Notices by Lina (lina@neuromatch.social)

anybody got a good resource for design tips/templates for resumes that work well for both human eyes and resume parsers/LLM filters? i don't trust anything that search engines give me for this stuff

#JobSearch #FediHire #GetFediHired

i wish more people understood "value neutrality" and "being apolitical", in any context, to be bad faith claims rather than ideals to strive for. like, you're telling me you don't want to identify with any values or stances? that's real fuckin sus dude, what are you hiding?

@thomasfuchs
what's this from?

@dalias
@inthehands

yeah, that's how i see it. also, i think it's possible to celebrate his death while still generally condemning gun violence and systems that enable and perpetuate political violence.

@GottaLaff
@aud

the nastiest replies in that thread are clearly coming from the people agreeing with you while using ableist language to scold trans people for calling out the problematic nature of endorsing a politician who is actively hostile to our existence. wow.

@xgranade
i think "warrior" is the scent... which sounds like it just makes your clothes smell dirty sweaty bloody

fellas, is a it gay to do laundry?

#PointlesslyGendered #MasculineFragility

@Taweret

when crossing into canada by car, do you have to go thru US customs/etc, or are you pmuch just dealing with Canadian officials?

i know things can change, but thinking about potential escape routes and wanna know what the current situation is like

when we talk about putting an end to crypto/AI/surveillance/etc because they cause significant harm to us and the environment, the people in charge love to say "well, the cat's out of the bag, there's no turning back! now that it's been shown that it can be done, we can't stop people from doing more of it!"

but now that a CEO got killed and everybody rejoiced, they're all "we must prevent this from happening again by any means necessary!"

that's because they know that our cat can convince their cats to get back in their bags.

they don't actually care about their safety as much as maintaining their money/power. if they cared that much about their safety they wouldn't be doing stuff like getting into busted submarines, making the planet uninhabitable, and making us suffer so much that everybody wants them dead.

#NaNoWriMo says condemning the use of #LLMs is ableist, but we know that LLMs regurgitate dominant perspectives, biases, and styles. These biases include whiteness, heteronormativity, and, yes, #neuronormativity. This hegemonic reinforcement is unavoidable because they're trained on massive, indiscriminately-scraped datasets. Given the social dominance of these biases, they form the bulk of the models' training.

By saying that LLMs are useful, enabling writing tools for neurodiverse peoples - whether for text generation, editing, or review - they're implying, whether intentional or not, that the purpose of accommodation is conforming to neuronormative, ableist standards. This is not enablement, it's erasure. It's a condemnation of #neurodiversity as a pathology that should be masked; that assimilation is how we should overcome adversity and disability. It reinforces neuronormativity and #ableism, just as LLMs do.

Our society disables people. From the infrastructures that shape our means of interaction to the conventions that embody them, we favor an idealized form of humanity that reflects the racial, gendered, ableist, classist power imbalances that dominate us. LLMs are not cognizant of this. They're not cognizant of anything. They're probabilistic next word guessers, and the most probable next word in our society is one that enables power and disables the powerless.

Fuck LLMs. Don't let these assholes use us to hype their grift. Remember that TESCREALism is eugenicist, and that this characterization of accommodation plays right into eugenicist ideas about eliminating neurodiverse peoples. tl;dr: eat shit NaNoWriMo.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
i once got kicked out of a bar bc I threw two full pints of beer onto some guy who would. not. fucking. let. up. about how "great" he thought Tulsi was and that she was "the left we really need" 🙄

all of my coworkers, 100% of them, who have school-aged children also have covid right now. this shit is not ok.

a fediverse app where users can edit html/css to style their profile pages like myspace

"if you can't do, teach" is bs. effective teaching often requires mastery of a given subject beyond what's needed to "do"

the actual thing going on in the world is: "if you can't do, micromanage those who can"

them: "what's that tattoo?"

me: "it's Ned Ludd, the mythical leader of the luddites"

them: "but aren't you in tech?"

me: "aha! you have fallen for my expertly laid trap, and now you must listen to my lecture on the history of the luddites!"

@trochee
@danhon
it's not aphasia, it's the free plan

@danhon
@trochee

i've def thought about a similar sf concept where neural implants initially get released as a medical/cognitive enhancement thing but then get enshittified so that things like being awake, language, motor skills, etc get paywalled with a subscription model. lots of places you can go with that core premise

github copilot lookin useful af. it's like it knows what you're gonna do next

#ai #llm #generativeAI

say NO to 2024! no more years! #EndDates

• every year is worse than the last
• "being on time" is neuronormative and ableist
• date/time math is inconsistent and annoying
• "number goes up" is unsustainable
• "see you in a bit" is just fine
• nobody ever knows what day it is so let's just stop pretending
• buses don't run on "time", they show up when you light a cigarette
• deadlines were invented by capitalists
• global south forced to winter during summer
• time is an illusion and calendar isn't real - we made it up!

we can do better!