At no point in the past 30 years of my career in the technology industry has any boss ever said "gee Ross, the latest technological advances have made you 5x more productive, would you like to cut back to working 8 hours a week for the same pay?" and I have very much noticed the absence of that […]
Opening slide. There is a barcode above all the words. The top line, in red, reads "AN ECONOMY OF".... The lower line is much larger, in teal, and it reads "EMPATHY".
I'm nearly done with my slides for next week's North Bay Python talk (barring all the last minute additions/edits of course...)
Is it unusual to have a "works cited" page for a conference talk? 🤔
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> Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
We're coming up to a year since I sent this letter to my executive board and I will resend it on or close to the year mark with even more international and […]
BOOM: Ticketmaster GUILTY of Monopolization
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-ticketmaster-guil...
RE: https://toot.cat/@devopscats/116409810042899692
This looks awesome.
Wonder what they'll call the next one...
GODZILLA MINUS NEGATIVE ONE?
11ish days until the conference.
Three reasons why you should register soon:
1. We can only cater for restricted diets if we order this week
2. Our fancy armchair order has to go in this week.
3. We'll be slightly less anxious about sales.
Register now/tomorrow! […]
The newest They Might Be Giants album has just released: The World Is To Dig, their 24th!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1h0NV0BxGo
#altmusic #tmbg #TheyMightBeGiants #TheWorldIsToDig
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116399250176667823
A real stumper...
good morning
conference next week.
see you there? https://pretix.northbaypython.org/nbpy/nbpy-2026/
have you thought about buying your North Bay Python ticket sooner than 12 days out from the event?
If so, you should probably buy your ticket quite soon
tickets here: https://pretix.northbaypython.org/nbpy/nbpy-2026/ #NBPy
RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116383540324942099
Friendliness towards AI has already escalated into real world abuse and violence.
Reading any account from the data workers in the global south is gut wrenching, and stories like the one linked are sadly not uncommon […]
With a bit of #NBPy chatter going on today, an update on my talk which I may have revised a multitude of times (I've lost count)... The good news is, I think it's in near final form and clocks in just a tad bit over 25 mins (I'll have to tighten it slightly, though not too much give left!) […]
RE: freeradical.zone/@baconandcoconut/1163810...
Of course we accepted the talk about cats, we are exactly that sort of conference.
(buy a ticket? https://pretix.northbaypython.org/nbpy/nbpy-2026/
Microsoft and other large technology companies are actively hostile to their users. #enshittification #tech
https://lzon.ca/posts/other/microsoft-user-abuse/
@chrisjrn oh good, now I can see what my talk is about... 😅
Jkjk
fun discovery, I had 90% completed writing this year's #NBPy website modifications and didn't set it up. Now I have. Look at our transit guide! https://northbaypython.org/getting-here
also: no year prefixes. Now I can just modify the site as needs be.
@chrisjrn Just FYI, the talk pages linked from the speakers section on the homepage are not found (404).
OH: "I asked claude how to use claude securely..."
> While people often misconstrue generative AI refusal as an ignorant, avoidant, fear-driven position, generative AI refusal builds on accurate research about the various ethical harms associated with generative AI, as well as disciplinary principles in writing studies […]
Hellish day and all, but was happy to see the Tiny Desk Concert host Aterciopelados, a Colombian band I remember from the early aughts when my then-Colombian gf introduced me... inject a tiny bit of joy and irreverence to your day and give it a watch […]
RE: flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/u.s.-6tjik...
Hold on. Did they talk to teleportation experts? What kind of expert do you get for this one?
I am also dubious. Everyone is dubious.
I guess object permanence isn't a FEMA job qualification?
@pythonbynight @bitprophet And here is an excellent counter to my own argument: https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/
"People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has […]
@bitprophet @offby1 Yes, hard agree. Thanks!
@bitprophet @offby1 A tiny part of me weeps when seeing "writing" referred to as "superfluous intellectual labor".
Mind you, there is a lot of writing that is superfluous BS, because there is a misunderstanding about what writing even is to begin with.
But nevermind me, I'm just an English […]
1. GenAI is probably going to impact us but how? Nobody knows.
2. The worst thing about GenAI isn't the technology, it's the shitty people: karlbode.com/the-problem-with-ai-is-s... [<must-read]
3. We can’t have a grown-up conversation on the subject because the […]
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116337461606384177
From the shared article:
"But folks annoyed by online animosity toward AI need to remember it's an extension of justified rage at the extraction class' grotesque enabling of the literal destruction of democracy. That rage is going to prove […]
[uspol]
@SnoopJ But the Dow is over 50-- [checks notes] 46 THOUSAND right now! That's what we should be talking about!
Is the joke that this whole year has been an April Fool's?
You were always great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4TQy2ChfI
#Weezer
