Victoria McIntosh

Me: Weekend! I should do something fun.

Environment Canada: You should know it’s going to drizzle, and be cold and wet.

Me: Hibernation at home is fun.

Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Five Women In Tech In honor of International Women’s Day, we asked five women at EFF about women in digital rights, freedom of expression, technology, and tech activism who have inspired us. Anna Politkovskaya Jillian

This International Women’s Day, five women at EFF talk about the women who have inspired them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

You asked for a retriever. You never said what they had to retrieve.

I uh, I don’t know jack about oil, but this is bad, right?

Tweet Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing

I ❤️ this trilogy.

God forbid a girl have her hobbies.

Beer Hall Putsch - Wikipedia

January 6th parallels.

Another reminder of how history repeats:

“You know, you gotta stop 'em at the beginning, like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never have let him get away with that.”

This is called infantile egocentrism and we're supposed to age out of it by the time we're 5 or so.

I reminder to follow Canadians: they aren’t going to let us opt-out.

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Lawsuits when.

Netflix algorithm continuing to drive me crazy. Like hey, maybe I would have liked to have known you had the Godfather in your library *before* a notice it’ll be gone in a month.

Sadly takes time. This could really go either way; depends on forensics & how good their logs are.

Translation: bad enough there’s a potential breach of information that could cause harm; however what was actually accessed and who / how many were impacted to be determined.

Be aware of messages coming from Halifax Water (phishing risk) but don’t panic just yet.

It took me a moment to remember the Beaverton is usually supposed to be satire.

they’re good oils, Brent

Just a quick reminder... You might collaborate with or otherwise interact with folks currently in the Middle East. Those people are having an extremely difficult week, even if there are not currently bombs falling in their towns. This might be a good time to be very aware of what you're asking.

That spot needs a cafe. Glad a new one was found. 🎉

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

For a province of our size? In the middle of the work week? That is a heckuva lot of Nova Scotians!

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.

Full stop.

"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name

We have to stop this.

theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

Old enough to remember when Shrek was super to be satire.

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It works

Anthropic vs Department of War + David Usher on AI Risks Podcast Episode · The AmberMac Show · March 4 · 52m

We chat about Anthropic's battle with the Department of War on this week's episode of The AmberMac Show. Plus, our guest is David Usher.

Listen here on Apple podcasts:
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Cc @jeffmacarthur.bsky.social

That annoying part of the brain that focuses all thoughts on that one stupid thing you said earlier instead of anything actually beneficial.

Good. Meta has a long record of putting their users’ safety and privacy second (or last even) for years now.

As @amostoh.bsky.social and I explain, the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic should not distract from the broader crisis at hand: Congress's failure to regulate some of the riskiest uses of AI - namely, amplifying surveillance and automating the use of lethal force.

True. But again, the issue is they advertise & many believe proton = total anonymity. However they also comply with laws, including Swiss law “give us the payment information” which of course, is still reidentifiable.

It’s a reminder even with services such as this, you may leave a trail behind.

Such floof! 🥰