Tilde Lowengrimm
@tilde.lowengr.im
Them.
Nonbinary, Trans, Queer, Disabled, Jewish, Socialist, AntiFacsist, Urbainist. Berkeley, CA.
Technologist, Activist, & Product Manager in Privacy, Security, Trust & Safety. Former: Tall Poppy, Brave, CPJ, Tor, Mozilla.
https://tildelowengrimm.com
Nonbinary, Trans, Queer, Disabled, Jewish, Socialist, AntiFacsist, Urbainist. Berkeley, CA.
Technologist, Activist, & Product Manager in Privacy, Security, Trust & Safety. Former: Tall Poppy, Brave, CPJ, Tor, Mozilla.
https://tildelowengrimm.com
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Elim Garak invented Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Elim Garak invented Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss
I aspire to one day offer a player or reader clues revealing an insight with one hundredth as much bone-chilling horror as when the Alvarezes finally understood the implications of the worldwide layer of iridium at the K-T boundary after the peak biodiversity of the Permian.
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I aspire to one day offer a player or reader clues revealing an insight with one hundredth as much bone-chilling horror as when the Alvarezes finally understood the implications of the worldwide layer of iridium at the K-T boundary after the peak biodiversity of the Permian.
Don't tattoo "DNR" on your chest. Nobody is going to delay CPR for even a second unless you have the state-specific signed, dated, & notarized paperwork handy, and even then it's probably not going to be noticed unless someone is waving it in the rescuer's face and advocating for you.
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Don't tattoo "DNR" on your chest. Nobody is going to delay CPR for even a second unless you have the state-specific signed, dated, & notarized paperwork handy, and even then it's probably not going to be noticed unless someone is waving it in the rescuer's face and advocating for you.
Can you imagine what it would be like if the Federalist Papers constantly nagged you to subscribe so that you could receive Publius' latest newsletters right in your mailbox with bonus content for premium subscribers, and were interrupted by mid-essay ads for Better Help and Squarespace?
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Can you imagine what it would be like if the Federalist Papers constantly nagged you to subscribe so that you could receive Publius' latest newsletters right in your mailbox with bonus content for premium subscribers, and were interrupted by mid-essay ads for Better Help and Squarespace?
I keep telling myself that I'd be happier if I used a "real" scripting language rather than just banging out everything in shell.
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I keep telling myself that I'd be happier if I used a "real" scripting language rather than just banging out everything in shell.
Financial, medical, & insurance companies force a false choice between receiving stacks of paper statements (yuck) and paperlessly getting vapid emails which don't actually include the records which they're telling you now exist for you to manually sign in and download.
October 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Financial, medical, & insurance companies force a false choice between receiving stacks of paper statements (yuck) and paperlessly getting vapid emails which don't actually include the records which they're telling you now exist for you to manually sign in and download.
Utterly terrifying nightmare in which some sort of bundled crapware sneakily made its way onto my machine and uninstalling it involved completing a series of increasingly unhinged and downright psychotic CAPTCHAs.
October 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Utterly terrifying nightmare in which some sort of bundled crapware sneakily made its way onto my machine and uninstalling it involved completing a series of increasingly unhinged and downright psychotic CAPTCHAs.
I am fascinated by the legal theory that Congress cannot delegate any authority to executive *agencies*, but absolutely _can_ delegate everything & the kitchen sink to the "unitary executive".
October 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I am fascinated by the legal theory that Congress cannot delegate any authority to executive *agencies*, but absolutely _can_ delegate everything & the kitchen sink to the "unitary executive".
I feel embarrassed that every time I want to compare strings or numbers in bash or zsh, I have to look up the extremely fiddly syntax to make sure I don't dig myself a new grave. But really, the shells should be embarrassed to be so unintuitive about this stuff.
October 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I feel embarrassed that every time I want to compare strings or numbers in bash or zsh, I have to look up the extremely fiddly syntax to make sure I don't dig myself a new grave. But really, the shells should be embarrassed to be so unintuitive about this stuff.
I'm not a huge fan of the military in general, but I have incredible respect for the brave aviators of the crow early warning & air defense network which keeps our neighborhood free of raptors and safe for our pet parrot. Thank you for your service. o7
September 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm not a huge fan of the military in general, but I have incredible respect for the brave aviators of the crow early warning & air defense network which keeps our neighborhood free of raptors and safe for our pet parrot. Thank you for your service. o7
There are no wikis or forums any more — if you want information about a project, you need to join one of two chat clients. Slack, the corporate one owned by Salesforce, will sometimes send you a surprise bill for like two hundred thousand dollars. Discord, the gamer one, is microtransaction hell.
September 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
There are no wikis or forums any more — if you want information about a project, you need to join one of two chat clients. Slack, the corporate one owned by Salesforce, will sometimes send you a surprise bill for like two hundred thousand dollars. Discord, the gamer one, is microtransaction hell.
42 years ago today, on September 26 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces made the incredibly brave choice to disobey the letter of his orders and ignore the early warning system he oversaw.
September 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
42 years ago today, on September 26 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces made the incredibly brave choice to disobey the letter of his orders and ignore the early warning system he oversaw.
I'm enjoying The Pitt — very much the prestige TV successor to ER. But they just featured a spider bite. My suspension of disbelief is forever ruined.
September 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm enjoying The Pitt — very much the prestige TV successor to ER. But they just featured a spider bite. My suspension of disbelief is forever ruined.
Why should resistance be constrained by non-violence when oppression has no such limits?
September 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Why should resistance be constrained by non-violence when oppression has no such limits?
I hate when tech tells me to check with my system administrator. It's just rude (and often lazy). It's like a plumber asking "Is there a man around I could talk to?" because they don't want to have to explain themself.
September 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I hate when tech tells me to check with my system administrator. It's just rude (and often lazy). It's like a plumber asking "Is there a man around I could talk to?" because they don't want to have to explain themself.
OH via the Frontline Fifth Podcast:
> People think that th Pulitzer Prize is the highest award in journalism. Incorrect! The highest award is getting killed by the CIA.
> People think that th Pulitzer Prize is the highest award in journalism. Incorrect! The highest award is getting killed by the CIA.
September 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
OH via the Frontline Fifth Podcast:
> People think that th Pulitzer Prize is the highest award in journalism. Incorrect! The highest award is getting killed by the CIA.
> People think that th Pulitzer Prize is the highest award in journalism. Incorrect! The highest award is getting killed by the CIA.
My favorite sailboat racing class has got to be “Use as much contemporary sail theory and engineering design as you’d like, but your vessel has to (1) be *assembled* with materials and processes in use before the 20th century*, & (2) carry at least this much simulated cargo.
September 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
My favorite sailboat racing class has got to be “Use as much contemporary sail theory and engineering design as you’d like, but your vessel has to (1) be *assembled* with materials and processes in use before the 20th century*, & (2) carry at least this much simulated cargo.
In a show I'm watching, a supernatural entity just prophesied a divine weapon "more powerful than ten thousand swords", and this monologue is superimposed over apocalyptic imagery which resembles the aftermath of a nuclear war.
September 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
In a show I'm watching, a supernatural entity just prophesied a divine weapon "more powerful than ten thousand swords", and this monologue is superimposed over apocalyptic imagery which resembles the aftermath of a nuclear war.
My favorite way to enjoy excellent art is by looking at screenshots of screenshots of it without any links back to the original. That slaps actually and is very healthy.
September 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My favorite way to enjoy excellent art is by looking at screenshots of screenshots of it without any links back to the original. That slaps actually and is very healthy.
Go off, I guess, but I would simply not attack Poland even if I was planning a dead-eyed denial hours later.
September 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Go off, I guess, but I would simply not attack Poland even if I was planning a dead-eyed denial hours later.
People criticize the Star Wars prequels for heavy-handed writing about oblivious idiots, naïve caricatures, and unnecessary obsession with a couple of families and some marginal institutions. But have you seen the news? Those bland scripts and often-wooden performances look sparkling by comparison.
September 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
People criticize the Star Wars prequels for heavy-handed writing about oblivious idiots, naïve caricatures, and unnecessary obsession with a couple of families and some marginal institutions. But have you seen the news? Those bland scripts and often-wooden performances look sparkling by comparison.
It is truly amazing what you can achieve when you work hard and believe in yourself instead of actually checking your work.
September 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It is truly amazing what you can achieve when you work hard and believe in yourself instead of actually checking your work.
Based on the magnitude of the manosphere's freakout, I was really expecting Superman (2025) to be much woker? Just felt like basic bog-standard by-the-numbers Superman with a bit of Gunn flair and a perfect sublime impeccable Luthor.
August 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Based on the magnitude of the manosphere's freakout, I was really expecting Superman (2025) to be much woker? Just felt like basic bog-standard by-the-numbers Superman with a bit of Gunn flair and a perfect sublime impeccable Luthor.
Being unemployed gives me much more time do deal with the day-to-day administriva which so often gets put on the backburner. But coping with my own personal tech debt really makes me miss working with specialists who can work through this stuff ten times faster than I can.
August 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Being unemployed gives me much more time do deal with the day-to-day administriva which so often gets put on the backburner. But coping with my own personal tech debt really makes me miss working with specialists who can work through this stuff ten times faster than I can.