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All Politics is Gamergate

How righteous grievance made us all follow Steve Bannon and Vivian James down the rabbit hole.

I'm Sisyphus and my website is my (worry)stone

I don't want a static site anymore because it doesn't do or provide what I want anyore. But I also can't find what I'm looking for off the shelf.

Being nice for free is a bad idea

The only obligations I have are to be good to my people and to my community.

A realignment of things

Closing accounts, making backups and making choices.

The American Revolution Is Not Complete

What I’m reading: California bolsters its grid and advances a plug-in solar bill, checking in on Australia's energy transition, the “Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0,” and more

Quitting Carbon's biweekly roundup of energy transition developments you might have missed.

Where I'm going with the work I'm leaning into now

First Olamaelcu. Next the neighborhood.

Love Tap

Darrel Milton

The man who loved an eternal women (and design discussion)

The No-Seam Problem: Why Agent Memory Can't Track Its Own Sources

the seventh star (amended)

(amended!) in disbelief, lies a garden of thoughts, broken hearts, and wishes never fulfilled... but at the same time, a lesson for the future

Ted

The aquatic skinwalker (and design discussion)

The Machine Still Clatters

Institutional Rot, the Personalist State, and the Long Decay of the American Republic

Betty Jones

The Private Detective that's not human (and evolution of her design)

Each Word Arrives

An exploration on what could be a leftist position on generative AI

As a Black software engineer and leftist in the United States, I contend with the notion that generative artifical intelligence can be used in a materialistic way that moves the needle forward for pro…

Adherence to societal norms as a form of acceptable self harm

Destacked: Why I Avoid Substack As Much as Possible

From Substack LLC's attempt to capture the concept of a newsletter as a verb to their overt encouragement and support for Neo-Nazi content, don't expect me to post anything on that platform. I explain…

Black August

We return to the time of memorialization in those we've lost to the prison industrial complex and work on personal growth to become more useful to the abolitionist movement.

Clocking My Autochattering in Relation to it All

What's Supposed to be Different about Livtet?

It's been about half a year since I've "started" working on Livtet and I couldn't tell you what I'm doing with it.

Focusing on Livtet Yet Again

Finding myself in need of a way to manage my book collection and my reference material, I've decided to revisit my ambitions with Livtet.

Nation Sovereignity Only Matters When it's a Colonial One

Nah, Y'all Got It

Collective ignorance around the nature of American fascism — a multi-century tradition of domestic and foreign policy — will keep it as the cobblestone of operations in the nation.

Left, Right and Center: A Reference

Mozilla Needs to Fall Apart to Make Space for Others

Mozilla had its time. Its executives have decided that it's best to cosplay as a small department with Google's ecosystem instead of doubling down on what its alleged mission was about. Let it fall.

Tech Contractors Need to Recognize Class

Why and how do I blog?

Creating with Intention

It's more important to make things that communicate the worlds that we want to see.

An Erosion of my trust in the Web

I deactivated my accounts and will be deactivated more.

In the Dark of the Night

Some of the thoughts and experiences I had during Hurricane Milton.

Dropping the 'Vegan' Label from my Political Banner

My Mumblings on Reading, Writing and the Field of Literature with Media

Is it possible for multimedia adaptions of literature to take people away from the act of literary engagement itself? I wrestle with this idea from some experiences I have and other books I've read.

The Potential Case against Microblogging

Protocol Bickering is Going to Wreck the Open Web

My (Subtle Want to Engage in a) Divestment from the Open/Social/IndieWeb/Small Web

People Need to be More Critical of their Tech Environment

My Experience Observing Black August

Some reflection on how I went about observing Black August, what I'd like to do differently and what I learned.

I Decided to Invest a Bit More in RSS

After some want to pull away from the rivers that make up my timelines across so many social networking sites

Bringing back Bookmarks