Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Nina Kalinina @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

2/17/2026, 12:42:12 AM

Public

re: negative

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @cstanhopeYour friendly 'net denizen well, pretty much all the concerns that you mention, but also: I don't think you should be taking seriously any sort of outcome from the experiment without rigorous validation framework for the outcomes.

And at this point adding such a framework would be too late. You've started doing a self-experimentation with dangerous technology literally funded by some of the most gross people out there, and you're at the stage of interaction with it where you might be anthropomorphising it. I suspect you might be accidentally far more biased than you recognise.

I appreciate the list of caveats related to your relationship with the industry, I really do, but... I don't know, the experiment still doesn't sit right with me. Sorry, maybe I'll find better words eventually.

Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

2/17/2026, 12:48:35 AM

Public

re: negative

@nina_kali_nina @cstanhopeYour friendly 'net denizen There is no doubt: it is a non-rigorous blogpost. There is more rigorous work happening, I linked to some of it, and @joeyhsee shy jo more here: https://sunbeam.city/@joeyh/116083100867235370

Maybe it is different for you, but the disturbing parts about this for me, and I have highlighted those for myself, aren't really related to rigor. I don't think most blogposts I write are particularly rigorous, but people aren't usually bothered about them, because there are other places to find rigor.

It's the other parts, I suspect, that are more toxic and which make the entire thing feel somewhat dangerous. And anyway, at the very least, it seems you agree on the concerns I stated wrestling with.

It may be worth a separate post explaining why I am troubled by *all* of this stuff, which I frontloaded and backloaded a sense of, but which deserves dedicated writing of its own if done right.

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