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skry

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Antifascist, antiracist, a11y, feminist.
Trans rights are human rights.
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Gardener, artist, photographer.

30 years in tech so far - Left Coast USA
Ranting in #ux as needed.

Posting/boosting news about tech, ethics, science, US politics, climate emergency, public health 🦠. Visuals on art, crafts, weird stuff, living things, archaeology, landscapes.

Following behind you adding ALT text so I can boost your images.

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skry, to fediverse
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Lists of on
https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

List of
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14vfonxtyy0JFDxu5dZOZo-yAJrRXcu2lZ33atkFb7GM/edit#gid=0

Professional writers
https://truesciphi.org/psw_mas.html


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skry, to random
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I put the USB plug in the right way the first time!

Posting this as encouragement for others. It IS possible.

SusanDolma, to random German

Baby Yoda-Spiderman-Waldtier- etc Torten können angesichts eines Rhabarberkuchens einpacken🤩 Die gehört mir, liebe Enkel 😜

skry,
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@SusanDolma @evelynefoerster I have rhubarb! I didn’t know about this kind of recipe. Is it egg custard based?

skry,
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@SusanDolma @evelynefoerster Thank you! It sounds wonderful. It looks like the rhubarb goes in raw and chopped? How hot for the oven?

skry,
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@SusanDolma @evelynefoerster Thank you again. I look forward to trying this soon!

neurovagrant, to random
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Well, it’s a start.

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skry,
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@neurovagrant The trellis is amazing. You could have a wisteria on that.

briannawu, to random
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If you’re picking up on some sarcasm this morning, I have a good friend of mine who is literally one of the most famous people in a certian industry who just quit Mastodon.

She is trans. She’s an extremely nice person that doesn’t do well with conflict when it’s personal.

Why did Mastodon get mad? She forgot alt-text once and she didn’t think it was reasonable to get yelled at over some extremely mild posts on Trans healthcare as “political.”

skry,
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@ernie @briannawu People should just write the alt text for each other. should make that easy to do. Alt text should be part of the editable post also. Stop yelling. Fix the system.

dansup, (edited ) to random
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⚠️ Feedback wanted!

I'm working on improving the @pixelfed app onboarding, and want your feedback on the new sign up flow.

Does this do a good job at conveying the choice of communities to join while providing an easy default instance to join?

This isn't final, I'd like to get a general positive consensus on this before moving forward.

Boosts greatly appreciated!

Edit: Latest revision -> https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110439800953223538

skry,
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@dansup @pixelfed Some copy edit suggestions

Bextraordinary, to fiberarts

Must be summer, I'm clearing out all the projects that haunted me all semester! Here's a jasper wyvern with black bone horns and spikes.

@crochet @fiberarts

skry,
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@Bextraordinary @crochet @fiberarts
Amazing!

skry, to science
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Recommended: the 2023 National Geographic short series,
“ : Investigating the Unknown”.

It’s a compelling history of many well-documented sightings of weird things in the sky during the last 70 years or so, as seen by military, pilots, and hundreds of people on the ground. Journalist and author Leslie Kean lays out the facts.

Some folks in science, edu, government, military, aviation, worldwide, are investigating.

Streaming free here:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/ufos-investigating-the-unknown/episode-guide/season-01/episode-01-secret-pentagon-ufo-program/vdka32389580

skry, to random
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Proton mail or Fastmail?

dangillmor, to random
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The medical practice I've patronized for almost 30 years in the Bay Area lifted its mask mandate for its employees and patients. IMO it's grossly irresponsible, and will lead to more illness and deaths -- especially among older patients. I'm actively looking for a practice that requires masks, but suspect -- given America's total capitulation to covid -- I won't find one.

skry,
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@dangillmor Here’s a crowdsourced list of Covid-conscious Bay Area businesses via @violetblue’s Pandemic Roundup. There’s a tab for medical/healthcare orgs.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DGzvwWN3IhygotJED06xlazSbUwgfS7O6zF8_hNLo6U/edit#gid=0

gamingonlinux, to random
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This decision took YouTube checks notes over 6 months. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

skry,
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@gamingonlinux Seems your URL had “x” and “play” in it. It’s awful to think that the human-review queue might be 6 months long.

I hope BARD turns out to be better than whatever they are using now.

skry, to random
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Thinking of buying a bat box? Sometimes commercial boxes are dark colored and become too hot for bats. How not to kill while trying to help them: https://phys.org/news/2021-03-experts.html

iangriffin, to random
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I also got to fly on SOFIA three times in 2019 with some aurora cameras. Here's a pic taken on July 10 2019. En route south we flew over Invercargill with an aurora arching to the south. This was a special night!

skry,
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@iangriffin Really amazing photos!
Are the green spikes Steve?

skry, to random
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Our machine-generated internet will be a slog to get through until we build tools to filter it out.

“We might wind up with a two-speed internet all right: one with legitimate stories and one with computer-generated material. And the legit stuff will be outnumbered, just like bots on Facebook and Instagram overwhelming real humans.

"It’s in our collective interest to isolate the bot stuff, just as we don’t make friends with bots in social media (or at least I hope not).” https://mastodon.social/@jackyan/110359431161844240

skry, to random
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How long do we have before LLM search engines use query data to write articles on those topics?

skry,
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We must be almost there. Google just recommended LLM-generated garden sites and video to me. Andi came up with a dozen at least for a similar query.

We could have comprehensive botanical information for everyone, but instead we have link farms with copypasta playing SEO games.

skry,
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@larsmb @nfrgrt I wonder if they’ve soft launched Bard or whatever and that’s why the search results are more noise and less signal.

skry, to random
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“An AI taking your labor away ought to be a massive opportunity, if we were committed to the gravity-defying natural laws revealed by the new normal of human innovation.

"But under the old normal, if an AI takes your job, your requirement to work in order to earn life isn’t reduced, only your ability to do so. You don’t get the benefits of that collective easing of the collective escape from the old normal of domination.

"Somebody else gets it all.”

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/expensive-lies-the-old-normal

skry,
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“this dominant idea—that it is only through work that people earn life—is also accompanied by a general scorn for the value of labor. Surely you’ve noticed that it’s the same people who insist most loudly that work is necessary not only for human survival but for human dignity that are also loudest in opposition to providing labor with any worth or dignity that it demands, and most energetic in their efforts to crush any attempt by labor to organize in order to secure that worth and dignity.”

ryanhoulihan, to random
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    @ryanhoulihan My guess is that these characteristics are potentially illegal, blackmailable, or discriminated against in many locales, so making lists of people with certain characteristics is harmful on the face of it. Monitoring people based on sexual preference is worse. These are not the same as having a profile tag in an ad profile.

    "compiled a list of users who were being monitored after they watched gay content”

    skry, to random
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    “TikTok became one of the fastest growing companies in an industry famous for growing fast. It has been downloaded more than three billion times. In 2021, TikTok had more site visits than Google and more watch minutes in the US than YouTube. Globally, users spend 52 minutes per day on TikTok, almost double the time spent per day on Instagram.”

    "In 2018, one of ByteDance’s other apps was accused of promoting immoral content…Zhang wrote a public letter of apology”

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/tiktok-spied-on-me-why/

    skry, to internet
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    “Despite the mental toll of the work, which has left many content moderators suffering from PTSD, their jobs are some of the lowest-paid in the global tech industry, with some workers earning as little as $1.50 per hour.”

    “More than 150 workers whose labor underpins the AI systems of Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi on Monday and pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union”

    https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/

    grumpygamer, to random
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    "Why are video games so much
    better designed than office software? Because people who design video games love to play video games. People who design office software look forward to doing something else on the weekend."

    https://xanadu.com.au/ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCompOneLiners.html

    skry,
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    @grumpygamer Office sw:

    1. The buyer is often not the user; users are captive to the product at work, so some incentives don’t align and feedback is often not effective.

    2. Lack of competition leaves buyers and users with little choice; sw producing companies have little incentive to improve beyond “good enough”.

    3. There’s little incentive to test to show how expensive bad usability is in the enterprise, even as billions struggle with Office bullets, for example.

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