@sakhavi@aoir.social

· 3mo ago

RE: https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/116819948556031312 Starting a “male enhancement” business but it’s just listening skills

Quoting

May likes Toronto

@mayintoronto@beige.party

*makes a post about men taking up so much space* Cue man: "Not all men!!!" Hey, at least it was only one this time. 🧌

Open quoted post

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io Eventually we’ll have to choose victory in more structural ways so that we don’t have to exhaust ourselves choosing victory in all these various (very cool) tactical situations. End the electoral college, expand the SCOTUS, etc. so we’re not fighting uphill all the time.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 2mo ago

Myturnmyturnmyturn! Finally showing available at my university library: The Psychology of Software Teams by @grimalkina@mastodon.social . This is pretty much the entirety of my summer TBR pile.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@carnage4life@mas.to That’s fundamental? Sounds epiphenomenal af to me.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 6mo ago

Wager thee not against the basketmakers who travel the earth from Haarlem.

#boringnostradamusprophecies #hashtaggames

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116530914777540295

Wait a goddam minute. These douchebag techbros are trying to make machines smarter than humans *by making humans too dumb to compete*.

This is the Bad Place.

What do I win, yo?

cosocial.ca

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

I've got a book review out in the London School of Economics Review of Books! This is for @robert_dorschel@mastodon.social's excellent The Social Codes of Tech Workers, which is a really valuable qualitative study of data scientists and UX designers in the US and Germany and their potentials for class identity.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2026/04/21/book-review-the-social-codes-of-tech-workers-class-identity-in-digital-capitalism-robert-dorschel/

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mayintoronto It's possible to imagine a future in which software companies organize like the screenwriters did against AI theft of their stuff, and even to imagine one in which their doing so precipitates a turn away from AI-enshittification. It does tend to take extinction-level threats like this to change behaviors on that scale.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@carnage4life@mas.to The Jeff Goldblum meme from Jurassic Park, but without the “preoccupied with whether or not they could” part

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Ugh. 3 more chapters till the Song of Solomon.

#grumpypsalmsorplatitudes #hashtaggames

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@nikitonsky@mastodon.online @glyph@mastodon.social Ah, well, the important thing is that you’ve learned your lesson.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Carpet
#CleaningMoviesOrPlays
#HashtagGames

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@baldur me too me too I’m too dangerous to release too

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mayintoronto Are you saying everybody in software *shouldn’t* be racing to the bottom for the sake of a few shareholders?

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jonny @glyph @jalefkowit “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; and they were really happy because everybody was getting along so well.”

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@xenophora @tante See https://explaininghistory.org/2025/09/30/ibm-and-the-holocaust-technology-as-a-force-multiplier-for-genocide/ for a description of genocidal early database use. Lorde's assertion is also about destructive (house-dismantling) tool use. It's harder across the board to use tools constructively than destructively, but that's an eventuality of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, not any given political stance. Again, subversion will most often be unanticipated, not prescribe-able.

explaininghistory.org

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@tante In the conflict between Lorde's quote and Ani Difranco's "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right," Difranco's insight wins every time. If UX has taught nothing else throughout its history, it has taught that users always subvert tools in ways their developers could never expect. This goes double for digital tools given their abstraction: E.g. databases have a horrible, genocidal early history, but most liberatory projects use them today.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@jdp23 @benjaoming @xenophora @tante … place to stand and no pure tools to use. Tools don’t naturally have masters any more than the rest of reality. Despairing of liberating our tools is just as logical and just as illogical as despairing of liberating ourselves. 2/2

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@otfrom@functional.cafe @djfiander@code4lib.social @mayintoronto@beige.party that’s why I’ve patented my new Star-Off Machine™️ that replaces all the people in your hierarchy with bots, which are the worst parts of the people but digital.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io “In the world-to-come, she will be held to account for everything she gazed at and, finding it excellent to eat, did not eat.” — Talmud

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

The music blaring from my local sports bar informs me that I’ve got to pump it up. But they cannot make me. #ungovernable

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

The Speedwalking Dead

#fitnesstvshowsorcartoons #hashtaggames

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@grimalkina@mastodon.social oh whew glad I’m not on the hook for making any positive change

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

@KrissyKat@hoosier.social agree. Also, have you heard Fionn? https://youtu.be/ec_hpQet03U?si=0eOOneeyqSAiiKxC

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Yknow what, I AM similar to Duran Duran. Thanks for noticing, #Bluesky!

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@parismarx I am… not going to buy smarts from this man. I ain’t that dumb yet.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@molly0xfff well, don’t google it, that’s for sure.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social hoping you find some rest and wholeness soon!

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 3mo ago

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@mhoye@cosocial.ca

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116509961195876944

I’m saying

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Why does Canada’s $20 bill look like it has a scene from a horror flick on it?

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116496513440555470

Yeah!

mastodon.social

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@dnavinci @robert_dorschel hi, I’m not sure if this question is meant for myself or Dr. Dorschel. I’m not surprised by practitioners working for plutocrats; I was one for many years. At the same time, it’s important to have insights into the complexities within their / our own class formation. Our grouping has real potential power, but it’s not clear whether or how we’ll use it, in part bc of some embedded ambivalences, or at least equivocations.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

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@mattburgess@infosec.exchange @rwg@aoir.social

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

RE: https://wetdry.world/@GlitchyZorua/116495688000301940

Oh no what will they do without their metaverse

wetdry.world

GlitchyZorua :blobfoxcofe: 🎩: "#Meta threatens to pull its apps from #NewMexico …" - Wet-Dry World

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@mayintoronto@beige.party fkn Kevin, man

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Scrub Daddy Day Care
#CleaningMoviesOrPlays
#HashtagGames

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social Who says “setting aside the ethical concerns”? About anything? That’s an insane thing to say. I must be pretty sheltered not to have run into this; I see lots of people complaining about it.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Phosphenes@glasgow.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca been doing so for 20+ years consistently. Now we’re addicted to being addicted. Hey, is that a stock ticker?

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Rage, rage against the growing of the pair!
#Starmer

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

https://c.org/qkLqS9rMvn

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@ichbindabomb@nerdculture.de I figured childbirth was hard, but I did not know it was ever so hard that the addition of having your pelvic bone cut by a chainsaw could make it *easier*.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

EAT MOR CHIKIN
#whatcharactersadvocatefor #hashtaggames

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@mhoye@cosocial.ca Nigel Tufnel voice: But this one’s got AI.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@RonJeffries@mastodon.social whenever I find myself engaging in system-damaging behavior for system-mandated reasons (cars fit the infrastructure we have; the economy is forcing LLMs on everybody), I have to ask myself if I’m spending a regular fraction of the time I spend working in the system working *on* the system. (I get to answer yes at this point bc I am spending a lot of my time studying the system.) Are people working with LLMs working for a better system than one that mandates LLMs?

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mhoye@cosocial.ca (I know; I am miming how ppl ignore all the rest and get suckered in my the rent extraction. :)

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@mhoye@cosocial.ca what if devops but for execs

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@aoir.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mhoye@cosocial.ca …rent extraction, did you say?

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