Tag ethics

https://twitter.com/RReverser/status/1554923810876522498

I don't want it to exist at all lmao, it's an ethical clusterfuck

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:18 +0000

buried in github's settings (Settings -> Code Pilot) is this opt-out that y'all should probably click

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Wed, 03 Aug 2022 03:07 +0000

and there it is. github takes all our free code, puts it in a blender, uses us for free QA on the result, and finally turns around and charges for it

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Looks like GitHub Copilot is going public as a paid product! I have to admit that their "first hit is free" strategy worked perfectly, writing code without it is now somewhat painful and I'll happily pay for it

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (@moyix)Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:50 +0000

eevee (@eevee)Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:50 +0000

If you’re a developer working on this quit your job.

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a school library system vendor has "begun working on" the ability to automatically notify parents when their kids check a book out of the school library and to allow parents to prevent kids their kids from checking out books on certain topics. this..............sucks twitter.com/yo_bj/status/1…

Talya Cooper (@talya_cooper)Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:40 +0000

Sacha Judd (@sachajudd)Tue, 29 Mar 2022 18:41 +0000

Was just asked to apply to be a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador. No way. I am not using the little social reach I have to promote the harmful work of Google. And using inclusivity to draw women (or any marginalised folk) into promoting Google is 🤮

Laura Kalbag (@LauraKalbag)Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:44 +0000

People questioning whether testing positive for a potentially deadly or disabling disease, keeping it a secret, and then showing up at an industry social gathering unmasked should be a career-ending offense and, yes. That person is almost certainly unsafe in numerous other ways.

Dana Fried (@leftoblique)Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:37 GMT

Interesting to find out that during every radicalized election, every genocide, every riot around the world over the last 10 years, huge tech platforms could have swiftly identified disinformation and malicious propaganda and paused their distribution of it, but they didn't.

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Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, we’re blocking YouTube channels connected to RT and Sputnik across Europe, effective immediately. It’ll take time for our systems to fully ramp up. Our teams continue to monitor the situation around the clock to take swift action.

Google Europe (@googleeurope)Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:15 GMT

Ryan Broderick (@broderick)Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:29 GMT

https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1498364944441647108

1,248 mile (1,085 NM) flight from AUS to VNY ~ 1,375 gallons (5,206 liters). ~ 9,218 pds (4,181 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $7,069 cost of fuel. ~ 15 tons of CO2 emissions.

Elon Musk's Jet (@ElonJet)Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:30 GMT

Tech has an ethics issue so deep People sit in rooms enabling harm as a day job, society normalises harm and it becomes woven into schools, work, finance, leisure And we are so unused to challenges to harm that we find them exceptional and more shocking than the harm itself

Stella (@RisuToInu)Sun, 13 Feb 2022 11:31 GMT

Cancelling a subscription in protest is the only way consumers can make their voices heard. It's not "cancel culture". It's called capitalism. The very thing most of these right-wing podcasters advocate for. And guess what, the pressure is working.

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Spotify is more confused about Joe Rogan than ever trib.al/piG3Lpk

The Verge (@verge)Tue, 08 Feb 2022 07:11 GMT

Kieran McHugh (@kieranmch)Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:45 GMT

https://twitter.com/shl/status/1488562644223082497

I wouldn't go within 100 yards of this guy lest he uses the gumroad user database to creep on you

Tevruden Dawnspear💙 (@tevruden)Sat, 05 Feb 2022 21:12 GMT

https://twitter.com/charkie/status/1488620507306119178

Also, props to the developers working with Team17 who came out immediately to say they disapproved of this scheme.

Charkie (@charkie)Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:11 GMT

The road to hell begins with the statement “hey, we’ve got all this data…”

Surveillance Killjoy (@hypervisible)Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:42 GMT

The @spotify call on Rogan is the same decision that all social and content platforms make daily: Disinformation & conspiracies are more profitable than facts. Terrible opinions are more profitable than art. Amplifying the loudest is more profitable than promoting the smartest.

Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants)Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:29 GMT

“I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify," Joni Mitchell wrote. "Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.” bit.ly/3ub1Dkk

Variety (@Variety)Sat, 29 Jan 2022 03:30 GMT

Last week, we tweeted a reminder that Mozilla accepts cryptocurrency donations. This led to an important discussion about cryptocurrency’s environmental impact. We’re listening, and taking action. 1/4

Mozilla (@mozilla)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:30 GMT

https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1478214668929933314

I would say "Did a diamond pay you to write this" but it looks like they did.

filmed on location in sunny Arrakis (@BrasTheSpaz)Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:29 GMT

👍🏻 For folks looking for concrete and impactful steps they can take that aren’t personal: divest from using Facebook tech in your projects. Vote with your tech stack. twitter.com/quinnypig/stat…

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https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1476372236776849408

Let me be clear: I think the company is molten garbage, but that's a very different thing than dunking on the humans who work there. I don't want to be remembered for a lack of empathy towards other people.

Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:17 GMT

Zach Leatherman (@zachleat)Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:55 GMT

Reminder: Zuckerberg actually formed a fake business designed to trick Hawaiians into selling their land to him by making them think they were selling it to a Hawaiian owned farm, when in reality there was no farm and they were selling the land to a fucking haole.

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.@Facebook founder buys more #Kauai land, including Ka Loko Reservoir 808ne.ws/3eq7mtf

Star-Advertiser (@StarAdvertiser)Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:30 GMT

Keggoat (@bawleon)Mon, 27 Dec 2021 15:33 GMT

This was my opinion of Elf On A Shelf in 2017. If anything my view has strengthened. It is immoral, on many levels.

𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿 ᶦˢ ˢᵗᶦˡˡ ᵘⁿᶜᵒⁿᵛᶦⁿᶜᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ᵇˡᵒᶜᵏᶜʰᵃᶦⁿ (@alexbloor)Fri, 24 Dec 2021 07:45 GMT

As Kelloggs moves to redesign their products with their signature name on it, here are a list of their products that you can boycott. Support @BCTGM!

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https://twitter.com/_NevadaMan/status/1471688995792777217

Our data show that consumers routinely focus on the visual of the Pop-Tarts brand name, so we simplified the package design by removing "Kellogg's".

Kellogg's (@KelloggsUS)Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:28 GMT

Cory Provost (@coryprovost)Sat, 18 Dec 2021 16:31 GMT

PSA: Do not use EAP therapy resources. This is some of the legislation we are working on in Washington... hopefully federally. @chelseyglasson brought it to light that Google is using her EAP therapy notes against her... and the fact that they had access at all is alarming.

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Apple VP Deirdre O'Brien sent a video to retail staff acknowledging that this has been a uniquely challenging time but that store NPS is the highest it’s been. She also said the company has a “wide range of mental health resources” on the People Site. She announced…1/

Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer)Sat, 11 Dec 2021 22:12 GMT

Cher Scarlett (@cherthedev)Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:51 GMT

Yikes. TL;DR: Employee talks to HR about discrimination. Google suggests (on-campus) counseling. Google has access to notes from those sessions (!!) and used them against her in court (!!!). So much for that employer-provided "perk". Story here: nytimes.com/2021/07/28/us/…

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PSA: Do not use EAP therapy resources. This is some of the legislation we are working on in Washington... hopefully federally. @chelseyglasson brought it to light that Google is using her EAP therapy notes against her... and the fact that they had access at all is alarming.

twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/st…

Cher Scarlett (@cherthedev)Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:51 GMT

Cody C. #BLM (@NfNitLoop)Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:41 GMT

https://twitter.com/Martycus/status/1463728286710870020

Nah, because their whole thing was always about minimal profits and reinvesting in growth. It’s a culture society needs more of, but it’s definitely vulnerable in the short-term. Hoping they come back with a vengeance.

Stephen Punwasi 🌋 🚀 (@StephenPunwasi)Thu, 25 Nov 2021 05:11 GMT

https://twitter.com/Martycus/status/1463724390433140741

Their parent company @mozilla turned out to be the only responsible company of the internet giants. They still do work to keep the internet open and safe.

Stephen Punwasi 🌋 🚀 (@StephenPunwasi)Thu, 25 Nov 2021 04:29 GMT

What the sign said

Caroline Park (박지영) MD, MPH (@CPark_MD)Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:48 GMT

I am hugely Facebook critical but don't think it's appropriate to post about how everyone who works there is evil/should leave/etc. Just because you personally wouldn't take a job there everyone has their own reasons. Direct your anger at the leaders and company level.

Emily Kager (@EmilyKager)Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:45 +0000

“We expect the press to hold us accountable…but” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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We expect the press to hold us accountable, given our scale and role in the world. But when reporting misrepresents our actions and motivations, we believe we should correct the record.

Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom)Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:37 +0000

Kevin Roose (@kevinroose)Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:53 +0000

all the cool tech in the world is still unethical if the profits from it are used to subsidize providing free service to neo-Nazis and transphobes because of the founder's strange ideological bent.

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https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1443035440810901511

One final point: Now let’s remember that the internet is 1-to-many. If 1 million people download that 1GB this month, my cost with @cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With @awscloud S3 it’s $59,247.52. THAT is why people are losing their minds over this.

Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Wed, 29 Sep 2021 04:52 +0000

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) (@lizthegrey)Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:05 +0000

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1443077255891021827

still not giving Cloudflare a cent of my money if I can help it given their steadfast support for the people who doxx me and my loved ones :(

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) (@lizthegrey)Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:04 +0000

FB knew human traffickers used its sites to sell people. It took limited action against them until Apple Inc. threatened to remove FB and IG from its app store w/ @newley @JeffHorwitz wsj.com/articles/faceb… via @WSJ

Justin Scheck (@ScheckWSJ)Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:18 +0000

Everyone who posts articles from The Guardian: please use dumptheguardian.com instead. All you gotta do is add “dump” to the URL and it’ll link to the Internet Archive version of the story, denying ad revenue and clicks. 😉

Charlie Don't Surf (@sonniesedge)Mon, 07 Jun 2021 08:24 +0000

caption is “POV you interview with silicon valley’s hot new tech startup” and wow if i don’t feel this in my bones

jess (@jessfromonline)Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:00 GMT

are facebook evil? well, they've been instrumental in the rise of fascism across the world and they profit off right-wing violence, but also they made graphql, so who's to say

Kat Maddox (@ctrlshifti)Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:13 GMT