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

Presumably this is for all your passwords stolen from other places.

“It turns out talking about diversity, inclusion, and even just basic civil behavior can be controversial in technical spaces. I don’t think it should be, but I don’t get to make the rules. When I’m able I’d much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity and inclusion issues and see if I can change how they see the world a bit. But I don’t always have the time and energy to do that. And sometimes, even if I did have the time, the person involved doesn’t want to be educated.

This is when I pull out “we don’t do that here.” It is a conversation ender.”

Can’t believe it’s taken me literal years to come across this post but it is brilliant!

“We Don't Do That Here”
https://thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html

#DEI #Community

My personal Fediverse rules 2.0
- Say thank you
- Use the LIKE button liberally
- Boost good stuff
- Most of the time a reply ISN'T needed
- But if I do reply and agree with the post, explicitly say so
- Don't assume, ask questions first
- Apologize if you misunderstand
- Most people aren't jerks
- Question the idea, not the person
- if the reply is very odd, just ignore it... really. It's not your job to decode it
- if the reply is very bad, block liberally, you owe them nothing

If "AI" is such a benefit to productivity maybe we should just tax all use of it accordingly then? Maybe your corporate OpenAI account should cost an additional few hundred EUR in taxes to help support the workers that system supposedly replaces?

The Archetypical Tech Guy is ultracrepidarian; he thinks that his domain expertise trumps all others (healthcare, culture, commerce, food…) and that there are no complicated problems he cannot solve. Art and literature, therefore, make him angry; he demonstrably cannot create them himself and cannot fool himself into thinking he can. One of the points of art and writing bots is to legitimize the Tech Guy. To cement him as the world’s intellectual leader, its savior even, who knows and improves, and should therefore naturally have a say over, all things.

Do you read people's profile info before you follow them? Please boost for a bigger sample size, because I'm really curious about this

New cool thing: Streets GL: “Streets GL is a real-time 3D map renderer built for visualizing OpenStreetMap data with a heavy focus on eye-candy features.”

website: https://streets.gl/
about: https://github.com/StrandedKitty/streets-gl/blob/dev/README.md
#OpenStreetMap #gischat #OSM #3d

If you're an "A.I" desinger or engineer who genuinely believes your work will be or is already "conscious" in a "human-like" way, then the first thing imma need you to do tomorrow is teach it not to cross the picket line 🤷🏾‍♂️

#writerstrike #NoAIScabs

Is there a list of people whose brand is: „I built bad thing for big company and now want to be known for shedding light on bad thing“?

(Maybe it's a journalism thing. The rebirth plot.)

how the extremely open bluesky protocol works, that everyone should freely copy and use:

by running all posts through a proprietary third-party AI moderation service, https://thehive.ai/

lol

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/blob/0b70f50eb44bf6a936115f0e24690a42585b69a6/packages/pds/src/labeler/hive.ts#L83

dig this, the nazis are just another kind of content and not people you fucking kick:

Kinda tired of the whole "I made a lot of money building the Torment Nexus but now I quit and am warning you about the Torment Nexus (buy my book)" redemption arch for tech people we seem to have settled on.

There are many different sides to the "Dave Debate"

Should people named Dave exist? Should they have rights? Are they people at all?

I'm not anti-Dave, in fact I am a great supporter of Daves. I just think we need to ask some questions. But if you ask these questions people get so mad.

Shouldn't we at least have a sober reasonable discussion? What's wrong with that?