I’ve been quietly working on a new, extremely focused open-source project.

The sensible part of me says: finish the tests and documentation first.

The impatient part has already hovered over the publish button more than once.

Soon™ 😀

#OpenSource

One of the charities we give to each year is Puppies Behind Bars, a program that selects inmates (many of them serving lengthy/life sentences) to train service dogs. They send us a black and white booklet as a thanks that includes photos of prisoners in the program with their dog trainees, and a number of letters from inmates saying how much the program changed their lives, gave them purpose, and helped them give back to society. AFAICT, the participating prisons are all in New York. Not sure if the program exists in other states, but it probably should.

https://puppiesbehindbars.com/

Papillon et abeille qui s'interessent à la même fleur

"The model is not the story. A cartel is the story."

This is well worth a read if you're on the Frontier AI train... because there's some minor details you might be missing.

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/

Other people my age are alarmingly old

🚨 Say that I were to give a talk to EU policy makers and OSS communities at a very big conference tomorrow..

and that I want to spend half of my talk on how Google is locking down #Android through:
1. Device attestation
2. Developer registration
3. Age/identity verification

What should I absolutely include? 👀

Input is welcome, sorry for the short notice. Plain language + realistic calls to action pls.

@fdroidorg @GrapheneOS @postmarketOS @Fairphone @appfair @fsfe @murena @volla @IzzyOnDroid

#Science is amazing.

The Epstein class made up stories about trans women in sports to cause a moral panic that didn't exist.

Now, they are using their fear-mongering to require high school girls to undergo state approved genital inspections.

It's so gross.

https://www.kuow.org/stories/transgender-ballot-initiative-could-require-genital-exams-for-wa-secondary-school-students

#uspol #politics #lgbtq #lgbt

Did you know that Roman emperors would use the Colosseum for lavish spectacles, including fights between shirtless gladiators, as a massive distraction from political corruption, economic hardship, and social decay. Roman poet Juvenal wrote about it in "Bread and Circuses" (panem et circenses).

Anyway, apropos of nothing, the UFC stadium at the White House seems to be really taking shape.