Notices by EVHaste (haste@mastodon.social)

@evacide when you publish it, I’d love to read it

@Mastodon Oooh, I like this.

I no longer recognize the legitimacy of the United States government.

@Gargron thanks fam! Is this something that was already on your radar or the first you’re hearing of it?

@Gargron Concerned there might be something fishy and novel going on here.

This is a network of bots boosting each other to the front page of .socials’s popular feed, despite none of the folks boosting it being on this instance. They’re all coming from a bespoke one. I’ve seen it a few times this week.

The result is basically an ad and I’m wondering 1) what underlying system causes this to happen and 2) if it represents undesirable behavior from your perspective as an engineer/admin.

@joeo10 that’s a pretty good idea. I’m a little hopeless with computers these days but I bet I could figure it out

This is my last Windows machine. I don’t care how much of a learning curve there is, I’m done with Microsoft’s anti-user fuckery.

@chloe cancelled by math

It must be wild to be a student right now.

School shootings? You’re on your own. Thoughts and prayers.

Peaceful protest? That’s going too far. Send in the riot gear.

That America feels empowered to intervene in one but not the other tells you everything you need to know.

Does anybody have a connection at Netlify?

Long story short, they won’t work with you if you’re #transgender, and they’re holding my domain hostage. They refuse to speak to anyone except [deadname] via an email that no longer exists.

After explaining my transition to the support rep, and offfering to give them an updated ID, they’ve just stopped responding to my emails. I need to get ahold of a human who isn’t an asshole.

I am so fucking tired of the trans tax.

#tech #help #lgbtq

This is the...fourth one I've witnessed personally, now? I was laid off with even less grace than this over a year ago. I can call it out because I've got no skin in the game anymore. I'm not getting rehired; I don't need to cultivate a professional image on the net anymore, so I'll tell y'all what you need to hear:

Unionize.

If your work doesn't have a #union . Make one. Start right now.

Collective action is the only thing that will protect you from your boss's greed and incompetence.

Y'all execs are so particular about abolishing remote work because human connections and face to face interactions are so important to you, until it's time to tell someone they're about to pay for a mistake you made.

And that's not even touching the elephant in the room, that these companies are making massive profits in what may be the greatest wealth transfer in all of human history?

An early morning surprise all-hands, with an ominous "don't come to the office today" and no details.

If you survive that heart attack, you're treated to performative PR jargon over Zoom, taking no questions.

Instructions to wait quietly for half an hour to see if you receive the "you're fired" email.

Watching your peers accounts wink out like dead stars in Slack.

And then you have to go back to work and, what, give delivery estimates?

Not a shred of humanity anywhere in the process.

I sat off-screen and listened to a peer's #layoffs at a major #tech company last week. I didn't even work there, and even with that distance, I am astounded and disgusted at the state of this industry, and the spinelessness of the proceedings.

If you haven't experienced one yet, let me tell you the playbook.

@null_hypothesis @adamshostack @inthehands

I wish I that we could count on that outcome. That’s the way it *should* work, but our legal system is not always rational. See: qualified immunity, inability to discharge student loan debt, whether I can get my own hormones. Common sense says these models are themselves copyright infringing, yet…?

I’m not mad, but I am a little exhausted from my DM’s filling with folks confidently telling me no law is necessary.

With #substack ‘s latest admission that they’d like to keep accepting Nazi money, this is a good time to re-share a prescient article from #trans #writer Jude Doyle in 2021:

“Substack takes a small percentage of my subscription money… and they use that money to pay men who have, in several instances, stalked or harassed either me or people I care about.“

Read about their quarter mil advances to white supremecists. This is not new

https://doyles.substack.com/p/in-queers-we-trust-all-others-pay

@Gargron Thanks for making the cool place I get to hang out. Take care of yourself.

I would like to see a law which makes companies responsible for any errors their AI makes. Since their key appeal is for passing accountability to a black hole, I think it ought to transfer to them instead.

If they had to manage that risk I think we would see more responsible use.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/humana-also-using-ai-tool-with-90-error-rate-to-deny-care-lawsuit-claims/

@ryanhoulihan this sounds really hard :(

Saw my first ads on Mastodon this morning. :/