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Avatar is Godzilla rising from The Great Wave of Kanagawa

It’s 2026, and some people still believe women don’t belong in tech. But we're here to prove them wrong. 😌

At Vivaldi, women are cofounders, sys admins, developers, QA engineers, HR, community specialists, and office managers. 🔥

If you're a woman in tech, what do you do?

#8mars #8march #internationalWomensDay

I firmly believe Stayin' Alive is one of the greatest songs ever written, not least because of the vast range of musical styles in which it can be covered and it not only still works, but still absolutely bangs. Here are my three favourites:

Royal Republic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvuCvGUpFpA

Lizzy McAlpine and Scary Pockets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piTvLuHWLyg

The Darzis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUfsgwQm6Jk

#SmallCheeringThings #Music

Royal Republic - Stayin' Alive (Official Video)

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Hello internet friends and friendly internet strangers.

Things are rough out there and we gotta pay bills, so here's a thread of tech for good* roles for all y'all looking for work right now.

*or just less evil, I hope!

#FediHire

Revered actor Sir Ian McKellan telling us what the Bard thought about xenophobia - so beautifully recited I burst into tears. An important message to us, from the 1600s...

One of the many gifts we got out of the Epstein files is details of Steve Sinofsky’s exit from Microsoft in 2012. We learn that the Surface RT was selling only 10% of the low-end of their predicted sales numbers, he was being pushed out, and Epstein was coaching him on negotiating an exit package.

He leaked internal Microsoft email threads to Epstein, where they were discussing the $900 million write-off of unsold Surface RTs. He negotiated to exit with $14 million in stock, which we knew about at the time, but it’s absolutely wild to learn who was involved, and the inner workings of it.

Windows 8 is the first product launch I properly remember. I was sick on the day of the Build 2011 keynote, so I stayed home and watched it. I ran all the betas and was excited for how Windows was changing. We were promised a new era with nicely-designed apps and a far better experience for developers, but they utterly flubbed all of it by being so confident in selfish things.

They were so sure the entire 27-year-old Windows ecosystem would magically reconfigure itself around Windows 8-only full-screen apps. They were even more sure they could sell tablets that could ONLY run apps from the Store that didn’t exist yet - or ever. Of course it wasn’t going to work. Why would it?

All of those RT tablets, which other brands also sold, are ewaste now. The Store is shut down, you can’t sideload apps because the licensing server is also gone. They pulled the plug on releasing Windows 10 for them. Without jailbreaking, you can’t do anything other than doodle in Paint or write a document in Word.

It’s maddening that someone can cost the company almost $1 billion on a product ANYONE could have told you wasn’t it. It’s even more maddening they can get a $14 million+ reward for so obviously missing the mark.

Yeah, there’s so much more that’s way more serious out of the files, but this one was relevant to my life. It adds another piece to the story of how I first learned that companies with all the capital in the world will get greedy and let you down.

https://www.neowin.net/news/former-windows-chief-shared-internal-secrets-with-jeffrey-epstein-documents-reveal/

#epstein #windows

@tatonka As a fan of a team that has never won the MLS Cup, his photo does not exactly fill me with confidence.
Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known. When Star Trek became an animated series, the studio hired only a few of us to reprise our roles, excluding Nichelle Nichols and myself. Leonard looked at that decision and simply said, "No."

Today marks 7 months of unemployment and I am very much down to the wire.

I am a full-stack & backend web developer, fluent in TypeScript, with experience building data-focused applications and both SQLite and Postrges databases.

I’m located in the northeast United States and have experience working and successfully collaborating with small, remote teams.

Boosts are appreciated. 🙏

#FediHire #webdev #typescript #backenddevelopment #fullstackdevelopment

Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

Could people boozt this? I am so curious.

Are you a:

Millenial
39.8%
Gen X
36.1%
Gen Z
11.5%
Boomer/Gen Alpha/Other
12.6%
Poll ended at .
Anyone know where I can serve a DMCA Takedown notice on this paper? It was made using an LLM trained on my stolen fiction. Copyright permission was NOT sought. (I'm party to the settlement in the class action lawsuit against Anthropic and I'd be happy to join one against Google.)
https://mastodon.social/@ErsatzCulture/115838841401363457