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Reposted Jacky Alciné (@jalcine@todon.eu)
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I don't know how to convince more workers in tech that we need unions. We sorely do and I'm hoping that the strikes are showing why. That's why I can't wait for @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com's book about tech unions at https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union to come out. It's cheaper than an O'Reilly subscription and will put you into what will make the industry and the industries we touch so much better.

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Liked The Seven Voyages Of Steve (@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)
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Big public companies that rose up on the back of the free, open web over the last 20y want to wall it off, make it proprietary. Of course they do. They benefited from openness on the way up, but now they ARE the incumbents they previously disrupted, they want to stop others doing the same to them. We cheer for plucky upstarts, but then they simply become what they railed against. The answer is always openness, all the time. And flipping the bird to incumbents, even if they used to be cool.

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Listened to Legal consequences of generated content with Damien Riehl, VP of Litigation Workflow & Analytics Content at vLex (Practical AI #232)
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As a technologist, coder, and lawyer, few people are better equipped to discuss the legal and practical consequences of generative AI than Damien Riehl. He demonstrated this a couple years ago by generating, writing to disk, and then releasing every possible musical melody. Damien joins us to answer our many questions ...

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Listened to Quitting (And Then Rejoining) Stack Overflow - CoRecursive Podcast by Adam Gordon Bell 
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Today, we meet Ben Dumke-von der Ehe, one of the early developers on the Stack Overflow team. He was on the front lines as the platform transformed how programmers worked. And he embodies the spirit of Stack Overflow: Its transparency, playfulness, and even some of its struggles to be as welcoming and friendly as it should be. But you'll see... […]

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A couple of weeks I able to attend #LeadDevLondon thanks to a ticket gifted to me by the organisers, and I've finally gotten around to writing up the excellent conference 👏🏼🎉

There's some really great stuff in there, and I learned a load.

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