George Dinwiddie

@gdinwiddie
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Software development coach and consultant ● I try to learn from everywhere. ● I follow those who enter into interesting conversations with me. ● He/him/they

Interests: #softwareDevelopment #VirginiaSatir #SatirModel #systemsThinking #humanity #QualityDecisions

websitehttps://idiacomputing.com/
my bloghttps://blog.gdinwiddie.com

For your Friday evening reading pleasure lol

New US House privacy bills raise hard questions about enterprise data collection

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4163345/new-us-house-privacy-bills-raise-hard-questions-about-enterprise-data-collection.html

New US House privacy bills raise hard questions about enterprise data collection

The SECURE Data Act and GUARD Financial Data Act are unlikely to pass, but they preview the privacy fights CIOs, CISOs, and CFOs will face anyway: data minimization, AI profiling, vendor accountability, and controversial new rules around teen data.

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Rhymes With Bucket (original song)

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Listen, folks, you *definitely* don't want to donate money to SPLC right now unless you'd like to see some of that money used to identify, infiltrate, and bring down white nationalist domestic terrorists.

Totally not. Definitely. Nope.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116460492250651385

I think the only real defense against LLM slop ruining our world is to dramatically increase our commitment to educating young people in both the humanities and morality.

"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm...

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

Today is an important anniversary.

75 years ago, on April 23, 1951, in Farmville, VA, Barbara Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school to protest the unfair and deplorable conditions of her school.

What?! You don’t know who Barbara Johns was?

She led her walkout more than 4 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and before MLK, Jr. embraced nonviolence as the way to equality. After she and her classmates turned the rural town of Farmville upside down . . .

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Hi folks; this is something I've been hesitant to post about since it's a very sensitive topic for me, but:

I'm moving out of the US later this year, and unfortunately for legal reasons I'll be unable to take my dog with me. All the rehoming services I've contacted are unable to take her in, so, I've made a little page about adopting her.

Please get in touch if you're interested: http://dscoder.com/melody/melody.html

#dogsofmastodon

IEEE: "...AI is a resource hog. AI electricity consumption could account for up to 12 percent of all U.S. power by 2028. Generative AI queries consumed 15 terawatt-hours in 2025 and are projected to consume 347 TWh by 2030. Water consumption for cooling AI data centers is predicted to double or even quadruple by 2028 compared to 2023...." #AI #climateemergency