Mirri
@mirrir.bsky.social
Software, systems, and the occasional security. Analyst in a very wide direction.
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Mountain Standard
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Mountain Standard
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The most absurdly fucked up thing about how I learn about the 250+ journalists killed by US-Israel is that I don’t learn their names from the US press or the Western press or even the LIVING press. I learn them from the Instagram account of the late Hosam Shabbat, who was ALSO killed by US-Israel!!!
July 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The most absurdly fucked up thing about how I learn about the 250+ journalists killed by US-Israel is that I don’t learn their names from the US press or the Western press or even the LIVING press. I learn them from the Instagram account of the late Hosam Shabbat, who was ALSO killed by US-Israel!!!
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It’s not normal to write about what’s happening without any sense of outrage.
May 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It’s not normal to write about what’s happening without any sense of outrage.
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anyway it is very clear that the united states has no actual president and the acting president is whoever is in the oval office (stephen miller) at the same time as donald trump
April 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
anyway it is very clear that the united states has no actual president and the acting president is whoever is in the oval office (stephen miller) at the same time as donald trump
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It is an absolute myth that humans want to be invasively monitored around the clock in exchange for the pleasure of being force fed commercials
“Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.” 🙄
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch
Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.
techcrunch.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It is an absolute myth that humans want to be invasively monitored around the clock in exchange for the pleasure of being force fed commercials
God Patent Law is so stupid. Legitimately hilarious to see the Big Guys want to win the Ai race so bad, but they couldnt possibly want to have their banal incrementalist ideas in the open commons. The horror! Someone might be better at implementing than us!? Better make it impossible.
April 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
God Patent Law is so stupid. Legitimately hilarious to see the Big Guys want to win the Ai race so bad, but they couldnt possibly want to have their banal incrementalist ideas in the open commons. The horror! Someone might be better at implementing than us!? Better make it impossible.
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it is kind of wild that the anglosphere media isn't talking about how close India and Pakistan tensions are to boiling over right now
April 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
it is kind of wild that the anglosphere media isn't talking about how close India and Pakistan tensions are to boiling over right now
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the politics that dominates so many tech spaces is so boring and self-defeating: big tech is (kinda) bad and we’ll defeat it with rinky-dink open source projects that have no resources that no one wants to use anyway because we design them for us and our pals and expect non-coders to figure it out
April 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
the politics that dominates so many tech spaces is so boring and self-defeating: big tech is (kinda) bad and we’ll defeat it with rinky-dink open source projects that have no resources that no one wants to use anyway because we design them for us and our pals and expect non-coders to figure it out
I spent a cursory hour today looking at cangjie (cangjie-lang.cn) . its good, like very good.
April 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I spent a cursory hour today looking at cangjie (cangjie-lang.cn) . its good, like very good.
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This is how you do it.
April 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is how you do it.
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WSJ: No confidence. Worst April since the Great Depression. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal
Few think administration’s negotiations with trade partners will yield results soon enough to ease the strain
www.wsj.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
WSJ: No confidence. Worst April since the Great Depression. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
buy a book!
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April 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
the tech industry is a meta-stable environment for progress rot.
April 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
the tech industry is a meta-stable environment for progress rot.
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i love when the tech ceos confirm what i’ve been saying for years
yes, the US is worried about its geopolitical position, but the tech industry has seized on that fear and amplified it to protect its own power by trying to stifle regulations and antitrust cases
yes, the US is worried about its geopolitical position, but the tech industry has seized on that fear and amplified it to protect its own power by trying to stifle regulations and antitrust cases
April 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
i love when the tech ceos confirm what i’ve been saying for years
yes, the US is worried about its geopolitical position, but the tech industry has seized on that fear and amplified it to protect its own power by trying to stifle regulations and antitrust cases
yes, the US is worried about its geopolitical position, but the tech industry has seized on that fear and amplified it to protect its own power by trying to stifle regulations and antitrust cases
I've been talking with folks from outside of industry, and something that I don't think is articulated well enough is: we're fucked, and its a good thing.
Every way you slice it, scaling laws will kill the American Tech Moat exactly where it is and that is a very very good thing for the rest of us.
Every way you slice it, scaling laws will kill the American Tech Moat exactly where it is and that is a very very good thing for the rest of us.
April 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I've been talking with folks from outside of industry, and something that I don't think is articulated well enough is: we're fucked, and its a good thing.
Every way you slice it, scaling laws will kill the American Tech Moat exactly where it is and that is a very very good thing for the rest of us.
Every way you slice it, scaling laws will kill the American Tech Moat exactly where it is and that is a very very good thing for the rest of us.
Blogging in general, and microblogging in particular, are very weird forms of media. Specifically if you think about physical analogy.
April 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Blogging in general, and microblogging in particular, are very weird forms of media. Specifically if you think about physical analogy.
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I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
Seize the means of technological reproduction. Do not Let the ghouls determine them for you
Congresswoman Mary Miller, "Several countries are considering legislation that mimic's the European Union's Digital Markets Act"
Ambassador Greer, "We're not going to let the European Union, or Korea, or any other jurisdiction set the rules for digital trade, it will be us"
Ambassador Greer, "We're not going to let the European Union, or Korea, or any other jurisdiction set the rules for digital trade, it will be us"
April 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Seize the means of technological reproduction. Do not Let the ghouls determine them for you
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Workers and communities want a just transition off fossil fuels. But how do we get there? Read our new report Refining Transition for a framework on how the Bay Area’s Contra Costa County could do it.
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/refining-tra...
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/refining-tra...
Refining Transition: A Just Transition Economic Development Framework For Contra Costa County, California - UC Berkeley Labor Center
In this report, we discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Contra Costa as it prepares for the cascading effects of an energy transition that is already unfolding. We propose a just transition...
laborcenter.berkeley.edu
January 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Workers and communities want a just transition off fossil fuels. But how do we get there? Read our new report Refining Transition for a framework on how the Bay Area’s Contra Costa County could do it.
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/refining-tra...
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/refining-tra...
I’m appreciating the generational push of my age range to learn mandarin out of spite. I hope it continues, I need way more partners to practice with.
January 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I’m appreciating the generational push of my age range to learn mandarin out of spite. I hope it continues, I need way more partners to practice with.
Something awry in the Reddit wires
January 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Something awry in the Reddit wires
If the tiktok ban comes into effect, will @cloudflare.social be held criminally liable for providing DNS access to it?
January 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If the tiktok ban comes into effect, will @cloudflare.social be held criminally liable for providing DNS access to it?