hey i'm winston. i read a lot for fun and to help me better understand and interrogate our world. this web-blog is where i chronicle some of my learning. i work as a technical product manager.

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  • I Am Once Again Sitting by a River

    a poem

  • Feral Tech

    I think the shitty pedagogy and false assumptions that underly the LLM boosters' beliefs about how human knowledge operates will have similar risk profiles to unleashing a preschool class without supervision in Times Square. Lots of people will be harmed, in ways that we can't even imagine, because those little fuckers are creative, fast, and have no idea what dangers they should be watching out for.

  • Stop Fucking With Trans Lives and Rights

    Trans people of all ages deserve a world where their identities are validated and celebrated. A world where healthcare is obtainable, is not surrounded by a bunch of paternalistic, insulting concern and questioning. A world where they are understood to be the experts on their bodies and their identities, and the rest of us are respectfully curious and celebratory. A world where trans joy flourishes everywhere.

  • Two Book Recommendations

    In the past week I finished two books that were extremely generative in my ongoing quest to make sense of this fucked up world we live in, and I liked them so much I want to write a quick recommendation post.

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