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The rot in the leadership of the tech industry goes deep

I have another post about Substack that's gone semi-viral on LinkedIn and like HALF of the comments are people who had NO IDEA Substack was bad.

Clearly we need to restate the facts more often

In time for Disability Pride Month, @drmbothapsych.bsky.social’s thread on our Q-sort paper on how neurodivergent researchers understood what the neurodiversity movement is and should be (I loaded onto it being a social justice movement and led factor that it should promote genuine social inclusion)

The paper referenced in this story does the same thing - never even considers the possibility that women have agency in deciding to not use AI and that maybe they're making the right decision.

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Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...

ICYMI-- I did.

A study of software developers found it took them 19% more time to do their work when they used AI tools.

At the same time, they *perceived* they had saved time. They thought they would work faster and so they falsely "believed AI had sped them up by 20%."

Leaked documents confirm that Microsoft is providing millions of dollars worth of cloud computing and AI surveillance tools to coordinate airstrikes which have killed over 50,000 Palestinians so far.

Microsoft employees demand an end to ties with the Israeli military.

Eko.org/microsoft

Garbage in, garbage out. Why do we have to keep proving it over and over?

in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.

… I’m gonna be the meanie

This isn’t “destroying young people” it’s a way for a very specific class of young people to be centered and force compliance with their peers to get their resources

This isn’t a funny heehee .. Alex is contemptuous of others but privileged enough he’s indulged

We need more tech leaders like @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

It seems to me that Peter Theil is not smart in the way that a lot of men who are smart but vain become not smart - they decide that an unorthodox view makes them sound even smarter and then surround themselves with others dedicated to that view and try to be the biggest fish in that small pond.

Kat Marchán Staff Software Engineer - Fastly WASM JS SDK 11h Linkedin is where I come to see actual professionals and like, CEOs and stuff post pithy thought leadery stuff except the thing they're talking about is legally a crime and they're either the ones who are actively doing it, and admitting to it in public, or they're not even aware that it's a crime even though they are very much in a position of needing to know. What a clown show do worst part is you know they get away with it Zachary Kimball • ... Founder & CEO, Hardfi... + Follow 1d A friend of mine is interviewing for senior roles at startups in San Francisco. A 26-year-old founder at a hot Al startup told him: "we don't hire parents because they can't work hard enough." The founder didn't realize that my friend has children. It's tricky. The pressure is on to deliver NOW in the Al race. There's no time to waste. I

“It’s tricky”

Literally why I support the idea of online/Virtual Reality conventions. Furality has proven that it can work out and that literally came about BECAUSE OF COVID.
Not only can you avoid getting sick, but you don't have to travel, risk losing luggage, etc.
You can literally do it from home!

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

we fully admit that our plagiarism machine deprives artists of credit and compensation but you have to admit that it’s an entirely different phenomenon with open source software authors because they have never received credit or compensation

The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta The AI takeover is changing everything about the web—and not necessarily for the better.

“Reorienting the internet and society around imperfect and relatively untested products is not the inevitable result of scientific and technological progress — it is an active choice Silicon Valley is making, every day.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Hey y’all, I’ve been thinking about how fast things changed for all Latiné people in LA. And what I’ve personally done to protect myself and my family. I thought it might be helpful for some of you so thought I’d share. 🧵

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Listening to Black Women: The Innovation Tech Can't Crack Tech creators and journalists ignore the insights and experiences of Black women—and fail to see the harm of their "innovations."

Imma just reup this

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America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us We’re obsessed with narratives about powerful men and how they got that way. But our mania for founder myths obscures an ideology of inequality

"One of Silicon Valley’s most dearly held and deleterious myths is of its boy geniuses."

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Microsoft employees say emails with 'Gaza,' 'Palestine,' or 'genocide' won't send Microsoft has seen a growing number of protests at recent events over the Israeli military's use of the company's AI products.

“Employees said they started noticing the change Wednesday just before noon … batch-testing emails with the terms in question and emails without them. Only the ones without such terms appeared in their outboxes, suggesting those containing the terms weren’t received”

May every corporation and stockholder who voted against diversity, equity, and inclusion, fail.

May they be swept into the dustbin of history, and serve as an example of stupidity for generations to come.

You cannot responsibly write about AI without writing about politics. "AI" is an intensely political project, especially in its current formation, where development is led by tech giants that increasingly depend on the state—for contracts, land rights, and, of course, for deregulation.

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.

tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime

WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found

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pre-transition, miserable, I would have *killed* for these consumptive and creative replacements that streamlined my life down to a maximally productive and profitable existence. but I was *crushingly* empty and trying to distract myself from who I was - what, genuinely, is this guy’s damage?

GOOGLE WORKERS SPEAK OUT: As the DOJ pushes for a breakup of the company, Google's own workers are pushing to ensure any antitrust remedies include worker protections to ensure they can speak out without retaliation.

Wow

At least 4 conferences are moving from the US to Canada, because people are anxious about traveling to the States...