Dawn Ahukanna

@dahukanna
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Software Alchemist - Turning base code into precious applications. Devsigner == 'Dev'eloper + De'signer'. Married to @Anni ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈. Pronouns == she/her.

Women are just less ambitious?

It’s what male professors truly believe apparently.

This paper is an absolute must read read!
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TVEQQPEE8TTDJKN5WAQ8?target=10.1111/1468-4446.70095
#academia #gender #feminism

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116404712213309413

This is one of the most insane #infosec things I’ve seen in all my years of byteing bits.

Mike bought internaluser.com and
service-account.com and chaos has ensued. The sheer volume of Personal Information he’s been able to harvest, including the ability to reset passwords with no MFA is astounding.

On the one hand, I’m boggled that nobody has done this before now, and the other hand, I am gobsmacked at how bad security and data sanitation is managed at some really large and important companies.

Claude Design unlocks the project manager’s dream of making the button bigger without pushback. Half of your design team will be fired in a month, the design system and branding guidelines thrown in the trash, and the App Store ratings down one or two points in a few months time.
This is what knowing your physics well means

If a transit agency resorts to surge pricing, it doesn't understand the "public" in public transit.

While #Philadelphia keeps transit fares at $2.90 to get riders to World Cup matches, New Jersey and #Boston will charge $75 and $80.

(And yes, FIFA is awful.)

https://www.phillyvoice.com/host-cities-septa-fares-world-cup-philadelphia/

Corporate management is chronically •terrible• at measuring (or even noticing, maybe that’s the same thing) costs like this: irritated customers, burnt out employees, a diffuse but deep and persistent emotional shift, ultimately a creeping disengagement with an entire company and maybe its underlying business premise.

The MBA mania for cost-cutting as a panacea intersects poorly with this inability to •recognize• cost. “Cost-cutting” becomes “replacing costs you can see with larger costs you can’t.” https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/116432233093667120

Ciara (@[email protected])

Customer service staff must be hit doubly hard by enshittification and AI. Companies use AI in a bid to replace their jobs. The AI is useless and wastes time, so even a placid customer with a benign query will become frustrated and fed-up as they try to battle their way through to a human who can actually help. Customer service was hard enough in advance. It must be harder still these days, when AI has made even the pleasant customers cross before they get through to the human.

Mastodon.green
My son needs to get some survey responses for an assignment at college. Dont take it too seriously, it's just a 3 or 4 questions and the aggregated results are purely for a college assignment :-). If you have a couple of minutes and fancy helping out, it's an MS Form at https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=WNzgmUucIEiGFwTDhsJUxv58Gj80BJRBirZhiXX_TTBUQURJSVFJQ09YR1lQQ0gyMVNTRFo4SDFaSi4u&route=shorturl
Microsoft Forms

This is such a fantastic resource: https://anatomyof.ai
Anatomy of an AI System

Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)

Anatomy of an AI System
@badnetmask I'd buy the frame and 3D print the holders for devices. That's what I did for my cute homelab. @homelab @3dprinting
Chips vs. fries: I speak English fluently and yet I am always translating
Wole Olayinka immigrated from Nigeria to Calgary four years ago. When he speaks English in Canada — a language he has spoken all his life — the very thing that should connect him becomes another layer of distance.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-english-but-always-translating-9.7168581?cmp=rss