Notices by Chas Emerick (cemerick@mastodon.social)

@nasser "our laws, our order", or "order for me, not for thee", etc

when these factors change in some years (early seed money gets cheap again, AI's oversold promises finally fizzle, or the tech labor market tightens), then all the tech companies that are now blathering on about "merit-only" practices will rediscover progressive values in order to become palatable to the women, POCs, and queer and trans folks they're currently shoving out the back door

I get it now: tech companies had to go along with DEI expectations and advocates years ago because some nontrivial portion of the software dev workforce demanded it. But then the cheap money went away and now the promise of cutting headcount via AI seems realistic, so they can actually follow their heart and safely toss the concerns of non-white, non-male devs overboard without consequence

Imagine how absurd it'd be for the Boston Globe to publish an op-ed from someone on the "Meta Oversight Board" celebrating the censoring of #tiktok with an absurd strawman.

That'd be so crazy, right? https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/14/opinion/tiktok-ban-teens-mental-health-privacy/

@mattly and here I am doing everything I can to use MDX for SSG and such 🙃

A little over a year ago, I Hirschman-style Exited from "social media".

For better or worse, I'm back. I can't believe what y'all have done with the place lol

You can expect all the same low-quality shitposts, tech and policy rants, and self-serving marketing as before 🙃👋

I blew a solid two hours on Universal Paperclips this morning, yikes 🥴

(No, seriously, don't click the link.)

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

Rust evangelism needs to take a seat for a minute. Getting 2015 Haskell acolyte vibes hearing someone say "rewrite it in rust!" or "cargo is perfect" for the 8th time…except rust-world is better funded and more popular, so the pamphlet-pushers are *everywhere*. Seriously, chill.