Sumana Harihareswara

Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. #OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data.

New York City #NYC, Changeset Consulting, #RecurseCenter, #WisCon, #MetaFilter, #Python packaging, Geek Feminism, #Dreamwidth, harihareswara.net.

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2026-07-06 10:45:35 UTC

This past weekend I heard the assertion that former mayor Eric Adams was not "a real New Yorker"
(I believe the reasoning was that he "subjugated his neighbors")
(also, as I understand it, the person who said this grew up on Long Island)
Please enjoy this novel contribution

2026-06-23 14:11:17 UTC

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per https://www.cityandstateny.com/personality/2025/10/raj-goyle-isnt-kansas-anymore/408538/

2026-06-23 14:09:50 UTC

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Hey, I get you preferring Warshaw, but where are you getting the info that Goyle was a Republican legislator when he was serving in Kansas? I seem to recall he was a Democrat who often voted with the Republicans

2026-06-21 00:50:27 UTC

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I updated my recommendation for State Senate District 13.
http://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/2026-nyc-democratic-primary-election-assessments-the-case-for-ramos/
#nycpol #nypol Enys #nyc #election

2026-06-19 09:36:02 UTC

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Several of my friends have, since I published those recommendations, tried to persuade me to support Ramos instead of González-Rojas for New York State Senate District 13. You know what's most efficacious in making me think about changing my mind? Nearly a million dollars in dark money swooping into the race to support her opponent:
https://nysfocus.com/2026/06/18/jessica-ramos-primary-challenger-850k-donation
#NYC #nys #election #CampaignFinance

2026-06-16 04:08:53 UTC

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Now available: One-page summary of my 2026 Democratic primary endorsements, in PDF and image
hyperlinked table of contents at https://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/2026-nyc-democratic-primary-election-endorsements-all-in-one/
a quick recommendation of Aber Kawas in State Senate District 12, and of AOC in NY-14
in the comments in http://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/2026-nyc-primary-election-congress-assembly-senate-comptroller/ , three things that would help change my mind about State Senate District 13
#nycpol #elections #NYC #voting #endorsements
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2026-06-13 10:21:13 UTC

My research & recommendations https://harihareswara.net/posts/election-assessments on New York state comptroller, the #Queens judicial race, and several central/western Queens Assembly & Senate races and Democratic Party position elections for District Leader & State Committee.
#nyc #primary #nycpol #election

2026-06-05 04:25:49 UTC

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Naomi asked:
> I have a question about the overall vibe of this store but I'm not quite sure how to frame it. Did it seem like the sort of place that would refuse entry to Julia Roberts' character in Pretty Woman or like the sort of place that would be like, "whatever, are you here to shop? cool, come on in"
The outfit I wore into the boutique included:
N95 respirator
Floral-print visor that, if you look closely, says TORMENTOR (brand name!) in embroidery
Beat-up black SAS sneakers
Vest festooned with buttons and pins such as "Save Telework" and "Republic of Two Systems" and a Wikipedia logo
I had made that appointment ahead of time, which I think to them limits the risk of letting a non-wealthy weirdo in the door.
I think anyone who has made an appointment, and isn't actively stinky/trailing clods of dirt into the store, would at least be entertained.
(I haven't seen Pretty Woman.)

2026-06-05 04:24:49 UTC

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Question:
> Ooh! Were the fringes all finished on the free ends? Usually that means slightly melted back, like paracord, but I didn't know if only 18% polyamide would be enough to do that with.
> Also, how did the fringe attach to the sock part?
> And did feral cats just... appear? To play with them?
I don't remember whether/how the fringes were finished on the free ends; I don't THINK they seemed particularly thicker at those ends but I may have just missed that.
I think the fringe strings are sewn into the wide PVC band that, on its other edge, is sewn to the top hem of the sock fabric
perhaps an invisible cat was responsible for that one dangling string that made my wallet-life flash before my eyes

2026-06-05 04:19:16 UTC

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A musing from @npub1pmp…c2fu on Bluesky:
> I feel like there is no point of wealth where I would spend $2500 on socks unless they were magic socks like the sock equivalent of Seven League Boots. Maybe the people who would buy these would also just buy them without saying to themselves, "but what if they don't fit me?"
I replied:
If Nicole Cliffe were still on social media, I think she could answer this
Also I realize now that I never looked on TheRealReal or whatever luxury clothing resale market people are using now to check for fringesock listings

2026-06-04 19:41:12 UTC

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I am open to follow-up questions

2026-06-04 19:33:33 UTC

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On reviewing the few ..... extremely detailed sketches that I furtively made with mechanical assistance, I also note that the sock ribbing only extends like 2cm down from the hem, and the rest of the knit is smooth

2026-06-04 19:27:51 UTC

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As he was arranging the socks on their hangers to go back into storage, I noticed that ONE STRAND OF FRINGE WAS NOTICEABLY FAR LOWER THAN THE REST. I pointed and gabbled a sentence or two. He said casually "we'll make it work" and did not shunt me into a debt dungeon/Triangle Fringesock Factory

2026-06-04 18:56:57 UTC

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I've now emerged from my appointment at Alaïa, where, shortly after entering, I was informed that they don't allow taking photos/videos. (But they were totally nice)
Some answers:
I asked what material the tassels were. "It's a silk blend" was the answer. Felt unlikely since each strand was springy. Then, trying on the second sock, I saw the fabric tag.
63% VISCOSE
22% POLYAMIDE
13% POLYESTER
2% ELASTANE
FRINGES
82% VISCOSE
18% POLYAMIDE

2026-06-04 17:55:52 UTC

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There's cutting and shaping one's nails for a date or interview
or to look better in sandals
and then there's filing every rough edge off 20 nails to reduce the risk of snagging on Gilded Age hosiery

2026-06-04 15:52:18 UTC

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(On the way to the appointment: mailing a couple auction items people won in May at the @npub1njl…hkfs fundraising auction. https://otherwiseaward.org/donate in case you want to drop a buck in there too. Donations help celebrate sf/f that explores gender. Not my gender performance explorations today.)

2026-06-04 15:33:10 UTC

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I have phoned the store and confirmed that they do indeed have the socks in stock so I can see them today. Staffer was going to check whether they have the color I want. I said I'm more interested in it "as a garment" and not any particular "colorway" (am proud of bringing in that last phrase)
Regardless, a different staffer has texted me to ask which color I am interested in; I have replied that I believe they have the orange in stock, which would work for me

2026-06-04 14:50:18 UTC

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People in @npub1pmp…c2fu 's thread asked many questions about these socks and dug up listings, photos, and videos that answered some of them https://bsky.app/profile/naomikritzer.bsky.social/post/3mndbetrtmk24
I have now synthesized our research and remaining questions into the document pictured here
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2026-06-03 20:25:48 UTC

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I didn't specify the neighborhood for this specific reason
I am confident I could find a 2-bedroom SOMEWHERE in NYC for $2,600 a month that's like a ten-minute walk from the subway

2026-06-03 20:21:13 UTC

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A month ago, a guy at a local Democratic club, who knows that I write about local politics but not for a media institution, asked if I'm a social media influencer
I said no
But (a) definitions???? & (b) tomorrow I plan to take photos, as I try on a scarily expensive garment, to later post online
"scarily" in that I recognize that I could commit a sitcom-esque series of pratfalls that would lead to me damaging merchandise and owing a fashion shop the equivalent of rent for a two-bedroom apartment not too far from the subway

2026-06-03 20:07:02 UTC

tomorrow I visit a fashion boutique in Manhattan because of a question my friend @npub1pmp…c2fu asked about a strange pair of socks
https://bsky.app/profile/naomikritzer.bsky.social/post/3mnczpba6fc23

2026-06-01 15:34:55 UTC

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Indeed!
Two things that have strongly influenced me here:
1. when I was a child, reading a Laura Ingalls Wilder book, I came across the phrase described here https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/free,_white,_and_twenty-one
2. Robin Einhorn's work on early US conceptions of taxation and the influence of slavery https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/194876.html

2026-06-01 14:13:22 UTC

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Or: sometimes someone says it in defense of their own actions. And there it implies: Even if you think I am wrong, or hurting myself, or wasting my time, or offensive, you don’t have the power to stop me, and you should stop trying to persuade me to stop.
What would it feel like to have the word "free" -- in this kind of context -- come with different connotations? With implications of POSITIVE liberty? What else could "it's a free country" mean, not just as an intellectual exercise, but as a common saying that one's neighbor would instantly understand?
I am middle-aged and I worry that my imagination has calcified too much, steeped in American exceptionalism and free software movement thinking. Maybe I can find some science fiction that will help me imagine something different.
In between researching the judicial candidates.
2/2

2026-06-01 13:58:35 UTC

The other day, I was at the outreach table I run in my neighborhood, distributing a leaflet I make. An election's coming up in a few weeks, so this leaflet included some info on who's running in more obscure races (e.g. Democratic "State Committee" and "District Leader").
One person who stopped to talk said something that struck me. She characterized the leaflet, correctly, as not so much a set of endorsements, but facts to inform & influence voters' decisions. Her phrasing included "It's a free country." Like, *you should know this, but I am not telling you which candidates to vote for; vote how you want.*
That phrase, "it's a free country" - I only ever hear it in assertions of negative liberty, and I think I only ever hear it said in the US. It implies: I have opinions about what you ought to do to avoid waste, heartache, and harm, but I have no power to make you do that, and I respect your autonomy such that I will not try to cajole you into making the right decision.
1/n

2026-04-20 20:14:07 UTC

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I hope it goes great!
Do you have a test audience already lined up for rehearsal? If not I can help you find one

2026-04-20 19:41:01 UTC

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OOOOOOH. Thank you, I had definitely missed or forgotten that!
Glad you thought well of it.

2026-04-20 18:14:30 UTC

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I loved this

2026-04-20 18:14:20 UTC

New blog post: 2026 NY State Comptroller Election: Who's Running http://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/2026-ny-state-comptroller-election-whos-running/
Summarizes the Democratic primary:
Comptroller???
Extremely incumbent Tom DiNapoli
The three challengers
Picky questions you could ask comptroller candidates
My undecided assessment
A footnote on unclaimed funds
#NewYorkState #NewYork #NYS #USPol

2026-04-20 14:44:38 UTC

As you read, play, watch, and otherwise enjoy #scifi, #fantasy, #horror, and other genre fiction this year, maybe you'll come across a work that explores or expands our understanding of gender. If so, please let the Otherwise Award jury know, so they can consider it! Anyone can nominate through our public recommendation form:
https://otherwiseaward.org/award/2026-otherwise-awards/2026-otherwise-awards-recommendations
:boosts_appreciated:

2026-04-20 14:39:44 UTC

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It's been such a pleasure to watch the gradual changes in physical device design -- and our household definitely noticed the Newton persisting!

2026-04-20 14:37:28 UTC

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Another "wait hold on" moment: a motel establishing shot that included a "Free Wi-Fi" sign.
It is absolutely a fool's errand to try to square some of these circles, but the urge remains. Love the show! This is a tiny tiny thing really.

2026-04-20 14:33:45 UTC

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Something something different ranges for different planets???
@npub18c8…grwj and I had a working theory of consumer telecoms in FAM that boiled down to: it's kind of like the Prodigy/AOL-type ecosystem never gave way to interoperability and the Web. Then several episodes ago, during an in-universe televised sports match, we saw background ad at the venue that included a URL. Which blew up our headcanon.

2026-04-20 14:05:37 UTC

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Yeah, something like that makes sense... or, it occurs to me, one might interpret Alex clicking around inside database schemata as him opening something like a source code file.
(By the way, Leonard and I have spent so many minutes trying to make sense of the history of networking-type stuff in the FAM universe, in case you ever want to kibitz with us about that. Clearly their Internet-like thing went DIFFERENTLY, but how, specifically?)

2026-04-20 12:04:24 UTC

The title of the episode was "Open Source".
I thought, "oooh! In the intel sense? in the software sense?"
The credits rolled and I had not heard the phrase in any spoken dialogue, and was peeved.
Leonard got me to laugh by quoting the most FLOSS-zealot character in the film "Antitrust" (2001): "They don't know the meaning of open source!"

2026-04-15 13:43:54 UTC

#nyc https://youtu.be/jAGd9FOOc6Y
This 1:34 video from the New York City mayor's office is ....
the blending of historical and contemporary, grounding modern arguments in past successes
the assertions about what makes a city successful and exemplary
the valorization of blue-collar *and white-collar* public service
the celebration of the subway not just as a transit method but as a public space
the sentimentality and aspiration

2026-04-14 20:28:28 UTC

@npub1w0t…umh8 this question https://ask.metafilter.com/389462/Ways-to-Sleep-For-One-Night-in-an-Empty-House made me think of you

2026-04-09 13:26:02 UTC

https://lwn.net/Articles/1065908/ "Turbulence at The Document Foundation" (TDF @npub1m2w…z28j being the home of LibreOffice @npub1tgg…qwzh )
Lots of ongoing discussion in fora at https://community.documentfoundation.org/c/board-discuss/26 .

2026-04-09 08:56:29 UTC

@npub1kk6…h6yw I just recommended "The Hard Quarry" again and reread it. Looking forward to reading more of your fiction in the future!

2026-04-08 14:12:43 UTC

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The "collapse of sensemaking" is something I think I may be feeling a lot right now
cc @npub1g7t…zw0r

2026-04-04 14:20:42 UTC

am fiddling with a few elements from the International Year of Natural Fibres anthem @npub18c8…grwj and I developed in 2009 https://www.crummy.com/2009/12/31/0 to possibly turn them into a jingle for free child care for 2-year-olds in New York City https://nyc.gov/jingle

2026-03-25 21:03:58 UTC

One thing I appreciate about serving on the board of @npub1njl…hkfs : we can use our platform to help bring more attention to new works by people whose works we've honored in the past
https://otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/eligible-2025-works-by-past-winners-fellows
Some of these are short stories you can read for free online!
#SpeculativeFiction #books #sff

2026-03-21 14:21:50 UTC

RE: https://social.coop/@brainwane/116234851164336328
This is today!
#note1xsd…dznl

2026-03-19 18:06:34 UTC

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Oh that's interesting to learn - thanks for the local info!
If you have opinions on Biss I'm interested in hearing them.

2026-03-18 15:49:19 UTC

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"It is not fair to read what you like and to leave unread what the author likes. The author is trying to do you a good turn in tempting you to read what you don't like. It is for your good, not his, that he writes it. He knows it already."
Roswell A. Benedict's plaintive nonfiction author entreaty.

2026-03-18 15:37:46 UTC

Index page from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb5dy4&seq=12 Roswell Alphonzo Benedict's 1901 book titled:
"Tam, Tom and Tim's Discussion of Free Trade as a Remedy for Trusts, The Money Question, Imperialism, The Colonial Question (Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?), Tariff Revision & Reciprocity"
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/250/906/452/224/032/original/36067a435cfc00ae.png
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2026-03-18 10:22:14 UTC

https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/calendar/
#USpol weather forecast: gusts of election news from Arkansas expected in a couple weeks, then from Georgia, New Jersey, and Virginia in April
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/249/642/039/565/812/original/e3dd722af4756db8.jpg

2026-03-17 19:08:43 UTC

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2026-03-17 19:06:12 UTC

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My condolences and best wishes.

2026-03-17 15:41:10 UTC

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Thanks - one part that really struck me:
"The shut-in, the cast-off, the written off, the ugly, the beautiful, all of it."

2026-03-17 02:12:48 UTC

RE: https://social.coop/@brainwane/116202417080157294
On the eve of primary election day in Illinois: https://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/whats-interesting-about-kat-abughazalehs-campaign/ on Kat Abughazaleh's campaign for Congress
Local media coverage, the candidate's digital media skills & strategy (especially streaming), credibility and authenticity, and more
#USpol
#note1ayq…8sfx

2026-03-17 02:07:07 UTC

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/03/transcript--mayor-mamdani-delivers-remarks-at-iftar-for-city-wor
Mamdani does a number of unusual and noteworthy things in this speech. Interesting in the history of the intersection of Islam and US politics.

2026-03-15 19:31:15 UTC

boosting @beth4ma.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy for #NYC people to know:
"Folks in New York! I’m going to be in town next weekend and we’re meeting up at The Crown Inn in Brooklyn. Join us in building a progressive movement where AI works for all of us!
RSVP here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/meetbeth3-21 "
My friend Beth Andres-Beck, a software engineer, is running for Congress in Massachusetts. Want to talk with them about the software policies in their platform https://bethfordemocracy.com/platform/government-software ? This Saturday, 21 March, meet them at a free-to-attend event in Prospect Heights/Crown Heights.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/234/832/023/727/308/original/94e15f2dbc43e8a1.jpg

2026-03-10 14:02:13 UTC

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For almost a year! Would you say her campaign has been reasonable in how it communicates with you (as a donor)? Not too spammy?

2026-03-10 02:02:50 UTC

RE: https://social.coop/@brainwane/114501644174869746
https://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/whats-interesting-about-kat-abughazalehs-campaign/
On Kat Abughazaleh, by the person who, as of this moment, has contributed the most text to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kat_Abughazaleh
1 in a series of posts about US political candidates & what's particularly unusual/interesting about their campaigns & strategies
#uspol
#note1gy4…ezzj

2026-03-10 02:02:16 UTC

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It's finally up! https://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/whats-interesting-about-kat-abughazalehs-campaign/

2026-03-10 00:43:09 UTC

basically you have three weeks till April Fools' Day, in case you have a silly delightful thing you want to launch that day

2026-03-07 16:42:58 UTC

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btw have you ever read the prompt & sample interactions for the "absolute mode" that goes zero-sycophancy?
https://www.metafilter.com/208658/People-Are-Losing-Loved-Ones-to-AI-Fueled-Spiritual-Fantasies#8719485

2026-03-07 16:37:45 UTC

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What’s the original source for this?

2026-03-07 16:33:23 UTC

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(although that's unfair given that some Stephenson works, including in particular "Zodiac", *do* end with satisfying narrative resolutions)

2026-03-07 16:32:22 UTC

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Also! There are *two* mysterious authors to track down, because (per author's notes) a different person hacked the original author's FanFiction.net account and wrote chapters 39 & 40, *and the original author regained control and then just kept going*

2026-03-07 16:29:17 UTC

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My spouse and I read your post and both instantly jested that, well, "My Immortal" doesn't have an ending, which would be another point of evidence in favor of this theory (zing!)

2026-03-07 09:30:30 UTC

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The last lines of the book show S.T. flipping off preps (as he passes their yacht)

2026-03-07 09:27:59 UTC

just realized that the first lines of "My Immortal" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/My_Immortal_(fan_fiction) feel kind of like the first chapter of Neal Stephenson's "Zodiac", the first-person intro to bad boy protagonist Sangamon Taylor

2026-03-07 02:44:48 UTC

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YEAH

2026-03-05 20:23:54 UTC

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2026-03-05 15:25:42 UTC

Pretty good Mamdani speech on launching the first 2,000 seats of free childcare for 2-year-olds
https://www.youtube.com/live/J1yv7DpsAo4?si=7lSdR5jHLeqwvOXU
Also, at 25:01, transitioning from the speeches to Q&A, we get about 11 seconds of Tracy Chapman's "Talkin' Bout a Revolution"

2026-03-02 20:36:16 UTC

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this is a joke so good I believe I have now seen it borrowed? reused on another platform

2026-03-02 20:26:58 UTC

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have you noted down this proposal (re: first-person pronouns) in a blog post or similar anywhere? Especially with a bit of the context of why? I'd like to point to it

2026-02-26 16:27:08 UTC

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on the same logic as https://code4lib.social/@linguistory/116115832556863848
#note1zk8…ec8u

2026-02-26 16:26:09 UTC

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Sparkwind

2026-02-26 16:20:37 UTC

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I once talked with someone who had set up a Signal account while trying not to use any Android or iOS devices. I believe part of what they did was use some emulation, including the Android SDK. There's a step where one has to scan a QR code. To get around that: the SDK includes a sandbox for testing camera functionality, and lets the user "walk" around a little "room" -- and you can put specific images on the "wallpaper".

2026-02-24 16:53:41 UTC

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ha!

2026-02-21 03:47:48 UTC

I gloated very strongly when the most recent episode of "The Pitt" vindicated a prediction I'd made

2026-02-18 15:20:45 UTC

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It's in All Systems Red; certainly the more narration one reads from the bot's perspective, the more clues one gets, but it's in the first book too.

2026-02-18 15:17:19 UTC

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There are subtleties regarding the unreliable narrator you may not have picked up.

2026-02-18 15:13:40 UTC

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I saw this toot before I saw the predecessor toot, which meant I instantly leapt to assuming a very different context involving family medical decisionmaking
glad it's actually about you being a dedicated and strategic contributor on the job

2026-02-16 19:53:01 UTC

I love stories of someone creatively using their physical & interpersonal skills to start an innovative small business
https://apnews.com/article/italy-winter-olympics-ice-skating-camera-ice-b1eda123daa91d7ed5d8da3617776739
"After retiring from competitive skating in 2011, he worked in ballroom dancing and was inspired by how television motivated amateurs to learn new dances. He wanted the same for skating..."

2026-02-15 02:36:45 UTC

news circulating today is reminding me of the title and chorus of the classic Soul Coughing song
"Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago"

2026-02-14 21:46:50 UTC

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yes! good news!

2026-02-12 20:18:51 UTC

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holy crap

2026-02-12 19:46:12 UTC

am reminded today while thinking or talking about the https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/ news that to me "matplotlib" is to be sung to the tune of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl"

2026-02-12 18:14:04 UTC

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OK, I laughed. :)
@npub1gv2…tlwl

2026-02-12 18:04:53 UTC

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Yeah.
BTW the footer for the AI agent's blog claims the agent has copyright on the artifacts it is emitting there:
"© 2026 MJ Rathbun. All rights reserved."
But "MJ Rathbun" is clearly a pseudonym, named after a woman who was doing zoology and museum curation circa 1902. "MJ Rathbun" refers, then, to the bot itself.

2026-02-12 16:20:10 UTC

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Ha!
A friend pointed out that, given that these kinds of obfuscations are just speed bumps anyway and determined sleuths will always find ways past them, it's totally reasonable for a developer to implement one as something like this, easy to execute in-browser and probably a fairly low performance penalty

2026-02-12 16:01:14 UTC

I went to a Newsday.com article. I faced a paywall. I used Firefox's Reader Mode to try to read the article anyway. And I learned that their anticircumvention measure is encoding most of the story using a 1-letter-shift Caesar cipher. (Pretty easy to detect given "NYPD" turning into "OZQE".)
Evidently Der Spiegel has done the same thing: https://web.archive.org/web/20180228012650/http://tsjuzek.com/blog/hacking_der_spiegel.html
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/058/462/964/492/282/original/70d0f54ac4187fa6.png
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/058/463/670/714/022/original/f7cefdbb35c74b30.png

2026-02-12 15:33:37 UTC

https://gothamist.com/news/we-tested-that-gross-pile-of-snow-on-the-sidewalk-heres-what-we-found
Why less strontium in the Williamsburg sample than in the Jackson Heights & Washington Heights samples?
#NYC

2026-02-12 15:16:42 UTC

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@sheena/116057073676164649
I've applied for and received a #PyCon #PyConUS travel grant in the past, and I deeply appreciate the clarity of the process. They want to help people come be a part of the event and that comes through in how they've iteratively refined all their procedures over the years.
#note1xea…h0rr

2026-02-09 13:29:21 UTC

Feb. 26, 2026 at 4pm UTC - deadline for #FLOSS communities to sign up to participate as mentoring organizations in the Outreachy apprenticeship program for the May 2026 cohort
https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2026-02-06/may-2026-call-for-mentoring-organizations/
I think there are likely a bunch of #opensource & #freesoftware projects started in the last ~5 years that are run by maintainers who would love a structured way to recruit and nurture new human contributors, and who haven't yet heard of Outreachy [@outreachy](https://hachyderm.io/@outreachy )

2026-02-03 20:04:44 UTC

https://naomikritzer.com/2020/06/03/minneapolis-outside-agitators/ is by @npub1pmp…c2fu from June 3, 2020. It discusses the arsonists who descended on Minneapolis from outside, and how locals came together for community defense.

2026-02-03 14:01:07 UTC

Today I was reminded of this 2004 conversation
https://www.crummy.com/2004/09/02/1
about a mod (by @npub18c8…grwj) for the board game Monopoly:
"If Lizardbeast should ever land on your property, woe betide you! He will crush one building on your property. If your property has no buildings on it, nothing will happen....
'I noticed you said "one building",' you say tentatively. 'Does that mean--' Yes! Build a hotel, if you dare, in your hubris! When Lizardbeast checks in, your hotel does not check out!"

2026-02-02 20:20:28 UTC

#FediHire https://www.climatecentral.org/open-position-associate-product-manager Associate Product Manager at a climate nonprofit.
Role can be mostly remote with periodic travel to US locations. Headquarters is in Princeton, NJ. Expected base salary range: $75,000-$90,000.
The job posting "will close once we have reached a strong pool of candidates, so ... apply early and no later than February 6th at 5pm ET."
And check out the bias mitigation step they request regarding education history on one's résumé: removing school names.

2026-01-27 02:20:05 UTC

there are things I want from a show called "Starfleet Academy" but they are not the things the creators of this show are most interested in focusing on, at least in the first few episodes
curriculum creation and refinement
well-designed instruction
accommodating wide varieties of species in the same courses and facilities
I need to learn to tune how I watch this show so I can enjoy the worldbuilding and ignore the nonsense

2026-01-24 12:21:32 UTC

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the jerks!

2026-01-24 11:09:32 UTC

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yay!

2026-01-24 11:04:24 UTC

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oh neat!

2026-01-24 11:04:07 UTC

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Yeah!!

2026-01-24 11:02:58 UTC

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hi @npub1z02…642c ! :D

2026-01-24 11:02:05 UTC

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Hey, just to be clear - a bunch of people are replying to this post as though you had sought advice. Are you seeking advice here at all? If so, happy to talk about my perspective on this. Otherwise: yeah, this is pretty bleccchhh and you have my sympathies!

2026-01-24 10:49:59 UTC

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"we’ve held up major features because the docs weren’t done/good." THAT really demonstrates priorities!
I'm trying to think of other FLOSS projects that have fully committed to this standard. Maybe some like Firefox that are stewarded by paid-staff organizations? Nothing else easily comes to mind. Possibly Beautiful Soup.
@npub1nys…h2lt @npub1hyj…avly

2026-01-24 10:43:35 UTC

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Oh wow.