Sign in

iiinova is part of the Atmosphere — an open, public network where you own your identity.

Mx. Aria Stewart

@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy
4 followers 2 following 49 posts

I can issue invites for wandering.shop — feel free to DM me! Writer, computer programmer, systems developer and thinker, with a tendency to take you seriously. Ex […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ wandering.shop/@aredridel, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

PostsRepliesMedia
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19h
@jonny Right?! And 0.4tok/sec and maxing out the CPUs on affected devices is not exactly danger or invisible
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
@dpp Oh neat!
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
@sundogplanets @irene God that is incredibly rude. Holy cow. But that’s how I’d approach it: someone just did the equivalent of a door-slam-in-face-and-lock-the-door level rudeness.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
@enobacon Shoulder?! In Massachusetts that’s at least three lanes.
001 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Don’t make me tap the sign NOT KNOWING SOMETHING IS NEVER SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
@dpp @dariaphoebe.com Lol they are heeeeeere
010 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
@timbray They’re pretty great!
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Huh. The habit of not giving credit on the internet sure has let a lot of AI-acted-not-me framings flourish hasn’t it.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
[Uspol] @JessTheUnstill Me too, but especially in primaries.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Generated code introduces such strange problems. Well architected code, complete and documented, fit for purpose. The wrong purpose. And it’s easier to start over than it is to edit toward the adjusted purpose.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
@yaxu And if you don’t do business with them, what’s left?
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
This. The problems are very real! And we need to deal with them! But at their core _these are useful technologies_. Disruptive, and we’re not navigating that at all well. And we’re letting the tech industry run roughshod over everything as always. But. We can use them well.
100 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
The thing you want is called either “Information Architecture” or more often, “Content Strategy” which is what information architecture is when it grows up: not just an organizational system, but bending organizations _into_ good systems.
001 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
So basically, if you care about the web, it’s time to get good at information architecture and develop relationships with experts for when it’s relevant to bring them in.
101 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
And while apps are not much better, they are at least given the purview of A Designer, usually a much more singular entity than manages The Website. Of course apps even more than the web are subject to design-by-metrics. So they become Orwellian surveillance and manipulation machines instead.
100 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Hot take, the web is dying because people do not respect or even know that information architecture is a thing, and that there are experts in the field.
114 4
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
TIL digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/po… How sensible!
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
EU Icons for labelling AI-generated content
Deployers of generative AI systems can use the EU set of icons to label certain AI-generated content, in accordance with the AI Act transparency rules.
001 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Woot. New shift cables on the bike (again: Enviolo, the new design is better but it’s still not great) It shifts so well right now I thought it was broken at first.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
@b0rk Yeah me either :( I don’t hate the actual development work this way. Not loving it, but not hating it. But fuuuuu the creative side, and the losing the incidental value of so many things in favor of only the core explicit value.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
@b0rk Yeah :( Fuuu. At least yours are so specifically friendly that they’re The Thing To Start With If You’re Scared, but … ugh.
100 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
kill me now the robot is speaking colloquially at me and if it had hands it would be hand-waving.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
molily.de/web-dev-education So much this. So much destruction in already-weakened technical education.
molily.de
The death of web development education
Comments
103 3
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Not to say “don’t block people”, but the more chat-like a platform is (which Mastodon is solidly in the middle of), blocking creates this weird effect where someone is talking to you, and only the people around you can see. It means someone can be abusive, the target not receive it, but most of […]
wandering.shop
Original post on wandering.shop
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
This comes back to my belief that blocking is rarely the right choice in group social media. There has to be _such_ a clear insider-outsider dynamic that it only works in pretty cliquey groups, or against the worst of the worst. There’s other technologies! The ‘limit’ is such a clever one, and […]
wandering.shop
Original post on wandering.shop
100 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
WOW it’s so much better being on a mastodon host that doesn’t block everything, but does limit accounts and servers. It’s like solving the problems without breaking everything.
111 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
It’s been a long day at the bargaining with robots factory, time to go home and bargain with robots
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
RE: wandering.shop/@offby1/117344328811… This, so much. These are critical distinctions, and arguments and decisions and discourse made without clarity on that are becoming increasingly harmful.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
If you oversimplify your arguments until they no longer match the thing you are arguing about, you have made a bad argument.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Not sure what these are!
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Sunflower!
100 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
And prickly pear is so beautiful when it’s in bloom!
101 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Paintbrush, entirely a different sort of image, with that perfect evening light from a 4th of July hike.
100 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Since I don’t see enough visual media on Mastodon lately, here’s a picture I took of some borage flowers back in 2006. Still one of my favorite images to this day.
100 1
Reposted by Mx. Aria Stewart
Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
SF Democratic Party stands behind.. Flock They even have two people on Flock’s payroll! Who didn’t recuse themselves from the vote! Feckless, gormless politicians missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-franci… #SanFrancisco #Flock
missionlocal.org
S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in sweeping vote
Two Democratic committee members work for Flock, but were allowed to vote regardless S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in sweeping vote
11234 34
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
@HolosDiscover follow
001 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
@NicoleJLeBoeuf Oh definitely. Capacity definitely comes from capex right now though — servers, physical plant, GPUs — so it getting there via synecdoche sure makes sense.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
@NicoleJLeBoeuf capex means "Capital expenditure"! Compute has long been jargon for abstract computation capability.
100 1
Reposted by Mx. Aria Stewart
Boston Bike Data @bostonbikedata.better.boston.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026
@bikeboston.bsky.social You can clearly see that #CambMA and #SomervilleMA have put more effort into installing bike parking than #Boston. Boston is especially bad as you leave downtown!
Map of Greater Boston showing locations of bike parking
101 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026
@rabbit_fighter Happy to give it a spin!
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026
@rabbit_fighter ... Though I realize now that may not actually help your need 14 testers, since my device also doesn't have the Play Store
100 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026
@rabbit_fighter Want a tester with an e-ink screen? Apps rarely handle that well.
100 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025
I did not have Martin Sheen as a rubber-forehead alien on my bingo card tonight but here we are.
010 1
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025
Amazing sentence "Those are difficult times for raconteurs; everything approachable is anachronistic, and everything sensational requires pages from encyclopedias and a university textbook." (from One Hundred and Thirty-Seven Seconds by Stanislaw Lem as translated by Marcin Wichary […]
wandering.shop
Original post on wandering.shop
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025
@ana always has great stories! Snag it! wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/1145…
wandering.shop
Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) (@susankayequinn@wandering.shop)
Attached: 1 image Grab this #solarpunk story by @ana FREE for a short time! It's the last of the Bright Green Futures stories I'm setting free but you can grab the full anthology anytime (or request it from your library!). story: https://lnk.to/BGF24S6website anthology: https://lnk.to/BGF24website #bookstadon #hopepunk #climatefiction #climatechange
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025
I actually got in a writing mood today. it's funny what reading a whole novel in one day does for my brain: I can never turn off the analytical and context-situating habits in my brain and Just Read A Story, so I end up with essay-sized thoughts scribbled down.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2025
Happy Independent Bookseller Day!
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2025
@SciFi_Al Hey — what's the "AI" in your handle about?
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2025
I know don't judge a book by its cover and all but y'know what? I miss covers that actually told you what was inside, and weren't just a piece of filler for the ebook template and maybe a marketing event you can tease on social media. Anthologies used to list authors on the cover.
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2025
Hey authors/publishers? I've started to learn the real fine points of epub production, and I've always been a metadata nerd. If you ever want me to verify your book and test it and make recommendations, hit me up. Stuff like the metadata matters: that's how it gets "shelved" on devices and in […]
wandering.shop
Original post on wandering.shop
000 0
Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2024
Okay I normally hate how much Star Wars is used in dissections of story ideas but damn this is great youtu.be/ke-FtGjGWpQ
100 1