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Techni-Calli
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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.
illleavenow.bsky.social
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!
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
illleavenow.bsky.social
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.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
illleavenow.bsky.social
🎶 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 🎶
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
illleavenow.bsky.social
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.
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Reposted by Techni-Calli
epic.org
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 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
illleavenow.bsky.social
If you’re donating to food banks (please do if you can!), here are a few things to consider:
1) Boxed Mac and cheese can’t be used without milk and butter, which are rare to get 2) Boxed milk is incredibly useful 3) Everyone donates pasta sauce and spaghetti 4)They can’t eat canned donations unless they are pop tops or a can opener is donated too 5) Oil is wonderful 6) spices or salt and pepper are a gift 7) tea bags and coffee make them feel you care 8) sugar and flour are treats 9) fresh produce is rare and beloved 10) seeds can be helpful for some in spring/summer 11) fresh meat is rare 12) tuna and crackers are a good lunch 13) hamburger helper needs ground beef 14) they get tons of peanut butter and jelly but not sandwich bread 15) butter is great 16) eggs are a huge deal 17) cake mix and frosting make kid’s birthday cakes possible 18) dishwashing liquid is expensive and appreciated 19) pads and tampons are a luxury, people will cry over them 20) everyone loves stovetop stuffing
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
illleavenow.bsky.social
AI companies want you scared of future not-happening harms so you’ll miss the constant damage AI is already doing.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21d
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.”
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
illleavenow.bsky.social
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...
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
illleavenow.bsky.social
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
illleavenow.bsky.social
Clearly time for a rewatch, bless this man.
junoryleejournalism.com Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · Oct 9
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
illleavenow.bsky.social
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
illleavenow.bsky.social
Great news! Your spyware is about to stop pretending you get to choose when it spies on you!
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Oct 7
“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
illleavenow.bsky.social
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
illleavenow.bsky.social
This is extremely niche, but I’ve been so distracted watching GBBO wondering where I’ve seen Tom’s face before and-
Picture of Tom from 2025 Great British Bake Off Picture of comedian Trevor Wallace
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
illleavenow.bsky.social
Genuinely if he had dementia, how would we tell.
September 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
illleavenow.bsky.social
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
illleavenow.bsky.social
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.
September 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
illleavenow.bsky.social
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.
shacknews.com Shacknews @shacknews.com · Sep 18
LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI
September 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
illleavenow.bsky.social
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.
September 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
illleavenow.bsky.social
At this point, it’s not enough to get Polis out of the governorship, I want him out of the state.
aweiss.bsky.social Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · Sep 11
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.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk
September 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
illleavenow.bsky.social
I do genuinely wonder what kind of bubble or delusion folks are able to enter into to believe their utterly unhinged experiences are relatable.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 31
The new Elizabeth Gilbert memoir sounds absolutely berserk
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Here is what actually happens in the new book, called “All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation.” Gilbert, newly flush with seemingly unlimited cash, and filled with both a desire to be useful and the existential unease of someone who has just won the lottery, begins covering her friends’ therapy bills and tuition payments, and lavishing jewelry, weddings, and houses (plural) on them. At one point, after the 2008 financial crisis, she walks down a street in New Jersey asking small-business owners if they need money. Then her friend Rayya—a hot queer hairdresser whom Gilbert met during her first marriage—hits a rough patch, and Gilbert moves her out of a Chelsea apartment and into a New Jersey church that she bought sight unseen from Laos. (Gilbert had intended it to be a home for herself and her second husband, whom she met during her “Eat, Pray, Love” year.) Gilbert falls in love with Rayya, though she doesn’t admit this to Rayya or to her husband. Instead, she proposes that Rayya write a memoir in lieu of paying rent, and asks her to travel with her, ostensibly so that Rayya can do her hair and makeup for professional appearances. By 2013, Gilbert is admitting to a stranger in a book-signing line that the only reason she and Rayya aren’t a couple is that Gilbert is married and “trying to be good.” Rayya, who is an alcoholic and a heroin addict in recovery, has begun openly drinking again. Here is what actually happens in the new book, called “All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation.” Gilbert, newly flush with seemingly unlimited cash, and filled with both a desire to be useful and the existential unease of someone who has just won the lottery, begins covering her friends’ therapy bills and tuition payments, and lavishing jewelry, weddings, and houses (plural) on them. At one point, after the 2008 financial crisis, she walks down a street in New Jersey asking small-business owners if they need money. Then her friend Rayya—a hot queer hairdresser whom Gilbert met during her first marriage—hits a rough patch, and Gilbert moves her out of a Chelsea apartment and into a New Jersey church that she bought sight unseen from Laos. (Gilbert had intended it to be a home for herself and her second husband, whom she met during her “Eat, Pray, Love” year.) Gilbert falls in love with Rayya, though she doesn’t admit this to Rayya or to her husband. Instead, she proposes that Rayya write a memoir in lieu of paying rent, and asks her to travel with her, ostensibly so that Rayya can do her hair and makeup for professional appearances. By 2013, Gilbert is admitting to a stranger in a book-signing line that the only reason she and Rayya aren’t a couple is that Gilbert is married and “trying to be good.” Rayya, who is an alcoholic and a heroin addict in recovery, has begun openly drinking again. Three years later, Rayya is given a diagnosis of liver and pancreatic cancer and told that she has six months to live. Gilbert ends her marriage, confesses her love to Rayya, and takes an end-stage rocket ship to the romantic stratosphere. When Rayya refuses chemo, Gilbert rents her a penthouse, then starts buying her things: a Range Rover, a piano, a Rolex. Together, they gorge on food, sex, travel, pleasure. “We were ecstatic, phosphorescent, dangerous, brilliant, and full of wild courage,” Gilbert writes. “We were writing poems about each other, staying awake just to watch ourselves breathing, and pouring words of devotion back and forth.” They were “divine angels, wrapped together in a single cloak of stars.” Their love was “far more powerful,” Gilbert goes on, than the “mere alcohol, weed, Xanax, psilocybin, sedatives, sleeping pills, and ecstasy” that the two were taking—and why not? Then Rayya’s friends persuade her to do chemo after all, and her illness and the treatment together become so monstrously debilitating that she decides she needs both an hourly supply of opiates and a mountain of cocaine. These Gilbert pays for and procures. In time, Gilbert becomes a twisted bedside nurse, tying off the arms of a “venomous junkie” who has already lived nine months longer than the doctors thought she would. And yet this off-kilter enabler remains Elizabeth Gilbert, a woman who could, in under thirty seconds, locate transcendent human insight in a nuclear-waste dump. She tells herself, “Rayya is my most beautiful story.” Then, losing the faith, she decides to murder Rayya, literally, by switching her morphine pills with sleeping pills and covering her in fentanyl patches—a plot that fails only because Rayya somewhat demonically cottons on to the plan and thwarts it. Gilbert realizes that she has hit rock bottom, that she is a sex-and-love addict—an addict all around, actually. This becomes the organizing principle and revelation of the book: Gilbert’s journey with Rayya is merely an extreme version of a dynamic that “all of us” can relate to, Gilbert tells her readers, because, like addicts, we have all grasped desperately at “relief from the sting of life.”
September 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
illleavenow.bsky.social
@epic.org’s policies don’t give me explicit control over the company website, but I’m a visionary, so get ready for a series of reports on magical surveillance mechanisms in fantasy (the eye of Sauron and palantirs will be separate entries).
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 31
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
September 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Reposted by Techni-Calli
ndrew.bsky.social
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
August 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
illleavenow.bsky.social
…so I gather something involving Giuliani has occurred in New Hampshire
Screenshots of multiple posts mocking a Giuliani accident
August 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
illleavenow.bsky.social
Happy Labor Day weekend!

No one can stop you from sharing your salary, you don’t need to be “loyal” to your employer, and wages are payment for labor, not a favor.
August 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM