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A vital piece of my exocortex ended support in November, and stopped working a month later.

Yesterday, I fired up my self-made replacement for the first time outside of debug, and suddenly my life works again.

Been coding more than 25 years, but cyborg self repair just hits different.
March 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A true thing about the world is that every home improvement task is actually easier with '80s movie montage music.
March 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
February 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A very serious thing: if you have ever changed your gender marker, and currently need to order or replace a US passport, talk to a lawyer first. Hearing of verybad nogood state department shenanigans.
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Jonathan Kamens (@jik@federate.social)
@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange Just to corroborate, I know a trans USian who can't get a US passport because their birth certificate has been corrected. The State Dept. won't issue them a passport w...
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February 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If this were a movie, I'd be yelling at the screen and turning it off.
February 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Every piece of tech I touch, at this point, interrupts me at least 3 times to invade my privacy, advertise to me, or serve me AI slop I did not order, and I swear it is making me want to throw up.

This is not my beautiful internet. This is not my large language model.

My God, what have we done?
February 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM