Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

“You always told me it takes time. It has taken my father’s time, my mother’s time, my uncle’s time, my brothers’ and my sisters’ time, my nieces’ and my nephews’ time. How much time do you want for your ‘progress’?” —James Baldwin

#BlackFriday #Mastodon #BlackMastodon #JamesBaldwin

@thufie With those 'calls for unity' in general, it sure is interesting how they always come from the folks with lower standards or less ambitious goals, and it's never *them* who are willing to compromise on that, it must always be other people.

Important

I think one of #rust #rustlang 's greatest contributions to the field isn't the borrow checker--it's that marginalized folks openly participate, front-and-center, and are celebrated as they do the work. We are visible, appreciated, and often in leadership positions, and this is all facilitated by the community and the community standards that were set up from the get-go.

Compare to how most of our field works, where so many of the women or PoC we appreciate only get appreciated many years later, when someone digs up an actual story of their contribution that had been buried by, frankly, cis white dudes that sucked the air out of the room for so long.

Meanwhile, you throw a rock and you'll hit half-a-dozen absolutely-essential-and-foundational Rust developers and leaders and everyone knows about them already.

Some journalists will believe Bing is a living being deserving of dignity and rights before they'll believe it about trans people

Edit: I love you all but I gotta mute this (plz like/boost notifs bundling when?)

How does article 17 of the GDPR ("right to erasure") apply to trained LLMs?

Could I request that my personal information be removed from ChatGPT's trained weights, if it exists?

Would they realistically be able to comply with that request? What happens if they can't?

I don’t understand the attraction of being able to talk to computers using breezy casual conversational language; I’ve been telling these little digital bastards what to do for decades using extremely precise formalised language and they still get it wrong

Neues Fahrgastinfokonzept: Negierte Informationen geben Reisenden Sicherheit, vor welchen Orten sie sich auf der völlig unvorhersehbaren Heimfahrt immerhin nicht fürchten müssen.

"opinions are my own"
seems like a really tautological, cargo-culty thing to write down. like "no copyright intended"

does it do anything?
internet says: (in the usa) maybe

it *doesn't* stop your employer from firing you for any reason

it makes it less likely that somebody could claim you're speaking as an agent of your employer and successfully sue *them*

it's a little gift for your bosses, to make them less nervous about the dangerously unvetted thoughts you might have outside work hours

Mental health tip as I see increasingly fewer things on the TL behind CW: You can mute certain posters temporarily! I typically use 1wk for hot topics.

When I found social media was severely impacting my mental health, I started using the following test for whether I wanted to keep hearing about certain subjects' doom and gloom:
- Is this new to me or am I aware of the larger trend?
- Will learning about this change my actions for the better?

If no to both, mute generously.

The Onion has come to collect the New York Times, and it's fucking brilliant.

https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

(via @parkermolloy at https://masto.ai/@parkermolloy/109881381405559533)

Someone, not a friend exactly, just someone whose content I enjoy and with whom my very limited interactions have been nothing but pleasant, is having some issues with transphobic asshats. I see this happen so often, and there's precious little I can do about it, but I've noticed a few facts:

1. Tech is just fucking *full* of LGBTQA+ folk, especially so with transgender people.

2. Society is incapable of functioning without the work tech people do.

3. Staffing levels in modern business are such that less than 3% of the workforce in any given company failing to show up for work for any period of time greater than a few hours breaks things.

Combined, those factors make me begin to wonder what would happen if all the tech queers just went on general strike for better treatment by society at large.