Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York. Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue. We're fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.
celebrate all wins!
In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
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Hey losers leave trans folks alone
When we neglect teaching hands-on work, we forfeit building expertise. When we avoid pair-programming, we miss out on transmitting tacit knowledge. When we don’t teach the art of a code review, we miss the opportunity to teach software architectural design. When AI replaces junior engineering work and seniors have been excused from people development responsibilities, you get a missing generation.
Ouch.
people-work.io/blog/junior-...
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
Bulldozer tearing down the white house
For Gen X part of why watching the unapproved & unpermitted destruction of the #WhiteHouse is so hard is the symbolism. We watched the Berlin wall fall, & remember elation and excitement that democracy and freedom were winning.
This demonstration symbolizes the fall of our democracy and freedoms.
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
The appropriate historical analogy is radium, not the web.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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If you think this is US-only, it's not.
If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't.
If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is.
If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can.
If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.
The idea that we have to "encourage responsible AI usage" is a core part of the inevitability narrative driving the institutional adoption that makes people think it's worth trying out.
it contributes to the very problem it supposedly tries to solve. we can't let it go unchallenged.
Generate code equal to the existing amount of code, make it unreachable, merge. Metric hit.
Something I didn't get to say yesterday:
We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
It is truly shocking to discover how many people just don’t want to use their brains and can’t understand why anyone else would want to use their brain either.
Coinbase’s CEO asking people to use AI by Saturday then firing people who didn’t is fascinating because I don’t remember such threats to get tech workers to use Slack, Jira, Visual Studio Code, Google Docs, smartphones or really any valuable productivity tool.
Makes you wonder…
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers!
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
