Notices by Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)

They’re teaching the Bible in public schools in Texas and the Democrats are like, “We gotta do something about this Zohran guy”

Christian nationalism is really accelerating in the USA and “we have to fight the godless communists” rhetoric is exploding after several democratic socialist election wins. Democrats have pledged to put a stop to it, and by “it” I mean the progressive policies

A social media platform where white cis men start blocked by default and I have to intentionally opt in to see their posts and comments

When we prioritize, remember to keep asking questions like “Is this fun?”, “Does this help?”, “Is this kind?”

I’ve had so many conversations now with long-time very serious open source contributors and advocates from a bunch of different projects that all are basically versions of, “Are we still doing something worth doing? Have we become evil corporate drones but just poor and tired? Am I alone in caring about this?”

We can’t forget our spirit of protest. The thing to do right now is double down on fixing the problems the capitalist machine won’t solve. Build for the least privileged among us. Build for old hardware, slow internet connections, disability, privacy, consent. Always remember that we can do things they can’t because we do this with genuine care for other people.

Is there anyone who is stoked about mkosi and build stream etc who wants to take this over for elementary OS? I’d really like to have sysupdate compatible images at least as an experiment. I just have too many projects right now https://github.com/elementary/os/pull/793

Folks, racism is inevitable. It’s endemic and there’s nothing we can ever do to resolve that. We have to learn to live in a world where racism is part of the norm. At the very least we shouldn’t be so militant about casual or benevolent racism. Instead of wasting time trying to stop racism, we need to refocus on promoting local, on-device, ethical racism

This post is about LLMs

I dunno who needs to hear this but I got a D in Linux operating systems in college. If you’re passionate about something don’t let some institutional structure tell you that you’re not good at it

We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?

I started elementary as a high school student. When we were building the first versions of our desktop environment, one of our core developers was in high school and his parents accompanied him to the Ubuntu Developer Summit. How many things we have today wouldn’t exist if young people weren’t allowed to participate? The cost of not creating spaces that we can safely share with young people is too high

Lots of people around me are doing heroin these days. To truly evaluate whether heroin is the right choice for me, I decided I needed to also start doing heroin. And after months of heroin use, I too am unable to stop doing heroin. Sure it comes with trade offs but it’s a truly useful and powerful tool

This post is about LLMs

At the end of the day, AI is a technology for people who like the idea of owning other people. That’s what makes it inherently misogynistic, inherently racist, and inherently fascist. It is an accelerated extraction and exploitation device

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pallenberg/116363771840357356

This is sickening. Where are the mechanisms that are supposed to prevent this? He needs to be removed now

RE: https://mastodon.social/@elementary/116325116309116883

Someone asked me for a refund over this post, so I’d like to make something clear: our community consists of trans and gay and disabled people and people of color and people whose first language is not English and a whole host of other kinds of marginalization and I have no plans to ever stop celebrating that. If that’s a problem for you, I am extremely happy to give you your money back.

Please be less aggro when you file issue reports. I know that you’re experiencing something frustrating, but remember there is a real person on the other side of the screen and we want to help you

You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-airport-tsa-federal-immigration-agents-4cfb93f7d2ff5a1ccb87d1bdbf54b959

@hbons don’t forget the side conversations of, “wow the purity testing of not wanting to associate with people who work with scammers is getting out of hand” and my personal favorite, “the anti-scammer crowd is more annoying than the pro scammer crowd”

LLM code is the lead pipe of our generation of software engineers. They’re going to be replacing it for decades and wondering how we were so foolish

RE: https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116200819973767850

No guys see the reason this billionaire controlled platform is different is because it said it was and I for some reason believed that