Tiny Subversions

This feed will keep you up to date on all of Darius Kazemi's projects, writings, press, and shows.

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• [Project] The Ethical Assistant 06 Aug 2026

  This assistant provides the most important benefits of LLM assistants without the associated environmental costs, privacy risks, and economic brinksmanship. ( full item here )

• [Project] Third Sanctuary Refactored 13 Oct 2025

  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 25 Sep 2025

  Thoughts on big platforms and the accidental censorship of a 12th century composer. ( full item here )

• [Project] FEP Search Tool 12 Mar 2025

  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 01 Mar 2025

  A tool that helps people working on ActivityPub interoperability problems. ( full item here )

• [Notes] I'm joining the Applied Social Media Lab! 12 Jul 2024

  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 05 Dec 2023

  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 27 Aug 2023

  Can you create a utopia? ( full item here )

• [Project] Darius Kazemi's Twitter archive 16 Dec 2022

  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 18 May 2022

  I'm interviewed about the difficulty of identifying bot accounts on social media. ( full item here )

• [Press] Why Developers Should Experiment with the Fediverse 12 May 2022

  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 04 Nov 2021

  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 04 Aug 2021

  My new laptop was overheating. This fixed it. ( full item here )

• [Project] Random sandwich suggestions 29 Apr 2021

  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? 02 Jan 2021

  A generator that makes "What vibes do I give off?" style memes from Wikipedia categories. ( full item here )

• [Project] Make someone 16 Oct 2020

  Do you miss meeting people? Here. Make someone. ( full item here )

• [Notes] On Twitter usernames with lots of numbers 31 Aug 2020

  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 02 Jul 2020

  Exhausting a Twitter meme. ( full item here )

• [Press] Darius Kazemi on The Great Bot Panic 02 Jul 2020

  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? 16 Jun 2020

  A long article about the state of research on Twitter bots and political discourse, featuring my work. ( full item here )

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