Code is read more often than it is written.
The more code there is involved in a system, the more reading must be done.
Therefore the most important change control to implement in any system which will see long-term maintenance is to rate-limit the addition of new code to keep reading easy.
RE: https://xoxo.zone/@kevbob/117488137553072332
remember this when people tell you that AI is “good for accessibility”
like yes this would still be a catastrophically bad incident if they could only sign e.g. "*.co.in" domains. but why do they have to be able to sign *.ca.us.
This whole system is based on falsified premises about who is able to handle key material and how. You should have to operate a CA that can only sign *.xyz for like ten years before getting the keys to *.com
okay, so, speaking of 4,
WebTrust CAs are an embarrassment in many ways but a _major_ problem is the absolute discarding of POLA. why on earth should eMudhra be able to sign every TLD on earth from a single busted-ass intermediate. It is way, way past time for AT LEAST intermediates to have *some* constraint on what they can sign
But this is good because we are launching late and the election is VERY soon.
Dang y'all showed up fast. Thank you. Less than 24 hours and we are already halfway to our first goal. (The goal is at $20,000 but the campaigns could use a lot more than that, so, let's not limit our imaginations. But it would be a great start to hit that number.)
Please remember that the corollary here is that now that I've related this heartwarming story of collective purpose to you, if you don't donate (if you're legally allowed to donate to US campaigns) or at least share, you're harshing the whole vibe here, just ruining the party. So you just gotta donate now.
(I am kidding. Not everybody has resources they can contribute. Not everyone is comfortable sharing a slate they haven't personally vetted. I get it. It's cool. But also: c'mon.)
Crashing Out About AI In A Thread That Is Way Too Long is my superpower so if I have to do something for Politics I guess that's what I'm doing for Politics now
Sorry to make it about AI (why does everything have to be about AI now) but at a time when volunteer communities are tearing themselves apart both from the acrimony about the tech itself *and* the false sense that it can give you that You Can Do It On Your Own, You Just Need One More Prompt, the sight of a half a dozen people just typing some HTML whenever they had a few spare minutes to help out with a meaningful project that could make the world a lot better was honestly pretty moving
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117470063241810446
The website part of this project is very small but it's still definitely a few hours' work, and everybody involved (myself included) was quite busy and feeling ground down by the General State Of Things. But we got enough volunteers to do a bunch of really small simple tasks that it came together like 3x faster than in previous years and we were able to turn it around really fast as a result. Despite my own inability to find 3 continuous hours to actually focus we got it out in one weekend.
In all seriousness if you find one candidate more compelling than the others and you want to highlight them, we've made sure that every Super Swing District has an anchor link, so if you are particularly passionate about mobilizing for Jane Aman (and thus helping with GOTV for Angie Nixon among others) you can link straight to https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/#FLH-037
I make the website, I don't vet the candidates. But Jay checked! So if you felt you might need to, now you know, he already did so you can just donate!
Also this may be relevant: https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:2aebn3xk5t63net43eeepire/post/3mxf7jazbtk2e
If you boost one thing I have done this year then this is the thing to boost. Boost it here, put it on your Instagram, post it on Facebook, hell, tweet it on X and glorp it on Slub for all I care, get it out to whatever platform you've got
(Also BIG thank you to the SuperSwingDistricts Ad-Hoc Team, the effort to get the website up and running again this year was distributed across various volunteers without whom I would not have been able to get it promptly deployed. This is absolutely a fediverse joint.)
Do you get mad that the fascists are running circles around the Democrats, taking control of local and state-level offices all over the place, mobilizing across different institutions and building durable entrenched local power? Do you feel sad that you don't know where to direct resources when that problem is so pervasive? WELP HERE YOU GO, GET ON IT
This is a project that my uncle Joel Lefkowitz does for every major election cycle, where he analyzes the map looking for maximum-leverage districts with good local candidates whose candidates can make WAY more efficient use of the money than the big national campaigns you've been seeing blaring incessantly on the news
OKAY WE ARE LIVE NOW FINALLY: If you are able to donate to elections in the USA, please give up to the legal maximum to https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/
Abstraction is leverage. Automation is the amplification of power. Abstraction is democratization. Automation repeats a duplicative process so you can stop thinking about it and focus on something higher level. Abstraction elides so architecture can expand.
AI is anti-leverage. Where an abstraction will elide duplication with semantic compression, AI steamrolls the duplication by copying and pasting faster than a human can.
It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to process. It creates a situation where the AI user gets to set the terms of some ecosystem with synthetic productivity but then everyone else needs an AI to figure out what's going on in that new ecosystem.