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a #SoftwareEngineer in #Chicago. life is weird.
@jaspar I think the phrasing of your question assumes that the discourse was serious and solemn, and if so, I'll point out that we have similar discourse about whether we really landed on the moon, whether aliens have previously visited the planet and so on -- to which we have similar specifically-pointed questions, but nobody really expects an answer to them
@DataDrivenMD @ivory @icecubesapp @elk Indeed, the third-party clients (and their lack of support for non-Mastodon platforms) has me seriously considering moving away from Calckey, which I do enjoy, back onto a Mastodon-powered instance solely so I can use the apps
@round i promise to implement all the fe features you design with at least 90% fidelity and i will only be up to moderately annoying about it
@round since when did you start working at #amtrak and are y'all hiring full time react devs đź‘€
@DataDrivenMD @ivory @icecubesapp @elk I absolutely love all of these third-party apps. They take my experience from "oooh nice" to "ooooooooohhhhhhhh" #love
With only a few exceptions, male journalists have little understanding of what female journalists routinely face in doing their jobs. This story, from @taylorlorenz, is must-reading. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/02/14/women-journalists-global-violence/
These women journalists were doing their jobs. That made them targets.

A Forbidden Stories consortium: Female reporters are often pushed out of their jobs as global news organizations struggle to respond to disinformation campaigns

The Washington Post
The three Cs: Credit, Consent, Compensation
"many artists are primarily looking for credit, consent and compensation from AI art generation companies"
“The developers could have treated artists as partners and stakeholders, rather than raw material to train on,”
@randomwalker says.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/02/14/ai-in-illustration/
Artists are alarmed by AI — and they’re fighting back

“I feel like it’s a violation of the soul,” says one cartoonist who is suing artificial intelligence companies for using images without permission, as illustrators ask: Will this transform our industry?

The Washington Post

It took all of twenty seconds for this box to get filled after setting it down.

I call it cat fishing.

25 Mind-blowing Reasons This Fucking Sucks