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Ms Ngo

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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jul 01, 2026
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Replying to @dan_kn@mastodon.social
@dan_kn@mastodon.social @django@social.coop Not particularly interested in what the pope, the catholic church, or any other religious body thinks about AI. Generative AI is an unethically trained & ruinously operated, rent-seeking anti-Labor technology that, from my perspective, should be stricly curtailed if not eliminated.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jul 01, 2026
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Replying to @dan_kn@mastodon.social
@dan_kn@mastodon.social @django@social.coop I don't see the quote from Naomi Klein as prescriptive; it's a valid criticism & a straightforward observation of what the AI companies are trying to do. Calling BS on Sam Altman's framing. Hopefully public criticism like this will lead to constraints on AI to prevent these harms, though unlikely under the current regime in the USA.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jun 30, 2026
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Replying to @dan_kn@mastodon.social
@dan_kn@mastodon.social @django@social.coop I don’t know that it’s an argument, merely an observation.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jun 30, 2026
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Replying to @dan_kn@mastodon.social
@dan_kn@mastodon.social @django@social.coop Mate, I feel like you're just trolling or something. Please speak plainly.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2026
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Replying to @dan_kn@mastodon.social
@dan_kn@mastodon.social @django@social.coop I genuinely do not understand your comment, Dan.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jun 27, 2026
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Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social
@nixCraft@mastodon.social He says “professional developer” with such confidence.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jun 01, 2026
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Replying to @distractal@hachyderm.io
@distractal@hachyderm.io @baldur@toot.cafe Ditto - instantly blocked him.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · May 29, 2026
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Replying to @ki@chaos.social
@ki@chaos.social @hailey@hails.org Looking around at pretty much everything for the last decade, I sometimes feel like we've discovered the Great Filter.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · May 14, 2026
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Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social
@rysiek@mstdn.social This is astute. A barrel of oil has the energy of around 20,000 hours of human labor. Four barrels contains the energy output of an entire working lifetime of a person. So we pump the equivalent of 20 million slaves out of the ground every day. They imagine AI as the equivalent for intellectual labor & will make them as fabulously wealthy as oil made the original capitalists.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · May 11, 2026
Ms Ngo
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Replying to @AppleCiderDonut@theforkiverse.com
@AppleCiderDonut@theforkiverse.com @dgar@aus.social Because "inflammable" sounds like it means the opposite of what it actually means so it became common to use the not-actually-a-word "flammable” in its place. So much so that it became a word & they both mean the same thing. Language is definitely messy.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026
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Replying to @dgar@aus.social
@dgar@aus.social Looks like the cover of The Left Hand of Darkness.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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Replying to @swiftacademy@mastodon.social
@swiftacademy@mastodon.social @qcoding@iosdev.space @atrabelsi@iosdev.space @natpanferova@mastodon.social Blocked with prejudice.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Apr 28, 2026
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Replying to @catsalad@infosec.exchange
@catsalad murder floof pro max
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Apr 28, 2026
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Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social
@nixCraft Also worth noting that any solution that requires taxing corporations or wealthy tech elite will simply not happen.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Apr 28, 2026
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Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social
@nixCraft I feel like we already ran this experiment with outsourcing manufacturing in the 80s & 90s & know the result; the laid-off workers will be blamed for their own plight, left to fend for themselves. Bankruptcies, homelessness, drug abuse, & "deaths of despair" are the likely future of those affected.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Apr 27, 2026
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Replying to @Gargron@mastodon.social
@Gargron@mastodon.social Males in the wild also seem to more frequently use overtly offensive fragrances in quantities that would kill a small horse. Must be the same dynamic that motivates them to drive loud, oversized vehicles.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Apr 24, 2026
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Replying to @ronanmcd@mastodon.green
@ronanmcd@mastodon.green Is it "normal practice" to set self driving taxi's on fire? Just wondering what the rules are, here.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026
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Replying to @typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt
@typeswitch you're not fooling me, chat bot 🤪
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026
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Replying to @ccgus@mastodon.social
@ccgus@mastodon.social Scheiße
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026
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Replying to @xgranade@wandering.shop
@xgranade If I were less ethical, I’d create 1,000,000 accounts & boost this post 1,000,000 times.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
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Replying to @ccgus@mastodon.social
@ccgus I feel like everything Google does is cursed.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Apr 05, 2026
Ms Ngo
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Replying to @stefan@front-end.social
@stefan I had a watch like that as a teenager. It was fine, but it wasn’t wonderful. If they could have done what a modern watch does back then, they would have. I don’t know why you guys romanticize this stuff.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Mar 31, 2026
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Replying to on mastodon.social
@nixCraft@mastodon.social We had a partial set; my parents bought it one volume at a time from a grocery store. I read those suckers cover to cover. But hanging out at the library after school was epic.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Mar 28, 2026
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Replying to @flexghost@mastodon.social
@flexghost Except Beaker is like 1,000x cooler. You’ve accidentally given him a glow up.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026
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Replying to @arstechnica__dup_1397@mastodon.social
@arstechnica One of the worst books I’ve ever read. The author held some truly despicable beliefs & said some awful things, too. I hope he healed whatever ailment made him that way & was a better person before he died.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026
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Replying to @wcbdata@vis.social
@wcbdata @brentsimmons Underrated response.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026
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Replying to @nixCraft__dup_2318@mastodon.social
@nixCraft@mastodon.social They do, in fact, see "getting staff fired" & “stealing ... work" as "plus points" & are worth the harms caused. They are not concerned about growing the economy so much as 'maximizing shareholder value' & the corresponding boost to their bonuses.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026
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Replying to @internic@mathstodon.xyz
@internic@mathstodon.xyz @baldur@toot.cafe If you haven't seen it, check out @baldur@mastodon.social's previous post on “GenAI & Labor Market Signaling”. https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115887338319876201 From my personal experience we're already at the point where you cannot effectively screen engineers to hire because AI destroys the competency signal. This is a race to the bottom & a massive, industry wide deskilling.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026
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Replying to @kaleissin@wandering.shop
@kaleissin@wandering.shop @tante@tldr.nettime.org @mttaggart@infosec.exchange Except addicts are just self medicating, trying to relieve some kind of pain. I can feel empathy & even compassion for an addict. What is the root of this addiction? I guess if I’m being charitable it’s a “blood sacrifice to the God of Capital”? AI is Cthulhu & AI bros are its cult?
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Feb 11, 2026
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Replying to @offby1@wandering.shop
@offby1@wandering.shop I ditched iTerm2 when Tahoe came out & went back to Terminal.app with Oh My Zsh & a somewhat customized Spaceship prompt. iTerm2’s enthusiastic embrace of AI is a massive turnoff & I never really used most of its features anyway.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Feb 05, 2026
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Replying to @helge@mastodon.social
@helge @mikro2nd @chris I mourn for what has become of us. I wish I’d stayed in nursing school all those years ago.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Feb 03, 2026
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Replying to @chris@m.objc.io
@chris 😢
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jan 30, 2026
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Replying to @thomholwerda@exquisite.social
@thomholwerda@exquisite.social @danirabbit@mastodon.online I mean, red meat is a class 2a carcinogen & preserved meat like bacon is a class 1 carcinogen. So, cutting back isn't just good the planet & kinder to our non-human cohabitants, it lowers your cancer risk.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jan 30, 2026
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Replying to @danirabbit__dup_15154@mastodon.online
@danirabbit@mastodon.online So right. The funny thing I've learned is, you might *think* you could never live without some food, but the more you switch your diet to plant based the less you crave or sometimes even want animal based foods. I used to think I could never give up steak or bacon. I no longer desire either & can't even remember the last time I had them.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jan 28, 2026
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Replying to @nycki@bark.lgbt
@nycki@bark.lgbt having this weird flashback to the early days of html/css ... didn't the original web color palette have names for each of the colors?
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jan 23, 2026
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Replying to @iosdevweekly@iosdev.space
@iosdevweekly This newsletter has become too pro-AI.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Dec 24, 2025
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Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop
@cstross@wandering.shop I don’t hate Gnome & always thought of KDE as a Windows wannabe, but you’re mostly right. Also, from a UI perspective, the flat era did violence to every OS it touched.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Aug 10, 2025
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Replying to @mwichary@mastodon.online
@mwichary I’ve written an app that can inspect & capture parts of the screen to zoom in on them. The permission being granted does permit the app to grab anything on screen. It’s honest kind of a frightening level of access & you really need to thoroughly trust any app you give this permission to.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jul 07, 2025
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Replying to @searls@mastodon.social
@searls@mastodon.social This is an odd distinction; in 30+ years of doing professional software development I’ve never observed this kind of split. Everyone has a mix of both capabilities & interests. Some may be *excluded* from participating one or the other due to organizational quirks, but this feels like a false distinction. Also, if you believe you are “scorching through” your backlog with some AI tool, you’re probably fooling yourself & everyone who’s counting your judgement & expertise.
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Ms Ngo @causticmsngo@mastodon.social · Jan 21, 2025
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Replying to @Patricia@social.vivaldi.net
@Patricia @AlanHicksLondon this is pretty much exactly how the us got into the situation it's in, so you're right to be worried
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