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I think the real reason our culture stigmatizes children who ask "why" a lot is that most adults are deeply ashamed of how infrequently they actually have good answers.

New short documentary from @openuk@hachyderm.io all about the state of #OpenSource in the UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxWy_qgMa50 And, yes, the video is CC BY-SA 😄 (I'm a board member at OpenUK)

Just mentioning for no particular reason, life sure is easier when you deliberately and carefully select the people you spend time with

"You shouldn't project modern gender labels back onto historical figures" OK great! I will no longer be calling them "men" or "women". Those are modern, socially constructed categories of person, and using them uncritically encourages us to assume that past cultures shared our expectations for appropriate gender performance.

Happy ‘discover what mailing lists you’ve been signed up to’ day.

Why are the turkeys being pardoned? Never understood that. The turkeys didn't commit a crime. You're deciding not to EAT the damn bird and acting like you're forgiving it for doing something wrong. That has to suggest something about power.

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Rust is the language of trans CSS is for bisexuals JavaScript is for all queers

Sorry I haven’t been around I simply didn’t want to 🙂

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The only lesson to be had in the OpenAI drama is the money always wins.

Did you know the #DoctorWho theme tune has lyrics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zsNvU-GXg #DrWho

No criticism of capitalism can ever top the suits at Netflix seeing Squid Game and thinking “Let’s make it real!” #capitalism #SquidGame

Given my extensive experience with video games, it’s disappointing how few pressure plates we bump into in regular life. I’d like to drag a big rock over a pressure plate to escape the office one day

You put your Altman in, You take your Altman out, You put your Altman in, And you shake him all about, You do the hokey-pokey and you move VC around, That's what tech's all about

For modern "subscriptions," all the money you spent provides no value after you end the subscription. That's not a subscription, that's club membership. You're only paying for access. That means they can and will change what access means. They'll add or remove things. They'll change the price. But in the end, when you stop paying, all the access is revoked. I really hate how that feels, and would like to move away from that in any place I can, to be honest.

The existence of UNIX implies the existence of MENIX, INIX, and THEYNIX.

Attached: 1 image When I work at the computer all day, my back gets stiff and sore. To prevent this stick a soft, warm cat in the crook of your back. Follow me for more work hacks. #cats

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Content warning: tech punditry

Remember everyone, if you're delulu enough, you too can fire, hire, fire, rehire all in a few days at your non problematic at all company. If you're really audacious you can remove women from your board, and replace them with *checks notes* problematic whyte techbros. #tech #infosec #nerd #ai #techbros

Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board. And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now). The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the 2 women on the old board were replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.

I think folks need to understand that within a number of years, AI-generated "content" will be the microplastic of our online ecosystem.

A company lays off thousands of people, nobody bats an eye. A company fires one CEO and everyone loses their mind.

@hamatti@mastodon.world Including the company’s employees. Employees who could be laid off any time by CEO they’re fighting for. 🙂

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Stop treating open source projects and foundations like consumer-facing businesses. Unless you've got a paid support contract that's being neglected, or there's a grave concern, it's inappropriate to escalate issues to massively public forums. Maintainers and the staffers and volunteers at foundations are already overworked. Don't make it harder for them to address your issue by ALSO making them waste time firefighting in public. #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

Dropping a speaker a message (via pretty much any means of communication they make available to you) that you genuinely liked their talk is a very kind thing to do, and I can assure you that it never goes unheard or unnoticed.

Move slow and mend things.

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All the people they laid off, but here’s a guy who, to my knowledge, is just a VC tech kid and not an expert, who openly follows a “philosopher” who blatantly believes _Black people are not as smart as white people_ and they can’t wait to hire him. Gee, what group of people were hit hardest by layoffs again? I am beyond disgusted by this. I have to go practice whatever shit I learned in therapy to calm down. Every single person they laid off is worth ten of this racist venture capital fuck.

The biggest mistake I have made as a creator is letting my ego, my ambition and the shallowness of social media convince me that I had an "Audience" instead of a network. It's a self centred worldview that strips the humanity out of the folks around us. We end up treating people like numbers and vanity metrics. That's just bulls**t.

Everyone: AI is the future, let’s gooooo Open ai: not so fast, hold my beer

Presentations - Call for Participation https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-call-for-presentations/

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