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• Post #3529142

  RE: https://mastodon.world/@OpenSexism/116848074881856737 More research showing different genders get judged differently, this time for AI use. It's interesting to me how the typical narrative is that women get a credibility penalty, rather than men getting a credibility bonus. It suggests that men are judged correctly today, but I dunno... I'm for dialing *up* the critical judgement of written work - especially AI-assisted - to woman levels instead!

• Post #2406656

  Really charming "topologists world map." Forget size or position, this map *only* shows which countries border which other countries: http://tafc.space/qna/the-topologists-world-map/

• Post #2110727

  RE: https://social.coop/@chrisjrn/116517753841493800 I adore this talk from @chrisjrn It takes you on a journey from programming as an objective mathy exercise to its real interpretive nature in a messy human world. It shines a light on practices that many teams follow out of rote and explains what they are *really* for. And I especially appreciate how it challenges us to understand what is being lost as so-called friction is removed! Very good stuff.

• Post #2073834

  Talking to friends in software orgs recently, I've been struck by commonalities across countries and sectors: Executives are driving "efficiency," by which they mean maximizing time spent on direct value-creation activities. BUT there's a tacit, industry-wide assumption that writing code is the only value-creating activity and that all coding generates value. It's like everyone has prioritized instantaneous boat speed and abandoned navigation and mai...

• Post #1967173

  Reminder: de-skilling as a trend in software engineering was already in progress well before LLMs. Toxic productivity culture, people meeting badly-designed internal reward metrics, hopping jobs and never seeing the consequences of bad choices, plummeting quality, short-termism. Sure LLMs add fuel to this fire, but I’m not at all convinced they’re causal. If anything, their popularity seems more a consequence of the culture than cause.

• Post #1871259

  It might be time to start journaling. We are going to have a *lot* of explaining to do to future generations. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/04/15/allbirds-shares-jump-over-400-on-plans-to-pivot-to-ai-from-sneakers/

• Post #1871258

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116411165219216844 🙌 I get actual chills at the incisiveness of this. From a forthcoming encyclopedia entry.

• Post #1871257

  It's not every day that my team and I get called a "roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within." 😂 (Obviously not linking to the source, because it's on X and the rest is worse)

• Post #1871256

  I am absolutely baffled how so many books and articles about AI don't disclose how AI was used in the creation of the work.

• Post #1453230

  Just in case you think data centers in space solves the cooling problem... Remember, a vacuum is a great insulator. Almost no heat naturally dissipates in space, so thermal management is THE design challenge! Some more detail, if you're curious: https://www.computeforecast.com/blogs/space-data-center-cooling-crisis/

• Post #1005647

  I think in gov tech we're now long past the whole, "it's not a sprint, it's a marathon" thing. It's clearly chessboxing. Oof.

• Post #1005645

  RE: https://social.edu.nl/@steltenpower/116342224146719123 You had me at the title! It's talking wayyy left, all the way to standards development. In fact, it's a nice little infomercial for the paper "Making technical standards work for humanity: New pathways for incorporating international human rights into standards development for digital technologies" https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/civicspace/resources/civic-space-study-tech...

• Post #1005644

  I feel the saying should be: do something you love, and you'll never *rest* a day in your life.

• Post #929409

  I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. Taken as a whole, there are many bottlenecks in a corporate software development process. The "load-bearing" calendar is a great example! Speeding up code creation just increases pressure on the bottleneck, which decreases throughput. https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

• Post #733610

  "Technology is neutral," you say? Counterexample: Ageless Linux. It shines a glaring spotlight on other OSs and their acceptance of bad age verification law, enacted under a pretense of child safety. In fact, these laws normalize privacy-violation and consolidate power in corporate entities without protecting children. Other OSs comply, but Ageless Linux is a brilliant example of the potential for civil disobedience via technology. This page alone speaks volumes: https://ag...

• Post #675269

  RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116218072775906613 Worst. Supreme Court decision. Ev-- So far.

• Post #675268

  I spend a lot of time thinking about who gets promoted in tech orgs. This isn't just academic. Promotion practices are an architectural pillar of the full system. One principle I see repeatedly violated, but which I would never sacrifice: Nobody should be named CTO or CIO of a tech org without a deep understanding of the principles of teamwork.

• Post #675266

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/116239950459997149 Huh, I'd always assumed that was a bigoted assumption about people who lived in hot climates. But nope, just a bigoted assumption about people of the past!

• Post #674335

  "Technology is neutral," you say? Counterexample: Ageless Linux. It shines a glaring spotlight on other OSs and their acceptance of bad age verification law, enacted under a pretense of child safety. In fact, these laws normalize privacy-violation and consolidate power in corporate entities without protecting children. Other OSs comply, but Ageless Linux is a brilliant example of the potential for civil disobedience via technology. This page alone speaks volumes: https://ag...

• Post #639392

  On the plus side, at least future generations won't have the cognitive skills to judge us harshly.