Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@qoto.org
Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com
Joined Oct 2022
@jessitron Basically the way I learned everything from birth to 1y, which I imagine is still most of what I know.
@GeePawHill Nobody’s... endeavoring anything anymore?
Guess it was bound to happen eventually.
@actualham I mean, is he, though?
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"OK, when Black dads are present, they're involved. But too many Black dads are just not there! Why aren't they there?"
In the US, a Black man has a 1 in 4 chance of going to jail. Most likely for "drug use," even though white folk do more drugs. 🤷🏿♂️
Most Black dads incarcerated have not even been convicted of any crime. They're "awaiting trial," and are too poor to afford bail. You can be waiting for trial for *years*.
Some of the best #sts articles are written by journalists. Wish Susan Leigh Star had lived to see the human classification work that goes into AI.
From: @mamund
https://mastodon.social/@mamund/110723648878596663
@jeffjarvis As long as they can phrase it as a disappointment, I’m sure they’ll be fine.
@JuliusGoat This makes total sense on one level: Conservatism was always MAGA that dared not speak its name. But the interesting q to those hoping one day to live in a world without MAGA is why, at some point, that value system got established in him when it didn’t in you or others. (Or why, once established, it changed for others and not him.) Somewhere the stories diverge, and there must be some leverage there.
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It is so shitty to have to use GoFundMe to pay for a homeless kid to go to college. When I started to work on college affordability, I never thought that decades into the work it would still be so hard, particularly for young people, to access an education. And yet here I am having taken in a homeless kid, and even I can't find any other way to get them back to their college without this campaign. Please share, help, beg your friends. This is what desperation looks like. https://gofund.me/604e71ce
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"The Federal Trade Commission has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker of the popular ChatGPT bot has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk," reports Cat Zakrzewski: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/ftc-openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-lina-khan/
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In case you missed it, all links on Mastodon count as 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how many characters the link really is.
So, you don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon as they won't actually affect the link's length.
Mastodon does this because it's better for everyone's privacy to avoid link shortener services, it means people can see what they're clicking on, and the link won't stop working if the shortener service shuts down.
More info at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon/
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Can confirm: being fucked by Apollo is not worth. Being able to see the future but being unable to do anything about it kind of sucks.
@carnage4life Be funny if due to a typo the new law ended up targeting the NY Mets instead of Zuck & co
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Meta turned over their DMs, used as evidence to convict them on felony charges for accessing criminalized healthcare. Meta had no choice -- they had the data so had to hand it over.
End-to-end encryption keeps people safe. https://jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-pleads-guilty-to-giving-abortion-pills-to-1850621217
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i stan @WIRED so fucking hard for this https://www.wired.com/story/why-we-do-not-recommend-ring/
@RohanMaitzen I haven’t started teaching yet, but my idea is, at least for some assignments, to require students to turn in both their own work and ChatGPT’s (or some other generative AI’s) take on the assignment. I figure it’s little to no additional effort on their part and it provides a chance for both me and them to differentiate their writing from spicy autocomplete.
In the future, everyone will be on every social media app for fifteen minutes.
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My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.
Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”
Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”
Sasha Akhavi
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Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com
Joined Oct 2022
