veracityyy
@veracityyy.bsky.social
any pronouns | usually thinking about computer networks, tech policy, or video games | abolition is the future | https://github.com/allanko
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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hi researcher friends! if you conduct & record interviews with people and are concerned about the privacy risks of using online transcription services, i have good news, now with a minimal, kinda bad UI!
github.com/asmithh/tran...
github.com/asmithh/tran...
GitHub - asmithh/transcription
Contribute to asmithh/transcription development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
hi researcher friends! if you conduct & record interviews with people and are concerned about the privacy risks of using online transcription services, i have good news, now with a minimal, kinda bad UI!
github.com/asmithh/tran...
github.com/asmithh/tran...
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When Godzilla day falls on a Monday
November 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
When Godzilla day falls on a Monday
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in early 2016 facebook came to the conclusion that everyone with a facebook account at the time was connected to everyone else on facebook by an average of about 3.5 hops research.facebook.com/blog/2016/2/...
November 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
in early 2016 facebook came to the conclusion that everyone with a facebook account at the time was connected to everyone else on facebook by an average of about 3.5 hops research.facebook.com/blog/2016/2/...
overheard in the MIT urban studies and planning dept:
1: dude i saw a mouse in the lounge the other day
2: oh yeah! that's robert mouses
💀
1: dude i saw a mouse in the lounge the other day
2: oh yeah! that's robert mouses
💀
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
overheard in the MIT urban studies and planning dept:
1: dude i saw a mouse in the lounge the other day
2: oh yeah! that's robert mouses
💀
1: dude i saw a mouse in the lounge the other day
2: oh yeah! that's robert mouses
💀
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Workshop for streamers & content creators on media manipulation. Might be of interest to some. (I'm not affiliated, just sharing): www.poynter.org/mediawise/pr...
- Poynter
Play smart. Dodge manipulation. G.A.M.E. empowers streamers, fans, and industry stakeholders to reclaim game spaces from harmful stereotypes, extremist rhetoric, and common disinformation tricks. Thro...
www.poynter.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Workshop for streamers & content creators on media manipulation. Might be of interest to some. (I'm not affiliated, just sharing): www.poynter.org/mediawise/pr...
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My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”
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"The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services" but still!
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services" but still!
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Highly recommend this piece from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Highly recommend this piece from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
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conservatives have openly discussed using age restrictions to censor all LGBTQ+ content (eg, juliaserano.medium.com/kosa-a-natio...). ppl promoting age restrictions (some of whom l mostly agree with on reining in tech companies) need to take this threat seriously!
September 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
conservatives have openly discussed using age restrictions to censor all LGBTQ+ content (eg, juliaserano.medium.com/kosa-a-natio...). ppl promoting age restrictions (some of whom l mostly agree with on reining in tech companies) need to take this threat seriously!
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good.
Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.
Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI
Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.
bit.ly
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
good.
i'm a bad taiwanese american and i'm learning simplified chinese but i very specifically hate the word for "car/carriage" now because how did we land on the simplified character 车 (childlike, lanky) when we had the perfectly good traditional character 車 (elegant, dignified, a pleasure to write)
September 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
i'm a bad taiwanese american and i'm learning simplified chinese but i very specifically hate the word for "car/carriage" now because how did we land on the simplified character 车 (childlike, lanky) when we had the perfectly good traditional character 車 (elegant, dignified, a pleasure to write)
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We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
every time i buy or sell something from the Local Community(tm) on craigslist or fb marketplace i think wow economics is so cool i wish it were real
September 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
every time i buy or sell something from the Local Community(tm) on craigslist or fb marketplace i think wow economics is so cool i wish it were real
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It is a fact universally known that despite how many times the police brass look people and elected officials in the eyes and say "face recognition just gives us leads"--what really happens is police go arrest the name spit out by a computer without a single question or follow up.
Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two?
Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.
The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.
The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
How the N.Y.P.D.’s Facial Recognition Tool Landed the Wrong Man in Jail
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It is a fact universally known that despite how many times the police brass look people and elected officials in the eyes and say "face recognition just gives us leads"--what really happens is police go arrest the name spit out by a computer without a single question or follow up.
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just in time!!
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
just in time!!
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🤖 Thanks to the many experts who responded to me to help me unpack the new landmark AI bill from Illinois! Sharing a thread of my summary of what I've learned about it and how significant it is (It's significant!!) 🧵
statescoop.com/illinois-ban...
statescoop.com/illinois-ban...
August 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🤖 Thanks to the many experts who responded to me to help me unpack the new landmark AI bill from Illinois! Sharing a thread of my summary of what I've learned about it and how significant it is (It's significant!!) 🧵
statescoop.com/illinois-ban...
statescoop.com/illinois-ban...
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Multiple legal scholars I spoke with also independently highlighted something interesting to them -- the exclusion in this law of “religious counseling or peer support”, which is directly distinguished from "therapy". 6/
August 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Multiple legal scholars I spoke with also independently highlighted something interesting to them -- the exclusion in this law of “religious counseling or peer support”, which is directly distinguished from "therapy". 6/
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Q3: Is there a loophole & potential for harm here, where as long as "therapy" & similar isn't said by name, the same "services" might be provided?
A: No. The law defines what the services are, and does not hinge on what they're referred to as.
There are def grey areas in the definitions, though. 5/
A: No. The law defines what the services are, and does not hinge on what they're referred to as.
There are def grey areas in the definitions, though. 5/
August 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Q3: Is there a loophole & potential for harm here, where as long as "therapy" & similar isn't said by name, the same "services" might be provided?
A: No. The law defines what the services are, and does not hinge on what they're referred to as.
There are def grey areas in the definitions, though. 5/
A: No. The law defines what the services are, and does not hinge on what they're referred to as.
There are def grey areas in the definitions, though. 5/
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Don't tell me what you "meant" by your post. I, the post consumer, will decide what you meant. And frankly what you meant was disgusting
August 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Don't tell me what you "meant" by your post. I, the post consumer, will decide what you meant. And frankly what you meant was disgusting
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i'm doomed to write a version of this essay every single year. i wrote about Matthew Yglesias' intellectual sophistry, LPE, Uber's business model, the problem with venture capital, economic welfare, "economic analysis," and more. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ride-shari...
Ride-sharing apps are bad, actually
Or why Matthew Yglesias has no clue what he's talking about
thetechbubble.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
i'm doomed to write a version of this essay every single year. i wrote about Matthew Yglesias' intellectual sophistry, LPE, Uber's business model, the problem with venture capital, economic welfare, "economic analysis," and more. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ride-shari...
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thearmed.bandcamp.com/album/the-fu...
Congratulations to the punk band that just released a new album titled after an electronics shredder company slogan I photographed in 2016 which escaped containment, what a world
Congratulations to the punk band that just released a new album titled after an electronics shredder company slogan I photographed in 2016 which escaped containment, what a world
August 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
thearmed.bandcamp.com/album/the-fu...
Congratulations to the punk band that just released a new album titled after an electronics shredder company slogan I photographed in 2016 which escaped containment, what a world
Congratulations to the punk band that just released a new album titled after an electronics shredder company slogan I photographed in 2016 which escaped containment, what a world
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Leaked documents confirm that Microsoft is providing millions of dollars worth of cloud computing and AI surveillance tools to coordinate airstrikes which have killed over 50,000 Palestinians so far.
Microsoft employees demand an end to ties with the Israeli military.
Eko.org/microsoft
Microsoft employees demand an end to ties with the Israeli military.
Eko.org/microsoft
July 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Leaked documents confirm that Microsoft is providing millions of dollars worth of cloud computing and AI surveillance tools to coordinate airstrikes which have killed over 50,000 Palestinians so far.
Microsoft employees demand an end to ties with the Israeli military.
Eko.org/microsoft
Microsoft employees demand an end to ties with the Israeli military.
Eko.org/microsoft
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really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad
July 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad