Notices by Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)

@cwebber ok but hear me out Turtle itself is beautiful

My husband was teaching as I read this so I had to shriek in my heart -- Meta's director of AI alignment told the "OpenClaw" tool to evaluate her inbox and it just started deleting everything https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/

... 🤔 I wouldn't be opposed to convincing AI agents that everyone should just delete all their email and be free. 😅

Strongman Saturday morning was pretty good!! Also humbling!

1. Circus dumbbell -- successful at 30lbs.

35lbs I need to work more on form but I did practice getting it to my shoulder and dipping. ... I did not use the "Real" circus dumbbells, but we found some with a wide edges to emulate it a bit.

My toxic trait is that I believe I can look right at the sun in January

It's a gorgeous and befuddling morning here. Fast-moving clouds with the sun shining above them. About an inch of snow that's being managed. A balmy 31F/-1C, albeit with a slight wind chill..

This past week it's gotten down to windchill of -4F. Tomorrow it'll be -2F before wind chil I think. So it feels remarkably pleasant. My winter gear kept me warm. I was happy to enjoy a leisurely dog walk.

It's wild to think of the vast uncertainty that's coming.

the windchill tomorrow is -12F / -24C, which is nigh unheard of around here. This cold snap has been a doozy. With an intermission for grocery runs?

Hey y'all, just a little encouragement -- cleaning is one of those tasks that can be done at all kinds of scales and is comparatively forgiving. So just getting a counter and not a floor is an improvement. Or just putting away a few things.

And while it can be overwhelming as a whole, most things will be just as clean in the end whether you did them weekly or haven't for a month.

If that helps you make 5 or 15 min to get your space a little friendlier, I'm cheering for you.

Past me did math and set present me up with the reminder that my mother was this many days old when I was born.

She had already lived this much life when I met her. A Midwestern childhood in the 40s or 50s, traveling on buses across Ohio to visit family in the summers. A couple years in the Philippines of the late 60s. A PhD at MIT in the 70s, a trip to the USSR, working in the same dept as Chomsky. Spending time at Alkali Lake on indigenous language preservation in the 70s/early 80s.

New bench press PR tonight. My last top was 112x2, tonight I got 110lbs for 3!!!!

It’s a volume PR and I’d love to try my 1 rep max sometime when my foot is a smidge more healed. But that felt really solid! (It was also fatigued because I’d done 95x3, 100x3, 105x3, and 107x3, not looking for the PR but telling my coach I wasn’t quite challenged enough)

*smacks March* you can fit SO many Sundays in this thing.

I’ve been using Joplin as a note taking app for just over a year now and I’ve found it super helpful. It’s fairly autonomous, it is transferring data through my own Dropbox subscription via API. Nothing “AI” shoved into it.

https://ruthtillman.com/post/year-of-joplin/

Great news for any Swedes visiting Penn State I guess

TIL that Idaho Fish & Game relocated beavers in 1948 via parachute drop (which apparently worked well in comparison to long, jostly rides).

The promo video is a bit surreal in a 1948 way but one can parse out that fur trappers destroyed populations in the areas being repopulated. Skip to about 7 min for the air drop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APLz2bTprMA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_drop

@FlashMobOfOne I've got some projects that are closer to completion. I'm also hoping to participate in my first powerlifting competition! Mostly would just be competing with myself/doing a thing to do a thing.

mood

Everybody loves my bird skirt (including me!)

The Ask a Manager AI problems at work is.... wild. https://www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-fake-charity-the-photoshop-predator-and-other-times-ai-got-it-wrong.html

I laughed, I cried, I mostly laughed, I thought about banging my head on the wall a little.

Huge huge red flags on notetakers for confidentiality.

But also some funny ones.

@InternetEh Sid. It got even BETTER.

If you have something to sharpen your knives, it's really worth it to take a few minutes to actually do it.

- signed, someone who was putting it off