Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Young people are good with computers, so we don't need to teach them computing basics in school anymore.

[some years later]

Huh, the younger generation isn't very good with computers. Wonder why that is… Let's blame it on short attention spans and tiktoks or something.

#tech #education #kids

Apparently my new medication is called Resonium and I feel like I've just been prescribed ores from a Minecraft modpack

A "data center" is like a game center but with spreadsheet consoles instead of arcade games. Drop a quarter in and do your taxes

Disney is set to pay $43.3M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of paying its female employees in California $150M less than their male counterparts over 8 years.

Disney argues it pays both genders equally.

The problem, the women said, is that they and other women are started at lower salaries than men, based on their compensation at previous jobs. Paying based on previous salary is a path to inequitable compensation.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-agrees-to-43-3m-settlement-in-suit-alleging-it-paid-women-less-than-men-e495927d?trk=storyline-feed_main-feed-storyline-activity-card_feed-article-content

wait what?

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-will-always-be-angry-about-software-engineering/

I think everyone touching computers under capitalism should read this. It is a cathartic read, both in its positivity and its nuance. (It's not the shortest text, so bookmark it for later if you're in a hurry)

It's telling that both nostr and bluesky fans have adopted cryptobros' dismissive "go do your research" defense to any criticism

Every biome has an animal that fills the garbage can niche and it’s usually the most terrifying animal on the continent

Being too tired to... reminds me: young peeps, in your primes, never accept shaming. You are at the height of your powers. Anything you can do, feel NO imposter bs. It is NOT easy. You DO have a skill. That skill is NOT easy for the client or boss to just do themselves or replace.

Age teaches you how abused you were. So just believe me and demand respect now!

I regularly pop into the garden to see if I convince any of the local birds to pose for me. The observant amongst you will realise that the large number of feathers, fungi, flowers & clouds on my timeline means they quite frequently refuse. Today I went out deliberately to take a photo of a cloud & BOOM. Bird action.

#photography #bird #Scotland #nature

Nerds, please learn that "doesn't work for my needs" and "is fundamentally broken" are two different things!

@evangreer speaks up about why she confronted Rep Nancy Mace about her transphobia at the Project Liberty summit (to which @evangreer was the one thrown out of the conference, as Nancy Mace went on to hurl a volume of transphobic slurs about her and to speculate about @evangreer's genitals loudly and unnecessarily from the stage) https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/p/8322f531-b5dd-42f9-acaa-41c5fa3045ef/

Hey internet, I'm trying to remember something I read about in a news article we will say maybe 5 years ago or more. Searching with such vague keywords isn't proving fruitful.

There was a hotel that was opening, and they made a big fanfare about how posh and modern they were going to be. Robotic AI concierge and things like that.

However, all of their proprietary custom tech was in development for so long that it stagnated and by the time the hotel actually opened its doors... guests found that the AI concierge literally couldn't do things that were nearly as useful as, say, Siri on the iPhone.

Does anyone remember this? I want to cite it as an example of a kind of trend in an upcoming video.

UPDATE: this was it! ....https://birdbutt.com/@colinstu/113546001652788858