Notices by phillmv (phillmv@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte between the genocide in gaza and being trans, this year has really shown me how fragile the consensus is on “not being a huge shithead”

@simon

every now and then i feel like im taking crazy pills because i remember when aaron swartz killed himself because he was going to go to jail forever because he scraped JSTOR,

and eleven years later your manager tells you “sshhhh it’s fine just scrape all of it don’t worry the CEO said it’s fine”

Shooting sports are sex segregated because in 1992 a woman won the gold medal in a mixed event — and then in 1996 women were barred from participating

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240731-the-sports-where-women-outperform-men

Punditry: Lina Khan is useless! All she does is lose cases! Lol hipster antitrust is bad

Billionaire tech donor, sweating: You need to fire her immediately https://union.place/@inquiline/112854738548331698

@inthehands @jenniferplusplus good luck managing old node versions and npm dependencies

@cks wow you’ve been racking your own hardware this whole time?

@siege just earlier today i read this post and i think both of you have nailed it, as long as you can tell its AI art its devalued https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-digital-equivalent-of-wearing

@mjg59 @vaurora centrist compromise take: everyone in tech is overpaid but especially the executive class

@trisweb @loke @aral @shoq strong “the worst person you know just made a great point” energy

thinking that generative transformers are capable of “subject matter expertise” is a category error &

i worry that so many rich ppl are now freebasing decisions off ChatGPT has been a huge hit to our collective decision making IQ

like getting kicked in the head by a donkey

google maps told me to make a left turn that was actually not permitted. so, i tried to report it, somehow, flag the directions for review.

it turns out… you can’t? google maps offers no mechanism to report routes, even when it tells you to do illegal or dangerous things.

this is unfortunately very common — algorithms that are impervious to feedback — and it has dark implications for how we treat people ?.