I got into tech six years ago because I figured I could have an outsized impact on making a less harmful, more empowering world for workers and marginalised people. Only this year, I started connecting IRL with people who think this way. Here I tried to write about the ways that's transformed me.

went to a fundraiser by ppl from Dawei in southern Myanmar, which lost over 50 villages recently to flooding. no intl orgs are collecting funds because it's also a conflict zone. and the junta isn't letting aid orgs in, and turned off the internet 😐 (i can route donations, dm or signal)

In this case the processing becomes the value add, not the data itself. Openness undermines commodification of data access while enabling commodification of analysis

good afternoon kat! 🩵🌸

I feel this too, the speed of everything is so intense, but it’s also really nice and fun if I tune that out a bit

DevRel? More like developers’ relations to the means of production, amirite?

Where to even begin. Anthropic wants to "apply centuries of human moral wisdom to its models, as rapidly as possible," via crash courses with hand-picked religious thinkers. Why was one of the Jewish representatives an Israeli scholar who's defended autonomous weapons for armies and police?

Thanks for the boost! No, we don’t provide end to end encryption and therefore can’t interop with Germ, though it’s something we’d like to work on. Germ is doing amazing work in this area!

Appreciate this feedback! I knew this was an issue but putting it all together like that it’s quite bad 😅

I just created a Blacksky account and reproduced it. Will need a bit more time to get to the bottom of it, might need to be tomorrow sorry. Thanks for letting us know and your patience

Roomy was down today because we hit a usage limit on Railway cos of all our new users recently! Sorry about that and thanks for your support! 🩵

This is how setting up an Apple Developer Account feels btw

omg this is amazing

Also, I’m sorry people have been so fucked to you 😫

Appreciate you explaining this a bit more. Yeah I was thinking maybe vent is the wrong word. I think you’re right that many people are actively refusing to take in new information and taking anti-intellectual positions and this fuels the outrage and this fuels abuse

There’s something pretty concerning happening if technologists pathologise people feeling threatened by technology. People have very good reasons to feel threatened and it’s our job to create safety (while staying safe ourselves from reactionary abuse). It’s hard

I think this is a classic microblogging exchange 😝 you’re trying to vent (fair!) and I responded to it as discourse. I’m just tired of mutual misunderstanding and wish for more compassion and de-escalation. Social media is weird

To be clear I am more or less ‘on your side’ with this and feel similar frustrations. But isn’t ‘anti-AI psychosis’ just as bad faith?

I’m not saying it’s constructive or kind of critically engaging with the arguments in an interesting way, just that psychosis is a dehumanising way to frame something I think is better explained by valid fear and concerns