nausicaa
@nausicaa-rose.bsky.social
librarian. coder. writer. game designer. bad at guitar. good at cats. also at https://xoxo.zone/@nausicaa. 🏳️⚧️ ᏥᏣᎳᎩ, ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ. she/they.
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David Cassel reports on how the @python.org Software Foundation’s decision to turn down an anti-DEI federal grant sparked an immediate wave of community donations and solidarity.
PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant
The Python Software Foundation's courageous refusal of an anti-DEI $1.5 million federal grant immediately triggered an extraordinary outpouring of community support.
thenewstack.io
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
David Cassel reports on how the @python.org Software Foundation’s decision to turn down an anti-DEI federal grant sparked an immediate wave of community donations and solidarity.
A reminder of where @frame.work put's it's money, €24,000 of it, in fact blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...
DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis
Couple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would hardly be news, but there was a certain vibe behind them...
blogs.gnome.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A reminder of where @frame.work put's it's money, €24,000 of it, in fact blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...
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This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
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Oath of the Engineer: "In my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations. ... I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. ... In the performance of duty, and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give the utmost."
Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball
Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball
Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11 but has issued an important security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.
www.windowscentral.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oath of the Engineer: "In my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations. ... I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. ... In the performance of duty, and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give the utmost."
Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball
Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
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"Four decades after launching his acting career in Tulsa, Oscar winner Wes Studi returned Thursday to be honored by Tulsa Community College students for his groundbreaking career that has elevated Indigenous voices in film and beyond." www.kosu.org/arts-culture...
Tulsa Community College students honor alum Wes Studi for elevating Indigenous voices in film, beyond
Four decades after launching his acting career in Tulsa, Oscar winner Wes Studi returned Thursday to be honored by Tulsa Community College students for his groundbreaking career that has elevated…
www.kosu.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Four decades after launching his acting career in Tulsa, Oscar winner Wes Studi returned Thursday to be honored by Tulsa Community College students for his groundbreaking career that has elevated Indigenous voices in film and beyond." www.kosu.org/arts-culture...
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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recent remarks from @frame.work's CEO, nirav patel, are incredibly disappointing, and reflect a recurring theme that i'm seeing in tech: embracing, in both vocal and financial support, right-wing bigots and fascists with the excuse of "they make good tech"
community.frame.work/t/framework-...
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Framework supporting far-right racists?
We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We d...
community.frame.work
October 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Damn I was going to get a FW16 for my birthday (not kidding) but I guess that dream has been put on pause for now
I really hope @frame.work gets their shit together, fast.
I really hope @frame.work gets their shit together, fast.
Yikes. Looks like I won't be buying a Framework laptop after all!
@frame.work - Judging by the comments in this forum, your company and community are not currently worth either my time or my money.
Do better.
community.frame.work/t/framework-...
@frame.work - Judging by the comments in this forum, your company and community are not currently worth either my time or my money.
Do better.
community.frame.work/t/framework-...
Framework supporting far-right racists?
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality. If I understand cor...
community.frame.work
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Damn I was going to get a FW16 for my birthday (not kidding) but I guess that dream has been put on pause for now
I really hope @frame.work gets their shit together, fast.
I really hope @frame.work gets their shit together, fast.
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An in-depth post about the far-right folks @frame.work likes to support crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...
Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?
You might’ve noticed Framework, the laptop manufacturer, embroiled in a controversy as of now. The Discord server is on lockdown because the volunteer moderation team has gone on hiatus, and the Frame...
crimier.github.io
October 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
An in-depth post about the far-right folks @frame.work likes to support crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...
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Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
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It’s unfortunate to hear that @frame.work has decided to turn their community into a Nazi bar by declaring it a “big tent” that not only welcomes but also actively supports toxic bigots. It’s a shame cause one of their laptops was gonna be my next computer upgrade. Not any more.
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It’s unfortunate to hear that @frame.work has decided to turn their community into a Nazi bar by declaring it a “big tent” that not only welcomes but also actively supports toxic bigots. It’s a shame cause one of their laptops was gonna be my next computer upgrade. Not any more.
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ML based facial recognition is not reliable in the wild; like many “AI” tools sold to law enforcement, it is thinly-veiled pseudoscience and will harm people by lending law enforcement both a felt sense of epistemic authority and legal impunity.
Could errors from an AI surveillance tool cause ICE to grab and detain you? The agency’s use of facial recognition — and alarming new details on its reckless procedures for doing so — make that sci-fi-sounding nightmare an all too real risk, writes CDT surveillance expert Jake Laperruque.
ICE’s Reckless Reliance on Facial Recognition Puts Us All In Danger | TechPolicy.Press
Jake Laperruque raises the alarm on ICE’s reckless use of facial recognition and its risks for wrongful detainment.
www.techpolicy.press
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
ML based facial recognition is not reliable in the wild; like many “AI” tools sold to law enforcement, it is thinly-veiled pseudoscience and will harm people by lending law enforcement both a felt sense of epistemic authority and legal impunity.
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"In a world that is burning, thorn by conflict and greed, it is not enough to be less evil, to be radical only in some cases, and be moderate in others."
- a great insight from the resignation letter of two former @frame.work Linux Community Ambassadors
It's one of the best things I've seen today.
- a great insight from the resignation letter of two former @frame.work Linux Community Ambassadors
It's one of the best things I've seen today.
Stepping down as Framework Linux Community Ambassadors
We are Tommi and Fraxinas, Framework Linux Community Ambassadors since September 2024. We apprehensively followed the developments and the debate concerning Framework’s endorsement and support of Oma...
community.frame.work
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"In a world that is burning, thorn by conflict and greed, it is not enough to be less evil, to be radical only in some cases, and be moderate in others."
- a great insight from the resignation letter of two former @frame.work Linux Community Ambassadors
It's one of the best things I've seen today.
- a great insight from the resignation letter of two former @frame.work Linux Community Ambassadors
It's one of the best things I've seen today.
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Feast day is coming. I'll be making my favorite Nish dish: manoomin casserole. youtu.be/qj3tfE9f72o?...
An authentic First Nations wild rice casserole
YouTube video by Cityline
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Feast day is coming. I'll be making my favorite Nish dish: manoomin casserole. youtu.be/qj3tfE9f72o?...
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There is SO much junk social science around introversion and extroversion. And a lot of hostility. Hell, I’ve even heard podcasters and YouTubers who are all about tackling junk social science, harp on and on about how introverted they are.
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There is SO much junk social science around introversion and extroversion. And a lot of hostility. Hell, I’ve even heard podcasters and YouTubers who are all about tackling junk social science, harp on and on about how introverted they are.
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Empirics which support the argument of Shah and Bender -- dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml...
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Empirics which support the argument of Shah and Bender -- dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml...
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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There has never been a time where seemingly thousands of people have disappeared and the explanation didn’t involve horrific crimes against humanity. This won’t be, either.
www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
There has never been a time where seemingly thousands of people have disappeared and the explanation didn’t involve horrific crimes against humanity. This won’t be, either.
www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...