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shiftingedges

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I make software that supports creative culture. Principal software engineer at Noun Project (prev Literati & Lingo), continuously learning to think about systems.

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thisismissem, to random
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What's the comparative statement in your industry to: “that's great, but can you hang a door?”

I feel like in web development it's: “that's great, but can you center a div?”

shiftingedges,
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@thisismissem @xgebi can you build it so people can use it without clicking?

thisismissem, to random
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I feel like anger is a great motivator, but a terrible sustainer — like anger gets things started, but doesn't necessarily last or have a positive feedback loop, it just dissipates & fades.

And being continuously angry doesn't seem healthy to me.

shiftingedges,
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@thisismissem this is similar to the problem with investing in gamification. It may draw people in, but connection is what makes people stay.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Rap beef is silly. People really die behind this nonsense.

People that say that they love rap beef, do love rappers... But in the same way that people that love dog fights, love dogs. Some people go to NASCAR races to see who the most skilled driver is, and to marvel at the engineering. Other people just go to watch the crashes. Their entertainment is watching you burn.

And like I've also said before, gangster rap is a performance by Black people for white people.🤷🏿‍♂️

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109893482569845648

shiftingedges,
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@mekkaokereke still rings true https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vDmGnGueik8

joop, to Texas
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In case you haven't heard, schools are set to start using natural language processing tools—computers—to automatically score some standardised tests (STAAR).

But no worries, it also assigns itself a confidence score that might send it to humans to rescore if it's too low (how opaque will that scoring be?).

But surely the STAAR tests can't be that important? "The commissioner can appoint a conservator to oversee campuses and school districts. State law also allows the commissioner to suspend and replace elected school boards with an appointed board of managers. If a campus receives failing grades for five years in a row, the commissioner is required to appoint a board of managers or close that school."

Surely you can appeal?

"For $50, students and their parents can request a rescore if they think the computer or the human got it wrong. The fee is waived if the new score is higher than the initial score. "

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/09/staar-artificial-intelligence-computer-grading-texas/

cc: @pluralistic this shitshow might interest you

shiftingedges,
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@joop @pluralistic having known people who scored these kinds of tests in Pearson test centers, the inter-rater reliability was likely scandalous to begin with (I was hearing stats like 60% agreement rate). Which means the model training data may very well be trash. Using LLMs to do scoring just adds one more layer of garbage to the dumpster fire that is standardized testing - biased questions, vague scoring rubrics, low-payed & poorly trained scorers…

shiftingedges, to random
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I used to find The Cathedral and the Bazaar inspiring, with its “gift culture” and celebration of non-hierarchical, collaborative creation. But eventually I realized that underlying “gift culture” was a darker reality: the need to constantly validate your worth and defend your work on a public platform. The gift becomes a debt you can never pay off. https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112205399028342839

shiftingedges,
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@chrisjrn that’s a great point. Even back then, he talked about the reputational value of FOSS for engineers, and I think the seeds for exploitation were there. But discussions about how to maintain a healthy gift culture as it scaled would have been super valuable!

kissane, to random
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Are there other Weird Studies listeners lurking around here? It’s a relatively recent discovery for me and I am having such a good time in the archive.

shiftingedges,
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@kissane yes! I found it recently via @marick and have been enjoying

shiftingedges,
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@kissane @marick what are some of your favorites so far? I’ve just listened to a few, I thought the devil tarot one was pretty interesting

grimalkina, to random
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There's a concept we often talk about in health or psych of practitioners having cultural competency.

What would culturally competent computing look like?

shiftingedges,
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@grimalkina could this be seen as an expansion or reframing of the idea of domain driven design? Culture driven design?

shiftingedges, to random
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Using verbal boundaries rather than technical ones to create safe spaces: this is how you build culture
https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112128325484799432

hazelweakly, to random
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I have a somewhat serious, somewhat tongue in cheek question: why can't startups plan to fail as their exit strategy?

I'm serious here. So many companies out there start off with something good, or even something great, and then the perverse incentives of unsustainable growth fuck up a lot of that and you have to make things suck enough to be profitable rather than be profitable because you're good.

shiftingedges,
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@hazelweakly @mhoye tiny speck? (though, don’t disagree with your point) https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/30/the-slack-origin-story/

thisismissem, (edited ) to Instagram
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Okay, does someone wanna explain to me what fresh hell this is from ?

Please check the replies before replying, looks like this may be related to airplay or something, not that I'd ever want that.

shiftingedges,
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@thisismissem this happened to me a month or so ago 🫣

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    @emilygorcenski Ira Kaplan was 40 when Yo La Tengo released their masterpiece I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

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