Techni-Calli
@illleavenow.bsky.social
Privacy, law, tech fights, memes. Got locked out of the @ Iwillleavenow account, so recreated.
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Techni-Calli
@illleavenow.bsky.social
· Mar 11
Bringing back the thread of threads: an easier-to-find compendium of threads I keep adding to, referring to, or spewing all my thoughts on.
Can confirm this is a legitimate thing. If you are able to donate to get these kids holiday gifts, it’s hugely appreciated!
My mum is President of a local Rotary Club & she’s holding a Santa’s grotto for the 250 children of a hotel housing refugees. They need help fundraising. If you’d like to help you can donate with this info:
Business Name: Rotary Benevolent
Sort: 30-97-17
Acc No: 39241560
Ref: Refugees Presents
Business Name: Rotary Benevolent
Sort: 30-97-17
Acc No: 39241560
Ref: Refugees Presents
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Can confirm this is a legitimate thing. If you are able to donate to get these kids holiday gifts, it’s hugely appreciated!
Why have I followed literally any of this multiple zzz’s last name drama, I now have knowledge of things that will haunt me, I could have chosen peace.
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Why have I followed literally any of this multiple zzz’s last name drama, I now have knowledge of things that will haunt me, I could have chosen peace.
FINALLY figured out how to uninstall Copilot from Microsoft apps!
• Go to m365.cloud.microsoft/apps/
• In the "Use across Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Copilot," hover over Copilot and click the three dots on the right
• Click "uninstall"
• Quit and re-open your Microsoft stuff
• Voila!
• Go to m365.cloud.microsoft/apps/
• In the "Use across Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Copilot," hover over Copilot and click the three dots on the right
• Click "uninstall"
• Quit and re-open your Microsoft stuff
• Voila!
Sign in to your account
m365.cloud.microsoft
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
FINALLY figured out how to uninstall Copilot from Microsoft apps!
• Go to m365.cloud.microsoft/apps/
• In the "Use across Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Copilot," hover over Copilot and click the three dots on the right
• Click "uninstall"
• Quit and re-open your Microsoft stuff
• Voila!
• Go to m365.cloud.microsoft/apps/
• In the "Use across Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Copilot," hover over Copilot and click the three dots on the right
• Click "uninstall"
• Quit and re-open your Microsoft stuff
• Voila!
“I love little kids with weird, particular interests” she said, not realizing her own child’s interest would be ignoring the playground entirely in favor of opening and closing the car door for an hour.
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“I love little kids with weird, particular interests” she said, not realizing her own child’s interest would be ignoring the playground entirely in favor of opening and closing the car door for an hour.
I would lose my entire mind.
Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I would lose my entire mind.
Megyn Kelly doing the real work this holiday season of revealing which people in my life think she had some good points and therefore are no longer allowed around my kid.
Thanks, Meg!
Thanks, Meg!
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Megyn Kelly doing the real work this holiday season of revealing which people in my life think she had some good points and therefore are no longer allowed around my kid.
Thanks, Meg!
Thanks, Meg!
Spouse and I got approached by a group of teenagers in the grocery store parking lot yelling “please help” and I was ready to fight someone for them and then they showed us the jar of pickles they couldn’t open.
Anyway I love the youths and they let me take a pickle.
Anyway I love the youths and they let me take a pickle.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Spouse and I got approached by a group of teenagers in the grocery store parking lot yelling “please help” and I was ready to fight someone for them and then they showed us the jar of pickles they couldn’t open.
Anyway I love the youths and they let me take a pickle.
Anyway I love the youths and they let me take a pickle.
🎶 I am the very model of a privacy professional
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🎶 I am the very model of a privacy professional
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
This is not in defense of Big Tech - it’s in support of one of the most consistent and clear privacy empowerment tools available.
Framing privacy tools as anti-competitive benefits ad tech, not people.
Framing privacy tools as anti-competitive benefits ad tech, not people.
NEW: EPIC Executive Director Alan Butler and Senior Counsel Calli Schroeder explain in a new blog post how ad tech lobbyists are using competition law as a weapon to weaken privacy protections.
epic.org/lets-not-get...
epic.org/lets-not-get...
Let’s Not Get Competitive About Tracking Mobile Users: How EU Competition Authorities Are Threatening to Roll Back Privacy Protections on iOS
<p>Hard-fought progress to push back against ubiquitous tracking online is now at risk in the complicated intersections between privacy and competition enforcement, and finding regulatory solutions wi...
epic.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This is not in defense of Big Tech - it’s in support of one of the most consistent and clear privacy empowerment tools available.
Framing privacy tools as anti-competitive benefits ad tech, not people.
Framing privacy tools as anti-competitive benefits ad tech, not people.
Reposted by Techni-Calli
Removing the few existing AI protections we have helps AI companies, not people. EPIC urges the OSTP to withdraw this request and focus on AI actions that advance the public interest, not AI companies’ bottom line.
epic.org/epic-urges-t...
epic.org/epic-urges-t...
EPIC Urges the OSTP to Focus on AI Protections, Not Deregulation
<p>EPIC submitted a comment responding to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) Request for Information, calling on the OSTP to withdraw its inquiry and refocus on its mission of protec...
epic.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Removing the few existing AI protections we have helps AI companies, not people. EPIC urges the OSTP to withdraw this request and focus on AI actions that advance the public interest, not AI companies’ bottom line.
epic.org/epic-urges-t...
epic.org/epic-urges-t...
If you’re donating to food banks (please do if you can!), here are a few things to consider:
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If you’re donating to food banks (please do if you can!), here are a few things to consider:
AI companies want you scared of future not-happening harms so you’ll miss the constant damage AI is already doing.
It’s cool how they run with this story and headline with just a tiny bit buried deep in the article:
“All of Palisade’s scenarios were run in contrived test environments that critics say are far-removed from real-use cases.”
“All of Palisade’s scenarios were run in contrived test environments that critics say are far-removed from real-use cases.”
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
AI companies want you scared of future not-happening harms so you’ll miss the constant damage AI is already doing.
You need AI to have a vibe? You are utterly incapable of curating your own vibe?? You’re the unseasoned chicken breast of people???
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for "Vibe Lifing"
OpenAI coined a new, cringe-inducing term during its announcement of its new browser, Atlas: "life vibing."
futurism.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
You need AI to have a vibe? You are utterly incapable of curating your own vibe?? You’re the unseasoned chicken breast of people???
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Super fun watching the company that made billions claiming “our AI will solve cancer” has pivoted to “our AI will make a bunch of shit that already exists, but worse” and apparently people are still pretending it’s not all a giant grift.
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Super fun watching the company that made billions claiming “our AI will solve cancer” has pivoted to “our AI will make a bunch of shit that already exists, but worse” and apparently people are still pretending it’s not all a giant grift.
Clearly time for a rewatch, bless this man.
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Clearly time for a rewatch, bless this man.
Your 30s are all about shifting mindset from “this man will be the death of me” to “I will be the death of this man.”
October 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Your 30s are all about shifting mindset from “this man will be the death of me” to “I will be the death of this man.”
Great news! Your spyware is about to stop pretending you get to choose when it spies on you!
“Google has filed a patent for a face-detection activation system that would eliminate the need for ‘Hey Google’ hotwords by automatically triggering its Gemini AI assistant when a user's phone detects their face nearby.” 😩
Perplexity
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
www.perplexity.ai
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Great news! Your spyware is about to stop pretending you get to choose when it spies on you!
AI’s biggest proponents are tech bros and politicians and I wonder if it’s even possible to find two groups more utterly unaware of general public sentiment.
October 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
AI’s biggest proponents are tech bros and politicians and I wonder if it’s even possible to find two groups more utterly unaware of general public sentiment.
This is extremely niche, but I’ve been so distracted watching GBBO wondering where I’ve seen Tom’s face before and-
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is extremely niche, but I’ve been so distracted watching GBBO wondering where I’ve seen Tom’s face before and-
Genuinely if he had dementia, how would we tell.
September 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Genuinely if he had dementia, how would we tell.
This entire year has been such a battle between my deep desire to scream out all my fury and frustration and my former vocalist training to NEVER SCREAM, YOU’LL FUCK UP YOUR VOCAL CORDS.
September 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This entire year has been such a battle between my deep desire to scream out all my fury and frustration and my former vocalist training to NEVER SCREAM, YOU’LL FUCK UP YOUR VOCAL CORDS.
Saying AI can think is like saying a mirror can see.
It’s throwing human thought and creativity back at you, it is not making its own.
It’s throwing human thought and creativity back at you, it is not making its own.
September 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Saying AI can think is like saying a mirror can see.
It’s throwing human thought and creativity back at you, it is not making its own.
It’s throwing human thought and creativity back at you, it is not making its own.
Could have read through an entire online recipe preamble about how the smell of soy reminds the author of their seventh grade field trip, made the recipe, and eaten the sandwich in the time it took to get embarrassed by their bad tech.
September 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Could have read through an entire online recipe preamble about how the smell of soy reminds the author of their seventh grade field trip, made the recipe, and eaten the sandwich in the time it took to get embarrassed by their bad tech.
My hotel is extremely zealous about its wake-up calls.*
*The fire alarm has been going off then getting turned off for the last hour.
*The fire alarm has been going off then getting turned off for the last hour.
September 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
My hotel is extremely zealous about its wake-up calls.*
*The fire alarm has been going off then getting turned off for the last hour.
*The fire alarm has been going off then getting turned off for the last hour.
At this point, it’s not enough to get Polis out of the governorship, I want him out of the state.
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
At this point, it’s not enough to get Polis out of the governorship, I want him out of the state.