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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
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#Bluetooth is bad ...
At this year's DEF CON researchers showed off the ability to use Bluetooth to identify vulnerable digital speakers. Once identified, hackers could take control of the devices and force them to play "dangerous" sounds that could lead to hearing loss in anyone unfortunate enough to be nearby.
AirDrop can be used by malicious actors to determine your full phone number (which reveals a lot about you) due to the way Bluetooth Low Energy works.
But for real.
I went to two public events Tumblr hosted back when I was actively looking for work.
One was in a studio space that felt kind of tight, and the other was in an entirely different building, in a room that didn't take up the whole floor.
I have probably incidentally met a significant percentage of the Tumblr workforce.
I've been to Tumblr's offices in New York for Meetup events where nerds talk about Android and the like. I always thought it was a little strange they were hosted inside a walk-in closet, but that's Manhattan real estate for you.
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Trying to pipe comedy out of the terrible revelation Tumblr only had 200 employees this whole time https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/187124944072/that-explains-a-lot-is-that-not-many-well
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And here's..."Heterosexuality is a Construct"...on Myspace?
I wish I had a better link but you can hear "Philosophical Boxing Gloves" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtE1-R4Dad8
It's from 2002, so it's about attending a party in person, and not being stuck arguing on Twitter
Oh hey Milky Wimpshake is super queer and I'm so happy.
I knew them from "Philosophical Boxing Gloves", a very timely song, but now that I'm digging into the rest of their catalog, I'm relieved that they are indeed Chill and also Bang
Big big shoutout to all the fake allies and nonprofits that talk a lot about poor trans POC while never giving any kind of material support.
Here's to getting through the day without random strangers suddenly touching my body for no reason
It's less about feeling guilty for liking unclean media, and more about feeling tricked, even kind of groomed, into thinking bad things are ok.
Like idk it's really hard to separate the art from the artist when the artist is a racist pedophile and the art is about...being a racist pedophile.
One of many 2019 moods is constantly thinking about how things I enjoyed as a teenager were made by legit horrible people with legit horrible themes baked in as subtext, or straight-up text
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Today's gender is the smell of five a.m. just before it starts to snow.
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i have a lot of admiration for the sheer bravery and/or ignorance it takes to create a work of public art
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RT @Vintuitive@twitter.com
"Your fingerprints are not secret & as a result, they are bad authentication tokens because they are easy to clone and hard to revoke. It's like issuing you a password at birth & then never letting you change it. It's an incredibly bad idea from a security perspective." @doctorow@twitter.com https://twitter.com/JosephSteinberg/status/1161875341679267840
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Vintuitive/status/1163567502896484352
Lewd
Packing with truck nuts
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@brightneedle There's a whole thing about science as a process having to constantly throw out bad science to get into there, which they don't understand or are being deliberately obtuse about as cover for their prejudices. They love to use obviously bad science to launder bias and bad politics.
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The Carnegie Library System workers have unionized and this gleeful piece about it is hilariously good https://splinternews.com/hahahaha-suck-it-andrew-carnegie-1837268365
murder, racism, cops
Daniel Pantaleo, the racist pig who murdered Eric Garner, was finally fired by the NYPD
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
