https://jacobian.org/jacob tootsenTue, 27 Jan 2026 21:39:00 +0000https://jacobian.org/2024/oct/18/dsf-board-2025/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://jacobian.org/2024/oct/18/dsf-board-2025/Applications are open for the 2025 Django Software Foundation Board of Directors -- you can apply until October 25th. So, in this post I'll do two things: try to convince you to run for the board, and document my goals and priorities for 2025.https://jacobian.org/2024/oct/8/dsf-one-million/Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://jacobian.org/2024/oct/8/dsf-one-million/A couple weeks ago I gave a talk at DjangoCon US about the finances of the Django Software Foundation. I wanted to give folks a high-level understanding of our current financial situation, and then imagine a world where we had a substantially-larger budget. Here's a written version of this talk, with annotated slides, and expanded notes:https://jacobian.org/2024/oct/1/ethical-public-sector-ai/Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://jacobian.org/2024/oct/1/ethical-public-sector-ai/Is it ethical to use AI in the public sector? I think so — but only in certain ways. I have two positions: 1. Predicting outcomes is snake oil — and even if it weren’t, it's based on deeply biased training data, and would still be unethical. 2. Using AI in ways that are _assistive_ — helping humans be more accurate or efficient — is ethical in public use-cases; fully-automated systems that replace human judgement isn’t. Full post: