David Skinner

Books allow us to explore topics too ineffable for a syllabus.

TW: SA I was Jane Doe at 6. I was Jane Doe at 22. I was Jane Doe at 34. I am Jane Doe The crimes were never investigated. The men were never arrested. The system is flawed, and it's time to change it. We can not sit by while more people, regardless of gender & and orientation, are abused.

The fact that we are still calling LLMs "AI" is an insult to future AI.

BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"

I completely understand why people hate "pervert glasses," but it always makes me sad to see. I've wanted a computer in my glasses for as long as I remember. Being able to interact with the digital space and real space at the same time, would be wonderful for me.

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

The cost of AI you’re paying right now

Having to integrate AI into an app eats away at my soul. 😭

A long, but very worthwhile read if you want to understand the massive train wreck the tech industry is heading towards at full tilt.

Building an RPG where you "program" your hero with IF & loop commands to clear dungeons! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday

Without land, I cannot grow my own food. Without land, I must pay for a place to sleep. Without land, my existence is tied to the dollar. Without land, I am a slave to whomever has a dollar they're willing to give me for my labor. It isn't consent if you have to say yes to survive.

PLEASE LISTEN. The change we need won’t be accomplished by the removal of Trump alone. We must reach higher. And we can’t settle for comfort & complacency. Not again. So many of you are Gen. Jones, just like me. Not enough of us cared - we sold out, and we failed. This time let’s get it RIGHT

@jinx-messiah.bsky.social I wish you had some of your poetry on here. I used to follow you on TikTok, but I've left since the acquisition.

Yeah, you're hot, but are you stable, honest, and self aware?

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

I would rather be in a civil war than under a regime of pedophiles and fascists. I cannot understand anyone who would choose the latter.

Don’t go to the US. Don’t go for furry cons, don’t go for vacation, don’t even go if you’re an expat with citizenship. It is an authoritarian state and it will do everything in its power to harm you.

Hot take: The ability to vote should be solely based on 2 developmental milestones: the ability to lie to an authority figure and the ability to identify a lie.

Sometimes I fucking hate being autistic. I just had another friendship completely blow up on me because we were having two different conversations, and I didn't know it. I feel like I should just avoid talking to people. 😭

I wish this was real. 😭

"'An eye for an eye will make the world go blind' was obviously made up by the group with significantly fewer collective eyes"

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Thought of the night: My hatred of you has no bounds and never ends.

Whenever someone asks me what I want as a gift, my answer is always the same: you. I don't care where we are or what we do. I just enjoy having company.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If software engineers were required to take an ethics course as part of their degrees/training, several companies and industries would collapse overnight.

Nudes that someone is okay with you seeing? Meh. Nudes that someone actively wants you, specifically, to see? Hot! 🥵

we wouldn't need "fast travel" if our game studios invested in accessible and affordable public transport infrastructure. skyrim should have a tram network. assassin's creed should have several regular bus routes. give ghost of tsushima a metro

And just like that, Trump has ordered the first concentration camp to be built on Guantánamo Bay.

The USA is a perfect example of how important the pillar of education is to democracies. It's been less than a century since WW2, and we are already repeating history, step by step.

Just finished my first set of grammer rules for SJ. I changed the declaration of types and classes to make them more identifiable and decided on a multi-pass parser for context processing. #programming #custom_language

I'd like to keep my "operators are identifiers for functions" syntax rule, but it's causing a lot of ambiguity. For example, the expression "a b c" can be interpreted as "a.b(c)" or "a.b().c()". To know which us which, you need to know the type of a, which the parser doesn't know.

How unusual would it be for classes to not be constructable by default? Only allowing them to be constructable when a constructor is specified or inherited? #programming #custom_language

I'm building a new programming language called SJ (short for simple java), just for fun. It focuses on making multithreading simpler by removing race conditions by design. It also only uses symbols as keywords to make the compiler work with any language.