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I had a thing yesterday where a mutual made a joke that was likely supposed to be lewd. Someone replied with a follow up joke. I had another joke to that reply and I was typing it up and then I was like “wait, just because this person is telling a sexual joke does not actually mean they want one in response. Being mutuals does not mean I have carte blanche. Don’t be a weirdo” Thought it might be useful to read. Just because someone does something doesn’t mean you can also do it. And being mutuals doesn’t mean there aren’t boundaries. And at the end of the day, is the joke you’re thinking of saying even that funny? Probably not.

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Reposted Markus Redeker (@mrdk@mathstodon.xyz)
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Today is John Mastodon Day: On this day one year ago, a journalist misunderstood some facts and created the person of “John Mastodon” out of them (https://web.archive.org/web/20221216232836/https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy-and-fear-all-the-way-down-at-twitter). That day, the Fediverse got a new meme, a patron saint and a running gag at the same time. Let us all celebrate it! #JohnMastodonDay #JohnMastodon #Fediverse

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Reposted Mayank (@hi_mayank@hachyderm.io)
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tech is dominated by cis white dudes, and tech blogs more so. in more specialized domains (like accessibility), it's even worse. when writing my last blog post, 90% of the resources i linked to were written by white dudes. if you're part of a group that's underrepresented in tech, i would love to see your blog. if you don't have one, consider starting one (i can help!)

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OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it used GPT to train its own AI model: Isn't it hypocritical to use the copyrighted work of others without permission but deny others the same opportunity? OpenAI scraped the entire Internet but is now acting holier than thou. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24003542/openai-suspends-bytedances-account-after-it-used-gpt-to-train-its-own-ai-model OpenAI can train on various data types such as text, images, books & videos without permission, but competitors can not access it once it's in their system. So, yes, it is a problematic version of copyright

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Reposted Stefan (@kranzkrone@quasselkopf.de)
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So fittingly described by @aral@mastodon.ar.al what's wrong with the Term of User: The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit. Source: https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/ #SmallWeb #Users #WrongTerm

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I'm very excited to announce that I'm going to speaking at the #OpenUK State of Open Con 2024 conference in February 🙌

There's an incredible line-up and I'm very proud to be one of the talks chosen - from the submissions to the Open Source Software and Open Source tracks that I was helping review, there was some incredible submissions and speakers, so it's very cool to have made it to the line-up!

I'll be speaking about dependency-management-data, but for those that have seen me speak about it before, there's a tonne of new stuff since my last talks, and I've got some new stuff that'll be dropping into the project + the talk before the talk in February 👀

#StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24

A State of Open Con banner, showing Jamie Tanna (titled 'Chief Blogger, www.jvt.me') as a  speaker on the Open Source Software Track