emilygorcenski

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2024-06-19 02:29:13

My recollection of Chomsky will forever be this, which he said in the wake of Unite the Right
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/noam-chomsky-antifa-us-alt-right-us-state-donald-trump-white-nationalist-a8044526.html

2024-06-16 18:45:16

It’s not a documentary if you just have something making shit up as it goes.
https://bgr.com/tech/movies-may-soon-use-ai-to-change-the-story-each-time-you-rewatch/

2024-06-11 19:09:29

I HAVE BEEN WANTING TO WRITE THIS EXACT ARTICLE FOR YEARS
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

2024-06-07 22:20:14

Alright. I am super proud of this. I turned this… into this.
Built-in shelving, recessed lights, craft and utility storage.
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/577/661/066/866/107/original/8e5f122092e4aecb.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/577/661/286/219/991/original/242277c8ae6a3ddf.jpg

2024-06-03 18:12:06

I keep thinking about that woman in Australia accused of murdering her dinner party guests with toxic mushrooms. If only she had waited a little longer for AI she would have had the perfect defense.

2024-05-31 18:28:46

“The authors found that supersharers were disproportionately Republican, middle-aged White women residing in three conservative states, Arizona, Florida, and Texas.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl4435

2024-05-27 16:46:16

english: cat
german: Katze
spanish: gato
french: chat
russian: кот
polish: kot
greek: Γάτα
czech: kočka
maltese: qattus
bulgarian: котка
turkish: kedi
romanian: pisică

2024-05-26 12:50:33

This story is absolutely hilarious.
Also, a Libertarian supporter punched a Trump supporter. I’m sure we’ll have 30,000 opeds on it by tomorrow, like if antifa had done that
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/25/politics/libertarian-party-trump-convention-speech/index.html

2024-05-25 17:07:07

Here’s the thing these tech folks need to understand: trust doesn’t come from being really good sometimes, it also comes from not being absurd.
You wouldn’t hire an accountant who tells you with a straight face you should eat rocks sometimes. If they did you’d start questioning their judgment.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-ai-im-feeling-depressed-cheese-not-sticking-to-pizza-error-rcna153301

2024-05-22 17:45:14

If you’re in tech right now there’s a pretty good chance you’re either:
- I spent my free time this weekend writing a script so that you can download your old phpBB and host them on your static site, or
- BEHOLD, our new digital salvation is here, we have eliminated the need for poetry, your smart computer assistant (who is a girl btw) will simply solve all your problems for you, it only comes at the expense of the carbon output of portugal and the renewed embrace of chattel slavery

2024-05-13 13:16:10

A lot of people talking about how LLMs are polluting the internet but we also need to have a conversation about Temu

2024-05-11 09:31:07

Google dragging six of its 11 nines out back tearfully with a revolver in its waistband
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/unisuper-google-cloud-issue-account-access?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2024-05-10 15:35:56

Important win for artists, I wonder what impact this will have on AI
https://www.zhangjingna.com/blog/luxembourg-copyright-case-win-against-jeff-dieschburg

2024-05-09 14:37:23

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@npub1mdk…aptk Rad means “wheel” in German. Fahrrad means “riding wheel”.

2024-05-08 06:09:49

For everyone talking about filing GDPR Art. 17 deletion requests against Stack Overflow, not that SO is owned by a Netherlands-based investment firm, Prosus, and Stack Overflow has a German-based GmbH registered in Munich.
So they will very much have to comply with legitimate requests, and if not you can file a complaint directly with the data protection authorities, namely the Bavarian Data Protection Authority, BayLDA.

2024-05-07 21:30:00

Great collection of reporting on the downright awfulness of Musk’s various endeavors
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/musk-inc/

2024-05-07 15:31:05

If you don’t speak German it is 1000% worth it to hit translate on this page
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/kriminalitaet/id_100401416/neonazi-drei-finger-weg-verstuemmelung-in-chemnitz-offenbar-abgesprochen.html

2024-05-07 11:01:31

"Ladies" refers to women, "Laddies" refers to men. By extrapolation, "Ladddies" must refer to nonbinary people.

2024-05-06 21:32:46

Well here’s a terrifying security issue
https://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/tunnelvision

2024-05-06 20:40:24

Another IoT fail
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-fit-apis-get-shut-down-in-2025-might-break-fitness-devices/

2024-05-06 19:49:45

GUESS WHO JUST WASTED 45 MINUTES TRYING TO DEBUG SOMETHING WITH MY CODE ONLY TO FIND THAT IT WAS A CLOCK SYNC ISSUE IN WSL

2024-04-30 04:59:17

It’s easy to distinguish CET and CEST because the S is for Summer, just like distinguishing EST and EDT where the S means Not Summer.

2024-04-28 18:14:22

Great article about a bevy of lawsuits against Tesla, with lots of horrifying videos. Gift link.
https://wapo.st/4aW7cFG

2024-04-19 09:14:53

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@npub1yhj…3h3t recently did a big project with people geo distributed, someone said "not another trello" so we ended up using google slides for project management and i wanted to die

2024-04-17 17:13:44

Man, nobody ever understood the assignment more than John de Lancie did as Q

2024-04-16 20:28:20

A few months late but I'm honored by this review of my piece, "Making God".
https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/2023/12/15/emily-gorcenski-ai-idolatry-and-technological-fetishism/

2024-04-13 05:39:42

Huh. For my nearly 42 years I figured Phillips head screws were named for the guy that invented them. Instead they were named for the salesman who bought the patent and sold them.

2024-04-11 04:32:46

I had a dream about trying to deal with some software procurement issue with the government and I was dealing with the Office of Upskilling Prevention.
I’m now convinced that might actually exist.

2024-04-08 20:16:56

Great article looking at LLM fascination as an extension of the psychic’s con
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

2024-03-29 06:19:19

Nailed the location on #4, embarrassed by location on #3
#WhenTaken #31 (29.03.2024)
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https://whentaken.com/

2024-03-19 11:27:50

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Interview process: reformulate Turing's work from first principles
Reality: a YAML file rejected by Satan for being unfit for his fiery domain

2024-03-19 11:26:05

Software folks love talking about abstractions and patterns and inversion of control and distributed systems theorems and autoscaling and then every single system ever put together is a cobbling together of broken legos connected with duct tape and chewing gum

2024-03-17 18:13:28

I just gave my digital safety training again and one thing that always shocks people is learning about printer microdots.
And one thing that still shocks me is that this practice is so widespread that the EFF stopped even tracking it and also we’ve all just kind of collectively accepted this as a society.

2024-03-13 22:22:55

Fuck yes Amazon has a new product search box. Read to the end
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/090/712/298/135/765/original/71a76e2fe49c375b.jpeg

2024-03-06 04:49:34

Google has turned into utter garbage, just straight useless trash
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/046/929/944/250/015/original/524a56a05760badd.jpeg

2024-02-16 15:38:53

who called it "AI Hallucination" and not "fable diffusion"

2024-02-13 15:28:20

Gayviation
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/111/924/876/565/007/141/original/d3df41fb384c2299.jpg

2024-02-06 10:13:13

It’s a great sign when the first thing I ever hear about a new social media network is the absolutely amateur security fuckup they committed

2024-02-06 09:35:34

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Anyways, we're 15 months into ChatGPT taking the world by storm and I've yet to see a single compelling use case for GenAI where the product has been meaningfully improved.
I've dealt with a couple chatbots that felt only slightly less wooden but were no more able to solve my actual problem than before.

2024-02-06 09:34:01

Everyone trying to invent use cases for GenAI where GenAI clearly has no place reminds me of the time after ConvNet when everyone tried to figure out how their problems were actually computer vision problems (they were not actually computer vision problems and everyone wasted a ton of time and money)

2024-02-05 17:02:00

Everyone thinks that AI is taking over the world and yet I my apps aren’t smart enough not to send a reminder notification for a thing I’ve already done.
“Don’t forget to stretch today”
“You know I already stretched today! I already logged it in the app!!”

2023-06-26 17:58:34

SCOTUS upheld the lower court ruling barring the “skirts only” rule for girls in a charter school, and it’s growing increasingly clear that even the conservative courts are having none of this gender policing.

2023-06-25 07:43:38

After Wagner marched 100s of kms into Russia with token resistance, I’ve decided to conquer Kaliningrad. I’ve got a Hilux and three bottles of water. Who’s with me.
https://www.dw.com/en/live-updates-wagner-chief-humiliated-putin-ukraine-says/a-66022584

2023-06-22 23:46:17

It turns out, actual engineering is a lot harder than software engineering, and this is something you should keep in mind as people start to claim ChatGPT can do a better job.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23770260/titanic-tour-titan-submersible-catastrophic-implosion-oceangate

2023-06-21 21:29:28

Cisgender is not a slur, much like Elon Musk is not a scientist, much like Elon Musk is not a free speech champion, much like Elon Musk is not a good person.
https://fortune.com/2023/06/21/elon-musk-declares-cis-cisgender-slurs-twitter-punishable-suspension/amp/

2023-06-14 12:41:41

The media really doing their best to breathe life into Trump's campaign, and it might even work

2023-06-10 09:59:20

A lot of people are saying Pat Robertson is burning in hell. This is not true. Satan is still reading the charges off his arraignment and it’s gonna take a minute.

2023-06-09 10:36:02

I was in rural, redneck Virginia yesterday and the little town main drag had posters and banners up celebrating Pride.
I really don’t think people realize just how miniscule the right wing backlash is relative to the scale of what it’s fighting against. Media, social and otherwise, are giving this hate movement a massively outsized voice. This doesn’t mean we should ignore it, of course, but perhaps we should not be a bunch of megaphones

2023-06-08 12:56:56

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@npub1ufm…qhp4 the way it works is like this, consider tennessee for instance.
A year ago, nobody had ever tried to ban drag, so courts have never ruled on whether drag is free speech or not.
The law passed attempting to outlaw drag. That's bad!
But the Trump appointed judge looked at it and said, naw, this is blatantly unconstitutional. He then ruled that drag is protected.
That means that, at least in that district, drag is explicitly protected by precedent.

2023-06-08 12:52:54

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@npub1ufm…qhp4 except that's not how it works, because it's not just "not doing a genocide." In many cases, these rulings are setting the stage for much stronger trans protections than existed before.

2023-06-08 11:24:17

Many of the trans influencers who have spent the last months insisting that we’re living under imminent threat of “genocide” have said absolutely nothing about the ruling shutting down major parts of Florida’s SB 254 implementation.
You would think that after months of fearmongerint that Florida is forcibly detransitioning every trans child in the state, there would be a little more celebration when that turns out not to be true.
There isn’t, because doomerism drives engagement.

2023-06-07 13:03:59

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As I wrote here, one part of Plaintiffs' claims are based on parental rights. And indeed, the judge ruled that Plaintiffs are extremely likely to succeed on this claim, among others.
https://emilygorcenski.com/post/floridas-fascists-forthcoming-failures/

2023-06-07 12:47:38

“Gender identity is real.” As expected, a judge has blocked Florida’s anti-trans law (at least as applied to the plaintiffs), in a ruling that isn’t even close.
https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/06/judge-blocks-floridas-trans-health-ban-gender-identity-is-real/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Ftransgender

2023-06-06 22:14:40

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@npub1m8a…khgv @npub1hgr…2e7r excellent piece

2023-06-04 23:10:43

Why is search so broken just absolutely everywhere? It is 2023, and somehow search is considerably worse than in 2013 and arguably 2003. I’m not even talking like, google searches, but I’ll get to that in a sec. I’m talking the entire practice of making information findable

2023-06-03 08:46:00

A Trump-appointed federal judge has ruled strongly that Tennessee’s anti-drag law is unconstitutional, probably the first of many such rulings nationwide
https://www.lawdork.com/p/tennessee-anti-drag-law-unconstitutional

2023-06-02 17:16:45

Really not digging this trend of cops deciding that fundraising is evidence of a crime
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/

2023-05-30 20:22:48

My friend Greg wrote a really cool book about software engineering! I spent some time with it, and here's my report.
https://emilygorcenski.com/post/book-report-software-design-by-example-by-greg-wilson/

2023-05-25 21:11:01

Florida's fascists are in for an ass-kicking. And we can speed that up.
https://emilygorcenski.com/post/floridas-fascists-forthcoming-failures/

2023-05-24 20:38:54

I’ve been in the antifascism game for a while now and the one thing I’ve learned is that warnings about fascism does absolutely jack shit.
Beating the hell out of fascists (metaphorically or otherwise) is often much more effective.

2023-05-24 19:00:50

There’s a lesson in the Letzte Generation raids. The lesson is that they’re going to use counterterrorism laws to come after you even if you don’t engage in terrorism.
I’m not sure this is the best lesson for the government to teach.

2023-05-21 05:50:16

Look at the incredible organizing the Budapest queer community does:
https://budapestpride.com/news

2023-05-20 22:58:20

2015, Istanbul bans its pride march citing authoritarian laws. March goes on, police show up, beat the hell out of protesters.
2016, Istanbul bans its pride march. March goes on anyways. Police show up, arrest a bunch of people.
2017, same story, more arrests.
2018, same story, still more arrests.
2019, this was Istanbul pride.
The power to resist is stronger that the power to oppress.
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/110/403/479/839/255/166/original/339c0fb94c77c80a.jpeg

2023-05-20 22:24:26

Fascism is not unique to Germany or to the 20th century. It is not exclusive of America or the present day. Insisting on viewing fascism solely through the German lens (and it does not mean we should not consider it) causes us to overlook many other fascisms and therefore many other struggles, decentering and speaking over them.

2023-05-20 21:56:53

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Nevermind that those weakened democratic institutions came on the back of suppressing Black votes, the authoritarianism came in the form of islamophobic surveillance, the country fought a civil war over the right to own human beings, and we used to send the army to shoot labor unions to break strikes.
We’re not first, we very well might be last.

2023-05-20 21:56:52

TIL that there was no Christofascism in 2014, that trans people are the first ever people in the US to experience this level of political repression, and that we’re the canaries in the coal mine for a creeping authoritarianism taking advantages of weakened democratic institutions.

2023-05-20 21:05:04

I am begging Americans to learn about civil rights issues other than Germany in the 30s!

2023-05-18 06:32:15

There’s an understandable popular trend among USian queer folks that highlights the burning of the archives of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in May 1933 and places queer and particularly trans folks in a primary place of victimhood of the Nazi regime.
The thing is it’s only partly correct, and I think it’s important to fill in the details.

2023-05-15 22:25:46

Florida’s law does not supercede Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which bans such discrimination on the basis of both gender identity and sexual orientation (for organizations which receive federal funds, which is almost all of them).
If you need healthcare, seek healthcare.
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/110/375/031/051/462/735/original/b2372be601f33371.jpeg

2023-05-05 06:25:51

I recently got my Niederlassungserlaubnis (German permanent residency) and and slowly working towards citizenship, and I’m comparing the process to the US’s and just laughing.
In America, citizenship is all EAGLES! and THOMAS JEFFERSON! and DUTY! and FREEDOM! and SOLEMN PRIVILEGE! and in Germany it’s like, “you have successfully demonstrated the ability to navigate German bureaucracy at the highest level. Here is your certificate of mastery.”

2023-04-21 05:12:05

“The attention Cantwell drew to 'Dragon Arm' in that doomed effort to save himself… led directly to Wil Smith being identified”
Fact check: true
https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/burning-hate-stormers/

2023-04-18 22:25:05

This is public now so I can share it: after more than 5 years, Charlottesville torch marchers are being indicted for the hate rally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/04/18/charlottesville-white-supremacist-tiki-torch-indictments/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main

2023-04-13 16:13:45

Oh look the leader of the racist discord where the Ukraine intel was leaked by a Nazi is also in the military.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html

2023-03-10 09:27:08

The most powerful AIs in the world, ranked:
100. amazon’s product recommender that recommends you more socks when you just bought socks
99. The algorithm that decides what far right topic to make trending on Twitter
98. Facebook’s memories feature that reminds you of how your dog died 7 years ago
97. ChatGPT
…
1. The AI the New York Times uses to track you across countries and devices to find out you used up all your free articles this month