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!)

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

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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Also, don't forget to use CamelCase when you write your hashtags, for accessibility! https://studentlife.mit.edu/das/accessibility/digital-accessibility/socialmedia

Attached: 2 images I'm confused. I know it's a common acronym, but there seems to be conflicting definitions? #bdsm

hey boss sorry im late i accidentally looked into an abyss

Every single person I know is currently at Grade A, Defcon-1, Ultra Premium Level exhaustion right now. So if you're scanning social media and this applies to you, let this be your motivational speech. DON'T do thing. DON'T go get it girl. STAY in bed. ORDER in. EAT some soup. TAKE a nap. REST is not failure. REST does not make you weak. REST is not laziness. REST is self care. REST.

there is no such thing as free shipping. there is just amazon undercutting thousands of small businesses by creating that illusion

i’ve heard if you burn out while already burned out you can overflow the stack and generate copies of whatever the last item is in your inventory

Attached: 1 image If you’re an open source professional in a technical or non-technical role, we want to hear from you. Please take a few minutes to participate in the 2024 Open Source Professionals Job Survey we have put together with our partner @LPI https://surveys.lpi.org/index.php/513232 #survey #career #OpenSource #jobs #JobSatisfaction #FOSS

Reminder to use @mozilla@mozilla.social Firefox: it works, it respects your privacy, and you should do your part in stopping the web from becoming a glorified Webkit workspace.

Attached: 1 image Secret Panel HERE 😐 https://tapas.io/episode/3039041

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Attached: 1 image I used to be enthusiastic about technology. Was a teen when people made homepages. I could talk to people around the world. Mobile phones were neat. You could text your friends. Then with smart phones you could practice language and play genuinely innovative games for a couple of bucks. I can't remember the last time I was genuinely excited by tech. Maybe it's a factor of becoming a jaded old piece of shit.

The problem w mental health care is the tendency to prioritize help only when individuals are on the brink of crisis. If people were believed and their concerns prioritized during the descent rather than waiting until they hit rock bottom, it would be a game changer for the mental health epidemic

Open source projects only get really good when they receive funding. Consider donating to your favourites! 🪙 #FOSS #OpenSource

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I know some people hate them, but I love end of the year "Best of" or "Year in Review" lists.

“click this button to track your shipme—” put the tracking number in the email “visit our website to get delivery notifi—” put the tracking number in the email “open your account page on the night of a waxing gibbous moon to get the driver’s locatio—” put the tracking numbe

Attached: 1 image I just got the news that Andre Braugher died on Monday. I loved him in Brooklyn Nine-Nine so much that the series became one of my comfort shows. I have no idea how many times I saw the series, but Captain Holt was always one of my favorite characters. He will be genuinely missed. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/andre-braugher-dead-brooklyn-nine-nine-1235835771/

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Executive dysfunction really sucks ass on some days. I simply can’t get shit that will take 5 seconds done. I know how to do it. I know what needs to be done. I know it’ll not take a lot of time. I just can’t get it done. @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe

in a cost of living crisis - where all the food we buy has at least doubled in price over the last year - to force people into trading their privacy for food, to then turn around and do this, is next level evil shit: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/13/sainsburys-boss-sell-customers-nectar-card-data-tesco

I really dislike the common line of reasoning that "being gay/trans isn't wrong because they were born this way/it's not a choice". That's not why it isn't wrong. It isn't wrong because it doesn't cause any harm to anyone. If being gay was a choice it'd be just as okay morally! This is important because sexual attraction and gender identity can naturally change over the course of one's life. Under the framework of "it's only ok if they're born like this" that can be seen as problematic. It forces people to stay quiet about their experiences if their identity changes at all and especially if some external factor is a catalyst for that. And so what if it is? What if some experience "made you bi"? There's still nothing wrong with that!

https://www.time.gov For all time. On all frequencies.

lot of "technically correct" going on in my API design over here which is of course the best kind of correct

The only legitimate use of privilege is to help bring about the kind of world where you would not have had it to begin with. #privilege

Attached: 1 image But I thought they had to raise prices to combat revenue loss due to inflation and wage increases. Does this mean—wait, no, but maybe corporations are lying to us?

I'm open to being wrong, but for my money, "identify as"/"identifies as" is almost always a useless phrase. "She identifies as a woman" => "She is a woman." "They identify as Catholic." => "They are Catholic." And so forth. The only utility I can see is to distance the act of identification from actual belonging (as in the classic journalistic twist, "Name Lastname, who identifies as non-binary, [proceeds to misgender them]"), or to discuss the fallibility of survey results ("well, 50% of the cohort identified as sanitation workers, but it's possibly because you said 'garbage people' instead"). In my opinion, it's just not a phrase you should use, unless you can articulate why a simple "is" or "are" doesn't work.

For a long time I had trouble with the concept of unionizing programmers, because it felt like we're already so privileged compared to blue-collar workers. What I realize now is that all that privilege vanishes like a mirage the moment people start talking about unionization. Or the moment interest rates go up.

Attached: 1 image Newsflash: Workers have never been motivated by making money for shareholders. This is what motivates CEOs and senior executives.

You know what they say: Mostly words, usually in sentences

I think about this quote from @andy@bell.bz a lot: ‘P.S if you think “no one will want to read my posts”, you’re wrong, because I do.’ It’s just a sweet sentiment. It’s important to remember—someone will read your website. A tweet is dead on the vine. No one is gonna read your old Facebook note from years ago. But your website is timeless and someone will eventually read it. Making your own website is rewarding in a way that a corporate social media profile never will be. https://andy-bell.co.uk/just-post/

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If a person directly affected tells you directly that someone is being racist, or sexist, or genderist, or ableist, or colonialist, or ageist, or sizeist, or displaying some other form of bias or bigotry, or that something is problematic along those lines and you "don't see it", two things are probably true. 1) you probably aren't looking carefully enough at the situation the person's telling you about 2) the person cares enough to tell you, this time, but will probably never trust you again with that feedback about that topic. So if you don't actively engage, learn, and make amends, they will probably never talk to you again about it. Not because they've given up. What they've done is give up on _you_. If that doesn't bother you, then honestly, I don't want to know you.

Let me be clear, the data you put online is as much a part of you as your physical being. It is a construct, but it IS YOU. Why should anyone own you but you? For profit social media is nothing but a perversely incentivized version of serfdom at best, but somehow permissible because your intellectual construct is believed to be somehow less valuable than your physical being. Both the physical and intellectual versions of you, are you. Deny them.