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Emily Gorcenski

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Technologist, storyteller, activist. Opinions my own. 📍Charlottesville en / de / es Posts autodelete after 2 days or when viral. Some posts automated. Web: - emilygorcenski.com - Bookwyrm.social/EmilyG - lefttoourowndevices.blog - @brandblock.online

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · Apr 15

The Time of Cowards

A poem to explain our moment.

The Time of Cowards · EmilyGorcenski.com

A poem of our times originally written as a Bluesky thread

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4m

!!!

Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 6m

New German Studies diss alert! Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany, unfortunately embargoed until 2027 escholarship.org/uc/item/6tt8...

Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Author(s): Strobel, Marcel | Advisor(s): Petro, Patrice | Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is two-fold: first, to render visible the archival erasure of transgender persecution and stigmatiz...

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 5m

And it still won’t be able to open the portal to the Destiny

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30m

The craziest thing I’m chasing down: I don’t believe that stargate abilene has even close to enough power, nor is it possible for them to build it before the year 2027. They have a 200mw substation and an unfinished 350mw gas turbine plant.

They need 1GW+ and it’s still in the design phase!

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 6m

w h a t

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 3h

Krieg. Spionage. Wirtschaftliche Krisen. Steigende politische Gewalt. Attentatsversuche. Diplomatische Zwischenfälle. Terrorismus. Klimakatasrophen.

Und womit beschäftigt sich die EU?

EU-Parlament stimmt für »Veggie-Burger«-Verbot
Veggie-Schnitte statt -Schnitzel? Straßburg hat über die Bezeichnung von Fleischalternativen entschieden. Nun müssen die Staaten ausloten, ob solche Produkte bald nicht mehr Wurst oder
Schnitzel heißen dürfen.

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

This is not a thread about either Jesse Singal or Charlie Kirk but i can’t stop you from reading it that way

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Every breakdown of social order comes from an over-reliance on rules-based orders on maintaining the standards of civilization, whether it is a social media community or a descent into fascism. You have to just sometimes use judgment to remove a shithead because they are a shithead.

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Humanity has tried for 1000s of years to find the perfect set of written rules that make civilization and we have never succeeded. Civilization only works because people are generally decent and intolerable of jerks. Rules come later as a way to generate gradients of power and accountability.

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Great things happening in Russia

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Stare decisis doesn’t exist here, and even if it did, you can and must use human judgment. Every attempt at rationalizing that away is a cop out.

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Would you let Bashar al-Assad on here even if all he did was post reviews of 90s films? No, you should not because he is a fucking butcher.

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Here’s the thing about social media moderation: you need to have both a provision and a practice of keeping people off your platform even if they don’t break any of your rules but are simply just a fucking asshole. And of course off-platform behavior is a legitimate reason.

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 12h

Oh I’m not referring to any company or client in particular, it’s just kind of all of them doing it

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 13h

I hear they’ve had to hire three people now to replace what I was doing

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 13h

So far it’s been “drop the expensive experts and just offshore cheap junior labor who can fill in their gaps with AI”

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 13h

Yeah i tried that

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 13h

My thoughts on One Battle After Another are basically “i’ve dated this person” about multiple characters and in some cases all in one person

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 13h

bruh what the fuck

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 17h

IT’S HOCKEY!!!!!!

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 2d

It’s almost hockey!!

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 3d

It’s almost hockey!

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 1d

Everybody was kung fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact, it was a little bit frightening
But they fought with expert timing

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller: "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night."

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 1d

Wow people always said Harvard costs an arm and a leg but i had no idea

WBUR @wbur.org · 1d

The Supreme Judicial Court says Harvard failed to adequately supervise its former morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, who admitted to stealing skin, brains and bones of bodies that had been donated to the medical school for students to learn from.

'Extraordinary failure': SJC says lawsuits against Harvard over morgue thefts can move forward

The Supreme Judicial Court says Harvard failed to adequately supervise its former morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, who admitted to stealing skin, brains and bones of bodies that had been donated to the m...

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 1d

This looks so sick

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 1d

Most of the cutting edge stuff is is rust that i’ve seen

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 2d

The ecosystem is turning into nerd itch-scratching rather than actually making something usable.

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 2d

Most devs who want to build thing that people want to use do not want to take a months-long detour to learn a distributed crypto spec. And the fact that much of the SDK development, which is really great, is being done in Rust further just limits the accessibility.