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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/tens-of-thousands-march-in-the-first-budapest-pride-since-viktor-orban-was-voted-out

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

A cruelty of all this is that it rewards the people who are already the most privileged, the most likely to believe in their own ability / worth regardless of external cues, perhaps the most likely to overestimate themselves.

When a job says “5 years of FancyFramework experience,” I guarantee you that there is a lopsided distribution of identity traits (male, white, etc) to those people who are applying anyway despite only using FancyFramework for 2-3 years. And I guarantee you some of those people who don’t meet the “requirements” will be under real consideration for the hire.

It’s a self-selection process that amplifies any inequality a person can internalize.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

- The only ways through / around all this that I’m aware of involve

(1) making real connections with real human beings whenever possible, not just job listings,

(2) continuing to try and try and try (ugh), and

(3) believing, deeply believing, that the hiring process is 95% not about you — which is a cruel truth, but also a good reminder not to internalize the way businesses treat you.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

- But there •are• real requirements

- usually unstated

- that often even the interviewers doing the hiring aren’t aware they’re applying

- and they’re frequently social / shibboleth / ingroup / identity requirements

- specifically sexist, agist, and racist

- but also internal company churn / fomo / turf war stuff

- all of which has nothing to do with your worth as a human being

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

UK anti smart glasses petition

one to publicise

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769206

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
blackpixeldust@mastodon.art ("Blackpixeldust (Comms OPEN.)") wrote:

Also. Can we come to a consensus and stand up against bullshit?

📢 Businesses that cater to artists and other creatives should have NOTHING to do with Generative AI. Imagine selling sketchbooks with AI art in them.
Imagine selling using AI images of yarn. Organizations asking for artists while using AI art.

The shit ain't rocket science! But companies think theyre fucking slick. Its insulting to the intelligence. 🥱

We gonna let them treat us like fools or...?

#mastoart #knitting #digitalart

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
farah@beige.party ("Farah 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏼") wrote:

I guess we’re doing a poll on e-commerce platforms and online marketplaces, because reasons.

If you’re a maker/artist and have an online shop/small business, which of the following platforms do you use?

Feel free to boost and/or comment. Thank you, Fedi!

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Wow, the histologist/neurobiologist/historian of science market must be huge and lucrative.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/29/tickled-by-a-reference/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

alternatively the slopmongers will unify with the *actual* audiophile space, and we will be introduced to vibe-vibing

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wingo/116832498326455933

can’t wait until we can get gold-core phase-matched pure-signal chakra-aligned AI ethernet cables

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alineblankertz@indieweb.social ("Aline Blankertz") wrote:

"AI" automates inequality: https://www.structural-integrity.eu/ai-is-automated-inequality/

While we are busy debunking the claim of tech CEOs, there is very little analysis of how "AI" distributes from the bottom to the top:
- at the community level: more data centres in poorer areas
- at the firm level: less bargaining power for workers
- at the international level: financial profits for investors, externalised costs for everyone else.

If we care about equality, we ought to push back against "AI".

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

The biggest datasets from outfits who are in a position to collect hard data from real dev teams, like Faros and CircleCI, show beyond any reasonable doubt that the *average* team that uses AI for code generation is outperformed in software delivery by the average team that doesn't.

True story.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

It was nice to speak to China's The Paper about the climate consequences of fossil-fuel hungry software systems

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail%5Fforward%5F33451501

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

https://www.dotfurry.org :3

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
techokami@woof.tech ("Techokami") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116684771406334186

Holy moly only two grand to go! Chip in if you can!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@%5Felena/116832021297021883

"Bluesky PBC is rate limiting this server so you can't post or like anything" is definitely one of the decentralized social networking protocols of all time.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
climatenewsnow ("Climate News Now") wrote:

Data center that vowed to avoid Colorado River water is now suing for 260 million gallons per year.

Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing has gone to court to secure 260 million gallons of water per year — about 750,000 gallons a day. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/data-center-vowed-avoid-colorado-143900694.html

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

browsing the shit web is one of two outcomes:

1. inert page because ublock hid the dialog

2. "we and our 9000 partners care about your privacy..."

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny yeah I could imagine some interesting stuff where the request itself could require some authorization metadata that affirmatively indicates consent for a particular operation has been verified, which might allow for graceful degradation? I would have to dive way deeper into AP to know how this could actually be possible though

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Examples:

- certificate renewal that is automated, but requires a user-presence-verification secret
- deployments that are mostly automated but *could* interrupt service and might require a manual rollback, and thus require supervision
- user-acceptance-testing for backup restoration, where the actual backup and restore can be done by a script, but a human needs to do spot checks to make sure the relevant system still works after the restore
- making sure rarely-used credentials haven't expired

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Open thread: do you have any *partially*-automated tasks, either for work sysadmin stuff or for personal administrative stuff, that you do on a regular cadence? Things that you have scripts for, but that require manual interaction?

Boosted by jwz:
gilduran@journa.host ("Gil Duran") wrote:

When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs.

And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-valley-genocide/

Boosted by jwz:
gilduran@journa.host ("Gil Duran") wrote:

We already have abundance. It is not justly or rationally distributed.

The billionaires and trillionaires are not going to share. Ever. They are going to fixate on becoming quadrillionaires or robots or whatever.

The USAID cuts reveal the whole game. So much for "all lives matter."

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@glyph right, or just forbid the fetch operation at the serving side, like not everything can be put into the protocol, but having flexible implementation space gives a lot of room to work with

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny that’s not to say that nothing technical can be done! it should be easier to tell that you are about to be an asshole by doing something, if everybody wants these nuanced conditions on public sharing then there needs to be some kind of machine-readable metadata that well-meaning people can read and always respect by default, and the protocol is obviously far from perfect in a whole host of ways. but that’s different from establishing hard technical limits on reach.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny I do think that purely technical limitations, particularly hard “you can’t do this” limitations, are not going to be the solution here. a lot of people on fedi want to make their posts “publicly” available for some purposes and not others. like trying to solve the problem of revenge porn with DRM. the issue is not that the nudes can be shared, it’s about the person they are being shared *with* being untrustworthy given the conditions of the sharing.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@glyph yeah, i think some of those are like optional goals, but we can still learn from the good parts of what is happening there too

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny this does mean that AP has a lot of problems with scale and durability that AT does not, in particular around account backups and migration. but in *practice* the social conventions on AT make the experience the same for ~all users. i went to bsky.storage to remind myself about how did:plc key backups might even work for a normal person, and haha, it’s just a cloudflare error page right now, so, case in point

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny a lot of this reduces to the AT people modeling the entire problem space as issues of scale and durability, with surprisingly little thought to moderation or governance. even the much-ballyhooed “composable moderation” appears to reduce, in practice, to “hard-depend on bluesky pbllc’s infrastructure or get flooded with CSAM, gl;hf”. while I want to like blacksky, they are almost purposefully obtuse about protocol-level problems and frequently make dubious claims about their independence

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

like, what i'm talking about is that it shouldn't even be something i think about to walk my account over to another instance. i lose nothing. I can come back tomorrow if i don't like it. i can make a full backup of my shit and put it wherever i want. if a given program doesn't support some feature, who cares, i have the backups, and i could have the same identity represented on multiple programs and bridge them. the specs for this are mostly there, this isn't a pipe dream in the slightest. the biggest barrier is the masto implementation.

once the "move away" is possible, then the implementation question looks very different for new software, where it's actually attractive and possible to have people wander in and out of your new greenfield project, rather than the threshold for writing new AP software being "convince people to gamble their whole identity on you, irrevocably."