Aleena | Software Engineer
@aleenacodes.bsky.social
👩🏽💻 Senior Software Engineer
📖 AI Ethics @cambridgeuniversity
📍Wandering around London
📖 AI Ethics @cambridgeuniversity
📍Wandering around London
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Little intro:
👩🏽💻Senior software eng, working in healthtech in London
📚Just finished a master's in AI Ethics at Cambridge Uni
🔍 Tend to explore tech ethics, anti-capitalism, and why things like AI and blockchain are overhyped
👩🏽🏫Love to teach and do outreach, as well as the occasional talk or interview
👩🏽💻Senior software eng, working in healthtech in London
📚Just finished a master's in AI Ethics at Cambridge Uni
🔍 Tend to explore tech ethics, anti-capitalism, and why things like AI and blockchain are overhyped
👩🏽🏫Love to teach and do outreach, as well as the occasional talk or interview
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Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
June 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
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Yet another example that so much tech is someone trying to recreate a mother/wife/girlfriend. I think I'd find this so much more compelling if any of these "mundane tasks" put the perspective of caregivers and carers first. So many of the most important things in life are very mundane.
Current tech is a collection of guys in hotdog costumes saying they have a new thing to save you from the old thing. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
![Hassabis said he could also see AI being used to protect people from other algorithms designed by big tech to drain their attention away from more important tasks. “I’m very excited about the idea of a universal AI assistant that knows you really well, enriches your life by maybe giving you amazing recommendations, and helps to take care of mundane chores for you,” he said.
“[It] basically gives you more time and maybe protects your attention from other algorithms trying to gain your attention. I think we can actually use AI in service of the individual.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hakzua5btcgcfjye2yujlhos/bafkreicvmgxhtee7ygyns6knazzogwldrslb2tftwoycbgswdz7l57ldzu@jpeg)
June 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Yet another example that so much tech is someone trying to recreate a mother/wife/girlfriend. I think I'd find this so much more compelling if any of these "mundane tasks" put the perspective of caregivers and carers first. So many of the most important things in life are very mundane.
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Reposted by Aleena | Software Engineer
😀 what the fuck
Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.
Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines | CNN Business
Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updat...
www.cnn.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
😀 what the fuck
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great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.
January 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.
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TIL that most painting software cannot mix colors like in real life scrtwpns.com/mixbox/
Natural Color Mixing with Mixbox
YouTube video by Secret Weapons
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
TIL that most painting software cannot mix colors like in real life scrtwpns.com/mixbox/
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TSConfigs aren't that hard.
They're basically just 2 if/else statements in a trenchcoat.
More info:
www.totaltypescript.com/tsconfig-che...
They're basically just 2 if/else statements in a trenchcoat.
More info:
www.totaltypescript.com/tsconfig-che...
December 17, 2024 at 8:50 AM
TSConfigs aren't that hard.
They're basically just 2 if/else statements in a trenchcoat.
More info:
www.totaltypescript.com/tsconfig-che...
They're basically just 2 if/else statements in a trenchcoat.
More info:
www.totaltypescript.com/tsconfig-che...
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The tech bro fascination with eugenics is so on brand. The idea that you could make accurate, actionable predictions from individual genotypes (with all their complex, non-linear interactions) from averaged, linearly modeled population-level genomic statistics is just another big data fantasy
December 12, 2024 at 4:13 PM
The tech bro fascination with eugenics is so on brand. The idea that you could make accurate, actionable predictions from individual genotypes (with all their complex, non-linear interactions) from averaged, linearly modeled population-level genomic statistics is just another big data fantasy
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Companies are so surveillance-pilled and data hungry that they are trying to get everyone to believe that one of the worst aspects of modern technology—that you are constantly surveilled—is now a thing you should wholeheartedly embrace and integrate into every aspect of your existence.
December 11, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Companies are so surveillance-pilled and data hungry that they are trying to get everyone to believe that one of the worst aspects of modern technology—that you are constantly surveilled—is now a thing you should wholeheartedly embrace and integrate into every aspect of your existence.
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Oooh a quiz! Let's all do this to get to know each other better:
Name: Stop
Birthday: Giving
City: Out
First pet’s name: Your
Mother’s maiden name: Personal
First car: Information.
Favorite color. Damn!
Some of y'all are a hacker's dream. 😂 These questionnaires got you in a chokehold.
Name: Stop
Birthday: Giving
City: Out
First pet’s name: Your
Mother’s maiden name: Personal
First car: Information.
Favorite color. Damn!
Some of y'all are a hacker's dream. 😂 These questionnaires got you in a chokehold.
December 12, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Oooh a quiz! Let's all do this to get to know each other better:
Name: Stop
Birthday: Giving
City: Out
First pet’s name: Your
Mother’s maiden name: Personal
First car: Information.
Favorite color. Damn!
Some of y'all are a hacker's dream. 😂 These questionnaires got you in a chokehold.
Name: Stop
Birthday: Giving
City: Out
First pet’s name: Your
Mother’s maiden name: Personal
First car: Information.
Favorite color. Damn!
Some of y'all are a hacker's dream. 😂 These questionnaires got you in a chokehold.
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Reposted by Aleena | Software Engineer
"Nothing about AI is inevitable — and generative AI is just a series of tools. If the person who created the spanner was insistent that spanners had to be attached to everything, life would have gotten boring pretty quickly." buttondown.com/justenoughin... Brilliance by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
FOMO is not a strategy
End of year reflections on how people are using genAI at work
buttondown.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:51 AM
"Nothing about AI is inevitable — and generative AI is just a series of tools. If the person who created the spanner was insistent that spanners had to be attached to everything, life would have gotten boring pretty quickly." buttondown.com/justenoughin... Brilliance by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
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This is a friendly reminder to enable the setting that forces you to supply an alt text when you attach an image.
Lets all do our bit to make this place as accessible as possible! 🙂
Lets all do our bit to make this place as accessible as possible! 🙂
November 23, 2024 at 5:49 PM
This is a friendly reminder to enable the setting that forces you to supply an alt text when you attach an image.
Lets all do our bit to make this place as accessible as possible! 🙂
Lets all do our bit to make this place as accessible as possible! 🙂
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Reposted by Aleena | Software Engineer
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
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Every film, everywhere, all at once. An oeuvrexplorer for @A24 - one of our fave movie studios
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/a24-movie-browser/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/a24-movie-browser/
November 21, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Every film, everywhere, all at once. An oeuvrexplorer for @A24 - one of our fave movie studios
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/a24-movie-browser/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/a24-movie-browser/
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If you’re building a website or app from scratch, it’s so much cheaper and much less stressful if you add in accessibility from the start.
I’m currently trying to retrofit accessibility features and it’s taken a week to do something that could’ve taken less than a day if done at the start
I’m currently trying to retrofit accessibility features and it’s taken a week to do something that could’ve taken less than a day if done at the start
November 19, 2024 at 5:47 PM
If you’re building a website or app from scratch, it’s so much cheaper and much less stressful if you add in accessibility from the start.
I’m currently trying to retrofit accessibility features and it’s taken a week to do something that could’ve taken less than a day if done at the start
I’m currently trying to retrofit accessibility features and it’s taken a week to do something that could’ve taken less than a day if done at the start
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Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral
November 19, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral
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I built a silly usage of the Bluesky Firehose just to get my feet wet and see what was possible. It's kinda fun to just watch. www.emojirain.lol
🌧️ EmojiRain - Live 🦋 Emoji Visualization
It's 🌧️ emojis! 👀 Watch 🦋's emojis rain down in real-time. ✍️ Long posts = 🐌 slow fall!
www.emojirain.lol
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
I built a silly usage of the Bluesky Firehose just to get my feet wet and see what was possible. It's kinda fun to just watch. www.emojirain.lol
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One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful
It’s a different kind of troll.
It’s a different kind of troll.
November 19, 2024 at 1:40 AM
One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful
It’s a different kind of troll.
It’s a different kind of troll.
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I made a thing!
I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev
It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃
Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something
I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev
It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃
Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something
Nightsky | hctr.dev
See live conversations from all over Bluesky as a dynamic night sky
nightsky.hctr.dev
November 16, 2024 at 11:05 PM
I made a thing!
I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev
It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃
Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something
I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev
It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃
Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something
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Good morning.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Good morning.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.