LoriHC @lorihc@qoto.org

@ayanonagon it’s already intimidating to have to establish your technical competence in a meeting, and trying to do that as a minority leaves you with so much to overcome. In my experience, there are people who make that easier for you, and people who make that harder.

For people in the replies asking for advice: As a hiring manger, you’re not going be able to change people in the second category: so only hire people in the first. Screen people for helpfulness and kindness, elevated to more importance than technical ability. Which is also easier if you forego the notion that it takes special abilities to be good at programming - anyone can learn to code, but unlearning bias is orders of magnitude more difficult.

I've been in the trans community for 20 years and I've known *one* person who detransitioned. We all supported that person, of course. Saying "we should acknowledge and support detransitioners" is something nobody would disagree with.

But the existence of a tiny minority of people who detransition is *not* an argument for making it harder for everyone else to transition, which is what this media frenzy often seems to be driving at.

With all the news about layoffs in tech, I'll throw it out there that my team has multiple openings we are desperately trying to fill: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200307779/aiml-software-engineer-siri-runtime-platform?team=MLAI

We're the execution engine of Siri: we coordinate just about everything that comes out of the microphone + NL up to domain-specific logic, across multiple devices and between devices + servers.

Job is located in Seattle/SCV/Boston/Raleigh. Sadly not remote-friendly 😭

It must be nice to not even notice when there is only one woman (or otherwise under-represented minority) in a large meeting besides maybe a product/project manager. For me, it’s a source of baseline imposter syndrome.

This is a sub-toot(?!) of many meetings in the past, present, and future — but if you’re in the majority and it feels like it’s referring to a meeting you’ve been a part of, what are you doing to help?

@shantini Yeah we said we should should get shirts made saying that

@dmoser Local fav: "SHARE THE ROAD" construction signs that block the painted bicycle gutter and force me into the auto lane.

@dmoser Par for the course. My small town built lots of bike lanes so that homeowners no longer have to leave their trash cans in their driveways or on the curb. SO convenient.

“Give Cyclists Space”

Hello 👋🏾

We have some openings at The New York Times for Engineering Manager level roles in our Delivery Engineering (DevOps) group. If you’re at all interested please DM me and I’m happy to share details and link you to the hiring manager.

Looking to connect socially and professionally with women and nonbinary folks in iOS! Especially if you’re brown, queer, genderqueer, or otherwise marginalized.

Please boost for reach 💜

@mathowie @delfuego @jessamyn @thomas they are a source of joy every time, unlike people trying to mansplain blogging to a pioneer of it.

@thomas Thanks. I have a blog, two in fact. This is a specific use case that Twitter worked well for and that I'd like to use Mastodon for. It's easier, using Mastodon's settings, to make a (short) thread where people only see the first post and can read the rest if they prefer. And some of the mobile clients make it simpler. It's not universal that people find threads annoying.

When people argue that economic growth is good for all, think about this:

"For every $1 of new global wealth earned by a person in the bottom 90% in the past two years, each billionaire gained roughly $1.7m."
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2023/jan/16/oxfam-calls-for-new-taxes-on-super-rich-pocket-dollar-26tn-start-of-pandemic-davos

Today, Stevie still exhorts us: don’t let them limit you to “just” an artist, or athlete, or entrepreneur, or teacher, or whatever role is dictated to you by society. Be you *and* be an activist. Stevie bet his life’s work that it would pay off, and persevered through years of setbacks. And he prevailed, for Dr. King. Just as importantly, Stevie's voice hasn't dimmed one bit in the decades since, and he remains profound and striking in his clear moral demands. We must listen.

CTRL - SALT - DELETE. One of the new names for one of our city snow plows #hamont

Grief is some nonlinear, inconvenient bunk.

Just "watched" a 35 minute YouTube talk by extracting the captions using youtube-dl and then pasting them into GPT-3 and asking it to summarize them as bullet points

I see reports of slowing growth on #Mastodon. Good. Don’t tell anyone else. Everyone here is awesome.

Except the artists. Tell them. And the scientists. And the musicians. Tell them too. And the chefs. And the space nerds. And the mountain climbers and surfers. And the farmers. Tell them. And the horticulturists. And the photographers. And the software developers. And the poets. And the astronauts. And the dancers. And..

Tell interesting people, the fediverse is where you want to be.