eli holderness
@eli.holderness.dev
terrible jew, excellent queer, anarchist etc. research software advocate at OpenSAFELY. send me photos of your pets
they/them/theirs, Sheffield
they/them/theirs, Sheffield
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An intimidating thing about being trans is deciding to take control of your own happiness
Most of the time, things happen at you and you take what you're given. Being trans involves taking control of and responsibility for your future
It's both the greatest gift in life and also sometimes scary
Most of the time, things happen at you and you take what you're given. Being trans involves taking control of and responsibility for your future
It's both the greatest gift in life and also sometimes scary
transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
An intimidating thing about being trans is deciding to take control of your own happiness
Most of the time, things happen at you and you take what you're given. Being trans involves taking control of and responsibility for your future
It's both the greatest gift in life and also sometimes scary
Most of the time, things happen at you and you take what you're given. Being trans involves taking control of and responsibility for your future
It's both the greatest gift in life and also sometimes scary
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Call me the Edmund Fitzgerald the way twenty-nine good men lost their lives going down on me.
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Call me the Edmund Fitzgerald the way twenty-nine good men lost their lives going down on me.
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hey so if ever was a time to love trans people it’s now
May 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
hey so if ever was a time to love trans people it’s now
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succubus - female demon that seduces men
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
succubus - female demon that seduces men
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
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Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy
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it's only a clique if it's from the warlord period in china, otherwise it's a sparkling friend group
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
it's only a clique if it's from the warlord period in china, otherwise it's a sparkling friend group
huge thanks to everyone who came to my talk just now! Slides are here: github.com/eli-miriam/t...
The worked example of ECDSA can be found within these slides: github.com/eli-miriam/t... (after the explanation of ECC curve parameters)
#Oredev
The worked example of ECDSA can be found within these slides: github.com/eli-miriam/t... (after the explanation of ECC curve parameters)
#Oredev
github.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
huge thanks to everyone who came to my talk just now! Slides are here: github.com/eli-miriam/t...
The worked example of ECDSA can be found within these slides: github.com/eli-miriam/t... (after the explanation of ECC curve parameters)
#Oredev
The worked example of ECDSA can be found within these slides: github.com/eli-miriam/t... (after the explanation of ECC curve parameters)
#Oredev
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you have to be earnest. you have to.
October 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
you have to be earnest. you have to.
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Yet another instalment of "tech company just can't resist overtly supporting white supremacists, even if it is strategically a massive own goal"
The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation
crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...
crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...
October 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Yet another instalment of "tech company just can't resist overtly supporting white supremacists, even if it is strategically a massive own goal"
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Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
sites.stat.columbia.edu
October 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
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when you become a boss you lose the right to chop it up with the employees in the break room. you gave that up in exchange for power. if you want a business AND the camaraderie, start a co-op
October 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
when you become a boss you lose the right to chop it up with the employees in the break room. you gave that up in exchange for power. if you want a business AND the camaraderie, start a co-op
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- informed consent in primary care
- bulldoze every gender clinic
- hold inquiries into the abuses that went on there
- apologies + damages to patients denied care
- bosh ✊
If someone wants to transition, at any age and for any reason, that’s their business.
- bulldoze every gender clinic
- hold inquiries into the abuses that went on there
- apologies + damages to patients denied care
- bosh ✊
If someone wants to transition, at any age and for any reason, that’s their business.
October 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
- informed consent in primary care
- bulldoze every gender clinic
- hold inquiries into the abuses that went on there
- apologies + damages to patients denied care
- bosh ✊
If someone wants to transition, at any age and for any reason, that’s their business.
- bulldoze every gender clinic
- hold inquiries into the abuses that went on there
- apologies + damages to patients denied care
- bosh ✊
If someone wants to transition, at any age and for any reason, that’s their business.
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this is basically portland's version of a haka
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
October 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
this is basically portland's version of a haka
I felt 'being Mother 24/7' like a sniper shot to the nape of the neck
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I felt 'being Mother 24/7' like a sniper shot to the nape of the neck
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"i just use it to generate ideas"
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"i just use it to generate ideas"
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Oh look, it's that easy. 🤷🏼♀️
September 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Oh look, it's that easy. 🤷🏼♀️
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actually the UK prime minister has unilateral power to declare universal basic income at any point. the way this is done is by making every single citizen a member of the house of lords
September 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
actually the UK prime minister has unilateral power to declare universal basic income at any point. the way this is done is by making every single citizen a member of the house of lords
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We are consistently told certain ideas are the only possible correct ones, and deviating from that makes you insane. And yet these ideas are demonstrably bad, shitty, self serving pablum that result in bad outcomes whenever they are tried. Where is the echo chamber?
The reason that I have not changed my views is not because I haven't been exposed to the idea of difference, but because the people yelling at me have consistently shitehoused us into disaster upon calamity, from wars to crises to decades of austerity, and the world they have built sucks.
September 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We are consistently told certain ideas are the only possible correct ones, and deviating from that makes you insane. And yet these ideas are demonstrably bad, shitty, self serving pablum that result in bad outcomes whenever they are tried. Where is the echo chamber?
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Another highlight from #PyConUK!
Katie Bickford gives a junior's perspective on doing difficult things. Contains advice for both junior developers *and* (importantly) the senior developers working with them! This is a topic that doesn't normally get enough airtime.
youtu.be/7yfGMMei0b8?...
Katie Bickford gives a junior's perspective on doing difficult things. Contains advice for both junior developers *and* (importantly) the senior developers working with them! This is a topic that doesn't normally get enough airtime.
youtu.be/7yfGMMei0b8?...
PYCON UK 2025: A junior's perspective why doing difficult things is good, Katie Bickford
YouTube video by PyCon UK
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September 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Another highlight from #PyConUK!
Katie Bickford gives a junior's perspective on doing difficult things. Contains advice for both junior developers *and* (importantly) the senior developers working with them! This is a topic that doesn't normally get enough airtime.
youtu.be/7yfGMMei0b8?...
Katie Bickford gives a junior's perspective on doing difficult things. Contains advice for both junior developers *and* (importantly) the senior developers working with them! This is a topic that doesn't normally get enough airtime.
youtu.be/7yfGMMei0b8?...
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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if transgenderism is a dealth cult then why does it make me want to keep living my life to the fullest
September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
if transgenderism is a dealth cult then why does it make me want to keep living my life to the fullest
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Beautiful women. Let’s hear it for beautiful women
September 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Beautiful women. Let’s hear it for beautiful women
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they believe that women are commodities and trans women are counterfeit women. it’s just pure misogyny. they do not think women are people, and plenty of feminists are fully on board with this logic
What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.
September 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
they believe that women are commodities and trans women are counterfeit women. it’s just pure misogyny. they do not think women are people, and plenty of feminists are fully on board with this logic
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Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
December 17, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."