Mastodawn

i thing i’m struggling with is AI has crossed a threshold where it’s actually useful for work, gasp, but the discourse has been so poisoned by over-hype and fascism it’s hard to talk about

Yvonne Lam 4d ago

Getting an inkling why I twitch whenever someone invokes cynefin.

Yvonne Lam Apr 5

Show thread

Paul Cantrell Apr 5

I never quite understood what Carolyn Forché meant when she said “the choice is ourselves or nothing.”

I think maybe I do now.

Yvonne Lam Mar 27

Cat Hicks Mar 24

The big news in the Hicks-Juavinett household is that Ashley just started a newsletter 🥰 🥰 🥰

of note that choosing ghost was not a small choice, because every SINGLE popular science author in her network insisted she HAD to be on substack, so she is starting with a serious penalty in not benefitting from her large existing network all on substack who would have promoted this newsletter across their many science reader audiences. I hope we can get it to flourish 🫶

https://graymatter.ghost.io/the-limitations-of-neuroscience/

My first PubMed search and the limitations of neuroscientific explanations

In the case of something as wonderfully complex as who we love, it’s unlikely we’ll find it staring back at us on an MRI, a genome sequence, or our own hands.

Gray Matter

Yvonne Lam Mar 15

Lorin Hochstein

Mar 15

The three skills with a lot less overlap than you’d expect:

1. Ability to code.
2. Ability to perform well in a coding interview.
3. Ability to validate code.

Yvonne Lam Mar 15

elly Jan 30

Yet another day of screaming at digital enshitiffication:

1. My coworkers and I are in a car driving to FOSDEM.
2. We pull up to charge the car.
3. Charging station REQUIRES you to use an app, no option to just pay with a card.
4. We try to install the stupid app. We carry phones running:
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- LineageOS, postmarketOS, iOS
5. Neither of our phones meet requirements to install the stupid app (Play Integrity API).
6. My iPhone can't install the app, because it's "Not available in your country".
7. We give up and drive to another charging station.

This is NOT how you introduce applications, "Circle K"

Yvonne Lam Mar 15

mhoye Mar 15

Anyone else remember that thing where 2020 taught us that a bufferless, deeply interconnected world of just-in-time production was incredibly fragile, and an otherwise completely manageable temporary disruption would cascade quickly into economic catastrophe, but instead of learning any lessons or building resilient, humane infrastructure we told everyone that the crisis was past and normal was back and go sacrifice your lives and health to grease the machine?

I do.

https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

Drone strikes halt a third of the world's helium supply, threatening chip production

At the center of the issue is the precision gas vital to chip manufacturing and cryogenics. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication, maintaining the extremely low temperatures...

TechSpot

Yvonne Lam Mar 15

Cat Hicks Mar 15

This is super neato, I love an ingroup/outgroup intervention lever, people overestimate the negative backlash they'll get from their political group for changing their minds on something and if you work through an intervention to remind yourself that you've cared for a group loyally, you have less of that disproportionate fear

Fits in self-affirmation findings, where self-affirmation helps us 'shore up the self' to take riskier actions

https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/documents/working-papers/2024/wp-24-25.pdf

Yvonne Lam Mar 15

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gl33p/116234647527865826

The commons is such a weird place sometimes...

Show thread

Yvonne Lam Mar 15

I don't think it's inevitable, but I also have no idea what is going on in people's heads when they put the non-writing markers back on the whiteboard tray.