[Project] The Ethical Assistant
This assistant provides the most important benefits of LLM assistants without the associated environmental costs, privacy risks, and economic brinksmanship. ( full item here )
Tiny Subversions
This feed will keep you up to date on all of Darius Kazemi's projects, writings, press, and shows.
Latest posts
[Project] Third Sanctuary Refactored
A cover of Toby Fox's "Third Sanctuary" from the game Deltarune using the in-browser live-coding tool Strudel. ( full item here )
[Notes] Pre-modern art and metadata: a sticky situation
Thoughts on big platforms and the accidental censorship of a 12th century composer. ( full item here )
[Project] FEP Search Tool
This tool indexes the full text of all published Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, and then lets you search that text. ( full item here )
[Project] Fediverse Schema Observatory
A tool that helps people working on ActivityPub interoperability problems. ( full item here )
[Notes] I'm joining the Applied Social Media Lab!
Big news in my world: I have been hired as a Senior Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center! ( full item here )
[Notes] Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps
I am pleased to announce that Erin Kissane and I will be running a project called Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps, generously funded by the Ford Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (DIIF). ( full item here )
[Project] Utopia Clicker
Can you create a utopia? ( full item here )
[Project] Darius Kazemi's Twitter archive
A site that is my tweets, preserved on my own server, searchable with nice thread rendering. ( full item here )
[Press] Elon Musk’s Twitter Bot Problem Is Fake News
I'm interviewed about the difficulty of identifying bot accounts on social media. ( full item here )
[Press] Why Developers Should Experiment with the Fediverse
I'm interviewed about federated social media and how it's a really exciting time to be making software in this ecosystem. ( full item here )
[Notes] How to play Backgammon on FIBS using Telnet
A brief tutorial for experienced Backgammon players who want to try playing online using Telnet. ( full item here )
[Notes] Fix for Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9 overheating in Ubuntu
My new laptop was overheating. This fixed it. ( full item here )
[Project] Random sandwich suggestions
A site that recommends to you a random sandwich from Wikipedia's list of notable sandwiches. ( full item here )
[Project] What vibes do I give off?
A generator that makes "What vibes do I give off?" style memes from Wikipedia categories. ( full item here )
[Project] Make someone
Do you miss meeting people? Here. Make someone. ( full item here )
[Notes] On Twitter usernames with lots of numbers
A Twitter username like @jsmith12345678 does not mean the account is a bot or troll. It's likely to simply be a less-technically-savvy person. Here's why. ( full item here )
[Project] 36,336 variations on a meme
Exhausting a Twitter meme. ( full item here )
[Press] Darius Kazemi on The Great Bot Panic
I'm interviewed about the bot panic on Twitter and in mainstream media, with a bonus side of decentralized social media discussion. ( full item here )
[Press] Who's a Bot? Who's Not?
A long article about the state of research on Twitter bots and political discourse, featuring my work. ( full item here )