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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 14h

Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx with vision loss & other disabilities deserve equitable access to information, & you can even update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 14h

Let me take a minute to remind folks that Christopher Columbus did NOT discover new lands. These lands were already home to Indigenous peoples since time immemorial, they were never wild or in need of taming. We had language, culture and even a spiritual connection to Creator.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 1d

So, @frame.work decided to be the J.K. Rowling of tech then.

community.frame.work/t/framework-...

Framework supporting far-right racists?

We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We d...

community.frame.work

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 19h

sigh. my partner was just looking into buying one too

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 20h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 19h

Apropos last repost, another sleight of hand that gen ai proponents like Miller engage in is suggesting gen ai is like photography. NO.

In the past, I mentioned how they’re conflating perception with process to obscure gen ai being theft & labor exploitation and to alter what “photography” means.

tru @thetrudz.photo · Aug 18

They’re using a perception parallel as a process parallel. As photography was a technological shift some ppl didn’t like then and gen ai is one many loathe now, they claim writing prompts in a theft machine is equal to study, composing, creating & developing/post-processing photographs.

No.

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 19h

the only big content warning i would give is if you have a severe fear of flying (airplanes), or if you have emetophobia

Emetophobia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 19h

I knew of Kowal from listening to @writingexcuses.bsky.social wayyy back in like 2015-2016 but now I'm kicking myself for not picking up any of her books sooner

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 20h

obviously it's not 100% (I'm not Southern and I'm a terrible Jew, among other differences) but I can't remember the last time I related so hard to a character whose life wasn't a complete train wreck (c.f. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend lolsob)

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 20h

it's also wild how precisely it intersects with my background and experience

oh, a high-achieving American white woman of Jewish descent, who's navigating a stressful career in a highly technical field and becoming painfully aware of the glaring blind spots in her worldview?

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 20h

hard sci-fi that goes hard. like damn dude

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 20h

okay I'm almost done with the second book in @maryrobinettekowal.com's Lady Astronaut series and I cannot recommend it enough to all you incident response and human factors nerds

the first book had me hooked from page one, which is a rare thing for me:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel

A Lady Astronaut Novel

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

of all the industries to question emergency procedures for, air travel is an interesting choice. these policies were written in blood.

the airline is liable if the flight attendant fails to follow exit row procedures and the guy does cause problems in an emergency. it's an existential risk

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 1d

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

random but does anyone have a good reactji to express "hugops"? i think we had one in slack at a previous job but i don't remember what it was

omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

holy shit

original article: www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

but it goes beyond my career

idk how to put into words the amount i learned directly from people talking about their own experiences on twitter. like, for years. it feels like i got a graduate degree in perspective

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

actually i probably wouldn't be in this field at all if it weren't for cscareerquestions and a couple other subreddits back in 2013, which planted the idea to go back to school for CS and eventually convinced me to pull the trigger

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

most concretely: i got my last two jobs thanks to people i met on twitter (back when it was twitter)

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

not that i want spam. i was just curious

omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

i only checked today because someone said they experienced an uptick in recruiter messages. nope not me lol

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

i decided to follow some people who i knew would make decent posts (yes even on linkedin). i added like five and even that makes a world of difference

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

i used to unfollow everyone on linkedin and just ignore the feed, even though it backfills with "recommended" posts

all the sloppost on my screen started to feel gross, even for just a half second on the way to another page

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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