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As mentioned in the above toot yesterday, the UK government are going to be scaring the pants off half the country at 3pm today with an emergency alert test. If you have a hidden phone you don't want someone finding out about, turn off emergency alerts in that phone's settings or turn the phone off. Otherwise it's very likely to make a loud noise once the test commences. Edit: Going through the replies suggests it's best to turn the SETTING off and NOT just the phone.

AI isn’t “intelligence”. It’s stolen data and artists’ stolen labour cherry-picked to conform to techbro programmer preferences. The speed of operation is a technological achievement, sure, but in the end it’s just Plagiarism 2.0.

Attached: 1 image Okay now I really need to block Google and Microsoft from anything I touch. It's been clear that this AI stuff is moving like a virus, but it's not like any disclosures are even given for this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table

We really missed an opportunity to call logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability LMAO 😹

Stop adding “AI” to every new product ever challenge [Impossible]

Looks like #VirginMedia is down across the UK. Even their error reporting page has crashed! https://www.virginmedia.com/help/service-status

Happy World Autism Awareness Day! To celebrate, I'm sharing my book (again): sparkleclass.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/autist… #Autism #WorldAutismDay

Rachel Morgan-Trimmer (@rachelmtrimmer)Sun, 02 Apr 2023 09:15 +0000

Y'all told me Andreesen was smart, Thiel was smart, Rabois was smart, Musk was smart, they have all outed themselves as lucky and dumb. You need to stop assuming being rich and being smart are the same.

April fools prank idea: unionize

I didn't see your email

K E L S E Y (@glumDumpst3r)Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:04 GMT

In this new world of LLMs (often referred to as “AI”) data ownership and the quality of that data will very soon become the moat, not the algorithms. Any org that to hands over their data to a vendor -which vendor then keeps this data and gets to use it as training- is foolish. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:00 GMT

Today is the day I find out, along with a whole load of my colleagues, whether I am losing my job. Fuck this shit. #Layoffs #engineering #programming

The different ways I work as a software engineer with ADHD: - Do nothing all day. - Work sporadically throughout the day with random spurts of energy. - Do all the work for the week in one hour, usually around 5pm.

mewtru •ᴗ• (@trunarla)Fri, 03 Mar 2023 18:52 GMT

Congratulate yourself for doing difficult things, even if they might not seem difficult to others.

selfcare.tech (@selfcare_tech)Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:35 GMT

Reminders for everyone: “You are not defined by what you produce” feels worth repeating

Katelyn Bowden (@medus4_cdc)Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:13 GMT

why read the docs for a few minutes when you can spend hours just trying things out?

Madison Kanna (@Madisonkanna)Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:02 GMT

If you’re beating yourself up for not being productive enough right now, I need to remind you to leave yourself the F alone. Trust your bandwidth in any given moment, and heed it. That’s not weak or lazy. That’s EPIC self-care.

Dr. Jen Wolkin | Neurodivergent Brain Health (@drjenwolkin)Sun, 19 Feb 2023 20:21 GMT

Transgender rights are human rights. Transgender rights are human rights. Transgender rights are human rights. Transgender rights are human rights.

If a companies salary is that competitive, they wouldn't hide it.

Randall Kanna (Franson) (@RandallKanna)Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:00 GMT

a reminder that companies do not love you, do not appreciate you, and do not care about you. they will drop you the moment it's the thing that *they* think will benefit them - regardless of whether or not that's the reality of the situation.

You are over the daily limit for sending tweets (@bitandbang)Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:06 GMT

This is your regularly-scheduled reminder that OpenAPI 3.1 is more than 2 years old. If you're still working with older versions, you're holding back better developer experiences. Ask your API providers to upgrade, or look into doing so for your own APIs. It's worth it. #DevX

Lorna Mitchell (@lornajane)Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:52 GMT

https://twitter.com/janusrose/status/1625158679543664641

tech jobs were considered cushy and “safe” until very recently and it really just shows how the hammer inevitably comes down on everyone. organize your workplace now.

Janus Rose (@janusrose)Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:46 GMT

men only want one thing and it's API access

Partiful (@partiful)Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:39 GMT

What we learned from COVID? That oil is worthless in a society without consumption. That healthcare has to be public because health is public. That 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they're being paid. That we live in a society not an economy

Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa)Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:14 GMT

There’s only one day left to find your pals on Mastodon via Twitter before the free Twitter API gets shut down. Even if you’re not planning on leaving Twitter, it’s probably worth doing it anyway. …

"I did the best I could with the motivation I had."

The reason all your favorite apps start to suck over time is because as engineering teams scale, the goal changes from building dope shit to building for metrics and there’s no known way to measure quality

Ricky (@rickhanlonii)Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:15 GMT

Solidarity with strikers in the UK today. Let's bring these Tory scum down ✊

Periodic reminder

Alex 🚀 (@AlexJonesax)Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:49 GMT

My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.

Jeremy, a Dad (but also a Person) (@JeremyWingert79)Sat, 28 Jan 2023 15:21 GMT

Does anyone else feel like maintaining a house is an entire second, very expensive full-time job

Daniel Feldman 🇨🇿 (@d_feldman)Mon, 23 Jan 2023 18:08 GMT

hey it’s me again! replying to your message 3 weeks late

ceora🌺 🌸 (@ceeoreo_)Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:14 GMT

I don’t know about you, but child beauty pageants are way more problematic then consensual drag shows.

ArianaJasmine 🔴 on Twitch (@arianajasmine__)Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:56 GMT

It's somewhat comforting that the most globally unfortunate Friday the 13th of our lifetimes has likely come to pass (Friday March 13th 2020)

j ❄ (@silvergelpen)Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:58 GMT

I struggle to tell people when I’m not doing well.

I’m terrible at keeping in touch with people and simultaneously if someone doesn’t answer my message I’m: they hate me, I’m annoying, I shouldn’t bother them anymore 😭

Debugging problems really is a quick way to learn new stuff for me.

in the coming year we’re doing away with the concept of “cringe.” we’re being our weirdest selves, we’re embracing our nichest obsessions, we’re recovering the passion society tried to shame out of us. ignore the haters. become the exuberant nerd you were born to be.

Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze)Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:14 GMT

If a child is too young to know they are gay, they are too young to know they are straight. If a child is too young to know they are trans, they are too young to know they are cis. Stop treating being cishet as the default.

Nelson Flores (@nelsonlflores)Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:01 GMT

isn’t the grinch’s whole deal that he was reformed by a loving society that refused to act punitively against a clearly troubled individual

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New York Post (@nypost)Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:55 GMT

sorrel kerr-jung (@sorrelkj)Mon, 26 Dec 2022 05:20 GMT

Own your posts. Own your words. Own your identity. Own your ethics. Own your ideas.

Finalizing my schedule for Christmas.

vacation mb ❄️ (@mb)Sun, 25 Dec 2022 04:25 GMT

I for one think it’s totally healthy and normal that some people get to have a billion dollars and some people get to freeze to death on the streets

big honkin caboose (@itsmegangraves)Sat, 24 Dec 2022 15:40 GMT

Typing a prompt into an AI and calling yourself an artist is like pressing play on iTunes and calling yourself a musician.

Molly Crabapple🇵🇷 (@mollycrabapple)Fri, 23 Dec 2022 06:19 GMT