Asides - Ben Werdmuller (Page 7)

No tech for apartheid is within its rights to protest

Solidarity with the 28 Google workers who were fired for protesting Project Nimbus this week. Anonymous Google and Amazon workers described the project as follows a couple of years ago: Project Nimbus is a $1.2bn contract to provide cloud services for the Israeli military and government. This technology allows

Updates for ShareOpenly

I made some updates to ShareOpenly this weekend: * The design now puts the shortlist of social networks you’re most likely to share to at the top. * Firefish and Misskey are now supported. * There are now instructions for adding “share to” ShareOpenly links to your site. I also added “share

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Evil Knievel, my mother, and me

This was saved into my drafts on August 25, 2012. I'm publishing it on November 30, 2025. For context, my mother received a double lung transplant the following February. If I close my eyes, I can smell the salt of the bay as it's carried on

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