tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
tobychev
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Conway's Law says that a technical architecture reflects the social structure under which it was built. But the reverse is also true. The social structures *we can have* are made possible by the affordances of the tools we have available.
"Tech problems/social problems": false dichotomy.
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This was sad for me especially; my favorite medium on the internet ever was webcomics. Webcomics still exist, sort of, but the loss of independent publishing and aggregation meant that they had to change to survive.
The shape of webcomics started to get shaped to the shape of Twitter's image box.
tobychev
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When you leave display logs for debugging "on" in production.
@kevinrothrock
What? That's just baseline praise now Kevin, under Trump you gotta pump those superlatives or you'll be out on the street trying to sell dirty limerics for food by summer.
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Every morning I go to the duck pond, not to feed the ducks, but to establish dominance. I throw bread in, then snatch it back before they get it. The ducks know me now. They just watch, defeated. I am the Bread King of the pond.
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I hung out with a fellow veteran Black person in tech recently and one thing that came up is how difficult it is to give advice to younger POC in the industry without sounding cynical or bitter.
I think Shaboozey’s experience is a great analogy. He has the second longest charting country hit of all time. Not only did he not win any awards instead his hosts made fun of his name on stage.
Working in tech is like that. Being excellent is not enough. You need to fully assimilate and then some.
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A pregnant law school student should not have to fight for accommodations. Yet Georgetown argued that a test accommodation would be inequitable for her peers and alluded [that] she should have planned better bc “motherhood is not for the faint of heart.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/11/22/georgetown-law-pregnant-student-final-exam/
@amydiehl
Holy shit! I guess they imagined a pregnancy due date is like a term paper due date and she should just "push out" the baby a bit earlier?
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The ‘big loser of the elections has been climate’.
That’s not quite right.
Climate is feeling increasingly energized.
The big loser is us, the people of Earth.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/23/election-climate-change-far-right
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Ukraine can’t afford to lose tens of thousands of lives to reclaim Crimea, but the peninsula could be returned through diplomacy, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a new interview.
https://buff.ly/3ASHPb2
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"Musk’s corporate empire has received $15bn in public contracts, while facing 20 federal investigations. But it would be no more than coincidence should that first number skyrocket and the second number plummet over the next four years."
Say what you will about Ayn Rand (I certainly do), but in any Rand novel, Musk would be a cartoonishly evil villain. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/elon-musk-donald-trump
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@jonny
Wat. You don't have to tell the University you are on strike?!
@dahukanna
@jonny
I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say "idk what's going on", surely you've heard of Trump and the ascendancy of hard right censorship norms?
"The proposed $250 billion in the latest COP29 text us a 30% REDUCTION in real terms from the $100 billion promised in 2009.
Inflation not only makes life ever more expensive for people across the world, but it also allows rich countries to hide the real value of their distant promises.
The reality of the 250 billion commitment for 2035 is that not only is it a fifth of the 1.3 trillion that developing countries need, it’s a 30% REDUCTION from the $100bn that was promised in 2009 in real terms (when inflation of 5% is taken into account).
So rich countries promised a wholly insufficient amount in 2009, failed to fulfil that promise for 15 years, and now are kicking the can down the road by delaying real targets for another 10 years, all while DECREASING the real value of their initial commitment by 30% by the time we get there.
This truly is the great escape from responsibility for the rich. $100 billion in 2009 couldn’t even buy the global south the coffins we would need for the climate trajectory the rich countries had locked us into. $250 billion in 2035 will buy us even less."
"💯 ...sign of our times that a US President repeats the absurd notion that criminal law compares perpetrators to each other.
Gallant & Netanyahu were compared to the demands of law and found wanting...the resulting similarity with Hamas is of their own choosing."
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NEW from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Disasters created 26.4m internally displaced people in 2023, the vast majority of these displacements were triggered by floods and storms.
2023 was the hottest year ever recorded at +1.45°C above preindustrial.
1/2
tobychev
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when you regret open sourcing Java because eventually your daughter has to learn it
@ayoub
Looks like they learnt some tricks when preparing the ICJ case.
@dromografos
No? I could see the account on my masto.social alt just fine and I wasn't following.
I can imagine that there indeed was a mod that muted in response to some report, and then the mute was reviewed and overturned before any more formal process with notification had time to start. Note that I am not familiar with the actual workings of the moderation on mastodon.social.
@ayoub
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
