Lately Meta made the headlines in Brazil, and arguably worldwide, for its lack of impartiality during Brazilian federal elections, which would be not only anti-democratic, but also external interferen...

This week the FOSS world has seen (at least) two bold discussions about AI: Codeberg banned code written (mostly) by LLMs, while the Debian community is hosting a very similar decision-making process ...

This is Part 3 of 3. Part 1 covers how the feed generator works and the initial strategy to collect possibly related posts. Part 2 covers the labeling tooling, ML classifier, and storage design. We st...

This is Part 2 of 3. Part 1 covers how the feed generator works and the initial strategy to collect possibly related posts. The regex filter I built in Part 1 has a problem it can't solve itself: \bir...

When I joined Bluesky, Jim suggested that I created a custom feed as part of the learning during the onboarding process. I was excited about it because custom feeds is one of the coolest things in the...

Originally published as a review for Judith Butler’s ‘Gender Trouble’ on my Bookwrym. It was the second time I read this book. As an avid sociologist reader pursuing my Master’s degree, I devoured it ...

The other day, on a Python forum, someone asked: Is there any difference between tuples and lists in terms of performance? As some of you might already know, I love looking at Python with a critical...