Hana Lee | 이하나
@hana.goldenplums.name
Mastodon: @hana@hachyderm.io
Software engineer at Audere. Korean-American. Idler. She/her.
Software engineer at Audere. Korean-American. Idler. She/her.
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sometimes I think about entire professions with lost expertise; cobol and assembly experts, for instance, are hard to come by. but it goes to other things too:
the knowledge to make advanced batteries never appeared in america because the more basic knowledge was lost when manufacturing moved away
the knowledge to make advanced batteries never appeared in america because the more basic knowledge was lost when manufacturing moved away
Senior software engineer at Anthropic (former engineering director at Meta & VP of engineering at Robinhood) declares software engineering a solved problem by Claude Code.
It’s going to be ironic if the first job truly replaced by AI is software engineering.
It’s going to be ironic if the first job truly replaced by AI is software engineering.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
sometimes I think about entire professions with lost expertise; cobol and assembly experts, for instance, are hard to come by. but it goes to other things too:
the knowledge to make advanced batteries never appeared in america because the more basic knowledge was lost when manufacturing moved away
the knowledge to make advanced batteries never appeared in america because the more basic knowledge was lost when manufacturing moved away
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doge도 doge 당함 ㅋㅋㅋ...
The US White House has announced it has eliminated the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE.
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
doge도 doge 당함 ㅋㅋㅋ...
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A year later, I still think I wrote the single best take on Han Kang’s Nobel win. I especially loved taking this essay away from the New York Times and the Atlantic and giving it to @wasafirimag.bsky.social
We Have Arrived: Anton Hur on Han Kang’s Nobel Win
In this moving and revealing essay…
www.wasafiri.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A year later, I still think I wrote the single best take on Han Kang’s Nobel win. I especially loved taking this essay away from the New York Times and the Atlantic and giving it to @wasafirimag.bsky.social
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Scarleteen is raising $40,000 to support the healthcare needs of staff and volunteers who do this vulnerable, crucial, intimate work. 204 people have donated $23k; please join them today and share. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Scarleteen is raising $40,000 to support the healthcare needs of staff and volunteers who do this vulnerable, crucial, intimate work. 204 people have donated $23k; please join them today and share. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Today I learned Genghis Khan was over 40 when he set out to conquer the world beyond the Mongolian plateau. As someone who just turned 40 a few months ago, I suppose I should conclude that it's too early to give up on accomplishing anything in my life. 🤔
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Today I learned Genghis Khan was over 40 when he set out to conquer the world beyond the Mongolian plateau. As someone who just turned 40 a few months ago, I suppose I should conclude that it's too early to give up on accomplishing anything in my life. 🤔
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There is a whole underworld of exploited workers who make up the foundation of digital tech. We talk about content moderators, but content farms are also very exploitative industries where moderately educated people with reasonable English skills in the global majority are used to push content.
It may be hard to believe, but Twitter was once a useful public space instead of a weird monetization scheme for racist ragebait chatbots.
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
There is a whole underworld of exploited workers who make up the foundation of digital tech. We talk about content moderators, but content farms are also very exploitative industries where moderately educated people with reasonable English skills in the global majority are used to push content.
I found this part of this thread to be really insightful and something to watch out for in all my communities/social groups.
And the reality of much online abuse, especially dedicated group threat actors, is: people get into performing it through multiple methods of desensitization and social connections, you don't have to be Wrong to fall prey to the people who recruit, you don't need to be a sociopath or have history
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I found this part of this thread to be really insightful and something to watch out for in all my communities/social groups.
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The thing about DOGE is it accomplished neither its ostensible nor actual goals but did manage to cause a couple of holocausts worth of deaths internationally.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The thing about DOGE is it accomplished neither its ostensible nor actual goals but did manage to cause a couple of holocausts worth of deaths internationally.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
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Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
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The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
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The whole "natural birth natural life no medicine" crowd is actually more unfathomable to me than even nazis, like I understand what drives a nazi, I cannot wrap my head around the thought process that argues that the best plan is to embrace the methods that historically led to a lifespan of 27 yrs
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The whole "natural birth natural life no medicine" crowd is actually more unfathomable to me than even nazis, like I understand what drives a nazi, I cannot wrap my head around the thought process that argues that the best plan is to embrace the methods that historically led to a lifespan of 27 yrs
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Nice to have a list of the House Dems who most need to be primaried.
Trump is filling his government with Nazis, consolidating authoritarian power, and eroding democracy at every chance.
And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists.
Pathetic.
And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists.
Pathetic.
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Nice to have a list of the House Dems who most need to be primaried.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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“If every time that ICE strikes, they leave each community more mobilized, interconnected, and radicalized than before, we can use their efforts to eventually become capable of defeating them.”
For months, protesters have sought to tie down ICE agents at a holding facility outside Chicago.
Here, participants reflect on this strategy, evaluating it alongside other strategies such as rapid response networks and showing how Democratic politicians have been instrumental in supporting ICE.
Here, participants reflect on this strategy, evaluating it alongside other strategies such as rapid response networks and showing how Democratic politicians have been instrumental in supporting ICE.
Reflections on Resisting ICE in Chicago
Participants in the ongoing protests at the ICE holding facility in Broadview reflect on what has worked and explore the complicity of Democratic politicians with the violence of ICE.
crimethinc.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
“If every time that ICE strikes, they leave each community more mobilized, interconnected, and radicalized than before, we can use their efforts to eventually become capable of defeating them.”
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Speakers also urge for people to keep donating to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund. Alejandra Oliva, a volunteer with the bond fund, says the amount of money they are trying to raise is "unprecedented" as they try to get hundreds of people out of ICE detention, $1500 per person.
secure.givelively.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Speakers also urge for people to keep donating to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund. Alejandra Oliva, a volunteer with the bond fund, says the amount of money they are trying to raise is "unprecedented" as they try to get hundreds of people out of ICE detention, $1500 per person.
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imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
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Ice melts in the South
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Ice melts in the South
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In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
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In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
The state aims to give children a better start, but faces supply and staffing concerns.
www.wsj.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
www.wsj.com/us-news/in-a...
www.wsj.com/us-news/in-a...
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🎁CHICAGO'S ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SHOPPING LOCAL🎁
Block Club highlighted 100+ shops across Chicago where you can get a perfect gift for everyone on your list — while supporting small businesses. Check out our neighborhood gift guides: blockclubchi.co/4r3hEnd
Block Club highlighted 100+ shops across Chicago where you can get a perfect gift for everyone on your list — while supporting small businesses. Check out our neighborhood gift guides: blockclubchi.co/4r3hEnd
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
🎁CHICAGO'S ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SHOPPING LOCAL🎁
Block Club highlighted 100+ shops across Chicago where you can get a perfect gift for everyone on your list — while supporting small businesses. Check out our neighborhood gift guides: blockclubchi.co/4r3hEnd
Block Club highlighted 100+ shops across Chicago where you can get a perfect gift for everyone on your list — while supporting small businesses. Check out our neighborhood gift guides: blockclubchi.co/4r3hEnd
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Chicago immigrants are struggling with mental health after ICE raids: "They want us to be scared." blockclubchi.co/3LLpUZ2
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Chicago immigrants are struggling with mental health after ICE raids: "They want us to be scared." blockclubchi.co/3LLpUZ2
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I wrote about my new birds+data project, Of A Feather:
Of A Feather
This is a story about dead birds in drawers, xkcd, natural language processing and feathers. It's about color, quixotic pursuits and art made from data.
It starts in a parking lot.
It's December, 20...
www.jerthorp.me
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I wrote about my new birds+data project, Of A Feather:
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Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.