Notices by Doug Belshaw (dajb@social.coop), page 2

@derek Guessing it's a Pixel 4 or above? In which case you may be interested in @GrapheneOS

https://grapheneos.org/releases

(extended support, etc.)

Wishing everyone a very happy and inclusive International Women's Day

I think I'm going to go back to unfollowing/permanently muting people who don't CW war, etc.

The assumption that a regular human being should be able to emotionally context switch from shitposts to genocide is ridiculous.

Not sure how I missed this from @deadsuperhero about @bonfire a few days ago!

Such a nice write up of the great work @bernini and @mayel are doing

https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/bonfire-nextgen-framework/

My 13 year-old daughter just referred to someone as "a proper Tory" with obvious disdain in her voice. I feel like I have succeeded as a parent.

I do sometimes wonder whether solicitors realise that their profession faces an existential risk from AI and automated workflows.

Especially given they're *so* slow at doing the most basic things.

(welcome to the latest instalment of "Doug thinks he'd be better at most people at jobs he knows very little about")

Well, this is intriguing. A single-purpose website which just presents graphs with arrows pointing to 1971.

The reader is left to draw their own conclusion, but given that it was before I was born and don't really have much context (I'm not an historian of that period!) I'm a bit like... ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com

@pettter Well, I mean you could say that about any newsletter service. Or Mailgun.

Also interesting: Google Workspace now seems to include the ability to create and send newsletters right from the GMail compose window...

@lydiaconwell The latter by a million miles. I'm as disappointed as anyone else by the lack of clear water between the two at the moment in terms of policy statements, but I'd hope that would change once in power 🤞

@dnorman @harmonygritz That's usually when I look for my next position. Or, seven years ago, co-create a co-op. As I say, haven't had to have that conversation since.

It doesn't have to be this way.

https://blog.weareopen.coop/bring-your-full-self-to-work-day-7efbaea914f1

This was going to be a blog post, but then I realised I didn't have anything else to say other than:

1. 'Professionalism' is a stick with which hierarchical discipline is enacted

2. Encouragements to 'act professionally' are a way to drain the personality out of someone in order for them to behave less like a human, and more like a cog in a machine

3. Being a 'professional' largely means being held to someone else's standards

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk (sorry it didn't last 15 mins)

Subsequently been thinking while I've been out today about how many people are cosplaying their job roles.

Sacrificing personality at the altar of 'professionalism'

In every regular job I've ever had, I've been invited into my line manager's office for a quiet word. The topic of conversation has either been about 'acting professionally' or things I've said which might reflect badly on the organisation.

This is interesting to me, as my co-op colleagues haven't said this about me, nor have any of our clients. I suspect it may have something to do with hierarchical power.

@nemobis Oh interesting:

"Putting in place a tool, which could be accessible on the controller’s website, by which data subjects who log in from Italy can exercise their right to object to the processing of their personal data obtained from third parties, when the processing is carried out for purposes of algorithm training and provision of the service."

@clacke @neil Yeah, I guess that's why Italy banned ChatGPT

Yesterday, I received a sales call on my personal phone for tickets for Goodwood. I asked how they got my number and, of course, it was through a data broker.

I immediately went onto the data broker's website and asked for my details to be removed, in compliance with the GDPR.

It made me think, though, that LLMs are trained on a corpus of data that may include details such as this. What happens then? How do we get our data removed?

(I'm sure @neil and other large brains have noodles on this)

I know I forget to do it sometimes, but if you're creating a thread, consider making the first post 'Public' and the nth ones 'Unlisted'.

Given how important the Local Timeline is to the experience of Mastodon and the Fediverse in general for me/others, spamming it with lots of messages in a row is kinda sub-optimal.

There's also benefits to *you*! People will discover the first post in your thread, rather than seeing a post in the middle of your stream-of-consciousness!

@smallcircles @adamgreenfield @neil The deep, deep irony of suggesting Matrix for this 😂

I'd imagine something more like @bonfire would be more convivial?

(also this sounds somewhat related to #stacktivism from ~a decade ago? https://stacktivism.com)