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Researcher researching research (and software engineering). Observing observability. Co-imagining more expansive futures. More at threlk.net (🚧 under construction 🚧)
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Green Day: “don’t wanna be an American Idiot”
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February 8, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Green Day: “don’t wanna be an American Idiot”
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pretty convinced after a bit of research today that no one actually knows how imagemagick works
February 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
pretty convinced after a bit of research today that no one actually knows how imagemagick works
i think information architecture can go beyond becoming sovereign: IA should become the dominant discipline, subjugating UX, UI, CX, and even PM under the awesome and primordial might of Pure Information lol
if information architecture is your thing and you have 40 minutes, you can watch my talk where i argue that information architects should step out from underneath the UX umbrella and reestablish IA as a sovereign concept
IA can start by making developers' lives easier
youtu.be/8gRMk4-Gr1E
IA can start by making developers' lives easier
youtu.be/8gRMk4-Gr1E
Information Architecture Conference 2025: Organizational Cartography and You
YouTube video by dorian taylor
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 10:59 PM
i think information architecture can go beyond becoming sovereign: IA should become the dominant discipline, subjugating UX, UI, CX, and even PM under the awesome and primordial might of Pure Information lol
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Also, we build resiliency in our communities. Today it is whistles, maybe tomorrow we need different tools, and we are building networks of people who can distribute work and supply our communities with tools to lawfully resist tyranny. What's the downside? People are wild. They have no vision.
February 4, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Also, we build resiliency in our communities. Today it is whistles, maybe tomorrow we need different tools, and we are building networks of people who can distribute work and supply our communities with tools to lawfully resist tyranny. What's the downside? People are wild. They have no vision.
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I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many.
The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.
The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.
I mean, are they really cheaper or easier to produce than just sourcing the right thing from a mass distributor? it's sweet but doesn't seem Pareto efficient, and I feel like that's important to the revolution
February 4, 2026 at 3:00 AM
I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many.
The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.
The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.
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What I‘d have said last night if I hadn‘t been so tired is that I think women and femmes (and maybe people who care about us) who aren’t even following this are taking more damage than we realize from pervasive contact with this stuff, which is real Lynchian void shit.
I am working on entirely other things but I do have to be online to do it and the sheer volume of coverage of all these powerful men reiterating in a million ways that women and girls are meaningless toys is getting to even me.
February 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
What I‘d have said last night if I hadn‘t been so tired is that I think women and femmes (and maybe people who care about us) who aren’t even following this are taking more damage than we realize from pervasive contact with this stuff, which is real Lynchian void shit.
today i have to clean a bathroom, update an insurance claim, and fix a vpn configuration situation and i am not sure which i am least interested in doing
February 7, 2026 at 4:43 PM
today i have to clean a bathroom, update an insurance claim, and fix a vpn configuration situation and i am not sure which i am least interested in doing
confirmed a few weeks ago that the grocery store near my house jacked up their chicken breast (yes, only chicken breast) prices over christmas and are currently at least 3x more expensive than other stores
alas: i am finding that their chicken is significantly (though maybe not $7/lb) better lol
alas: i am finding that their chicken is significantly (though maybe not $7/lb) better lol
February 7, 2026 at 2:59 PM
confirmed a few weeks ago that the grocery store near my house jacked up their chicken breast (yes, only chicken breast) prices over christmas and are currently at least 3x more expensive than other stores
alas: i am finding that their chicken is significantly (though maybe not $7/lb) better lol
alas: i am finding that their chicken is significantly (though maybe not $7/lb) better lol
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A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case
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Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can.
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
Free Images and Open Access | National Gallery of Art
Free open access image downloads are now available directly from the object pages located on this website. Close to 60,000 images are available for download, and we will continue to add more images fo...
www.nga.gov
February 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can.
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
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Literally write a few words down on some scrap paper or napkin and take a picture of it and that will probably be a vastly more effective image for your post than any generic and fascism-coded piece of "A.i." slop.
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Literally write a few words down on some scrap paper or napkin and take a picture of it and that will probably be a vastly more effective image for your post than any generic and fascism-coded piece of "A.i." slop.
a great thread, and to add a personal example, while i never actually wrote the zine described here, this image was 100% going to be the cover
you can just make stuff
you can just make stuff
February 6, 2026 at 7:48 PM
a great thread, and to add a personal example, while i never actually wrote the zine described here, this image was 100% going to be the cover
you can just make stuff
you can just make stuff
because it’s been on my mind for uh, years, lol
a whole lotta leftists and, increasingly, progressive normies, get bamboozled by tacticool larpcore to the point that it warps even their idea of “gray man” or whatever off the grid thing you think you’re doing
a whole lotta leftists and, increasingly, progressive normies, get bamboozled by tacticool larpcore to the point that it warps even their idea of “gray man” or whatever off the grid thing you think you’re doing
an addendum: there’s a reason i am fascinated with “clever” stuff and primitive tools
but: against the backdrop of modern life, using a pigeon is going to register a bit odd so you probably wanna encrypt the thumb drive attached to its leg just in case someone buys a bag of bread and a net
but: against the backdrop of modern life, using a pigeon is going to register a bit odd so you probably wanna encrypt the thumb drive attached to its leg just in case someone buys a bag of bread and a net
February 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
because it’s been on my mind for uh, years, lol
a whole lotta leftists and, increasingly, progressive normies, get bamboozled by tacticool larpcore to the point that it warps even their idea of “gray man” or whatever off the grid thing you think you’re doing
a whole lotta leftists and, increasingly, progressive normies, get bamboozled by tacticool larpcore to the point that it warps even their idea of “gray man” or whatever off the grid thing you think you’re doing
this.
also, an underconsidered aspect for a lot of threat modeling around repressive regimes is “how bright does your (metadata/spectral/whatever) profile glow against the backdrop of ‘normal person doing normal stuff’”
there’s a reason why we talk about making signal and vpns routine-use tools
also, an underconsidered aspect for a lot of threat modeling around repressive regimes is “how bright does your (metadata/spectral/whatever) profile glow against the backdrop of ‘normal person doing normal stuff’”
there’s a reason why we talk about making signal and vpns routine-use tools
Seriously just go read the EFF website and listen to some tech people who do research on digital self defence and use one of the standard basic things and stop trying to do something clever unless you're willing to spend *at least* 10 years learning cryptography and modern embedded security.
February 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
this.
also, an underconsidered aspect for a lot of threat modeling around repressive regimes is “how bright does your (metadata/spectral/whatever) profile glow against the backdrop of ‘normal person doing normal stuff’”
there’s a reason why we talk about making signal and vpns routine-use tools
also, an underconsidered aspect for a lot of threat modeling around repressive regimes is “how bright does your (metadata/spectral/whatever) profile glow against the backdrop of ‘normal person doing normal stuff’”
there’s a reason why we talk about making signal and vpns routine-use tools
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More info on how it really is a choice between "foreign governments can exploit this and spy on you" or "end to end encryption everywhere" with no middle ground.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Salt Typhoon Hack Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only For The "Good Guys"
At EFF we’ve long noted that you cannot build a backdoor that only lets in good guys and not bad guys. Over the weekend, we saw another example of this.
www.eff.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:33 PM
More info on how it really is a choice between "foreign governments can exploit this and spy on you" or "end to end encryption everywhere" with no middle ground.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
writing case studies is great because you’re always going to the thesaurus like “I need a good alternative to ‘negligent’… no, that’s too negative”
February 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM
writing case studies is great because you’re always going to the thesaurus like “I need a good alternative to ‘negligent’… no, that’s too negative”
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Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
February 6, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
i’ve said it before but having grown up in the soup that became a lot of this bullshit: we probably could’ve gotten a bunch of people off the raw milk train with un*homogenized* milk in a glass bottle, call it like “natural milk” or something
Have y’all seen people online talk about how they drank raw milk for years without an issue because they boiled it beforehand?
So many cooked brains.
So many cooked brains.
February 6, 2026 at 12:51 AM
i’ve said it before but having grown up in the soup that became a lot of this bullshit: we probably could’ve gotten a bunch of people off the raw milk train with un*homogenized* milk in a glass bottle, call it like “natural milk” or something
mood
"I would prefer not to."
February 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
mood
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That mask is also popular with neo-Nazi accelerationist groups, which I think is really important to mention. Just like it's important to mention that ICE agents in Denver have been dropping Ace of Spades cards where they've kidnapped people. The white nationalist culture at work is clear.
In 2009, this was the mask of a UK SAS character in “Call of Duty.” By 2015 it was de rigeur among Iraqi government commandos and Shiite militiamen. In 2018, in “Sicario 2,” it was what CIA surrogate characters wore to disguise themselves as cartel gunmen.
Now US law enforcement wears it.
Now US law enforcement wears it.
February 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM
That mask is also popular with neo-Nazi accelerationist groups, which I think is really important to mention. Just like it's important to mention that ICE agents in Denver have been dropping Ace of Spades cards where they've kidnapped people. The white nationalist culture at work is clear.
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Sharing a reminder to anyone who could use it: be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together.
Remember, it’s a marathon, not a race 💜
Remember, it’s a marathon, not a race 💜
February 4, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Sharing a reminder to anyone who could use it: be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together.
Remember, it’s a marathon, not a race 💜
Remember, it’s a marathon, not a race 💜
this is unironically what i aspire to with my research writing
February 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
this is unironically what i aspire to with my research writing
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A congratulations and sincere thanks to the team who worked long hours over Christmas to bring our vision of making Sam Neill look like utter dogshit to life. #SuperBowl #JurassicPark #WhenTheEdibleHits #BotoxNightWithTheWestTasmaniaPussyPosse
February 3, 2026 at 5:22 AM
A congratulations and sincere thanks to the team who worked long hours over Christmas to bring our vision of making Sam Neill look like utter dogshit to life. #SuperBowl #JurassicPark #WhenTheEdibleHits #BotoxNightWithTheWestTasmaniaPussyPosse
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