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Harris Lapiroff

@harris@social.coop

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Data, design, security, software engineering, press freedom, and epistemic trespassing. Engineering Manager for the Web and Dangerzone projects at Freedom of the Press Foundation. Learning to do good well.

#data #pressfreedom #design #ux #3dPrinting #making #webdev #SocialDance #TradFolk #fedi22

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Joined June 01, 2017

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Somerville MA

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Harris Lapiroff @harris@social.coop · Jun 28, 2026

Where do you buy used books online? (Please only recommend sellers you personally have used!)

Harris Lapiroff @harris@social.coop · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @harris@social.coop

@jefftk@mastodon.mit.edu I do think your general points stand though. Even if this is inconsistently effective or LLM makers are trying to rein in this usage, it’s clearly possible.

Harris Lapiroff @harris@social.coop · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @jefftk@mastodon.mit.edu

@jefftk@mastodon.mit.edu Interestingly, I wasn’t able to reproduce this with the email example from you (tried a few times). I also tried in incognito in case my personalization was messing it up (though I have those options set pretty conservatively) but got very similar results. https://claude.ai/share/9288266e-319f-4b1d-9ac6-3cb21a4270a1

Harris Lapiroff @harris@social.coop · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @harris@social.coop

I also want to add that for anyone out there who *does* consider themselves a trans ally but can’t quite wrap their brain around what’s so bad about JKR, feel free to message me and I’ll be happy to discuss with you with minimal judgment. Though she’s gradually gotten more explicitly transphobic, I think her writing does have a veneer of reasonableness that sometimes fools people and I’d be happy to do my best to uncloak that for you. Or, you can watch Natalie Wynn’s excellent and entertaining (though long) videos on the subject: https://youtu.be/7gDKbT_l2us https://youtu.be/EmT0i0xG6zg

Harris Lapiroff @harris@social.coop · Apr 03, 2026

“But adequately stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable.”

https://defector.com/its-time-to-grow-up-hbo-harry-potter

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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector

HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but

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Harris Lapiroff @harris@social.coop · Apr 01, 2026

Replying to @andymckay@mastodon.social

@andymckay @aburka @ironicbadger The change here is so stark that I did wonder if this actually reflected a policy change on how downtime is tracked.

Harris Lapiroff @harris@social.coop · Jan 12, 2026

Replying to @misc@mastodon.social

@misc I’ve been using Buttondown and have only good things to say.

Harris Lapiroff @harris@social.coop · Nov 21, 2025

Replying to @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @aburka@hachyderm.io Doesn’t toggling this setting just toggle your *use* of those features? Isn’t it fully orthogonal to whether your emails are used to *train* the LLMs that power those features? Am I missing something?

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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector

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