Trying to make a web that works for everyone. Also at https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff For more: https://infrequently.org/about-me/ https://infrequently.org/
This stirs two competing feelings: - wow, the '28 primary consensus is moving *fast*, and that's outstanding - oh god, she's running 🤦
AcynKamala Harris: I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular, we need to revisit the electoral college. We need to revisit the point of expanding the court. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.
Ghoulish.
Aaron Reichlin-MelnickWow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.
Still available in Apple and Google's walled garden app stores, and Apple even lists it in "news". No less of a scandal now than it was 7 months ago, just more putrid and gangrenous: infrequently.org/2026/01/nake...
Lora KolodnySpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...
You could replace "AI" with "React" and post this ~7 years ago WOLOG. Same failure rate, same religious fervour, same consequences for heresy, same shitty mgmt class. It was all there, bubbling up from the npm fever swamps: ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicityludic.mataroa.blogTC39ers: the committee is working well and doesn't need fundamental reform. me: <checks on statuses of the largest, most top-of-mind features anyone has dared to bring into the Bermuda Triangle of SDO progress since I stopped attending...> github.com/tc39/proposal-si… github.com/tc39/proposal-de…
ICYMI, finally breaking my silence and coming out in favour of...time. That can't be right...can it? infrequently.org/2026/07/stat...