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@JamieTanna talks about his decision to share his salary publicly on the "Changelog & Friends" podcast. Full audio 👉 https://changelog.com/friends/31Subscri...

Please don't call it FOMO: please call it ODARA (Organizers Didn't Allow Remote Attendance).

Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ Autocomplete?

Y’all realize everyone in Helpdesk at your job can just import your browser cookies into their machine remotely and browse your Facebook at their leisure, right? Like, you understand what Administrator means? It means unquestioned god from anywhere. It’s not your machine IT’S THEIRS. All you do, all your access, it’s stored to be stolen. Anything hackers can do to ruin your life, IT can do better.

"Hopefully I will be less busy starting next week" will be written on my tombstone

They’re children. And their government is keeping them from doctors who practice a type of medicine that cures suicidal ideation at near miracle rates. If those kids do find relief, it'll be via their parents paying exorbitant out of pocket costs or by covertly ordering those drugs online with cryptocurrencies from sketchy overseas labs. Please don't play the Harry Potter video games and it defend it by saying they brought *you* childhood joy. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/12/trans-puberty-blockers-nhs-england-prescribe-gender-affirming-healthcare/

“But AI is cheap!” It’s not, it has horrendous hardware, server housing and water and power requirements; it’s just that VCs are financing it now so you get in on the hype and later they will charge you rent and it will cost you way more—with inferior results—than, you know, hiring the writers and artists it’s stealing from, but those will be gone by then.

girl are you the ipv4 address space because you seem completely exhausted

Descriptions of autistic folks as having "trouble in social situations" but all my autistic friends get along great with each other in their social situations. This reads like all the "introverted people just need to learn small talk" instead of having articles where "extroverted people just need to learn to be quiet". Most of my friend AND professional colleague groups are filled with neurospicy folks. And we seem to get along just fine thank you very much. Anyhow. I imagine this isn't new to many folks here in the fediverse... Don't mind me. Just falling into a new research dive. - This research dive feels very meta, by the way.

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A corporation is a family in the same way a hostage situation is a family.

If you see the AGPL licenses on my free and open source work and you think “damn you, I can’t use this to enrich myself or my corporation without sharing back what I’ve built on top of what you’ve freely shared and thus contribute to cultivating a healthy commons where others might enjoy the same benefits from my work that I want to obtain from yours” (a) you really have long-winded thoughts and (b) well, you already see the flaw in your reasoning. #foss #licenses #freedom #copyleft #gpl

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"De-anonymising data is surprisingly easy: if you know Tony Blair’s date of birth (a matter of public record) and the two dates during his term in office in which he was treated for a heart condition (ditto), you can pick him out of any “anonymised” pool of NHS data in seconds, and then discover all those facts about his health that aren’t a matter of public record... Dr Ben Goldacre and his team at Oxford created OpenSAFELY, a “Trusted Research Environment” that allows researchers to write programs that analyse NHS data in situ. These programs would be dispatched to run against the data held by NHS trusts, and then the system would return the results to the researchers without ever letting them handle the data – which never left the trusts’ own servers." https://goodlawproject.org/cory-doctorow-health-data-it-isnt-just-palantir-or-bust/ #dataProtection #research #NHS #privacy PS #Palantir, ... is literally named after an evil, all-seeing magic talisman employed by the principal villain of Lord of the Rings (“Sauron, are we the baddies?”)

the problem with celebrating girl bosses is at the end of the day you are celebrating bosses. society oriented around hierarchy is not feminist because it requires inequality. let's think about this! the problem with patriarchy is not that some humans are born with dicks. the problem is structuring society around the unequal distribution of power. placing women within that architecture doesn't level it. but re-orienting around lateral movement building & collective organizing can! imo!

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Anyone skeptical about the power of #unions and what they can do for workers (and remember; if you don't own the means of production, you are a worker) should check out Iceland with its 92.2% participation. Today three large unions, that collectively have around 1/5th of the nation as members, agreed to terms with industry representatives and the government for all kinds of workers benefits for the next four years. Unions work, as long as people join them. https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2024-03-07-langtimasamningur-til-fjogurra-ara-undirritadur-406805

You're allowed to post on your blog once every decade, and you don't even need to apologize for it. That's also part of having your own space. Personal sites aren't a competition, and productivity doesn't have to be a metric. (note to self)

China: “Remove all VPNs” Apple: “Sure thing” China: “…and podcast apps” Apple: “Can do boss!” China: “…and also hand over all iCloud data for our citizens” Apple: “I mean why wouldn’t we? Here you go!” EU: “Allow alternate app stores, and do it fairly” Apple: “Ahhh hell no! This is so unfair you guys are bullies! Malware! Privacy! We have standards! Unlike you we care about our users!”

People excusing sexism with "but maybe they're autistic", please fuck off and keep fucking off until you can fuck off no further. Signed, an #ActuallyAutistic person

I am not a fan of folks "donating" their free labor to LinkedIn's Expert Answers feature. Do this for a non-profit or the common good, but why do it for LinkedIn aka Microsoft Corp??? (Looking at you, folks in #Libraries ) #FreeLabor #UnpaidLabor #ExtractiveBusinessModels #UserReliance #CorporateDependence #Commodification #DigitalLabor #IntellectualLabor

Pro tip: Every time you see the word “inflation” in the news, just replace it with “record-breaking corporate profits”.
#CorporateGreed #notInflation

Billionaires aren’t “self-made men.” Trans men are self-made men.

Are you a woman? Do you have some shit to say? I've got no guest blog for this week, on 8th March (international women's day). Pitch me... https://www.girlonthenet.com/guest-blogs/ Guest blogs especially welcome from trans women, gay women, women over 50, disabled women, women who have kinks that I don't normally talk about on the blog, and basically any women who have different perspectives/experience to me. All women welcome, though. WOMEN. NEVER KNOW YOUR LIMITS.

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Hiding behind humour and sarcasm to run away from everything is wayyyy too easy for emotional masochists.

JFC, people in tech are really out there saying that language models will be better at therapy, financial advice, and career advice than trained people. WTF is wrong with you people? Do you really have no clue about what other people’s jobs actually involve? Language models can’t even do maths how are they supposed to get good at financial advice? And therapy? Just… 😑 What’s wrong with people in tech?

My friend just told me of a genius idea: her friend & partner have a secret signal for when they have guests. If one of them makes themselves a hot drink in a specific mug, that means ‘I grow weary of company, please help guests out of the door.’

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My favourite genre of post is when I get to hear about all the cool stuff you’ve achieved. Tried crochet for the first time? Made a healthy choice? A new personal best at best at bouldering? More of this please.

I think maybe my best advice is: definitely get involved in open source, just make sure either nobody uses your software or you quit ASAP 😆

neurodivergent people have been compiled with the `--verbose` flag enabled

If public health agencies can't even advise people to stay home the full time when they are sick, they have given up on trying to prevent disease.

Klarna CEO Boasts His AI Can Do Work of 700 People After Laying Off 700 People in 2022 - https://gizmodo.com/klarna-ceo-ai-chatbot-customer-service-700-jobs-layoffs-1851293200

You know what doesn't get *any* spam? My RSS reader…

Just saw a commercial so it reminds me to say: never use Grammarly, tell your friends not to use Grammarly, hide yo kids, hide yo wife, Grammarly is bad news. Their data policies are and always have been atrocious, and they should be blocked with all due haste in every corporate environment.

Attached: 1 image “This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza https://crimethinc.com/AaronBushnell On February 25, we received an email from a person who signed himself Aaron Bushnell, announcing that he was going to engage in an act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people. Shortly afterwards, Aaron set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC. All afternoon, while other journalists were breaking the news, we discussed how we should speak about this. Some subjects are too complex to address in a hasty social media post. Here, we share some of our thoughts about tragedy, urgency, and sacrifice.

Prepping for bikini bod summer by sourcing an invisibility cloak.

I cannot, for the life of me, imagine building an entire company on top of ChatGPT. It just baffles me. They WILL fuck you over and you WILL lose your company and you WILL say you didn’t see it com...

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"Men are dangerous" is 100% patriarchal rhetoric. The patriarchy does everything it can to train men to be dangerous. It creates a toxic version of masculinity that only profits and privileges men who choose to be dangerous. It does everything it can to put men into positions where they can be dangerous. Which means that danger is artificially constructed. Men are not dangerous because they're male. Men are not dangerous because they're masculine. Masculinity and manhood are not dangerous things. The dangerous version of masculinity sold by the patriarchy is a social construct that can, in fact, be opted out of. Men and masculine people can construct a masculinity that is not toxic, that does not promote violence, that is centered around healthy relationships and communication and helping others. Building a healthy, vibrant vision of masculinity is absolutely a part of feminism. I'm not saying it needs to be done by women - do not twist this into a claim that I'm attempting to burden women with remaking masculinity. Men can be feminists. Men who are feminists are eager and willing and actively taking part in the act of ripping masculinity away from the patriarchy and reforming it into something new. #feminism #intersectionalFeminism #transFeminism

Piping a script downloaded over plaintext http into bash as root on safety critical systems is totally fine, say Florida health officials

David Layoff, CEO of Tech Inc: "the mood at the office is really low these days :("