Below is the original speech I wrote to give outside of a Raleigh, NC City Council meeting where they were voting on a six month data center moratorium. The people have been calling for 32 months. Unfortunately, city council thought otherwise. Raleigh City Council passes moratorium on large data center…
Adopted from Mastodon posts: inessential: Tech Choices This definitely isn't the win they think it is. Some people do not have choices in those matters given how ubiquitous tech is. Those who decide to return to the Nazi bar made a choice to do so for their own…
I always have this constant fear that things I consume from someone that shares a like-minded opinion is just confirmation bias. And, for all I know, it very well could be. It was something I would do when I was younger to help me not spiral with existential dread.…
For the one person reading this that doesn't know who I am at this point, I like to think of myself as a gamer. I may not have grown up with them like most have, but I tried to immerse myself in the culture as much as I…
What are you trying to get back to? I'm really trying to understand this. It's been clear for quite some time what the conservatives want to get back to. They want to get back to a point where rich white men didn't have to…
There is a quote by Audre Lorde that has been living in my head rent free since it was first introduced to me. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will…
I was sitting at lunch today doing my usual thing: watching "Democracy Now" on YouTube, patching MajorsHouse servers, and occasionally people watching. Today was a bit different, though. As a video was ending, I happened to overhear a bunch of interns at a table a few feet from…
I'm going to start this off by saying that I am NOT a cybersecurity expert. I know a lot of things about a lot of things, but security is one of those blindspots for me. That being said, I still follow that space when it comes to end-…