Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

It's a podcast day!!! VERY pleased to have gotten the chance to chat about my Developer Thriving research with the folks at Stack Overflow, a place I've profoundly benefited from and a community I love. We talk about developers' unique needs, how I hope we can give them data and evidence that helps them get those needs, and more! 💖

https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/07/18/how-ics-can-get-recognition-for-their-work-on-big-projects-ep-590/

Hello Fediverse!
#Introduction

This account posts very basic facts about the #climate.
We assume most people here already know that kind of stuff, but sometimes its good to review the basics and not get caught up in too complicated stuff.

Also this might help you when talking with skeptics.

Thanks and have a nice day. ❤️

A web server has zero (say it with me, “zero”) right to compel any client to reveal information about itself.

Unless we inscribe this as a fundamental and immutable tenet of the web, the web as we know it will cease to exist once some version of Google’s Web Environment Integrity proposal makes it past the corporate lackeys at the W3C.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

#WebEnvironmentIntegrity #web #DRM #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #Google #adtech #privacy #w3c #standards

Many things have changed since 2018, such as the names of the companies in the Fortune 100 list. But one aspect of that vaunted list that hasn't shifted much since is that very few of these companies list any security professionals within their top executive ranks.

The next time you receive a breach notification letter that invariably says a company you trusted places a top priority on customer security and privacy, consider this: Only four of the Fortune 100 companies currently list a security professional in the executive leadership pages of their websites. This is actually down from five of the Fortune 100 in 2018, the last time KrebsOnSecurity performed this analysis.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/07/few-fortune-100-firms-list-security-pros-in-their-executive-ranks/

Reddit has started seizing subreddits from moderators who had kept them private as part of the protest about using high API fees to kill 3rd party clients.

I don’t expect this to be the end of reddit but the site will never be the same again. A sense of community has been violated in an almost irreparable manner.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23802370/reddit-over-reopens-subreddit-protest-male-fashion-advice

If you use Chrome, you’re supporting this utter shit (tl;dr Google is moving to ban adblockers by introducing DRM for websites): https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

This is wider distribution:
"Meta’s LLaMa 2 license is not Open Source"

Co-opting the term "open source" to then place restrictions on it is not helpful.

Yes, we are in new territories. Perhaps the open source definition needs to be relooked, but while that could be something OSI could do (along with the community), for now, LLaMa is NOT open source compliant.

https://blog.opensource.org/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source/

I am quite delighted with my new t-shirt!

Privacy is a Human Right 🔒
Encryption is not a crime ✊✨

#Privacy #Encryption #RootForE2EE 🎉

#BucketList item achieved! Today I finally made it to Sunrise at sunrise. Love my mountain-flower photos to come later! #MtRainier #pnw #Washington #mountains #sunrise #hiking #GetOutside

Humans first set foot on the Moon #OTD in 1969.

Images: NASA

Hi new people. Since some of you might have followed without knowing much about me, here's an, I guess, #Introduction:

I'm an expert in the philosophical and social foundations and implications of technology, especially "AI"— specifically in how it affects the lived experiences of marginalized people, but also, and more crucially, how marginalized individuals and populations should be centered as creators at the hearts of these technologies, rather than either a population to be datafied and extracted from, or as outsiders brought in to consult on design as mere afterthoughts.

I've been working at the intersection of marginalization, human values, "AI," and technology in academia for just shy of 20 years, and in various corners of industry for about a decade. I teach, I write, I give talks, I participate in and lead research teams, and work with multiple organizations, working to shape everything from the access to the pedagogy to the policy of "AI," assistive tech, space exploration, healthcare, and human biotechnological interventions.

If you want to know more about me, you can find links to most if not all of my work at:

My CV: https://afutureworththinkingabout.com/?page_id=5038
On my website under the tag "My Voice": https://afutureworththinkingabout.com/?tag=my-voice
On my website under the tag "My Words":
https://afutureworththinkingabout.com/?tag=my-words
And on my website under the tag "My Writing":
https://afutureworththinkingabout.com/?tag=my-writing

And that's some stuff about me.

@LouisIngenthron Congratulations. Your experience isn't shared by a lot of people and organizations (one example written up: http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html).
There's more than one reason a bunch of universities either get outlook for their official mail or encourage students/faculty to use their private addresses.
(and from now on I'll detach @DataDrivenMD from the convo, just noting it here)

Folks still spending too much time worrying about how Meta *might* monetize the Fediverse and not enough time figuring out how to make the Fediverse financially sustainable. Is the "plan" to live off donations forever? Is it to *hope* that everyone self-hosts? If so, how are they supposed to gain that knowledge, and how are systemic inequities factored into this "plan"?

Or is the "plan" to tone-police everyone onto managed hosts that obfuscate capitalism behind a virtuous layer of abstraction?

#PPOD: The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you’d never know it from Webb’s chaotic close-up.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI); Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

#space #science #jwst #scicomm

Fun(?) fact: as a non-native speaker, listening to a talk in English from a (fluent but) not-native speaker, is a lot easier than a talk in English from a native speaker.
@academicchatter

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002184

In-N-Out bans employees from wearing masks in five states

Why any progressive still goes there frustrates me. Their stance over vaccinations should have been the deal breaker. The reasoning ? They want customers to see smiles.
#Covid #Covid19

https://www.wcpo.com/in-n-out-bans-employees-from-wearing-masks-in-five-states

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made $1 billion from the company. Earlier this year he laid off more than 10,000 workers.

Hard to think of a better example of inequality in tech and the wider economy.