🌱 Ruth Bright-Needle @brightneedle@sunbeam.city

Some green walls at work, including in our new space. I love them so much!

via CNN: BREAKING: David Koch, billionaire businessman and influential GOP donor, has died.

May his memory be for a warning.

I'm not sure whether this is an auto-ethnography, a choose your own adventure, what exactly... but I wrote a piece called "Repository Ouroboros."

I've let it settle for a month and now am posting it:

http://ruthtillman.com/repository-ouroboros/

More pics of the triplet #quilts I made and the quilt for their big sister, because of triplets get gifts then their sister shouldn’t be left out! #quilting #craft #sewing

Normally I machine-quilt baby quilts but this is hand-quilted. Machine-pieced though.

A long read about what the US military wants to do to Mariana Islanders and their resistance https://www.thenation.com/article/northern-mariana-islands-military-bases-tinian/

Holy shit look at this pokemon go bug I just ran into

Salt circle as road marking (double line all the way around it) to trap an autonomous car... I’ve never seen anything more beautiful.

After having read Artificial Unintelligence by Meredith Broussard this weekend, I’m fascinated by this idea ...

A shout of appreciation into the fediverse for the JOY!!! of our domain names. I’m on tootplanet.space??? Or sunbeam.city??? Or wandering.shop? Y’all are on places like jorts.horse? How beautiful are all of these! How open-world

Dear white, male, cis, straight allies in tech: We need you out there de-radicalizing your racist, sexist techbros friends and coworkers (who are much more likely to listen to you than any of us) more than we need your code. Thank you.

If someone needs to continually say 'person' first to remind themselves I *am* a person, I would rather they did that than treat me as less than fully human.

My life experience, however, has taught me that those who don't see me as equally human won't start doing so simply because they change their language.

Moreover, at least when it comes to autism and autistic children especially, PFL often dehumanizes the very real person in favor of an imaginary non-autistic version.

Google admitted that contractors can access recordings made by Assistant, after some of its recordings were leaked.

Been absolutely refusing to use any of these devices for precisely this reason. Google and Amazon have both been very quiet on how data is kept and access to it. The recent NHS direct news, teaming up with amazon to give medical advice, horrified me for exactly this.
Both companies have had data breaches, they should be allowed nowhere near NHS services

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/11/google-home-assistant-listen-recordings-users-privacy

Sadly, abstinence-only computer education is how you get phone phreakers.

the safest way to use computers is still abstinence

*facebook is down*
*instagram is down*
*whatsapp is down*

me: excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about decentralization?

We didn't start the fire, but we're defiantly using it on the bourgeoisie.