I've had an execeptionally tough year. I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜 semanticfish.com/2025-year-in... Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience. Many more details in post!

2025: Year in Review | Semantic Fish Creative Group

This post gets personal about my experiences this year with grief, loss, health emergencies, and being disabled & working in accessibility in the US.

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“Landlords may say ‘smart home’ devices are a tenant convenience. But the reality is, these AI-enabled systems can track patterns of tenant behavior, identify when people are home, and provide landlords with personal information that could be used to push out tenants perceived as too costly.”

ACLU Sues San Francisco Landlords over AI-Powered Surveillance in Tenants' Homes | ACLU of Northern CA

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Me before becoming a CS professor: "with tightly scoped and heavily regulated use-cases, it's worth developing an extremely limited form of AI" Me after 3 years as a CS professor: "we have to destroy all AI of any and every kind immediately and ban any future development work of any kind"

I think that education could use more philosophy instruction. Now that facts are a fingertip away, we need more work on ideas, historical thought, how to frame ideas, how to debate with intent to learn (not win--that's law), how to think.

Women started science fiction.

Adam P Knave@adampknave.com · last yr.

Women started fandom. Women started fanfic. Women started star Trek cons. Women invented beer, and the novel, while we're at it. Stop trying to erase women from spaces, you stupid, lazy, misogynistic fucks.

Rights x Tech is hosting an online event "Inside AI - Navigating Models, Ethics and Power" on Oct 30! Rights x Tech is a forum and community that explicitly explores the intersections of technology and power.

RxT: Inside AI - Navigating Models, Ethics and Power

Reimagining Intelligence, Empowering Humanity

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Published an article sharing my experience + lessons learned after 3 years as a full-time software engineer

Lessons I've Learned After Three Years as a Full-time Software Engineer

I cannot believe that I'm already three years into my software engineering career. The time has flown...

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Happy 75th Dr. Ronald McNair. An entire generation of Black STEM scholars are because you were. Shout out to Aggieland.

This project is an example of @alexhanna.bsky.social's vision for DAIR, she said she wanted to make researchers organizers and organizers researchers (something to that effect and I believe there's a related quote from someone else).🧵

The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute@dairinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR: Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility. Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

I have a spooky joke, an interesting coding question, some fun links, a party idea, and mooore for you in my latest newsletter issue heading to your inboxes now! Check out the archive and subscribe here: cassidoo.co/newsletter

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Engineering Leadership in the AI Era lead by @kvlly.com maven.com/kellyvaughn/... #Leadership

Engineering Leadership in the AI Era by Kelly Vaughn on Maven

Master essential people skills to transform from technical expert to impactful leader in today's AI-driven tech landscape.

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I'm returning to #Twitch with my teddy bear! Balatro: Wed 8pm Eastern, Sat 4:30pm Fields of Mistria: Thur 5pm Eastern, Sun 5pm Eastern Please share! twitch.tv/CyberCrowgirl

New from 404 Media: ICE, the Secret Service, and NCIS all had access to Flock's nationwide network of AI-enabled cameras, letter reveals. Shows many more federal agencies had access to network that authorities typically use without a warrant to search whole country www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...

ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras

Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevit...

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It's really important for us that people understand the course authors so we put some questions to @wil.to so you can see for yourselves that he knows his stuff

Piccalilli@piccalil.li · last yr.

To celebrate the launch of JavaScript for Everyone, we gathered some questions from the community for Mat to answer to give you some more insight into the why of the course, along with some sage advice. piccalil.li/blog/a-q-and...

My mood disorder flared up because of post-COVID symptoms. Now I’m not sure if I will find another team at work or whether I’ll be fired. The students I math tutor have really bad ADHD like myself and can’t focus. SARS-CoV-2 ruined both my mental health and physical health.

It's mid-fall 🍁 and we're having a ball 🏀 Okay that's not true, the weather is weird and I'm not playing sports, BUT now that I have your attention, check out the latest issue of my newsletter: cassidoo.co/newsletter

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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day, May we see a return of sovereignty over their ancestral lands and the downfall of the Occupation of Turtle Island in our lifetimes. Also please give to Indigenous causes (or people) today. Helping them navigate occupation helps us all in the end. Solidarity.

These illegal firings at CDC are not at all like those under DOGE. These are exponentially worse—AFGE and @aflcio.org are suing; we need courts to step up and issue a TRO and reverse them. Russ Vought is trying to detonate a bomb. Right now its fuse is burning.

Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social · last yr.

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working on Ebola and dozens of other infectious disease experts (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

“ai is here to stay” it literally isn’t

People have no idea how well priced Bibi's disability/mobility aids are and how excellent the quality is. Bibi's stuff LASTS. It wears well. And Bibi is bending over backwards to accommodate US customers right now due to tariffs we never wanted and Bibi has no control over.

🌸Bibi🌸♿@bibiblossoms.bsky.social · last yr.

This isn't towards those who are broke. I've noticed that people devalue my work. I could have hundreds of reviews raving about my products. But people only wanna support me if they feel they're getting a VERY "cheap" price. While so many other creators can charge whatever for their products.

Bibi has all kinds of wonderful stuff!! I'm excited about my cane preorder, but there's also super cute stuff for pets, sliding pins, different unique patterns you can get on matching stuff!! You can also get gift cards for your friends, disabled or otherwise - a great option with krimbo comin up!

🌸Bibi🌸♿@bibiblossoms.bsky.social · last yr.

I am moving to using a US Fullfiment Centre for US customers. It will take weeks to fully implement. I am having to pay several thousands for the shipping of products to the US and the custom fees. I am depleting my savings. I am scared and stressed. I just wish people could see that I'm trying.

First time installing Rocky Linux and was surprised to see a Web console available on initial boot up. Basic metrics, networking information, and even a terminal are all available through your web browser. Extra dope. rockylinux.org

Looking forward to speaking at the @gitnation.bsky.social AI Coding Summit! I'll be talking about how zero trust secures your MCP servers! Join us Oct. 23rd-24th for a bunch of amazing talks! #mcp #zerotrust #agenticai

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The organizers of @nordicjs making a gift bag for my daughter who attended when I spoke in 2022 and is attending my talk today is genuinely the nicest thing that any conference has done for me 😭❤️🙏

Todd has helped so many people. This is an opportunity to support him and his family. Every bit counts.

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more! Store details below!