If you want things to change at tech companies, when you write about their abuses don't write to whip up the public. Write to the employees, give us ammunition to hold our leaders accountable.
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Handcrafted, artisanal app store manager at , formerly Mozilla, Palm. Now at @adora@mastodon.social
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Hello, friends! I am on mastodon full time now… the community’s spirit of rebirth has been good for my tired, jaded heart. There are more thoughtful builder type people than lowest emotional denominator attention hijacker types. Innovative client apps. Server outages. :)
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Ruh roh (at least in SF): asymptomatic test positivity rate now 5% (was ~2% last month). While not a perfect sample, implies that ~1 in 20 people in SF who feels well would test pos. for Covid. In a crowd of 10: 40% odds ≥ one is pos. Airplane w/ 150: 99.9% odds.
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But the most convincing word for the judge, the most uniquely human thing to say... is "poop."
If a human said "poop" & the AI "empathy," human judges would find the human 78% of the time. But AI does not buy this.
The moral of the story is that yelling 
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Man, if I could train an AI on work chat and then use it to write my impacc posts tho…
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It turns out that the only jobs not in danger of being automated are the ones that pay too little to be worth it.
It’s more likely doctors and lawyers will be automated in the future than fast food workers and janitors.
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It’s not that I can’t quit twitter, but I can’t quit Tweetbot.
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Therapist: and what do we do when we’re sad?
Me: buy seeds
Therapist: no
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My hard to quantify, “last leg of the relay race” team started a similar project this half (led by ) to track how we contribute to the success of games we launch. Seeing the same approach here gives me hope that we’ll learn more about what moves the needle.
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Our work is at its best when it equips people with the information they need to make change.
But how do we know if we’re doing that? We’re sharing a database we adapted from @resolvephilly. We hope this guide can be helpful for other newsrooms. themarkup.org/levelup/2022/1
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Modern first generation releases are not the products we need, but the products we deserve.
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Am I no longer an early adopter archetype? No, it’s the products that are wrong!
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Ehh, it meets modern expectations for a first gen product: demonstrates something new but doesn’t take full advantage, works mostly fine, expensive for the actual value provided
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Playing with the new kindle scribe, the pen on paper feel is very very good. Unfortunately, every other part of the pen experience is underwhelming.
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Been there TWICE
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Been there, tried that. twitter.com/jack/status/15…
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Covid () Chronicles, Day 982
Today – my Covid (as well as flu & RSV) plans for the Thanksgiving gathering. I’ll walk you through my current assessment of risks and risk mitigation strategies, and why I’m still being moderately careful. (1/25)
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A look at one of my personal passions: the 🫡, and how a symbol acquires meaning in real time
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Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps tcrn.ch/3VjhAiK by @sarahintampa
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This is beautiful
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I'm sorry for breaching containment, but Tumblr's mass mythmaking around a fake poster for a fake movie is the greatest RPG around right now, and everyone needs to know what the fuck is happening. twitter.com/io9/status/159…
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Do not politicize this tragedy? The tragedy is that you made our very *existence* political. And if you want to own our lives, you must own our deaths too.
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As you might imagine, being able to run a job on a server does a lot of cool things. It can also do a lot of bad things if it uses too many resources.
Your local SRE/whoever is going to build a system to put some guardrails around this.
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Lots of good memes in this one
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It's time for a thread on why Twitter hasn't gone down yet 
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It’s a hard job sometimes
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Imagine trying to keep it together during this meeting.
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This is a glorious thread of sysadmin disaster porn
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I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
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the most sustainable way to live is to become so interesting that none of your possessions ever go to landfill twitter.com/rachsyme/statu
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One thing that keeps me up at night right now is the possibility that Twitter’s potential death spiral will coincide with a major regional/national/global crisis. For better or worse, Twitter is a crucial disaster comms tool, and we don’t have a replacement for it. 1/
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to paraphrase a great philosopher, step two is to face God and walk backwards into Hell twitter.com/sama/status/15
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Seeing someone call Twitter’s new vibe “$8chan” is going to live in my mind for a very long time.
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Some personal news: still employed <3
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likes are now checkmarks. verification goes sideways twitter.com/esthercrawford
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Good thread on defending your ethical boundaries
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With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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being on Twitter right now is like playing the violin on the titanic except we are also making fun of the iceberg and the iceberg is getting genuinely mad
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Which is really awesome on top of the other auditory processing issues I already have! I already have to constantly take notes forwards and backwards in time lol
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This is me. I have found myself adopting a low key George Bush-like coping strategy to just start saying some words and I’ll eventually get close enough. Not debilitating, just annoying and embarrassing enough for me to apologize for if it gets too clumsy twitter.com/drclairetaylor
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Tweetbot is the only app I use without a fair android equivalent. If tweetbot goes away my likelihood of switching to android increases 10x. THEREFORE☝🏻 Apple should buy twitter.
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