rocky racoon tan
@gnmerritt.net
coffee drinker, freelance software engineer, feminist, anti-capitalist
graeber, rawls, popper, le guin, rippetoe
he/him | @gnmerritt most other places
graeber, rawls, popper, le guin, rippetoe
he/him | @gnmerritt most other places
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The absence of civil rights we endow children in the face of the unquestioned sovereignty over them we cede to their parents is a crime against humanity.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The absence of civil rights we endow children in the face of the unquestioned sovereignty over them we cede to their parents is a crime against humanity.
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Our team placed 2nd in the Urbanarium "Decoding Timber Towers" architectural ideas competition (1st place to @moriyamateshima.bsky.social) with our 20-storey mass timber tower featuring a compact elevator and exit stair core, exposed ceilings, prefab balconies and a balanced mix of 1 to 4 bed homes!
October 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Our team placed 2nd in the Urbanarium "Decoding Timber Towers" architectural ideas competition (1st place to @moriyamateshima.bsky.social) with our 20-storey mass timber tower featuring a compact elevator and exit stair core, exposed ceilings, prefab balconies and a balanced mix of 1 to 4 bed homes!
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HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"
GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children
GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"
GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children
GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children
I was on a DSA salt training call earlier this week where they said they weren't targeting the tech industry because tech workers benefit from the status quo and buddy I do not think that's a smart strategy
hey what if instead we burned your entire exploitative empires to the fucking ground
Ex–Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns U.S. tech workers: Competing with China’s grueling 12-hour workdays means sacrificing work-life balance
Schmidt, who served as CEO from 2001 to 2011, has some thoughts on the China-style “996” work ethic.
www.yahoo.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I was on a DSA salt training call earlier this week where they said they weren't targeting the tech industry because tech workers benefit from the status quo and buddy I do not think that's a smart strategy
what does it say that I'm considering replying to this?
September 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
what does it say that I'm considering replying to this?
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anyway, if you want to know why I have so little time for the "Abundance" folks who want to convince you that environmental regulations are smothering growth and prosperity, once again the answer is "literally just paying attention to Tesla"
September 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
anyway, if you want to know why I have so little time for the "Abundance" folks who want to convince you that environmental regulations are smothering growth and prosperity, once again the answer is "literally just paying attention to Tesla"
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If you wanna learn more about how Blacksky works, I recently wrote a blogpost for @newpublic.org explaining everything in depth and tried to use accessible language
newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacks...
newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacks...
🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable
How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
newpublic.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If you wanna learn more about how Blacksky works, I recently wrote a blogpost for @newpublic.org explaining everything in depth and tried to use accessible language
newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacks...
newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacks...
can someone explain to me how RSL is going to do anything at all to curb AI companies from ingesting whatever training data they find?
September 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
can someone explain to me how RSL is going to do anything at all to curb AI companies from ingesting whatever training data they find?
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You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]
August 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]
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it turns out leftists were right about israel. they’re probably still wrong about everything else though
July 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
it turns out leftists were right about israel. they’re probably still wrong about everything else though
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per 🧵 earlier today on thin point access blocks allowing larger development w/ repeated modules...
41 homes in a coop. chebbi thomet bucher
1- to 4-BR homes. units that cross ventilate.
the US code official's mind cannot comprehend
(peep that staircase omfg)
www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/e...
41 homes in a coop. chebbi thomet bucher
1- to 4-BR homes. units that cross ventilate.
the US code official's mind cannot comprehend
(peep that staircase omfg)
www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/e...
March 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
per 🧵 earlier today on thin point access blocks allowing larger development w/ repeated modules...
41 homes in a coop. chebbi thomet bucher
1- to 4-BR homes. units that cross ventilate.
the US code official's mind cannot comprehend
(peep that staircase omfg)
www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/e...
41 homes in a coop. chebbi thomet bucher
1- to 4-BR homes. units that cross ventilate.
the US code official's mind cannot comprehend
(peep that staircase omfg)
www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/e...
so the theory here is what - that CBS decided to silence Colbert by giving him 10 more months to say anything he wants on his show? y'all that makes no sense
I've seen speculation that affiliates want his timeslot and/or that the ad demographics for late night are garbage, both seem plausible
I've seen speculation that affiliates want his timeslot and/or that the ad demographics for late night are garbage, both seem plausible
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
so the theory here is what - that CBS decided to silence Colbert by giving him 10 more months to say anything he wants on his show? y'all that makes no sense
I've seen speculation that affiliates want his timeslot and/or that the ad demographics for late night are garbage, both seem plausible
I've seen speculation that affiliates want his timeslot and/or that the ad demographics for late night are garbage, both seem plausible
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I unfortunately remain unconvinced by the theory of meritocracy espoused by our wealthy elites because I do not believe any of them know how to operate a dishwasher
July 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I unfortunately remain unconvinced by the theory of meritocracy espoused by our wealthy elites because I do not believe any of them know how to operate a dishwasher
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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re-upping this since my newsletter platform pricing chart is making the rounds again. indie media is hard but it's easier when we're in it together! 💕
btw i’m happy to be a resource for anyone considering making the switch from substack, as someone who’s been through it and has ~a year of experience since switching citationneeded.news to ghost. always happy to share my experience, including as someone for whom this is their primary income.
July 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
re-upping this since my newsletter platform pricing chart is making the rounds again. indie media is hard but it's easier when we're in it together! 💕
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Did you figure out your 10 favorite movies? Should we call the newspaper? Yeah, the one that loves empire and hates trans people
June 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Did you figure out your 10 favorite movies? Should we call the newspaper? Yeah, the one that loves empire and hates trans people
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capitalism is bad because it incentivizes every profit-seeking company on earth to call anything attached to an algorithm "AI" even though they are wildly different technologies utilizing totally unrelated forms of machine learning, literally none of which actually qualify as Artificial Intelligence
June 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
capitalism is bad because it incentivizes every profit-seeking company on earth to call anything attached to an algorithm "AI" even though they are wildly different technologies utilizing totally unrelated forms of machine learning, literally none of which actually qualify as Artificial Intelligence
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Neguse appears to be the only one out of Colorado’s six Democratic members of Congress to have attended a No Kings protest yesterday.
A “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Grateful to join thousands of folks in Boulder today standing up for our fundamental freedoms and the rule of law.
Grateful to join thousands of folks in Boulder today standing up for our fundamental freedoms and the rule of law.
June 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Neguse appears to be the only one out of Colorado’s six Democratic members of Congress to have attended a No Kings protest yesterday.
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"Antisemitism" after terrorism in Boulder
"Antisemitism" after terrorism in Boulder
nathanschneider.info
June 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Antisemitism" after terrorism in Boulder
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Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes
June 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes
Alright I hacked together a quick script to pull your Pocket favorites from the Graphql endpoint. You'll need to give it your cookies from a browser session but it works. Shouldn't be too hard to join to the CSV their data exporter produces.
June 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Alright I hacked together a quick script to pull your Pocket favorites from the Graphql endpoint. You'll need to give it your cookies from a browser session but it works. Shouldn't be too hard to join to the CSV their data exporter produces.
hey @mozilla.org I was just told by support that there is no way for me to export my favorites list out of Pocket before shutdown - why do you think it is it acceptable for you to sunset the service without functioning data export?
why anyone trust you with our data ever again?
why anyone trust you with our data ever again?
June 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
hey @mozilla.org I was just told by support that there is no way for me to export my favorites list out of Pocket before shutdown - why do you think it is it acceptable for you to sunset the service without functioning data export?
why anyone trust you with our data ever again?
why anyone trust you with our data ever again?
following up with the setup that works best so far:
- on-device wake word, "Hey Mycroft" much better than "Ok Nabu"
- S2T via Whisper running on a Gcloud free-tier box, data sent through a wireguard tunnel
I originally tried Speech-to-Phrase on a pi 4, it struggled with timer durations
- on-device wake word, "Hey Mycroft" much better than "Ok Nabu"
- S2T via Whisper running on a Gcloud free-tier box, data sent through a wireguard tunnel
I originally tried Speech-to-Phrase on a pi 4, it struggled with timer durations
Finally ditched my Amazon Echos for Home Assistant's Voice Preview Edition. Setup went much more quickly and smoothly than I was expecting - the mic box was on our wifi in two minutes and I got local speech-to-text & TTS models running in about an hour.
timers, light controls and weather all work!
timers, light controls and weather all work!
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition
Bring choice to voice - the best way to get started with voice
www.home-assistant.io
May 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
following up with the setup that works best so far:
- on-device wake word, "Hey Mycroft" much better than "Ok Nabu"
- S2T via Whisper running on a Gcloud free-tier box, data sent through a wireguard tunnel
I originally tried Speech-to-Phrase on a pi 4, it struggled with timer durations
- on-device wake word, "Hey Mycroft" much better than "Ok Nabu"
- S2T via Whisper running on a Gcloud free-tier box, data sent through a wireguard tunnel
I originally tried Speech-to-Phrase on a pi 4, it struggled with timer durations
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Right now, people know that the world feels deeply unfair and deeply scary. And I want to fight to be their lawyer to make sure the law is on their side — and not on the side of billionaires and corrupt politicians. TY for the interview, @denverpost.com.
https://dpo.st/3SxsLEP
https://dpo.st/3SxsLEP
Legal advocate for workers, renters announces run for Colorado attorney general
The head of a nonprofit law firm announced his candidacy for Colorado Attorney General on Tuesday, promising to police “corporate abuse” and to support worker and consumer protections.
dpo.st
May 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Right now, people know that the world feels deeply unfair and deeply scary. And I want to fight to be their lawyer to make sure the law is on their side — and not on the side of billionaires and corrupt politicians. TY for the interview, @denverpost.com.
https://dpo.st/3SxsLEP
https://dpo.st/3SxsLEP