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Scott 🏴😷
@scott.techwork.zone
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Anarchist but not like...that. Long covid sufferer. Mutual aid every day, in tech and IRL. Land back. On Haudenosaunee territory.

See also https://tams.tech/@scott
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rocfnb.org
Please enjoy this post from our friends at Flower City Free Clinic
Flower City Free Clinic We're a free health clinic started by community members with different backgrounds and skills to provide health care to the unhoused and disadvantaged community. We do mobile clinics covering: Monroe, RTS and downtown, North Clinton, and Lyell Ave. We also do a bimonthly foot & general drop-in clinic 11AM-2PM at Asbury Methodist What we're doing: We provide wound care, health & wellness checks, clinic referrals, information on support and resources, and assistance accessing care. Street outreach in high-need areas and visits to encampments and shelters. Harm reduction supply provision, HIV testing, safe injection education Reproductive health supplies, information, referrals to resources. Foot clinic at Asbury methodist bimonthly 11AM-2PM (next is December 14th) for practitioner-level foot care and general medical clinic with fully-stocked clinical care rooms, facilities, access to social services. During Code Blue we help people with warmer clothes, gear, and high-calorie food, and information/assistance accessing shelters and warming centers. Please read up on Code Blue to learn how to help your neighbors this winter! Providing medical cover, first aid, wound care at other group outreach events. Health education and training in wound care/first aid/harm reduction Rapid response to unhoused or vulnerable people identified as being in need of care/support, health-related or otherwise. We connect with several outreach groups and networks to provide a web of safety for at-risk individuals. What we need most: Blankets, gloves, coats, warm clothes for our winter outreach efforts. We've already lost one unhoused neighbor to exposure/hypothermia. Sleeping bags & winter boots especially! Foot clinics: any/all nail and foot care items, antifungal cream or powder, socks Medical supplies: bandages, gauze, antibiotic ointment, gloves, and more - check out the supply drive at scan.page/Ml9T4z Any hygiene items - deodorants, wipes, etc. High-calorie snacks All supplies can be donated at the Flying Squirrel or Asbury Methodist, clearly labelled "for FCFC". Pick can also be arranged via email at flowercityfreeclinic@gmail.com Please send cash donations via venmo to @FlowerCityFreeClinic
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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scottpb.bsky.social
too real lol
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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ericsorensen.bsky.social
We are NOT all in the same boat.
We are all in the same storm.
Some are safe in their yachts.
Some are drowning in canoes.

Be kind and help when you can, especially as we approach Thanksgiving.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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rman.link/blankies
Heated Blanket Skillshare and Donation Drive: Join Rochester Mutual Aid Network, Recovery All Ways, Rochester Grants Pass Resistance, and Roc Food Not Bombs for an event that is harm reduction in action! We'll gather at Tru Yoga in the South Wedge to make USB/solar rechargeable heated blankets for our unhoused neighbors. No experience required, but please do bring scissors, fabric glue, and/or a sewing machine if you have one! November 15th, 4PM until 8PM at Tru Yoga. 683 South Ave, Rochester NY, 14620. Can't make the event? Drop off a blanket donation at Tru any time between now and 11/15 or donate funds to help us buy supplies!
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
scott.techwork.zone
I wonder if that's why they have such a hard-on for tariffs. It doesn't make any economic sense, but if your goal is a global increase in Nationalist sentiment... Oof
emberexplores.bsky.social Ember Aurora Ocean Skies @emberexplores.bsky.social · Sep 30
I’m furious that Trump’s stupid tariff bs has renewed the disgusting love of the Canadian flag. Apparently it now means we’re united as a community and no longer represents the colonization of this land and (ongoing) attempted genocide of Indigenous people 😒🙄 Something settlers were barely grasping
September 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
scott.techwork.zone
Mark my words, the ISF will commit atrocities.
September 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Today we served food at the local event for Daniel's Day in addition to our usual serve at Rochester Transit Center (RTS).

There was chili at Daniel's Day and pasta with fake meat at our usual serve. All vegan, of course.

#DanielsDay #rochester #foodNotBombs
A view of the top of the serving table, with a big ol' pot of chili and a big cooler of drinks. This photo is from the Daniel's Day serve. A view from behind the table. Some folks behind the table are helping serve food, while others on the other side help themselves. A crowd is visible milling around in the background. This photo is from the Daniel's Day serve. A view from the front of the serving table at RTS. A big pot of pasta is visible on the table, along with a box of PB&J sandwiches and some pots of coffee. 2 pots of pasta sauce and a pot of pasta on the stove
September 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
May James Dobson burn and rot below for all eternity. A cruel, venal man who caused grave harm with every breath he took.
August 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
scott.techwork.zone
"...professions, such as voice acting... might totally disappear"

Even an article critical of AI is being so dumbass-booster about it it can't tell you what anyone who's ever heard one of these bots can tell you – that ain't happening.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Aug 12
Loved this piece from Cal Newport in the New Yorker about what if AI doesn't get much better than it is today, and not just because he quotes me
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
I recently asked Marcus and two other skeptics to predict the impact of generative A.I. on the economy in the coming years. “This is a fifty-billion-dollar market, not a trillion-dollar market,” Ed Zitron, a technology analyst who hosts the “Better Offline” podcast, told me. Marcus agreed: “A fifty-billion-dollar market, maybe a hundred.” The linguistics professor Emily Bender, who co-authored a well-known critique of early language models, told me that “the impacts will depend on how many in the management class fall for the hype from the people selling this tech, and retool their workplaces around it.” She added, “The more this happens, the worse off everyone will be.” Such views have been portrayed as unrealistic—Nate Silver once replied to an Ed Zitron tweet by writing, “old man yells at cloud vibes”—while we readily accepted the grandiose visions of tech C.E.O.s. Maybe that’s starting to change. If these moderate views of A.I. are right, then in the next few years A.I. tools will make steady but gradual advances. Many people will use A.I. on a regular but limited basis, whether to look up information or to speed up certain annoying tasks, such as summarizing a report or writing the rough draft of an event agenda. Certain fields, like programming and academia, will change dramatically. A minority of professions, such as voice acting and social-media copywriting, might essentially disappear. But A.I. may not massively disrupt the job market, and more hyperbolic ideas like superintelligence may come to seem unserious. Continuing to buy into the A.I. hype might bring its own perils. In a recent article, Zitron pointed out that about thirty-five per cent of U.S. stock-market value—and therefore a large share of many retirement portfolios—is currently tied up in the so-called Magnificent Seven technology companies. According to Zitron’s analysis, these firms spent five hundred and sixty billion dollars on A.I.-related capital expenditures in the past eighteen months, while their A.I. revenues were only about thirty-five billion. “When you look at these numbers, you feel insane,” Zitron told me. Even the figures we might call A.I. moderates, however, don’t think the public should let its guard down. Marcus believes that we were misguided to place so much emphasis on generative A.I., but he also thinks that, with new techniques, A.G.I. could still be attainable as early as the twenty-thirties. Even if language models never automate our jobs, the renewed interest and investment in A.I. might lead toward more complicated solutions, which could. In the meantime, we should use this reprieve to prepare for disruptions that might still loom—by crafting effective A.I. regulations, for example, and by developing the nascent field of digital ethics. The appendices of the scaling-law paper, from 2020, included a section called “Caveats,” which subsequent coverage tended to miss. “At present we do not have a solid theoretical understanding for any of our proposed scaling laws,” the authors wrote. “The scaling relations with model size and compute are especially mysterious.” In practice, the scaling laws worked until they didn’t. The whole enterprise of teaching computers to think remains mysterious. We should proceed with less hubris and more care.
August 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Photos from this past week's food distribution. We are in need of donations! Please see the donation guide on our wiki. wiki.rocfnb.org/index.php/Do...

Specifically right now we really need coffee and vegan sugar donated but money is really great too.
A big pile of veggies in a bowl about to be mixed up into salad. A big pile of turmeric and perhaps other seasonings sits in the middle Salad being mixed up. There's squash and garbanzo beans and apples! Our classic row of clamshells being dished out. A lot of it came from donated garbage plates, including vegan garbage plates! Our morning coffee & breakfast serve. We had hot & iced coffee, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches with our own homemade jam, and a lot of hygiene products like deodorant, soap, tampons, and condoms, as well as know-your-rights cards for immigrants and water.
August 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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niedermeyer.online
"The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves."

~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
August 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
scott.techwork.zone
Mr. Rogers in a still that looks like The Onion's cartoon guy who looks in the window saying "yes ha ha ha yes!". The word-bubble from the original cartoon is added to the photo.
August 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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scriblit.bsky.social
Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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pictures from tonight's cook and serve

#foodNotBombs #rochester
Free food sign next to trays of food and water bottles. Someone's hand is they write a label on one of the food trays. Food trays showing the same ratatouille mashed potatoes and turnips salads but with the addition of a cabbage roll. The cabbage roll is full of fake meat. Stirring a pot of boiling potatoes and turnips.
August 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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helldude.bsky.social
the executions of economic ministers will continue until the economy improves
August 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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July 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
scott.techwork.zone
You remember that scene from that batman movie where the joker lights a massive pile of money on fire? Something like that
unusualwhales.bsky.social Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · Jul 27
55% of Americans say they would need to make $200,000 or more to feel rich or financially free, and 39% say they would need to make $500,000 or more, per Bankrate.

What would make you feel financially free?
July 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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July 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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merrittk.com
made the they/them pussy squirt call that genderfluid
July 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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canopyrobin.com
Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!)

UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game...

International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...
Three vinyl stickers of the game changer loop-de-loop in progress pride, trans, and non-binary colours respectively. The stickers also have the words "we've been here the whole time"
July 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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samthielman.com
Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran
US News NEW YORK POST Metro Long Island Politics LOG IN World N METRO EXCLUSIVE Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor By Carl Campanile and Rich Calder Published July 19, 2025, 3:31 p.m. ET 34
July 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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This morning's breakfast serve went nice. We had oatmeal, PB&Js, bananas, and fresh-ground coffee: hot, iced, and cold-brew. Join us every wednesday at RTS for free food & coffee!
3 coffee pots at various stages of brewing. The coffee grinder is visible to the left, and a microwave is partially in frame to the right. A bag of "Intelligentsia Black Cat Analog" coffee beans, today's brew. The serving table with airpots, oatmeal tubs, PB&Js, cups & lids, a sugar shaker, etc.
July 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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birdrespecter.bsky.social
Under the Trump administration, gamers are literally more oppressed than pedophiles
July 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The mushroom stroganoff was "divine"

In #Rochester? Join us tomorrow at 3:30PM at the Flying Squirrel to cook another delicious meal together!
Two clamshell food dishes with mushroom stroganoff and mashed potatoes A row of many clamshell dishes laid out on two tables stuck end-to-end. The closest two are open to show the food inside. A stack of closed food containers on the distro table. Beyond the trays you can see water bottles and people giving and accepting accepting the food and water.
July 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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This Saturday we served mashed potatoes with mushroom and pepper stir fry and a salad of green beans, corn, and asparagus with lime dressing. 😋

#foodNotBombs #rochester #newYork
A large metal bowl of green beans and other veggies being served into a row of styrofoam trays. The trays already have the other food in them. 2 rows of plastic clamshell serving plates with the stir-fry and potatoes in them.
July 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM