Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
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Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23
Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm)
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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2d ago
@desantis @jwz
Totally.
Middle management was already basically an exercise in iterated butt-covering and accountability-diversion... They were always gonna be all over a machine to automate the process of fucking things up an exactly industry-standard amount which they can call "standard practice".
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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2d ago
@desantis @jwz
Yeah there's a combo of cognitive dissonance and the fact that AI is genuinely good at speed running David Graeber bullshit jobs, that is leading to some very weird places...
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
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2d ago
@desantis @jwz
The honest answer?
Because the boss who is asking needs to tick off the KPI marked "evidence of AI adoption by my team".
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
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2d ago
@jwz
I get it, but even if I changed jobs the likelihood of that other job morphing to include AI use is high, so I'm not gonna feel _too_ guilty about doing the task I'm assigned, when it's sometimes literally "get me a CoPilot summary of X in format Y".
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
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Jan 11, 2026
@hn50@social.lansky.name
Tesla to Kessler
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
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Nov 29, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop
Yeah Starmer is just a normal technocratic neoliberal stooge and right now that's.... Way less bad than many of the alternatives :(
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jan 27, 2025
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jan 27, 2025
@joshsusser @datum I've tried that a couple of times but each time I've had a variant of "hehehe well I guess you're just one of those humourless people who ruins jokes for others by asking to have them explained, sorry bud no dice". Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jay
@jaystephens@mastodon.social
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23 Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm) Climate | SocDem* | Pragmatism | Kindness | Tech | TTRPG | 5% shit-posts | Too many boosts Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec Live Bundjalung Country Always was, always will be Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote Avi: 3 arrows 🏴 (native) 🇫🇷 (presque courant) 🇮🇹 (quasi fluente) 🇩🇪 (schlecht) 🇪🇸 (un poco) Ask me why I hate quote posts *Contains left-ecomodernism
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Jan 27, 2025
@joshsusser
Always call out Schrödinger's douchebag. Always.
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