Coder since age 6. Rubyist since 2006. Co-created Gamelan, jGuru, Pivotal Tracker, Burlington Code Academy, and some other stuff. Occasional agile coach and/or coder and/or teacher. A dog's best friend. He/him.
I enjoy #coding #ruby #agile #xp and will toot about them here and elsewhere.
I am #ActuallyAutistic and use an alt account for #autism and psych stuff, plus other stuff at random cause this is Mastodon, dangit.
I use my #Vermont alt for #dog pix
| GitHub | http://github.com/alexch |
| Pets | Krypto, Abby RIP, plus some chickens and worms |
| Vermont Alt | @alexch |
| Autistic Alt | @neuralex |
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
speaking of misinformation
(and disinformation, since these poor saps were lied to, actively and repeatedly)
no unprompted #ai prompts please
unless i explicitly ask, and even then give me an “are you sure?” modal with a surgeon general’s warning of the long-term effects of outsourcing one’s innate creativity to a statistical average of other people’s old ideas
seriously, how are people supposed to learn how to create or communicate or learn anymore? 😞
mass illiteracy/ incuriosity/ passivity aren’t even *unintended* consequences, right? they gotta know what they’re doing to humanity, right?
right?
https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/
Post on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere: a strategy to avoid trapping your creative output inside a single billionaire’s walled garden
(I’ve been working my way up to this, once I have the stamina, after years of burnout and depression, to blog and hack freely again)
I just saw this disgusting ad on Reddit for a tool designed and sold explicitly to cheat on coding interviews with #AI. 🤮
Lying and cheating and wasting everyone’s time is culturally acceptable these days, i guess. Hustle culture is a blight. We are becoming a worldwide Low-Trust Society. Soon all jobs will be nepo sinecures and everyday life will require bribes and clan membership. I wish I were kidding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_societies
i was factchecking a dumb joke i made on Reddit (yes, this is normal behavior for me) so i tried to google how much of North America the USA occupies and its “AI Overview” confidently told me the wrong answer
“The United States (US) is about 3.7% of the land area of North America”
It’s actually more like 37%
Computers used to have a lot of off-by-one errors but now with #AI we have off-by-powers-of-ten errors. Progress! ✨
she’s gone haywire
(my home wifi is fine btw)
and she has a Canadian accent now
