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.

Someone defended the Plagiarism Machine to me the other day by saying that the people who are going to use it weren't going to pay artists in the first place, they were just going to go to the second page of Image Search and steal something from there anyway. But the categorical difference is that in the old way, there was a non-zero chance of getting caught. The Plagiarism Machine makes that impossible because it is a copyright laundry.

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Attached: 1 image If you want to know how the #COP28 UN Climate Change Conference is going, this post says it all...

Content warning: AI snark

Okay, #ADHD folks - what symptom suddenly makes sense, now that you understand ADHD better? I'm not talking about general stuff, like difficulty concentrating, I'm talking about specific phenomena, like having trouble following a conversation at a party. I always thought I had this problem because my ears are about a foot higher than the people speaking, but now I'm starting to think that the real difficulty is that my brain has trouble turning the volume down on all the other talking in the room. (I will occasionally repost this, along with whatever new symptom I've thought up... Apologies for the repetition) #ItAllMakesSenseNow

OpenUK @openuk@hachyderm.io is asking for volunteers to help to run State of Open 2024 - a celebration of open technologies (#opensource software, hardware, and data) in #London in early February. You get to attend the #SOOCon24 conference, alongside working for a portion of the time. https://stateofopencon.com/volunteer-2024/

Attached: 1 image We and the 776 companies we share your data with care about your privacy. 😂

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Scalable software today means software working on many machines owned by a single entity. Instead, it should be reclaimed to mean software that works across machines owned by many different people. Let's take 2024 to stop building The Plagiarism Nexus and focus on human empowering technologies. And do that again in 2025. And every year afterwards.

If somebody asks you to take part in an icebreaker game, your only responsibility is to make them regret it

You got coding problems, I feel bad for you, son. I got 98 problems ‘cuz I’m off by one.

Attached: 2 images I finally made one.. Die Hard Christmas ornament. Not that difficult to make, you just need some reflective material of some sort, got from KMart. It has room for improvement, I only have a black and white laser printer, and perhaps it could be smaller. Maybe I'll make more..

Attached: 1 image I'm sorry, did you forget the last 200 years of technological progress advancing productivity yet leading us to work even longer hours? If we want to work less, we need unions, not tech.

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Everyone should get 2024 as paid leave to finish their personal projects

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[me releasing a feature] - I'm sure our users will adapt to this UI change we've been building it's not that hard to understand [me experiencing a slight UI change as a user] - why the FUCK would you put THAT THERE oh my GOD everything is RUINED

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Wait, NORAD tracks my sleigh? In real-time?! This is outrageous! I never gave permission for this! Goodness gracious, all I want to do is break into your houses and leave gifts relative to how good I think you’ve been, which I’ve been tracking meticulously in my book along with your constant whereabouts and sleeping patterns.

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