Notices by Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange)

The republicans have put language in this most recent budget bill that deliberately targets trans people.

To be explicit:

Preventing trans people from getting care is as lethal as preventing diabetics from getting care.

It is -your- responsibility to call your senators - both of them - to demand that this bill not pass.

It is your responsibility to do this because you, as the majority, have the actual power in this relationship; trans people depend on your ethical and moral choices in order to stay alive, because we are in a very small minority and cannot meaningfully influence this process.

If you fail in this responsibility, people will die, and it will be, collectively, your fault.

I am watching your actions, as are other members of the community.

If you don't like this, then imagine how much I dislike your cis compatriots supporting legislation that is specifically targeted to kill me and the people I care about.

Fucking fix your shit.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/breaking-republicans-pass-big-beautiful-150406364.html

@gsuberland @xssfox @da_667

I mean, not to put too fine a point on things, but given the way hiring is these days, what do you expect?

90% of job listings aren't real. Of those, the remainder are asking for massive qualifications for shit pay; half the HR departments are ai slop; and if you -do- get through to an actual interview, then you're like as not going to be expected to do either bullshit "coding exercises" that have zero bearing on anything either taught or industry, or you're going to be doing free work for them.

Who in the hell is going to bother expending actual effort in an environment like this? Why would you expect respect from them when the industry gives no respect to job applicants?

yeah, I concur.

was having a discussion with someone recently who pointed out that nearly everyone who has knelt in fealty to trump has suffered setbacks, but everyone who has stood up to him has found their resistance rewarded.

this is another such case.

https://www.advocate.com/news/janet-mills-beats-trump-transphobia

@whitequark

lol I wonder if this is a sign that 'vibe coding' has come to malware.

also not to put too fine a point on it, but if other countries would like to accept trans immigrants from the US, making sure that the barriers around, e.g., having a degree or having autism or whatnot are bypassed would be -fantastic-

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3lmwy3mfhpc2u

that news about the shopify ceo deciding to make his company ai-first came to mind immediately when I saw this.

GDPR says trans rights https://www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refugees-court-case-against-hungary-just-improved-trans-rights-across-all-of-europe/

@silverwizard

this was specifically inspired by a conversation where someone noted how subservient that system's output's affect is, and seeing how it's uncritically trusted by, e.g., those setting tariffs.

Chewing on this a bit, I'm realizing that there are certain people who will trust anything that someone tells them,

if the 'someone'* who tells them is performatively subservient,

and I'm suddenly realizing a lot of shit about why social engineering works as well as it does.

* "someone" in this sense may include things that are not actually people

vibe raters?

@alex02 @inthehands @alice

I doubt it. From personal experience, being lied to by those who are notionally older, more experienced, and - crucially - endorsed by all those around you as 'right'? fucks your head immensely.

Even if, as you're suggesting, they have doubts? there is no safe way for them to express or explore those doubts: they would, in fact, be told that they are stupid for having them.

Judging people who are in abusive situations by your own standards isn't useful for you or them, and it gets in the way of fixing the situation; extending compassion - even if you think they don't deserve it - tends to work better for actually addressing the problem.

Do you want to be righteous, or do you want to be effective?

oh hey, we're at the "corporate extraterratorialism" part of the program here; we'll be seeing corpscrip show up any day now I expect.

https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/

This is cute, but recall that billionaires habitually write* books** about the good*** they do for humanity.

If you want to uno reverse card that dude, asking him to boast about his accomplishments ain't really gonna work. You'd need to have someone with actual authority over him, for a start.

https://mastodon.social/@mmalc/114059113127687796

* hire someone to
** "memoirs"
*** "good" is a bullshit concept that depends on adherence to shared values between those involved, and billionaires do not share values with the rest of humanity; the term is meaningless in this context.

Anyway, the actual "working surface" here is that someone who has, ostensibly, power over you is demanding you justify your existence -

and this is critical -

according to his specific values,
that do not align with the job's values.

I wonder if I can mod a keyboard to easily access dagger, double-dagger, etc. footnoting marks.

@mcc

Hi, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me.

new meme format shows some promise I think

@puppygirlhornypost2 @foone

"Only pull requests from organizations with a public DEI policy will be accepted"

:blobcatthinkingsmirk: Hey if you put a DEI policy in your open source projects, the feds can't use it now right?