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He/him.
@[email protected]

Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.

[not here very often @ashanan]

@mykola Sounds interesting! Would love to hear more.

Would also love to see you leave Twitter for healthier (IMO) online spaces, e.g. Mastodon. Though maybe not what you actually are getting at.

[not here very often @ashanan]

@poddtadre Also, LOL at the name of the company. Not fooling anybody with that shit.

[not here very often @ashanan]

@littleoldmead @PetreRaleigh Completely missing the point of owning books. It's a personal library, not a trophy case. You think the librarians have read every book in the building?

[not here very often @ashanan]

@mykola I don't think you need to feel locked out of the discourse if you leave substack. There are other options out there.

https://t.co/KsxsSVKaKl

[charlos @loscharlos]

6 years ago today I went on my last run (pic left) — today I’m 36 and I’ve spent my entire 30’s with #LongCovid struggling to walk up and down the block, or work more than 1-2 hours a day.

Heres 4 things I never thought I’d lose at this age:

[Peter Raleigh @PetreRaleigh]

Very pleased to say I have a booklet essay in this upcoming 4K release of the absolutely fascinating late Hammer film Demons of the Mind - a cryptic, unsettling Gothic tale that deserves a much wider audience. Coming in April!

[not here very often @ashanan]

@mykola Ugh. I really hope it isn't and that you feel better soon!

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

It appears CBP may have just straight up attempted to murder this Chicago woman and bragged about how many holes they put in her body. They lied and said she had attacked them first but now have dropped all charges. This is the level of violent lawlessness Trump has unleashed on our communities.

[not here very often @ashanan]

Hell fucking yeah

[emily north @north0fnorth]

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

[not here very often @ashanan]

@leo_guinan Okay, I see. You have some policy discussion in there. It's pretty brief, but I see that this is part of a much larger systemic change you're pushing for.

[not here very often @ashanan]

@leo_guinan The problem is corporate power and lack of a counterbalance, from unions or regulations. I fail to see how AI tooling plays a part at all. I can see the appeal behind the idea of a bottom-up-AI to even the playing field with corporations, though.

[not here very often @ashanan]

@leo_guinan > "No system should allow you to leverage your time at the expense of someone else's time.

If your system takes the end user the same or more time/energy to accomplish the same task, that's not actual value creation"

Agreed. You start losing me after that.

[not here very often @ashanan]

@leo_guinan I don't understand why Time Violence is a measure of inefficiency. For the people deciding to employ it, the people with the most power in these scenarios, it's extraction. As you say up top. So they're getting value out of it. So who is the market for this AI?

[not here very often @ashanan]

@PetreRaleigh They're actually quite useful over on Mastodon, which makes sense since there's no algorithm over there other than chronological (the good shit).

Sorry for two Mastodon replies in a row, I try not to be That Guy.

[not here very often @ashanan]

@PetreRaleigh You're always welcome on Mastodon, if you ever decide to bail on this place.

[not here very often @ashanan]

@mykola @tasshinfogleman It's certainly not ideal circumstances, but the current federal occupation here also gives some indication of what our communities are like.

Some articles, in case that's piqued your interest:
https://t.co/sX8vKnVU1F

https://t.co/Zpx1yOYp2J

[not here very often @ashanan]

@mykola @tasshinfogleman Have you considered Chicago at all? It feels more COVID conscious here than my, admittedly brief, visits to the PNW. Good tech scene, relatively low cost of living (all things considered). And, granted, I'm biased here, but it is the best fucking city.

[not here very often @ashanan]

@ray_vionne @mykola I think it's @vibecamp_

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Robert Peters is a principled leader & organizer with a record of winning progressive policy fights.

He will champion Medicare for All, fight to block cuts to Medicare & Medicaid, and take on the Big Money interests that are corrupting our politics.

I am proud to endorse him.

[not here very often @ashanan]

@PetreRaleigh Not at all contributing to the question you asked, but that shirt!