# leah (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover leah. Page: Feed: --- ## [I am 100% Human, but an A.I. Scanner Says I am 100% A.I.](https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/i-am-100-human-but-an-ai-scanner) _2026-08-19 · Desireé B Stephens · Liberation Education Newsletter_ “Do I sound like AI, or does AI sound like me?”- Uppity Negress ## [Liberation Practice: Map Where Your Labor Goes](https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/liberation-practice-map-where-your) _2026-08-15 · Desireé B Stephens · Liberation Education Newsletter_ Before we talk about changing our relationship with labor, we probably need to know where the hell all of it is going. ## [What Black August Remembers, and Why We Still Need It](https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/what-black-august-remembers-and-why) _2026-08-11 · Desireé B Stephens · Liberation Education Newsletter_ A deeper look at the history, discipline, political education, and people Black August asks us not to forget. ## [August's Liberation Lesson: Who Taught You That You Had to Earn Your Right to Exist?](https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/augusts-liberation-lesson-who-taught) _2026-08-08 · Desireé B Stephens · Liberation Education Newsletter_ Black August, Creative Authority, and the Difference Between Labor That Sustains Us and Labor That Extracts Us with Leah Tioxon ## [Black August Series Announcement](https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/black-august-series-announcement) _2026-08-06 · Desireé B Stephens · Liberation Education Newsletter_ The Economic Framework for This Moment ## [Live with Desireé B Stephens](https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/live-with-desiree-b-stephens-0fe) _2026-08-01 · Desireé B Stephens · Liberation Education Newsletter_ A recording from Desireé B Stephens's live video ## [Your No Is a Nervous-System Practice](https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/your-no-is-a-nervous-system-practice) _2026-07-28 · Desireé B Stephens · Liberation Education Newsletter_ Why does saying no feel so dangerous? ## [When Keeping Up Is the Problem](https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/when-keeping-up-is-the-problem) _2026-07-22 · Desireé B Stephens · Liberation Education Newsletter_ You may not need a better routine. You may need to tell the truth about what your life is costing you. ## [July’s Liberation Lesson: Belonging Without Abandoning Ourselves](https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/julys-liberation-lesson-belonging) _2026-07-14 · Desireé B Stephens · Liberation Education Newsletter_ Rest, sovereignty, and learning to participate without disappearing inside the collective With Leah Tioxon ## [The Dissonance of Whiteness: The Contradiction That Stops Liberation](https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/the-dissonance-of-whiteness-the-contradiction) _2026-07-11 · Desireé B Stephens · Liberation Education Newsletter_ "Hi, I'm Desireé B. Stephens, and I Pathologize Whiteness" ## [Daily plans, scheduled by AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KBPavbloGWiO) _2026-07-11 · **Sponsored**_ AI-made daily plans that schedule tasks and protect focus time. ## [Mr. Rosenthal, to the Pub!](https://esotericamagazine.substack.com/p/mr-rosenthal-to-the-pub) _2026-07-06 · Leah Eichler · Leah Eichler_ Amnesia runs deep in the Village at the End of the World. Scratch the surface, though, and sometimes you find a crack. ## [I took my kids into an abandoned cemetery in the woods](https://esotericamagazine.substack.com/p/i-took-my-kids-into-an-abandoned) _2026-07-01 · Leah Eichler · Leah Eichler_ The first time I visited the Jewish cemetery in Napkor it felt like a scene in a horror film. Now, it feels like it belongs to us. ## ["You are Like the Dew"](https://esotericamagazine.substack.com/p/you-are-like-the-dew) _2026-04-08 · Leah Eichler · Leah Eichler_ I want to listen to my grandmother's voice, I really do, but I just can't. ## [Merry Christmas!](https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2025/12/merry-christmas.html) _2025-12-24 · Leah Neukirchen · leah blogs_ Frohe Weihnachten, ein schönes Fest, und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr wünscht euch Leah Neukirchen Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! NP: Pearl Jam Quick Escape ## [Advent of Swift](https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2025/12/advent-of-swift.html) _2025-12-14 · Leah Neukirchen · leah blogs_ This year, I decided to use Advent of Code to learn the language Swift . Since there were only 12 days of tasks for 2025, here is my summary of experiences. Also check out my solutions . Tooling I used Swift 6.2 on Void Linux, which I compiled from scratch since there were no prebuilt binaries that worked with a Python 3.13 system (needed for lldb). It’s possible to bootstrap Swift from just a… ## [Quiet, Piggy and the Epstein Distraction](https://esotericamagazine.substack.com/p/quiet-piggy-and-the-epstein-distraction) _2025-11-25 · Leah Eichler · Leah Eichler_ The situation for girls and women and journalists (and values) are even worse than we thought. Maybe we are focusing on the wrong Piggy. ## [Wait a Second -- Did Men Ruin the Workplace?](https://esotericamagazine.substack.com/p/wait-a-second-did-men-ruin-the-workplace) _2025-11-11 · Leah Eichler · Leah Eichler_ If the New York Times was trying to be provocative, they more than succeeded. Too bad their thirst for clicks pushed women's rights back a century. ## [In searching for the Synagogue at the End of the World, I learned nothing is arbitrary](https://esotericamagazine.substack.com/p/in-searching-for-the-synagogue-at) _2025-11-03 · Leah Eichler · Leah Eichler_ Archeological excavations, like literary ones, take time. Don't rush the process. ## [Inside the Synagogue is Me](https://esotericamagazine.substack.com/p/inside-the-synagogue-is-me) _2025-09-23 · Leah Eichler · Leah Eichler_ On the anniversary of my grandmother's deportation, I can't stop but think about this synagogue at the end of the world has penetrated deep into my psyche. ## [What does "genocide" mean?](https://esotericamagazine.substack.com/p/what-does-genocide-mean) _2025-08-31 · Leah Eichler · Leah Eichler_ For many in the Jewish community, the word provided definition to our intergenerational trauma. We needed to keep it fixed. But language often defies rigid definitions. ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GE9lUvNYO0Ty) _2025-08-31 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [Comparing nitro to runit](https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2025/08/comparing-nitro-to-runit.html) _2025-08-23 · Leah Neukirchen · leah blogs_ Yesterday I announced a first public release of nitro, a tiny init system and process supervisor . This got a fair bit of attention, and to my delight was even boosted on the fediverse by both Laurent Bercot (of s6 fame) and djb himself. One of the most requested things was a comparison to other init systems. Since I’m most familiar with runit , I shall compare nitro and runit here. Comparison to… ## [We Are All Related](https://esotericamagazine.substack.com/p/we-are-all-related) _2025-08-21 · Leah Eichler · Leah Eichler_ I naively believed a DNA test would fill out my family tree and allow me to find family members who vanished in the Holocaust. It turns out, I found family I wasn’t exactly looking for. ## [Remembering the work of Kevin S. Braunsdorf and the pundits tool-chain](https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2025/08/remembering-the-work-of-kevin-s-braunsdorf-and-the-pundits-tool-chain.html) _2025-08-20 · Leah Neukirchen · leah blogs_ You may perhaps not recognize the name of Kevin S. Braunsdorf, or “ksb” ( kay ess bee ) as he was called, but you certainly used one tool he wrote, together with Matthew Bradburn, namely the implementation of test(1) in GNU coreutils. Kevin S. Braunsdorf died last year, on July 24, 2024, after a long illness. In this post, I try to remember his work and legacy. ⁂ He studied at Purdue University… ## [A Tale of Two Shootings](https://esotericamagazine.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-shootings) _2025-07-06 · Leah Eichler · Leah Eichler_ Ten years ago, Andrew Loku was shot in a Toronto apartment building--our apartment building. The experience made me question my singular devotion to my family's own tragedy. ## [Merry Christmas!](https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2024/12/merry-christmas.html) _2024-12-24 · Leah Neukirchen · leah blogs_ Frohe Weihnachten, ein schönes Fest, und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr wünscht euch Leah Neukirchen Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! NP: Trembling Bells Willows Of Carbeth ## [How to properly shut down a Linux system](https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2024/12/how-to-properly-shut-down-a-linux-system.html) _2024-12-20 · Leah Neukirchen · leah blogs_ In a previous post, I discussed how you can determine that you are pid 1 , the init process, when the system is booting. Today, we’ll consider the end of the init process: system shutdown. If you look into a book on Unix system administration, the classic way to manually turn off a Unix system contains a few steps: Bring the system to single-user mode ( init 1 or shutdown ). Unmount all… ## [Time series based monitoring in very heterogeneous environments](https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2024/11/time-series-based-monitoring-in-very-heterogeneous-environments.html) _2024-11-29 · Leah Neukirchen · leah blogs_ For the last few years, I have built a centralized monitoring system based on Prometheus that gathers various metrics across my whole private fleet of servers. Since writing Prometheus exporters is rather simple, I have written some of them myself: lywsd03mmc-exporter , a Prometheus exporter for the LYWSD03MMC BLE thermometer which monitors my flat’s temperature and air humidity (as well as when… ## [Problem Solving with Answer Set Programming](https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2024/11/problem-solving-with-answer-set-programming.html) _2024-11-06 · Leah Neukirchen · leah blogs_ A few months ago I found an article on how to organize your training plan using logic programming , which used Haskell to implement a logic language. At first, I thought this is a good problem to solve in Prolog, but there’s a difficulty: Prolog makes it quite hard to specify models that have multiple possible outcomes (yes, you can work with backtracking, but it gets tricky when you start to…