Quillipede
(they/them)
QC-raised, BC-based nature photographer, indie SFF author, game designer, cat parent, home cook, plant nerd, science enthusiast
My & my work: linktr.ee/quillipede
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- Yikes. If this is accurate, given open-source is perhaps the best democratic alternative to the megacorporate proprietary development models that are eroding our society, this may be one of the most fundamental structural dangers of AI. It would undermine a key tool in counteracting AI's creators.
- Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make. www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
- Reposted by QuillipedeI'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.
- Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make. www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
- Glad to see some of our politicians are starting to make the shift. We need way more of this.
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- Reposted by QuillipedeBC Human Rights Commissioner says the media exclusion zone established by the Vancouver Police Department while dismantling the Hastings encampment in 2023 unjustly restricted press freedom It unjustly restricted press freedom and compromised transparency, per the new report
- Reposted by Quillipedehey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”
- The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
- Reposted by Quillipedereading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
- It continues to alarm me how much of this stuff seems to go through Gamergate. I remember watching that happen in real-time. That was my first inkling of the intersection of far-right politics and tech culture; and now here we are.
- Reposted by QuillipedeExcept if you're, I dunno, a scientist who was muzzled & whose research was destroyed by Harper Government. Ask them how they feel. Let's not memory-hole what a fucking disaster he was for Canada. Oh, and HARPER killed laws that prevented the USA from owning our print media. Fuck Stephen Harper.
- Stephen Harper will be remembered as “a safe set of hands” says Ian Brodie, former chief of staff to PM Harper. Full Interview: youtu.be/7GIZ8_jKkUU
- I know and struggle with the frustration and anger we can feel at people who support harmful systems. But while those systems, organizations, and misinformation must be relentlessly fought, I think dismantling them requires approaching supporters of harm as humans, and engaging with their humanity.
- Reposted by QuillipedeLong toed salamander painting. I love small critters in lichen filled forest scenes. 🎨🦎🤷🏼♀️ Courtship acrylic on wood panel, 12"x14" www.antlerpdx.com/products/mic... #animalart #natureart #contemporaryart
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- Reposted by QuillipedeFar-right Americans want you to believe that having nice things is impossible, and that serving billionaires is the only thing you can do. This is a lie. The rest of the world has solved many problems Republicans pretend are impossible.
- Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0
- Reposted by QuillipedeEvery day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
- Reposted by QuillipedeBiologist here. The 'reality of biological sex' is that in humans & many species do not have a binary expression of sex-linked traits. Some (fungi!) more than others, but even humans are complex in genotypic & phenotypic origins & expression.
- Reposted by QuillipedeNEW: QA workers at Blizzard Albany and Austin have ratified a union contract with Microsoft after three years of negotiations. The contract delivers protections against generative AI tech in the workplace, wage increases, disability accommodations, crunch restrictions, and much more.
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- Reposted by QuillipedeDo you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
- Reposted by Quillipedehere's my entry!! #Comics4Liam
- Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
- Reposted by QuillipedeCan we take a moment to really think about exactly what UBI would accomplish? Universal Basic Income provides workers with leverage. It would allow me to tell employers "sorry, this pay-rate is too low, I'm going to keep withholding my labor until your pay-rate improves." #UBI
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- This is a serious concern I have, not only for the United States but for all the ailing democracies of the world. We need deep, proactive reforms and engagement. Democracy is not preserved by allowing the system to decay until authoritarians are elected and then just punishing the authoritarians.
- Reposted by QuillipedeA Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
- I figure a lot of people nowadays might not remember Gawker or what happened to it, but its destruction by wealthy American elites (with Thiel as a key figure) was an important inflection point and signal of the slow creep of US fascism towards cultural dominance.
- Started writing Bash scripts for my Linux setup to replace the Batch scripts I used for stuff on Windows, and the Bash scripts are genuinely just nicer and simpler in achieving the same goal. Awesome.
- Reposted by QuillipedeI can't overrecommend this incredible paper about water skaters (genus Halobates). No one knows how they evolved. No one knows what they eat. They are superhydrophobic, which means water LITERALLY CANNOT WET THEM. Perhaps we should call them anti-water skaters? 🌊🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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- Reposted by QuillipedeJUST IN... It's official: Pete Fry is the Green party's candidate for Vancouver mayor in the 2026 civic election. He is the Green party's first Vancouver mayoral candidate in 30 years. #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/pe...
- Reposted by QuillipedeAmber Bracken is one of Canada’s greatest photojournalists, and for the RCMP to mistake observers for participants, arrest her and prevent her from doing her vital work is a deeply dangerous precedent. This case is important for all of us.
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- Reposted by QuillipedeReminder: journalists get arrested in Canada too. In fact, The Narwhal is in court right now challenging the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. Our editor-in-chief,Carol Linnitt, testifies today and Monday, and court is open to the public if you're in Vancouver.
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- Reposted by QuillipedeUm…bit bold to call the story I broke on Tuesday a “Star analysis” with zero credit to me! This is such a bummer. I worked really hard on this one.
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- Reposted by QuillipedePlease read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
- Reposted by Quillipedethe primary blocker to UBI is the puritan belief that humanity is so sinful and depraved that it should not be permitted personhood unless it becomes 'civilised' that's how liberal social policy ended up asserting that helping people would harm them but hurting people would help them
- Reposted by Quillipederaichu bangin out the tunes (2024)
- Reposted by QuillipedeTo set the record straight, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said today that about 30 per cent, or 1M, Albertans support independence. This is false. The latest IPSOS poll found about 15 per cent support for separation from Canada when those polled were informed about the "real-world consequences."
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- Reposted by QuillipedeApple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
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- Reposted by Quillipede"I do not feel safe in the country": international developers are skipping GDC because of Trump's border chaos: aftermath.site/i-do-not-feel-...
- Reposted by QuillipedeMan who wouldn’t wear mask to protect people fine wearing mask to shoot them
- Reposted by QuillipedeRecently I've been getting into learning to identify the "freckled" Peltigera lichen species. It looks like we mainly have Peltigera aphthosa (Freckled Pelt) and Peltigera leucophlebia (Ruffled Freckled Pelt) are the regulars. But I'm watching out for P. chionophila and brittanica. 🌿1/
- Reposted by QuillipedeSo as an update from this I did hear back from 4/4 MPs that I contacted. I believe there is concern, but that there needs to be public pressure given *waves at US-Canada tensions*. But I believe that contacting your MP is a good way to do this. Tools to do so in the thread below. ⬇️
- There is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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