I'll temporarily DOX myself and post an actual real and currently hiring job opening in my org for a Senior Cloud Security engineer at IBM - they want hybrid (I know I know... - but in actuality they don't care if you come into the office much at all) in Austin TX or San Jose CA.
https://careers.ibm.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail?jobId=137705
Fellow Citizens, I found the perfect palindrome for today:
Rise to vote, Sir!
(To be perfectly transparent, I'm disappointed that you haven't voted already. But hey, it's cool, we cool.
Please go vote today.
If your vote didn't matter, they would not be working so very very hard to keep you from doing it.)
So, when should the first meeting for thoseleftbehind.club be? Looking for charter members to help decide the direction! #NoAI #ThoseLeftBehind
Hey U.S. mastodonians 👋
I ran large national polls out of two major RO1 universities for >10 years & I have a message:
Ignore the polls. They’re unreliable.
Just get out there and #vote! 🗳️
I'm an anti Gen AI whistleblower. And I'm calling out people and entities in tech and publishing in my upcoming memoir, How I Became The Hacker Who You Hate.
I lost my livelihood for standing up against the Open Institute of Technology, I refused to subject my students to Gen AI.
This Kickstarter is my livelihood now.
Please share! 🎉
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/how-i-became-the-hacker-who-you-hate/
maybe waiting for the AI bubble to pop and people to come to their senses isn't enough. maybe it's up to all of us to #StopTheSlop
idk man, i just think we can't let the sloppers win and take all our spaces and all our hobbies and all our joy from us. we gotta fight back, and if we have to make our own new communities that ban slop to replace old ones that didn't have the backbone to do it, then that's what we gotta do
and i'm not saying it'll be easy. i'm saying that unless we wanna just lay down and give up and die that's our only choice
I’m curious on all takes here, please retoot (I’d love this to escape my echo chamber).
Which of the following statements align closest with your setup and opinion, you don’t need to justify, so if you use because work forces you, that’s fine.
Assume LLMs to mean Claude and the like.
I am finally, finally reading @grimalkina’s The Psychology of Software Teams, and chapter 2 has this wonderful prompt: “A highly successful software developer is…”. So here’s my answer.
A highly successful software developer is someone who understands that all effects matter.
Side effects in code are effects. They must be planned, validated, documented, and understood.
All manner of effects come out of a decision. When we are only concerned about the immediate result, long-term quality suffers. We must design our decisions not just to produce a singular outcome, but to produce a process that is capable of producing good outcomes, time and again.
Our communication has effects. Our style of speaking may cause others to open up, or shut down. Our choice of words stimulate different thoughts in others; precise language may lead to a deeper discussion, and fluffier language might inspire a broader one. A short speech can prompt inquiry and curiosity; a written document is more likely to lead to decisiveness and pushing forwards.
Our effectiveness depends on the effects we promote.
I’m only on chapter 2, but even so: the effect I am trying to cause right now is for you to buy this book.
Progress on dungeon.social … #HandCraftedSoftware #NoAI
i'm getting very tired of an argument i've seen repeatedly over the last few days that's roughly "what's the point, AI sloppers will just lie and say they didn't use AI when they did."
and that's like saying "why have rules people are going to break them anyway". ok should we all just lay down and die then, since everything is pointless anyway?
Who should own your RAM?
Which is the most contemptible weapon of mass destruction?
Anthr-
Do you have a paid AI subscription?
I am an anti Gen AI whistleblower. And I need your help.
This Kickstarter campaign for my upcoming memoir needs your signal boosting. I lost my livelihood because I refused to subject my students to Gen AI.
I have four previous fulfilled (promises kept, books written and delivered) Kickstarter campaigns.
Please, please, please share.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/how-i-became-the-hacker-who-you-hate/
Poll of the Day... 📊
Do you choose to use A.i in your personal life...? ℹ️
if you are currently working in software or IT, do you think you would be happier if you were a goat farmer?
I am very sad. My favorite starship captain… https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/patrick-stewart-star-trek-actor-dead-1235141000/
New: you think you know Proton, but you really don't.
I spoke to 8 current employees, got Slack chats, meeting audio, and an AI manifesto written by its CTO.
CEO Andy Yen critiques AI in public. But inside, he is pushing everyone to use AI, even those with security concerns.
“That’s bullshit and loser thinking,” Yen wrote. “Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster.”
https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/