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Christin White
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I'm a trans woman, a developer & designer, I’m passionate about inclusive and compassionate technology. Love learning. PKM, personal development environments and tools like Neovim, Apple, hiking, health, & PNW. Blue Ajah, Edgedancer. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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They really should have committed to this as the headline, not just the page title. It's perfect.

Tim sold “his brick.” He's just another fucking billionaire now.

www.advocate.com/business/tim...
Screenshot of the article search engine title: “Apple CEO Tim Cook spends his gay money on Trump's inaugural”
January 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
christinwhite.bsky.social
Huh, #Stract is interesting. Open-source, no Silicon Valley VC funding, independent index, power features and customization, no sign of AI to be found (and no discussion of it on the repo). They certainly have my attention.

Oh, and yes, of course it's mostly written in #rust.

stract.com
Excerpt from their About Us page, beyond the character count for duplication here. https://stract.com/about I’ve highlighted: - “We will never track you. Period.” - “Oh, and if we ever become evil (maybe by changing our motto) please take our code and start a competitor.” [Funding from:] - “grant from NLnet” - “European Commission's Next Generation Internet” - “we will only use your current search to match ads and will never track you across searches.” Features excerpt from their GitHub repo with my highlights represents by asterisks: - Keyword search that respects your search query. - *Fully independent search index with our own crawler.* - Advanced query syntax (site:, intitle: etc.). - DDG-style !bang syntax - Wikipedia and stackoverflow sidebar - *De-rank websites with third-party trackers* - Use optics to almost endlessly customize your search results. - Limit your searches to blogs, indieweb, educational content etc. - Customize how signals are combined during search for the final search result - *Prioritize links (centrality) from the sites you trust.* - Explore the web and find sites similar to the ones you like. - And much more!
January 1, 2025 at 6:09 AM
christinwhite.bsky.social
DHS is just annoyed they have competition surveilling Americans. www.404media.co/dhs-says-chi...
Excerpt: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) believes that China, Russia, Iran, and Israel are the “primary” countries exploiting security holes in telecommunications networks to spy on people inside the United States, which can include tracking their physical movements and intercepting calls and texts, according to information released by Senator Ron Wyden.
December 19, 2024 at 3:19 AM
christinwhite.bsky.social
While Substack is a nice platform to write on remember that they don't share your values, they aren't your friends, they host — and promote — far-right content, whatever makes them money.

There are good alternatives out there and you can make money with them.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-a...
Screenshot of excerpt with highlight (represented by asterisks): Since I left Substack for beehiiv in January, I went from making a little bit of money to actually making a living as an independent journalist with my own publication. I didn’t need Substack’s Twitter-esque Notes feature or its recommendation network to grow; I used social networks—mostly Bluesky—to successfully promote my work. That personal engagement created, I believe, deeper relationships with my readers than passive subscriptions via an algorithm. *Most importantly, I’ve remained committed to producing work that I’m proud of, and publishing it via a platform that doesn’t force me to compromise my values.*
December 19, 2024 at 12:26 AM
christinwhite.bsky.social
No, we are not normalizing that. themindshield.com/rep-chip-roy...
Excerpt from the linked article with highlight (represented by asterisks): Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) defended Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, saying everyone has some *"indiscretions"* in their past. Hegseth has been accused of sexual assault, mismanaging two veterans organizations, abusing alcohol, infidelity and called a serial "abuser of women" by his own mother.
December 8, 2024 at 12:48 AM
christinwhite.bsky.social
I'm dumbfounded. Glad I'm no longer a Digital Ocean customer. www.404media.co/ceo-attempte...
Screenshot of excerpt from the linked article with highlights (represented by asterisks): "I worked in the electrical engineering, controls engineering group at this manufacturing plant in Wilmington, North Carolina, and not everyone liked that they were integrating Corning. And there was a particular person who I got off to a rough start with who had been at the company for 40 years in North Carolina. And our manager saw this and talked to him and he actually turned a corner and became a mentor of mine," Spruill said. "I had a great relationship with him. He never invited me to lunch, never invited me to have a drink, never invited me to play golf. We both loved golf. *I came to find out this person was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and it was a very powerful message in learning for me that we sign up for values [of a company] because we believe in the opportunity. We love the company. We can bend as long as we don’t break our personal beliefs, it can work incredibly well.* And I want us all to think about this because we all bring different belief systems to this place. And it can still work, *it will work, as long as we understand that we’re not asking people to compromise their beliefs to the point that they break. We are asking you to compromise to the point where you accept our values."*
December 6, 2024 at 9:17 PM
christinwhite.bsky.social
Unbelievable yet entirely predictable. www.thecut.com/article/maga...
Screenshot of an excerpt with highlights (represented by asterisks here): Of course, what the growing reservations of female Trump voters indicate is that *within the patriarchy, there are no exceptions, no chill girls to whom the rules do not apply. You are simply another pussy to be grabbed, another vote in a coveted demographic, another pawn in a game you have no chance of winning.* It may take days or weeks or months or years for female Trump supporters to realize that there is no ringside seat for them, no forthcoming invite to the party, no chud-free movement creating space for them. Some will learn; many won’t. But in the interim, *it’s the rest of us who will have to suffer the consequences.*
December 6, 2024 at 8:28 PM
christinwhite.bsky.social
I can't imagine why anyone was at a crisis point.

incidentdatabase.ai/cite/608/
Screenshot of excerpt from the linked text with highlighted text (represented by asterisks here): UnitedHealthcare allegedly used a faulty AI algorithm with a *90% error rate* to *override doctors' recommendations and deny health coverage.* This AI, developed by NaviHealth, reportedly led to *premature discharge* from care facilities and *substantial out-of-pocket expenses* for patients, according to a lawsuit filed in the District Court for Minnesota.
December 5, 2024 at 12:11 AM
christinwhite.bsky.social
I love how scathing this piece is of Elon's latest nightmare idea. abovethelaw.com/2024/12/elon...
Screenshot of a excerpt that says: > Grok, Musk’s version of generative AI, is just like OpenAI’s or Anthropic’s, except it spits out answers with a dash of conspiracy theory and all the humor and wit of a concussed rooster pecking on a Ouija board. Science fiction is full of artificial intelligences modeled after their creator and — on that count — the famously unfunny Musk seems to have succeeded.
December 4, 2024 at 7:34 PM