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#Caturday evening, #CatsOfMastodon how are you coping in the heat? The boss lady is chilling with ice cubes. She might need cooling down after she listened to our latest #TheGlobalJigsaw where we look into how the UK has become Russia's enemy nr 1. We have checked the metrics on state tv 🫣 have a listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9b05

Samuel W. Flint Jun 14

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Cat Hicks Jun 14

And the specific thing competition does to your brain, once you know about it, is hard to unsee.

We literally *stop being able to fluently access empathy* when our cognition is pointed at grouping the world into opposing sides. The more we see people as not as the complex individuals they are but as a flattened part of a rival group, the stronger these effects. The more we interpret group conflict as the stage for individual actions, the more our minds inhibit empathy.

Samuel W. Flint Jun 6

Rob,

value 71

Jun 5

Computer touchers - including and maybe especially systems people - need Need NEED the humanities so that we understand how the systems we build interact with actual humans

Samuel W. Flint Jun 6

Lindsey Kuper Jun 6

@byorgey I just wanted you to know that I read http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/forest/00FD/index.xml out loud to my students today at the end of the last day of my PL course, and several of them told me that it spoke to them. Thank you (again) for putting it into words.

Samuel W. Flint May 30

Mr Funk E Dude 🤡May 30

Libraries are my favorite data centers.

Samuel W. Flint May 18

Antoine Leblanc

May 15

i am so tired of "ethical concerns aside" being a phrase i see every single time someone tries to defend the use of LLMs. fuck that! ethical concerns front and fucking center! it is very revealing that tech is currently in such a state that the quiet part can be said out loud without any pushback.

Samuel W. Flint May 12

Veronica Explains May 12

So many tech bros are coming at me right now arguing that yes, in fact, Windows users or Facebook users don't deserve privacy.

Busting out the bold markdown for this: you're wrong.

Everyone deserves privacy.

Samuel W. Flint May 10

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Danielle Foré May 10

We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?

Samuel W. Flint May 10

Anna E. Cook May 4

AI can never be held accountable but you know who can? You.

Shipping low-quality or unstable outputs doesn’t just effect the product, it affects OUR credibility and jobs.

We keep talking about how badly AI messes up, but what about the career risk from it's mistakes?

Samuel W. Flint May 4

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Irenes (many)May 4

@Doomed_Daniel @lcamtuf we firmly believe, for ourselves, that code is communication

and one very big thing it's communicating is: hey, future maintainer, this detail is important

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