Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Classic Google, just wake up one day and crush all the Google drive customers using tons of files with no warning (or explanation until months later)

Probably pushed to prod on the way to a meeting to figure out why GCP isn't trusted by businesses.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/google-drive-does-a-surprise-rollout-of-file-limits-locking-out-some-users/

Because we were looking for more things to do when these clowns decided to write "the letter," and cite our #StochasticParrots paper while saying the opposite of what we write, we @emilymbender Angelina McMillan-Major and @mmitchell_ai wrote a statement in response.
https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

"you know how people usually learn by making mistakes and drawing upon them with the help of other, more knowledgeable people? yeah, let's punish students for making mistakes and ridicule them for asking questions"

For #TDoV, another poll for you! This one is for everyone.

How many #trans people are you aware that you know personally? People who are out and trans, and living their life just like anyone else.

"Know personally" means that you've met them or had a conversation with them, either online or in real life, including people you follow on social media.

Please boost for visibility! Let's see how many people see trans folks in their daily life!

Selfie for trans day of invisibility

it's always #TDoV on Fedi. only full-time dev on Mastodon other than Gargron and lead dev on Glitch? trans woman. lead dev of Akkoma? trans woman. GotoSocial? three-quarters of the core team are trans and/or enby. Calckey lead dev? they/he pronouns. one of the two editors and three of the five authors of the ActivityPub standard? trans and/or enby. dozens of other server, client, and tool Fediverse developers? trans. (including me.) and that's just the code side of things.

cis people: you are on our turf.

Tip for the day:

Any email from a colleague that you don’t like the contents of, simply reply with “unsubscribe”. It’s comically passive aggressive.

You know the saying about how a specialist doesn't get paid for putting an X somewhere, but for being the one to know *where* to put the X, with all the learning that that entails?

It works the same way for responsibility. "They can't be held responsible because someone else could have built the same harmful thing" is a bad excuse - because it's not about building the thing, it's about being the one to use your expertise for it.

We have a mop with a plastic head that covers the mop bit when it's not in use, and it broke recently, so now the mop is leaning against the washing machine with the rope bits hanging down loose and kinda parted so they look like hair around a face, and one of our cats has taken to sitting on the washing machine meowing plaintively at the mop as if wondering why it's not giving him any head pats

asking on behalf of someone: what's a good server/community on Mastodon for non-techie people of color who want a timeline that isn't just a bunch of white techies talking tech?

My mastodon circle is depressingly white, so I'm having a hard time answering that :(

Boosts welcome!

Google’s ghost workers make less than $15/hr and can’t work more than 29 hrs/wk, as 30 hrs worked would mean health and other benefits. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167246714/googles-ghost-workers-are-demanding-to-be-seen-by-the-tech-giant

"I've always felt like I don't fit," the young woman said.
"Fit where?" the witch said.
"In..." The young person gestured at their whole body. "Can you ..?"
"I can't make you fit what you have. I can make what you have fit you."
"Really?"
"It worked for me."
The young man smiled.
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic #TransVisibilityDay

hometown W

(pic by @twitter.com@Grunnfluencer)

tdov request for cis people: find a transphobe socially nearby you and have a long hard conversation with them.

Pinterest users are not allowed to be born on the 1st of January, 1970

#TDoV remember trans men and non-binary folks as they get too little visibility. Most public attention (mostly the negative) is directed at trans women. Trans men and trans boys are erased most of the time, misgendered even more. Both groups are taken less serious by the general public.

I don't know what hurts more - being painted as a super villain or your identity coopted and warped and maliciously misconstrued as something you need to be saved from by your enemies.

I stand with my #TransMasc and #NonBinary siblings.

Cis allies: please remember us all when you talk about trans rights with others.