books bought up by a hyperscaler, driven across the country by truck, scanned and fed into the woodchipper by low wage workers so the rich can build and own systems that squeeze, surveil, and automate labor and control knowledge generation.
404 Media@404media.co · 3w agoSCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM
Hanging out with a 4-year-old really shows you how many ways there are to take off a sock
'The outright exploitation of the disability community as a means of normalizing intrusive technologies has not often been named.'
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3w ago“Developers are capable of incorporating privacy into the principles of inclusive design and using inclusive design to build their tools—particularly those they are going to market to the disability community—limiting the need for trade-offs. With its smart glasses, Meta has done neither…”
back in the real world—today is the ninth anniversary of the death of Heather Heyer, murdered by a white nationalist. from the AP live reporting that day: apnews.com/general-news...
what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way
If you focus on the way that Trump is adding administrative burdens on most Americans, while exempting an inner circle from regulation, you would learn a lot about the second Trump term
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 4w agoYes, let’s burden both new parents and pediatricians with FIVE doctor visits instead of one for absolutely no legitimate medical reason. A masterstroke, sir.
I must have misheard, but it sounded like someone at my coworking space just said their child’s name is Washer-Dryer
Branding inspo: these off-brand recycled printer cartridges are by RETCH
Beep beep here’s my @cascadiajs.com talk from June!
CascadiaJS@cascadiajs.com · 2mo agoWhat happens when you fine-tune an AI on Beowulf, a 17th-century cookbook, and the history of Crisco? 📜 This talk from @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social is a delightfully weird and thoughtful look at why making AI worse can actually make it more interesting. youtu.be/tBE8hQjj3KM
Are cherries on your #July4 menu? They come thanks to workers like "Julia" who shared this pic from where she was harvesting cherries in WA state. She works piece rate, which means she rushes to pick as much as possible while getting the quality growers require. #WeFeedYou
The official launch event for The AI Resist List is finally here, and you can join in person or online! The airesistlist.org has met a seemingly urgent public need for examples of ways communities around the world are moving against extractive AI and exploring more equitable technology futures.
The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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Fascists marching in the capital, assured of protection from their President and indifference from much the plutocratic media, marking the 250th anniversary of the American experience.
Rafael M Batista@rafmbatista.bsky.social · 2mo agoPatriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.
This morning I chatted with a neighbor as she set up this July 4th mini parade. We talked about our complicated feelings about this day. She is a descendant of George Mason, one of the fathers of the Bill of Rights. He refused to sign the Constitution tho, in part due to his abolitionist beliefs
Looking through the @cascadiajs.com pics like, oh yay, I look like such a fun & vivacious person having a great ti—ohhhhh noooo, this is my true posture
