Ryan Ragona

I’m sorry. And I’m glad your life is feeling in motion, that’s so important. 😔

does the paper of record count as a meme right now

to be fair SCIFs also don’t provide the desired privacy properties if you invite Jeffrey Goldberg

a cartoon character giving an ok sign with his hand ALT: a cartoon character giving an ok sign with his hand

> cointelHO

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

if you were ever looking for a reason to become radicalized

protest sign reading, “respect my trans homies or I’m gonna identify as a fucking problem”

if ai agents end up being a notable part of global conflict in the future, there will _never_ be such a thing as too much compute, even just for inference.

you have agi in a tiny model? cool. here’s 100gw of compute, make me a billion hackers and see what you can do about that power grid.

you think the southern border is a problem wait until you hear about the northern border and… the internet. (and AIRPLANES you silly geese, guarding a border like its the 1500s. 😑)

I’m now picturing my canadian hacker friends contributing to canadian cyber resistance.

do y’all have any idea how many genius fucking canadian hackers we rely on? probably leave behind `sorry.txt` after they pwn everything, but we’d still get wrecked.

1. I love this guy, and god bless Canada.
2. The clearly involuntary “eh?” in the sentence — “The American people aren’t going to put up with it, and the Canadian people… EH, we will NEVER put up with it.” SO GOOD. 🍁🇨🇦

I’m nominating this for “Hardest ‘Eh’ of 2025” I don’t care that it’s January.

I think this might be my favorite thing I’ve read this year. inspiring tbh, makes a nerd want to build privacy preserving shit.

as an individual fqdn becomes more popular, I want the the dns resolution to get fuzzier. goigle.com I’m really sorry you’re google now.

awww that’s too bad, touch to encrypt/decrypt really would be awesome. 🥺

she really was _so_ disappointed to learn about anesthesia. 😬😅

🥺

I don’t have a conclusion. I still believe Dr. King, that the arc of the moral universe may be long, but it bends towards justice.

fucking hurts when you watch it move the wrong direction, and it means it’s time for the us to do the same kind of activism my parents did. love y’all. 🏳️‍⚧️

I’m very proud of my family. And I’m very proud of all of my trans friends, and their families.

I’m thinking of you, and your kids. I remember what it’s like when your country seems to tell you, “your family isn’t right, we don’t know if we’ll let you keep it.” It’s awful, and I’m sorry.

My other parents were awesome too. My bio mom taught hard of hearing and deaf kids. My other mom is an ordained minister who went to seminary at Yale, and was a minister for 40 years before retiring. She’s the most well read person I know.

(When I was a teenager punk rock was my favorite thing on the planet, but as a wrinkly old man myself now I play the folk music he taught me. I love playing his songs, even though I only know a couple.)

This leads to my favorite sentence, which is — “my dad was a lesbian folk singer.” I wonder if I’m the only person who can say that! I spent a lot of time at women’s music festivals as a kid. His music changed when he transitioned. It’s hard as a professional musician to navigate a brand new voice.

My dad with my youngest son. A man in his late 50s holding a two year old drinking a bottle of milk.

So fuck it. I’m gonna tell the internet about my family.

My dad was trans. He transitioned when I was young, and became a sweet, calm old man. I didn’t think much of it. He told me he felt more like a man. He took up gardening. He calmed down. We learned to shave together. He loved his grandkids.

And that was foolish of course. Progress doesn’t come linearly. But damn, it stings to realize I feel a little less safe talking about my family today than I did 10 years ago.

But yesterday… I found myself missing it? I miss it when of COURSE major corporations give their ERGs money for a float, it’d be corporate suicide not to support gay rights. I thought — trans rights are coming too, the arc of the universe is bending linearly towards justice.

My moms were activists. The ballot measures were generally defeated by the efforts of many such activists.

I got my first corporate job in 2005. I watched the rise of the corporate pride floats. I enjoyed talking shit with my friends on Capitol Hill in Seattle about businesses ruining pride.

I was a kid, so I had trouble understanding the ballot measures. I knew my mom was a teacher, and that some people thought gay people shouldn’t teach. Those people thought gay people shouldn’t adopt, and I didn’t really understand that, so I thought it meant they might take me from my mom.

Picture of a small boy on his mother’s shoulders at a pride march in oregon in the late 80s. Everyone has hilarious curly hair, and there is a partially occluded protest sign demanding something regarding ceasing funding for racism.

been thinking about my queer friends and fam a lot this week. the inauguration, the hard right shift in the tech bubble.

I have two moms and a trans dad. I grew up in the 80s in oregon, when there were aggressive anti-gay measures on the ballots.

(me at portland pride with my moms in the 80s)

I agree, I think that might be an intractable downside of a first past the post democracy. You’ll never get coalition governments like you might with proportional representation or IRV or anything that can distribute seats to smaller parties. Two bundles is not enough, and party politics are hard.

I agree with you that the obvious solution is federal single payer healthcare, but right at the moment I’d have a hard time telling a 19 they can get that if they just vote harder. 😬