David / Stacktrace
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#RollerDerby official, software engineer, science fiction fan, once (and future?) classicist. He/him. @aoristdual@floss.social on Mastodon.
I just launched the open beta of Stave (stave.app), a free-forever and open source app I've built for #rollerderby officiating signups and staffing.
Stave offers a form builder, cross-league calendaring, a smart crew builder, and email templates. Training videos on the homepage!
Stave offers a form builder, cross-league calendaring, a smart crew builder, and email templates. Training videos on the homepage!
Stave: Signups and Staffing for Roller Derby
Build events and signup forms, manage officiating crews, and track your officiating calendar.
stave.app
August 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I just launched the open beta of Stave (stave.app), a free-forever and open source app I've built for #rollerderby officiating signups and staffing.
Stave offers a form builder, cross-league calendaring, a smart crew builder, and email templates. Training videos on the homepage!
Stave offers a form builder, cross-league calendaring, a smart crew builder, and email templates. Training videos on the homepage!
COMING SOON: Open Beta of Stave, a free and open source signups & staffing platform for #rollerderby.
August 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
COMING SOON: Open Beta of Stave, a free and open source signups & staffing platform for #rollerderby.
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Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.
August 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.
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More relevant than ever
June 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
More relevant than ever
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All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
June 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
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So this is cool.
We are excited to announce The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a new sci-fi action RPG based on The Expanse. Become a captain of the most advanced ship in the universe, gather a crew, and challenge one of the most powerful enemies humankind has ever faced. Watch the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIQi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIQi...
June 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
So this is cool.
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June 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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still weird that we've had seven Civilizations but only one Alphas Centauri
February 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
still weird that we've had seven Civilizations but only one Alphas Centauri
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"Your health records will be on the block chain."
"Everyone will live in the Metaverse."
"All art will be NFTs."
"Generative AI will replace the need for humans."
We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.
"Everyone will live in the Metaverse."
"All art will be NFTs."
"Generative AI will replace the need for humans."
We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.
The next time someone tells you some dumb-ass tech thing is "inevitable" even if a company has spent tens of billions of dollars on it
April 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Your health records will be on the block chain."
"Everyone will live in the Metaverse."
"All art will be NFTs."
"Generative AI will replace the need for humans."
We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.
"Everyone will live in the Metaverse."
"All art will be NFTs."
"Generative AI will replace the need for humans."
We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.
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A key learning from this livestream: when being pressured to use "AI" at work or school, ask, "What specifically are you wanting to automate and why?"
TODAY at 2 PM PT!
Join us as we celebrate the release of the THE AI CON! @emilymbender.bsky.social and I are so excited to chat with @vauhinivara.bsky.social about the book!
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ai-con...
Join us as we celebrate the release of the THE AI CON! @emilymbender.bsky.social and I are so excited to chat with @vauhinivara.bsky.social about the book!
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ai-con...
May 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A key learning from this livestream: when being pressured to use "AI" at work or school, ask, "What specifically are you wanting to automate and why?"
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“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.
May 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.
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You should be able to unsubscribe from more things than just emails with a click
April 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
You should be able to unsubscribe from more things than just emails with a click
If folks don't fit into your boxes, maybe consider tossing the boxes instead of the people.
April 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
If folks don't fit into your boxes, maybe consider tossing the boxes instead of the people.
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Gonna do every newspaper in America a favor and write their headline. It reads:
TRUMP DISCUSSES FOREIGN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH BUKELE
There you go. Don't even need to credit me.
TRUMP DISCUSSES FOREIGN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH BUKELE
There you go. Don't even need to credit me.
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Gonna do every newspaper in America a favor and write their headline. It reads:
TRUMP DISCUSSES FOREIGN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH BUKELE
There you go. Don't even need to credit me.
TRUMP DISCUSSES FOREIGN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH BUKELE
There you go. Don't even need to credit me.
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Even the supposed best use cases for AI don't tell a positive story.
March 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Even the supposed best use cases for AI don't tell a positive story.
Little dog soaks up warm sun. #dachshund
March 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Little dog soaks up warm sun. #dachshund
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I need for you to read this thread and to act accordingly. They are coming harder than ever before for speech with the intention of classifying anything they don’t like as porn. Brush up on this, speak against it, contact officials, show up at offices, tell your friends and audiences about this.
Sen. Mike Lee has introduced the SCREEN ACT, a bill that applies the "harmful to minors" standard used to ban LGBTQ+ books and resources in schools and libraries... and apply it nationally—to the internet.
Under the guise of protecting kids from "pornography"
www.lee.senate.gov/2025/2/senat...
Under the guise of protecting kids from "pornography"
www.lee.senate.gov/2025/2/senat...
With Support from Heritage Action, Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee Introduces SCREEN Act for 119th Congress to Protect Children from Pornography Online
With Support from Heritage Action, Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee Introduces SCREEN Act for 119th Congress to Protect Children from Pornography Online
goldrushcam.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I need for you to read this thread and to act accordingly. They are coming harder than ever before for speech with the intention of classifying anything they don’t like as porn. Brush up on this, speak against it, contact officials, show up at offices, tell your friends and audiences about this.
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"AI" is, purely, a marketing term and a (poor) umbrella phrase for a number of different types of computerized statistical analysis, iteration and synthesis. If something is being touted as "AI" to me, it's because someone wants me to buy it, and also I probably don't need it.
Thank you for calling it machine learning and not AI. I would love a to see machine learning normalized. Calling it that deflates the tech to what it should be.
February 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"AI" is, purely, a marketing term and a (poor) umbrella phrase for a number of different types of computerized statistical analysis, iteration and synthesis. If something is being touted as "AI" to me, it's because someone wants me to buy it, and also I probably don't need it.
February 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The biggest mistake that liberals make is thinking that conservatives will be defeated by pointing out their hypocrisy. Conservatives don't care about consistency or honesty or morality. They want power at any cost so that they can harm the people they hate.
January 31, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The biggest mistake that liberals make is thinking that conservatives will be defeated by pointing out their hypocrisy. Conservatives don't care about consistency or honesty or morality. They want power at any cost so that they can harm the people they hate.
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When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
January 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
Want to get staffed for a #rollerderby tournament as an #NSO? In my experience as a THO, the most important factors are
(1) be willing to work multiple positions, at least one of which is not SK or PBT;
and (2) tell me who you are - some combo of references, game history, and a personal note.
(1) be willing to work multiple positions, at least one of which is not SK or PBT;
and (2) tell me who you are - some combo of references, game history, and a personal note.
January 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Want to get staffed for a #rollerderby tournament as an #NSO? In my experience as a THO, the most important factors are
(1) be willing to work multiple positions, at least one of which is not SK or PBT;
and (2) tell me who you are - some combo of references, game history, and a personal note.
(1) be willing to work multiple positions, at least one of which is not SK or PBT;
and (2) tell me who you are - some combo of references, game history, and a personal note.
Are you or your organization holding a #database with information that could get people harmed? Gender identity? Pronouns? Citizenship/immigration status? Sexual orientation? Damn near anything else personally identifiable?
Think seriously about deleting that data right now.
Think seriously about deleting that data right now.
January 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Are you or your organization holding a #database with information that could get people harmed? Gender identity? Pronouns? Citizenship/immigration status? Sexual orientation? Damn near anything else personally identifiable?
Think seriously about deleting that data right now.
Think seriously about deleting that data right now.
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Use Signal to talk about protests
Use Signal to talk about your wordle score
Use Signal to talk about abortion
Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club
Use Signal to talk about parties
Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care
Use Signal to talk about the weather
Use Signal
Use Signal to talk about your wordle score
Use Signal to talk about abortion
Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club
Use Signal to talk about parties
Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care
Use Signal to talk about the weather
Use Signal
January 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Use Signal to talk about protests
Use Signal to talk about your wordle score
Use Signal to talk about abortion
Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club
Use Signal to talk about parties
Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care
Use Signal to talk about the weather
Use Signal
Use Signal to talk about your wordle score
Use Signal to talk about abortion
Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club
Use Signal to talk about parties
Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care
Use Signal to talk about the weather
Use Signal