Lisa Yoder
@lisli.bsky.social
Front-end developer. Sometimes writes. Former farm kid/Dairy Princess. Loves books, travel, & cats. Very into quilts. Bee curious. she/her
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
turns out the key to being only slightly overwhelmed this time of year is to start planning everything out at the beginning of november, so that by the end of november, i've actually started doing some things. built-in procrastination weeks, baby!
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
turns out the key to being only slightly overwhelmed this time of year is to start planning everything out at the beginning of november, so that by the end of november, i've actually started doing some things. built-in procrastination weeks, baby!
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
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/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
this is such a great list
i have a blog post for this, with a list of image sites you can use! livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
this is such a great list
big day for aloof wives everywhere
[the NY Post scrambling to make a last-ditch scandal:]
"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
big day for aloof wives everywhere
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People are opening up Meta AI Ray Ban glasses and modding out the LED recording light, then selling them on eBay. There is huge interest in disabling this functionality, which means basically you cannot trust anyone wearing these (i'm sure you already weren't)
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
People are opening up Meta AI Ray Ban glasses and modding out the LED recording light, then selling them on eBay. There is huge interest in disabling this functionality, which means basically you cannot trust anyone wearing these (i'm sure you already weren't)
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
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A number of people have told me this piece has been useful for them, maybe it will be for you, too — a simple description of the consensus view on AI amongst actual tech practitioners, presented as a tool for those who need to push back on the distorted narratives that tycoons are feeding media.
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A number of people have told me this piece has been useful for them, maybe it will be for you, too — a simple description of the consensus view on AI amongst actual tech practitioners, presented as a tool for those who need to push back on the distorted narratives that tycoons are feeding media.
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when chatgpt was new, ted chiang famously compared it to a blurry jpeg of everything on the internet. I wrote for @theatlantic.com about how that, these days, it’s more like a fictional character that people treat as real. ☠️ (gift link)
ChatGPT Is a Fictional Character
What makes OpenAI’s chatbot so dangerous? It’s a character without an author.
www.theatlantic.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
when chatgpt was new, ted chiang famously compared it to a blurry jpeg of everything on the internet. I wrote for @theatlantic.com about how that, these days, it’s more like a fictional character that people treat as real. ☠️ (gift link)
a speck of good news! radio.wpsu.org/2025-10-13/w...
WPSU lives another day. Penn State board approves transfer to WHYY
WPSU-TV and radio will become part of Philadelphia-based WHYY, under a plan Penn State trustees unanimously approved Monday, a month after the board's finance committee rejected a similar proposal but...
radio.wpsu.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
a speck of good news! radio.wpsu.org/2025-10-13/w...
I think of this essay this time every year, a very specific kind of haunting. "I never thought, when I started doing IVF treatments, that a byproduct of those treatments would be that I would actively start to hate Halloween." longreads.com/2018/10/31/d...
Dress You Up in My Love - Longreads
Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
longreads.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I think of this essay this time every year, a very specific kind of haunting. "I never thought, when I started doing IVF treatments, that a byproduct of those treatments would be that I would actively start to hate Halloween." longreads.com/2018/10/31/d...
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we out here
Rise and shine, let's Thursday scream!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
October 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
we out here
most annoying symptom of my first cold of the season is forgetting all grid and flexbox tailwind classes
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
most annoying symptom of my first cold of the season is forgetting all grid and flexbox tailwind classes
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Hell yeah, it's central PA lit:
"She exhaled a big sigh. 'But the truth is, every place is like Buckle if you live in it long enough.'"
"She exhaled a big sigh. 'But the truth is, every place is like Buckle if you live in it long enough.'"
September 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hell yeah, it's central PA lit:
"She exhaled a big sigh. 'But the truth is, every place is like Buckle if you live in it long enough.'"
"She exhaled a big sigh. 'But the truth is, every place is like Buckle if you live in it long enough.'"
truly dreading this conversation
thoughts and prayers to all of you who have to explain what a groyper is to your parents
September 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
truly dreading this conversation
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This is a book everyone should read, ASAP.
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics [Reeve, Elle] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
www.amazon.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This is a book everyone should read, ASAP.
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THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY AWFUL NEWS
September 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY AWFUL NEWS
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Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
It’s a real mindfuck when most ppl wanna post about their latest failures/successes, or weird shit they saw in the wild or cool stuff they made…but the country is a cesspool so cool/weird shit seems trite.
June 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
Forget "I had a college class I forgot to go to/write papers for all semester" dreams. I am now having "I have entire bee hives I forgot about all season and they were demolished by really big sheep" dreams. Love this for me.
September 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Forget "I had a college class I forgot to go to/write papers for all semester" dreams. I am now having "I have entire bee hives I forgot about all season and they were demolished by really big sheep" dreams. Love this for me.
Amused by how delightful it is to have a gaggle of little kids pounding on your door demanding to know where the rest of your family is. These kids are a hoot.
September 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Amused by how delightful it is to have a gaggle of little kids pounding on your door demanding to know where the rest of your family is. These kids are a hoot.
I could learn world trade or try to map the ocean
You might want to check on your local Philadelphia millennial because they’re currently facing an impossible choice.
Rilo Kiley, Haim or Eagles vs. Cowboys? What’s a Philly Millennial to do on Thursday?
Haim? Rilo Kiley? The Eagles? What's an aging hipster to do?
inquirer.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I could learn world trade or try to map the ocean
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There is only one thing more cringe than “God Bless our First Lady. She, of course, is wiser than all of us” and it is “I am the U.S. Energy Secretary and I talk to ChatGPT about how to cure cancer.”
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "I'm working every day on using AI to figure out how to cure cancer or launch fusion energy or understand dark matter. Our Defense Department is trying to figure out how to keep America safe. God bless the First Lady. She of course is wiser than all of us."
September 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
There is only one thing more cringe than “God Bless our First Lady. She, of course, is wiser than all of us” and it is “I am the U.S. Energy Secretary and I talk to ChatGPT about how to cure cancer.”
libraries are just the coolest
i went to a Chicago Public Library branch that I had never been to before and happened across these very cool Archival Grab and Go Kits with an invitation to archive your stories
September 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
libraries are just the coolest