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Designer & two-trick pony. Formerly Travis CI/Travis Foundation, Rails Girls Summer of Code Lead & Vienna.rb organiser. ❤️s owls, music, Design Systems, NASA trivia, Ruby & Taekwondo ✨ Newbie knitter 🧶
Neil BrownPractical thoughts:
1) actively encourage trans people into your community and spaces. Be explicitly clear that they are welcome.
2) promote and enforce robust codes of conduct, and ask for this in events to which you contribute.
3) report anti-trans content to your own instance admins, and to the hosting instance admin if it makes sense to do so.
4) buy stuff (if you are in a position to do so) from trans people. Loads of trans people in the fediverse have small shops selling cool bits and pieces (drawings, books, jewellery, and more).
5) if you control the design of forms and systems, do not collect gender information unless necessary (and I don't have a good example of when this might be, but someone might)
6) push back against laws and policies which discriminate against, or make life harder for, trans people. Write to your MP, and be vocal in your support.
Rachel Lee NaborsRequest for help: do I know anyone who ships electron apps? I'm stuck on a packaging/testing issue 😅
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)So two documentaries about "AI" are coming out this week -- a good one and a bad one. For some info on which is which and why, see:
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/a-tale-of-two-ai-documentaries/
lislisGestern hat #feminizidmap, ein Projekt in dem ich schon viele Jahre aktiv bin, zwei wichtige Meilensteine erreicht: ein Report zu unseren 2023 Daten und v1 der öffentlichen API mit genau diesem Datensatz 🎉 https://feminizidmap.org/de/
Well I just finished this book and I'm happy to report that it was an actually perfect read. No notes.
RE: https://social.riley.pub/@robin/116280049751304712
Robin is one of the most talented, kind, knowledgeable, and supportive people I ever had the chance to meet. Any org would be blessed to have her on board 💖
Arne BrasseurIt's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.
How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.
But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.
I started reading “girl at war” a couple of days ago and I’m more than halfway through, absolutely obsessed, it’s so heartbreaking and riveting. ❤️ It might even become my first 5-star read of the year.
Jess Rose