Hannah Sprinz 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Johannah "Hannah" Sprinz. #UbuntuTouch dev and co-founder of the @ubports Foundation. #FCKNZS. #TransRightsAreHumanRights. #StandWithUkraine 💛💙 Opinions mine. she/her
websitehttps://spri.nz
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6425-7054
UBports Installerhttps://github.com/ubports/ubports-installer
There's an old joke about how if German teens attacked you in the street, they would still address you in the formal plural out of respect for adults. And today it finally happened to me! Some kids actually came up to me and were like "Entschuldigen Sie, sind Sie eine [T-slur]?"
But OSM does not provide an end user product like #Wikipedia, and openstreetmap.org is in an eternal limbo regarding average map users needs (not contributing ones, so not "everybody else" like TBL stated.)
Changing that policy or at least remembering that users are "only" contributing to map data, not a specific reusable map, could dampen the loss of new volunteer contributors.
*End-users are future volunteers*, they need a well-staffed organization that develops end-user software.
'Disruptor' is a Red Flag for me, now.
Today I discovered https://www.whocanuse.com and I wanted to yell it to the world, but 56 people will have to do.
WhoCanUse

A tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect people with different visual impairments.

WhoCanUse
Heute ist meine GaOP genau 14 Jahre her.
Daher will ich den Tag heute nutzen um darauf aufmerksam machen, dass das TSG noch bis 2011 die dauerhafte Sterilisation und OP von trans* Personen gefordert hat.
Ein ende davon gab es nur durch ein Urteil des BVerfG. Im TSG steht der OP-Zwang noch immer, nur um einen Verweis auf das Urteil ergänzt, dass dieser Paragraf nicht mehr anwendbar ist.
Von der Politik kam bis heute auch nichts. Keine Entschuldigung, keine Entschädigung. 1/x  
Careers at arXiv - arXiv info

sometimes I wish I was a deer eating a leaf in the forest and didn't have to know what "Your lockfile needs to be updated, but yarn was run with `--frozen-lockfile`" meant
I know it's hard, but I am telling you that you can't count on these guys being incompetent assclowns to stop them. The literal Nazi Party, in German, was full of cranks, losers, weirdos, and yes, assclowns, too. I'm not saying you shouldn't laugh at Elon and Ronny, you absolutely should. But don't let it convince you that these guys and other guys just like them, aren't a problem. In a society where rich people have no accountability, they can fail over and over until they finally break through

I am increasingly worried about the current AI hype cycle taking down all of computer science with it. The more I think about it, the field is on the verge of a legitimacy crisis from several root-causes.

I've seen some AI/ML people (Timnit, etc) talk about the need for an anti-AGI movement. I think that applies to #CS generally. If the public at large comes to equate CS with AGI, it will kill the whole field for a decade when AGI implodes.

#CompSci

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx in Gizmodo

#cities #Hyperloop #ElonMusk #rail #cars
https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788

Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure

The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.

Gizmodo