Greg Wilson

@gvwilson
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I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
Personal sitehttps://third-bit.com/
Software Design by Example in Pythonhttps://third-bit.com/sdxpy/
Teaching Tech Togetherhttps://teachtogether.tech/
The Architecture of Open Source Applicationshttps://aosabook.org/
Resume Botox: Omitting age and years of experience to increase chances of getting hired. AI in hiring makes it worse. Studies have found AI resumes portray women as less experienced and younger. When ranking equivalent resumes, AI gives men higher ratings.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/ageism-forcing-some-women-to-consider-revamping-their-resumes-in-a-changing-job-market-260694597992
Ageism forcing some women to consider revamping their resumes in a changing job market

As more companies are turning toward artificial intelligence to sift through thousands of applications, some women report increased incidences of ageism in the job market. This has forced applicants to consider what some call "resume botox," where one omits age or years of experience to increase the chances of getting hired. NBC News' Christine Romans reports on how job seekers are adapting. 

NBC News
Death of near-blind refugee — left at closed Tim Hortons by U.S. Border Patrol — ruled a homicide | CBC News

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo, N.Y., street in February — five days after U.S. Border Patrol agents left him outside a Tim Hortons — has been ruled a homicide.

CBC

Mossy 🟢

Easter 20% discount on my INPRNT store (link in comments), special code:

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No one wants to see Neo firing up a wee chat window ffs, terminal aesthetics are unbeatable

https://hachyderm.io/@EndlessMason/116342213950299987

EndlessMason (@[email protected])

@[email protected] "Which one would look cooler in a movie?"

Hachyderm.io
Who will commission me to do a study exploring whether teaching beginner coders to write a bash script that does something basic or an llm prompt for something more sophisticated feels cooler

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Karlitschek/116340639552226585

Does anyone know of a similar recent survey in Canada?

Interesting: Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds
https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-back-replacing-us-tech-poll-finds/ #Nextcloud
Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds

EU leaders are pursuing digital sovereignty plans to reduce the 27-country bloc’s dependence on the United States, writes Mark Scott.

Tech Policy Press
Worth taking the minute to process this, but time well spent.
The fun part is that I gave claude a few shots at building it, it's a low stakes project, I don't really care about the implementation and just need something that works, but it failed miserably because it's a relatively novel app using niche libraries that aren't well documented and will be almost non existent in training data, but it's a super simple system I could teach a beginner coder to build