Notices by JA Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)

Elon Musk doesn’t deserve a trillion-dollar package.

He deserves to be fired.
https://mastodon.social/@theindex/115195372849381972

The Fries-With-That software model.

You give the burger away.

The fries cost extra.

https://www.theindex.media/p/the-fries-with-that-software-model

I truly love that Apple’s courage ceiling was removing a port and literally everything else is too far

Since 2021 I’ve kept a log classifying my meetings. The tally so far: ~200 where the category was “someone picks my brain for free.” It's useful data. It's also exhausting. The log says it’s time to stop.

It’s barely 9am and I can already tell this is going to be the stupidest fucking shit I’ve read all day

If you love beautiful, indie software you have to be feeling increasingly shit about Apple and the OS these apps run on. It's rough for the devs and the users.

There *were* two wolves inside me but I replaced one with AI and there were layoffs

100% correct.

This is why I just launched crisis comms retainers.

$100k per year.

24/7 access.

A lot of folks won’t take this seriously.

The smart folks will understand the benefit of having a tech writer one call away when their chatbot screws their entire brand rep.

The cool thing about writing on the internet is that people hate ads, they hate sponsored posts, they hate paying for content, they hate subscribing to free email newsletters, and they’re still mad that “nobody reads anymore”

The Venn diagram of people who are mad about AI companies crawling / scraping the internet and people who are mad at writers for putting their work behind an email gate is a circle.

This is your regular reminder to carve out 30 minutes and *actually* read the articles you've been saving "for later"

As it turns out, "whoever smelled it dealt it" also applies in politics

All you need to know about modern life is that our fitness trackers reward us for standing up

Stop taking productivity advice from people who aren't in your situation.

"Here's 10 productivity tips from Elon Musk"

Fuck off.

You'll learn more by asking your Mum how she coped when you were a kid.

political debates are basically powerpoint karaoke for sociopaths

Silicon Valley invented AI girlfriends before it figured out healthcare scheduling. Priorities.

The take I absolutely cannot stand is when people say they hope homophobes and transphobes have a gay / trans kid to “teach them a lesson.” You want to wish that parent on that kid? You’re an idiot.

We cry over fictional characters.

We talk to pets like they understand us.

We mourn celebrities we never met.

And we think it’s weird when someone feels comforted by a chatbot?

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/your-best-friend-is-already-a-text-box-c8a3a70e2fac2252

GitHub’s future is tied to one vendor’s AI agenda.

If you don’t like the direction, your only option is git push elsewhere.

https://www.theindex.media/p/github-s-neutrality-is-over-ae97e9dfba287225

To be the voice of reason in rooms full of dreamers.

But somewhere along the way, that voice got too loud.

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