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Alex McLean Oct 16, 2024

I've been thinking a lot about what a friend pointed out - that mixed gendered spaces often quickly become male-exclusive because men tend to have much higher tolerance for arsehole behaviour than women, so it only takes one dodgy person to destroy a community as all the women basically leave. Once such a community has heavy male bias it can hardly recover, and its lack of representation means it can hardly succeed in any social, cultural or technical aims. Rings true for the extraordinarily bad gender balance in free/open source software in the context of the Stallman report.

Melissa Fehr 1d ago

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇1d ago

The new mayor of #Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, celebrated his victory last night by riding to city hall on a Vélib' bikeshare bicycle.

He's promised 60,000 new social housing units 15 express bus routes, 1000 new pedestrian streets, completion of bike path network...

🧵

Melissa Fehr 1d ago

ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chan 2d ago

Sums up my experience growing up

Melissa Fehr 2d ago

McNadoMD 2d ago

Deploying the poorly-vetted, untrained, violent, unaccountable mob we call ICE to airports is hilarious. You want guns lost in the secure area? This will accomplish that. You want people running or driving across taxiways and runways? This will do it. ICE agents are the biggest group of serial fuck ups I have ever seen.

Christine Lemmer-Webber 3d ago

Also, and I want to say more on this soon, but if you think that the big AI players are hoping for *anything but* them being able to put a legislative moat around themselves where output *is* copyrighted and training materials *are* restricted but they're the *only ones* able to play, you're being a fool.

Their key goal is to capture rent on all intellectual pursuits.

Melissa Fehr 3d ago

josh's harp 4d ago

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

As a mitigation against rising oil prices, the International Energy Agency has recommended working from home, and a shift from private cars to public transport. https://www.iea.org/news/new-iea-report-highlights-options-to-ease-oil-price-pressures-on-consumers-in-response-to-middle-east-supply-disruptions

Melissa Fehr 4d ago

Zack Polanski 5d ago

Bills could be cut by up over £200 a year by stopping gas setting the price of energy in the UK.

Government could do this now as part of a series of measures to insulate us from the shockwaves of this war.

This isn't a time for half-measures, we need serious action and fast.

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