Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Something I tell my software students a lot when they’re looking for jobs is to remember that a shockingly large number of job descriptions are written by people in HR who have next to zero understanding of the industry, the specific team, or the business need.

All they’ve got to work with is fragments they’ve heard without comprehension, coming to them through a terrible game of corporate telephone.

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It's really interesting to see health, achingly and terribly slowly, BEGIN to acknowledge the scale of the problem. Ironically in many ways health research has gone backwards in terms of not respecting or investing in high quality observations, as MDs churn out salami-sliced papers with stats they farm out to somebody else. The med school<>med publishing cycles are really something else. Can't tell you how many friends I've had consult on med papers' stats and get treated like shit by MDs.

Folks outside of science may not be familiar with this but there is an absolutely massive struggle across so many fields to think about whether our scientific conventions around evidence from the 1900s are suitable to this century. I am firmly on the side of observational causal inference; the principle of "randomization" is almost never ACTUALLY implemented in the real world and our ecological validity suffers. We need all forms of evidence. RCTs are not possible for MOST questions.

This Saturday and Sunday I'm tabling at TCAF at the Toronto Reference Library, Table 2063. It's free—if you're in the city come say what's up and buy some comics.

This is my Apple ad parody. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/apples-misstep/

Bugfixes for long-standing issues incoming - now deployed to Codeberg!

In Summer 2022 it was discovered that the #Gitea RSS implementation had issues for project feeds which duplicated entries.

With the help of Codeberg's financial support to #Forgejo, this bug is now fixed in the next release and already deployed to Codeberg now.

Your donation helps improving Codeberg - thank you all for your support!

Original bug report: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/684

I would like to remind the world that you actually don't have to get into bed with OpenAI. StackOverflow was a beacon of resistance, but I guess their principles were for sale after all.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

If the bribe you’re soliciting is $1,000 in a paper bag, the FBI will arrest you. If it’s $1 billion in dark money, does that make it legal?

https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

Anarchists are in the corporate news again—as usual, being vilified for expressing solidarity with the oppressed and demonstrating the effectiveness of direct action.

This could be a good time to distribute material explaining the values and proposals at the core of anarchism. 🏴

We'll gladly send you copies of our outreach pamphlet, To Change Everything, for the costs of printing and shipping alone.

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/to-change-everything

New: OpenAI—a company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billion—has made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAI’s logo.

https://www.404media.co/openai-files-copyright-claim-against-chatgpt-subreddit/

#Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation "#Biden administration has taken more than 300 actions towards greater public health and clean energy, more than any other administration in US history."

Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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Adding this to the "grossly misleading and incorrect headline" file.
Sites Reservoir might, optimistically, provide water for 100,000 people, or a far, far smaller number of corporate farms.

#water #cawater

The answer is always in the negative space

https://mastodon.roundpond.net/@arthegall/112412441364829072

Anyone in #Berlin want to talk or present a #fediverse or federation related topic at a casual meetup I am hosting at @offline next week on May 19th? Please respond here or DM me!
#ActivityPub #Bluesky #Nostr #XMPP #Matrix

Having locals who got paid to farm? The impact was dramatic. Paying farmers forced landowners to either invest in their land, or sell to someone who would.

Landowners actually started making MORE money from farming. They were more likely to keep land in farms than develop it.

My grandpa's neighborhood started growing high-revenue crops like fruits, vegetables, and nuts instead of low-ticket industrial crops. The food system became more responsive to consumer needs.

There are 2 things to know about US agriculture.

1. It’s very hard to make a living as a new farmer.

2. About half our farmland is owned by wealthy families, investment funds, & others who buy it up as an asset- but don’t farm themselves.

There IS a fix to both problems!

Thinking about: my brother surviving a campus massacre and growing up to run the covid ward of the same regional hospital while restaurant owners organized protests, seeing lab software shut itself off on the computers of colleagues from other countries, how science & school is always us trying to reach out & hold hands against it all, my brave teacher friends teaching while being put on lists, endless time my wife and I sit down & perform the calculus of where we put our bodies and swallow risk

What we better name, we can better know:

"developers experiencing code review anxiety [...] may believe that they are unable to manage their code review anxiety (low anxiety self-efficacy), believe that they are likely to break production (probability bias), and believe that this will be the end of their career as an engineer (cost bias), all of which increases their code review anxiety."

source: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4

Reminder: instead of using StackOverflow for your questions about GTK and the GNOME software stack, use the GNOME Discourse instance:

https://discourse.gnome.org

You can also use it for applications and the overall GNOME desktop.

#gtk #gnome #development