Libby (she/they)

probably

#womeninSTEM

‘A no thank you to the person who assumed I was the coffee lady’ - Rachel Los

delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...

It's incredibly funny watching the AI bubble pop whilst also hearing "Anthropic is automating jobs w/ their newest model at large firms!'.

Good luck running the AI Ponzi w/ centralized rentier models when the literal components to create centralized data centers can't be imported at expected cost.

people are always like "how did we EVER figure out that X does Y if you eat/inject/smoke it???"

well,

the sound of zillions of js lines being deleted in the near future

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

a doodle of a cat throwing its brain in a garbage can

bye brain

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Oh. AWS' outage is affecting jira?

Damn. If only that happened while I was working.

Does this disappoint me?
Am i amused by this?
Will I change anything?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just realised I haven’t, in fact, grown as a person by withholding any obnoxious messaging/posting in ways that I used to; I’ve simply replaced my FLAGRANT ALL CAPS with _italics for emphasis_ instead.

Want to post about other people’s art but don’t know how?

I find just yelling out the first cool thing you notice works well. (Skull!)

You can refine your thoughts later if you want, but just doing that usually thrills the artist and makes other people look.

#artthoughts

Likening my relationship with social media to opening an empty fridge for the fourteenth time in case a tasty snack has magicked itself in there somehow.

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

Yeah I'm strongly in this camp. I arguably get too much joy out of a GPS mangling street names. :p

f o u r t e e n

Look, i see the irony in completing a 14(!!) page questionnaire in advance of seeing a new psych with regards to dysregulated ADHD. I really do. It was like pulling _teeth_.

...but it did help with direction.

Hate that a little.

"If i won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone but there would be signs..."

-smash cut to me awkwardly clanking into the room with a full suit of plate armour-

To whoever needs to hear this:

If you think you can get through job interviews and technical assessments through vibe coding and consulting chat GPT alone without anyone noticing it,

Oh, you can’t.
We know.
Stop wasting your time.

This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing.

An unstoppable force (my deadline anxiety) against an immovable object (somehow, also my deadline anxiety)

It is so difficult for me to concentrate today. Not for lack of trying. my working memory is just -erratic slide whistle-

I would go into the office but I have a head cold that's minor enough to work through but serious enough to prevent passing on to coworkers.

Wearing sunglasses at my desk because I am dealing with light sensitivity right now (and also I'm too cool.)

Is this the same with self hosted instances?

I've dusted off my old rss reader and I am honestly kicking myself for not doing this sooner. If anyone has any good/informative/thoughtful/funny rss feeds pls let me know!

Buckle up folks, we're about to be hit with more intense and more frequent barrages of misinformation, disinformation and bullshit than ever before. Why? Because the Coalition have hired deep-fake experts Topham Guerin to run their campaign. #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

what I need unsatisfied australians to do at our upcoming federal election: tell the big two to get fucked, preference independents and smaller parties first (remember, you can't waste a vote here)

what I'm afraid unsatisfied australians will do at our upcoming federal election: elect peter dutton

>do not comply in advance
>no one can tell you who you are
>live your truth

listen cis people, i literally can't use airports in Utah or Florida due to how severe the penalties are for violating the law

these magic phrases are for you to feel better about the situation, not me

anytime someone says "the government wouldn't do that"
just remember,
Yes, they would