"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." Happy birthday, James Baldwin!

If Squarespace works for you, fantastic. I use it for my personal site, but my goodness, trying to actually use it for content and publishing is a WRECK. Markdown support is kind of a joke and even regular text formatting is hair-pulling. Already planning a rewrite with Ghost when I have more time.

BTW we have a @technicaltea.show Patreon up if you'd like an ad-free RSS feed of podcast episodes for only $1.24. We already have our first patron today (thank you so much! Withholding name for privacy but just know we super appreciate you). www.patreon.com/technicaltea...

Technical Tea — A podcast by femmes in STEM

Get more from Technical Tea on Patreon. A podcast by femmes in STEM. Support Technical Tea and get exclusive access to their work.

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DONT PANIC OUR VERY FIRST EPISODE IS NOW LIVE OMG! Get it wherever you get your podcasts and please share with at least 1 other person. If you're really, really nice, leave us a review on apple podcasts so we can get in the charts! Okthanksloveyoubyeeee

The first official episode of @nicoleackermans.com and my show, @technicaltea.show just dropped on your podcatcher of choice + YouTube. Please enjoy moments like this where we hope to bring you women perspectives, STEM insights, and whatever you want to file "vibranium boobs" under.

Technical Tea@technicaltea.show · 2d ago

This is the kind of cocktail of women perspectives, STEM, and nerdiness you can expect from Technical Tea. And we are so proud of it. youtube.com/shorts/1sXRm...

How an Artist Creates Magic: The Gathering Character Cards

How an Artist Creates Magic: The Gathering Character Cards

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DTH for Saturday August 1, 2026 with Sarah Lane - Google rolls back Google Earth image generation tool over deepfake worries, DeepSeek opens public beta developer interface, Minnesota water plant attacks may have links to Iran, New York sues prediction market Kalshi. shows.acast.com/dth/episodes...

Dear media, please be even a little bit critical and suspicious of whether the people with literally trillions of dollars & the world economy riding on you believing what they tell you might have reason to lie about what's happening inside their products that they refuse to let anyone else analyze 🫠

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 5d ago

The next trend in Fear hype: "our AI is a hacker too, guize! In fact our hacked THREE systems! For super serious!" That's you, anthropic. That's what you sound like. "…triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic [claims its models breached 3] organizations during 3rd-party evaluations"

Oh hey! @nicoleackermans.com and my new show has a website!

Technical Tea@technicaltea.show · 5d ago

Website is up! technicaltea.show

The YouTube Music "podcast" system is absolute f*!#ing garbage. Instead of leveraging existing podcast infrastructure like, I don't know, RSS FEEDS to submit a podcast, we have to make a separate "Podcast Channel"… even if we have a YouTube channel. And upload to that thing separately. SERIOUSLY?

Animated Dumpster Fire: What Is Even Happening?

Alt: Animated Dumpster Fire: What Is Even Happening?

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We've got a trailer for @technicaltea.show! youtube.com/shorts/X_TeI...

Technical Tea: STEM Factory

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Legit. This was a little too much fun too do. Might need to be new profile pic. Illegible chaos.

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

As much as I could (especially as just an engineer), I did not use AI to make this. Did download some vector art, the background texture, and polaroid frames from Motion Array but @nicoleackermans.com and I doodled on our own avatars and I artisanally typed all the text.

Technical Tea@technicaltea.show · 7d ago

New banner art. Who dis?

My hobby is asking companies how they measure whether their AI features actually work. Almost nobody has a good answer. “We get 11 personas to review your résumé and suggest improvements.” How do you know they’re improvements? They don’t. It’s just snake oil. Every time.

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies. www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

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Comic: "Priorities". It’s how it feels right now anyway. More comics at frogpants.com/comics

These two sentences are the whole story: Buzzfeed "was caught publishing AI-generated articles riddled with errors, and it shut its Pulitzer-winning news division the same year. Traffic collapsed, and the share price fell... to under 50 cents." thenextweb.com/news/buzzfee...

NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also targeted minors

Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

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Me downloading a bunch of pictures of goats for @technicaltea.show stuff but then remembering the Goat Quiz that @scottjohnson.zip did for @nicoleackermans.com… and now nervously looking through my Downloads folder… "Wait… is this actually a goat? <internet search>…"

Michael Scott's Iconic 'No' Moment

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Sure. Thanks auto-transcriber.

A little @technicaltea.show battle paint goes a long way for that LFG 🔥💅💪. Got through 120 total 40 kg/88 lbs Swings (and a bunch of other moves but those required the most on-point-ed-ness).

We are getting up to some shenanigans on Episode 1... Coming soon to a podcatcher near you!

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

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Fun Friday @dtnsshow.bsky.social with @tommerritt.com where I forget on air the name of the "Kessler Syndrome", and a great question from Daman about Reinforcement Learning gets a great explainer from Tom and me talking about the sentience of lobsters. youtu.be/7kbKzMXKSiY

Bans on Smart Glasses Mean Smart Glasses are HERE TO STAY - DTNS 5317

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Once again the desire to learn to solder is bubbling up in my soul and somehow it feels like the most timely, appropriate skill I could pick up these days. Yes, this might be foreshadowing of possible podcast content and/or an earnest desire to make things… real, physical things. どっちもいいんじゃないね？

I think I'm slowly becoming a BTS fan. I don't know how this happened, but even my YouTube feed is now in on it now, transforming me into ARMY. I'm blaming proximity to @tommerritt.com: BTSmosis.

TIL a group of skunks is called a … <double-checks notes> a "surfeit": animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/what... TIL a "surfeit" is defined as "an excessive amount or an overabundant supply of something". www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...

Welp, unable to pre-order the new Z Fold 8 because oh my lord, is the site just soiling the bed. Just wipes my cart when I go to check out. Looking on Reddit, seems like it's happening to a lot of folks. Happy Unpacked Day, y'all.

TIL a group of foxes is called a "skulk". 🦊