Sarah K Moir

I also have a blog at thisisimportant.net, please motivate me to publish more than once every 6 months (oh no)

I guess as there is more daylight and I got more into reading nonfiction again, my reading velocity has slowed. This is good I think.

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

oof www.npr.org/2026/05/18/n...

we spent the last century reinventing the physical experience of womanhood to the obvious and vast benefit of humanity and I don’t think we should give any of that back voluntarily

Our conclusion: LLM medical responses vary based on question phrasing alone, despite identical underlying evidence. For patients and consumers, how you ask may determine what you're told. [5/6]

in less than 3 hours you can watch the greatest women's hockey player of all time for free on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4JK...

What we argued in Stochastic Parrots, however, was that you can get those benefits of the transformer architecture without ammassing datasets too large to collect with care (meaning consentfully, intentionally, and with the ability to document what's in the data). >>

god I love Mission Local 🙏 this is Art

⚠️ Update: As #Iran wakes up to a new day, metrics show the national internet blackout is past the 84 hour mark. Years of digital censorship research point to these workarounds: 📻 Shortwave/HAM radio 📶 Cell towers at borders 📡 Starlink terminals 🛰️ Direct-to-Cell satellite

READ ⬇️ “They want us to scatter in fear, to give up hope, and to give up on each other. But we will hold more tightly to one another, plan more strategically, and care even more deeply. We will resist the normalization of their violence, the immobilization of fear, and the sense of inevitability.”

I'm not done writing up my annual music data analysis post because I keep doing things like building a chart of total songs listened vs purchased vs playlisted vs rated by hand in excalidraw. This is peak blogging.

I want everyone with this many thoughts to have a blog

sometimes I miss megaupload and mediafire, google drive and dropbox links hit different

I've been considering what LLMs mean for the practice of writing documentation for years now, but didn't fully conceptualize what it means for how we provide content to readers... I coalesced my thoughts into a "strategy": thisisimportant.net/posts/ai-str...

"It’s not enough to write effective, accurate, and useful content. You also need to identify how people discover your content — invest in documentation discovery and evangelism." thisisimportant.net/posts/docume... getting people to care about your content, like horses and water...

"Automation never meets a task in the world and simply does it." www.robinsloan.com/lab/all-that...

“Maybe we’re onto something.” “How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”

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trying to get back to a world where I'm avidly following all the cyborgology folks online...

Anyway if YOU feel like the algorithm has eroded your curiosity and you want to hear a bunch of varied and novel new music I strongly recommend taking part in THE WORLD CUP OF 2025 on @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social

This pretty much sums up how I approach learning about things and existing (when I have the energy) so uh, highly recommend if you want to know more about more things: naomialderman.substack.com/p/how-to-act...

Weekend Reading — Cloud outages will continue until morale improves labnotes.org/weekend-read...

"The new NRF report acknowledges that retailers do not 'have a unified industry database collecting retail crime data,' and many retailers lack 'the resources or capabilities to collect and track retail theft.' Yet the NRF still issued a report claiming shoplifting has increased 93% in four years."

one of my niche interests is music data analysis... a couple months ago I gave a lightning talk about music metadata and finally finished writing up all the details for my blog: thisisimportant.net/posts/music-...