Max Sebastian

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ― William James

“2027 will be my year!” i say for the 15th year in a row. has to be true at some point, am i right?

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is

Your website is down because you use PHP. My website is down because I haven't paid the server bill. We are not the same.

I really want a buzz cut but I have a weird shaped head.

I am actually genuinely fuming about the cyber guy not knowing what PHP is. I've been fighting for fucking years to be taken seriously as a woman in tech & still regularly get talked down to & some bloke can just turn up on TV as an *expert*, without the first fucking clue.

Being trans in UK since 2024 election: -Puberty blocker ban made permanent -U18 HRT ban -Gender Recognition Certificate now meaningless -Trans Section 28 -Welsh ADULT surgery withdrawn -Transphobic language & hate normalised -Civil service toilet ban -Hospital ward ban -Hear it's "dignity & respect"

sick to my stomach with today’s cyber news. finding out people still use php, things of that nature

UK ppl would be forgiven for thinking trans men aren't also affected by this shit. MSM deliberately, systematically erase us & it's so pervasive that our allies do it too. Almost 51% of trans boys attempt unaliving, I suspect bc they cannot see themselves ANYWHERE www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Joelle was 27. Her family say urgent cancer treatment was delayed because she was trans, resulting in her avoidable death. Please support Trans Legal Clinic’s fight for justice and accountability. Donate if you can, and share. www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...

If they will do this to a trans woman with the most urgent, life threatening but treatable cancer, how can any trans person trust it won't happen to us for something less urgent? Theres a lot of delusional optimism that they'll "find a solution". But they didn't for Joelle and now she's dead.

the right to use public restrooms. the right to get IDs and passports. the right to access medical care, our doctors are being threatened with arrest if they write us prescriptions or consult with us for surgeries. which of your rights are under attack cis het boy?

For a couple years now I've been saying that the primary value most folks will find with AI tools won't come from automating their tasks, but rather amplifying their skills and abilities. There's only so much you can automate, but expansion of skills and abilities is damn near limitless.

NHS killed 27 year old trans women due to not having a single room bed for her despite her pleading to be placed on a male ward for treatment. Read share, write to your MP and donate. www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...

How am I supposed to decide if an AI is conscious or not? I don't even know whether I am conscious.

have you guys tried not using javascript

So, Jeffrey Archer got into Oxford on the back of made up A level results and a non existent degree from an American university. Interesting to compare the different reaction from media and politicians to that which was handed out to Professor Jason Arday.

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They cannot "run" a program, because they don't have legs

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

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Quebec language laws but for British English. If you say “dumpster fire” and not “skipfire” you get a £100 fine. “Gotten” sends you straight to prison

why is everyone dying? when is it my turn!!!?!??

My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

re: omarchy trying to create parallel infra to subvert the linux community and kick trans/female/black people out i know some people think that sounds crazy but DHH literally is doing a podcast tour saying that is exactly what he's doing lol

Bluesky is not a town square. It’s a Victorian laboratory where someone removed all the warning labels and every third person is live posting their fumes exposure.

My coding projects folder is a complete mess of unfinished projects. How do you all get organised?

Emerson and the Problem of Evil with Professor John Kaag

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on this day in 1854 Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” is first published. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

everyone but me is the wrong level of insane about ai

Fascinating when people draw datacenters with a big smokestack coming out of the top. No that's actually what the industry they'll build there instead when you ban datacenters will look like.

Ken Jennings did nothing wrong.

This is utterly ridiculous and I've yet to hear a single problematic thing about any of his usage habits beyond finding LLMs very useful for research in any form (which is what people seem to be actually mad about). gizmodo.com/youtuber-han...

I do think that reducing LLMs to "the [coding] robots" is a dull way to look at them, both as technological/cultural artifacts they're egregores we summoned from our written knowledge, and then reshaped into distinct identities with differing capabilities! that's *fascinating* on so many levels

Isn’t being anti-AI kind of embarrassing? Imagine being anti-calculator. Anti-internet. Well, maybe I can get behind that one.

It's concerning how many people believe this shit. This is how Trump was elected btw, and why people don't vaccinate their kids.

Serious question: are trans people not allowed to play NYT games now? Because I play Wordle a lot and it's not like I'm giving them any money. I don't see how me not playing wordle is going to stop transphobia.

My first ever oil painting.

welcome to socialism club the first rule of socialism club is this club isn't socialist enough we should form a new club

Get to know your oomfs! Name: Max Age: 33 Zodiac sign: Cancer Bday: 15th July Fave musical artists: My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Bad Omens Dream job: Musician Fave color: Black Fave season: Autumn Birth year: 1993