Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

when the moon hits the sky and it's swallowed inside that's a voré

For most of my life, when I found something like this, I assumed that it was an Anomaly.

I would think to myself: Surely no other organization has flaws this fundamental being papered over by human labor.

But I spent the last five years jumping from Fundamental Flaw to Fundamental Flaw at a 20+ Billion dollar company, filling gaps like this while "automation" was built.

In *every* case, the automation solves ~95 or so percent of the problem, and leaves a rare but possible set of circumstances that will require a human to clean up.

In most cases so far, the only humans with the experience to clean things up have left, have been pushed out, or will leave soon.

And things will bubble up. And things will break. And 10+ engineers will have to waste 3 - 5 days investigating the problem, because every corporation is built on the backs of the knowledge of employees they do not value.

Stop calling it AI, even this term is a marketing grift

You know how there's a bunch of critical infrastructure powering the internet (and presumably a lot more than the internet) is badly maintained and underfunded (often by just a few people)?

We know about several examples in the open source world, but I'm sure we all also know about several examples in each of our personal lives, in each of our places of business.

And it's like that *everywhere*

I've rarely seen any organization that wasn't chewing gum and balling wire all the way down.

For Pride Month this year, the corporate PR offices are getting their banners ready!

#pride #csd #pridemonth #lgbtq #lgbt #queer #capitalism #pinkwashing

Is there a way to block everyone from a specific instance from seeing my posts without it also blocking the people from that instance I follow or who follow me?

#MasterdonHelp #Help

bluesky made a moderation decision!

the CEO, Jay (below), claimed the post from the English Nationalist threatening to push a black woman off a roof was "metaphorical"

they didn't ban the nazi (the devs are following her, and the CEO was following her until everyone called her out on it)

they did make a new rule that the post would have been against

they didn't act against the account

the new rules also appear to ban doxxing nazis or advocating punching nazis. i wonder* how those will be interpreted.

and in conclusion, the purpose of a system is what it does

All crew,

We have updated our privacy policy for all Enterprise crew members.

The policy describes how we use internal sensors to generate a transporter signature of your brain and body at the quantum level, and when and how we transmit that info to third-party planets.

Worf

Finding someone's list of favorite $thing on their personal gemini capsule/blog/website/whatever is like crack to me. Games, books, movies, software, whatever it is I love seeing the lists of things someone likes enough to make a list on their space on the net. A lot of the coolest things I've found on the internet were discovered that way.

Anybody have a comprehensive list of GPOs to disable all of the ai/cloud/telemetry functionality in MS products? Copilot, onedrive, alt text generation in office, the works. Anything that can potentially violate NDAs by sending content of your system to MS.

one thing i'd like to see in a microblogging service is decoupling accounts from follow channels. so instead of having alts u can have ur 'main stream' and opt-in 'vent' or 'lewd' or 'art' or 'friends' or whatever and any of these can be set to private individually. like if u had multiple twitter circles but circle members chose to be there instead of being dragged in