Deborah Berlin

so what was it?

finally some good news about AI, the elimination of the tech-bro!

surely this should be called Worst Man in Tech...

representation matters even in shitty circumstances.

I'm there tomorrow

Are you in Edinburgh?

You know you're part of the problem when you accuse someone, advocating more fairness, as having extreme views! 🫠

In the great words of Ming the Merciless, "What plaything can you offer me today?"

@joplinapp.bsky.social here was me thinking this was a fresh approach to tooling, away from the sickness of big tech!!!

@joplinapp.bsky.social oh I see, this is some evil to make me upgrade further? You tell me after I have passed the limit that it's passed the limit, but I have no means to access and clear out and decide if I need to upgrade - have I got that right?

@joplinapp.bsky.social yeah hello. I paid for a pro account in July and now you are saying my account is needing to be upgraded!

Honestly when do we get to the point where we recognise the US is not playing a fair game and the UN should no longer be housed there?

A lot also die younger, without health care and if you asked them - what % do you think would say 'prefer to retire'?

that's a better social contract!

People pay for their retirement then get taxed on top of taxed income. Nobody benefits from a new generations wealth on their pension pay outs. The whole system is a catastrophic disaster. Everyone should pay in for themselves & those in their life cohort, not another generation.

Can we stop advocating for people to work further into their 70s. It's utterly inhumane & disportionately affects the poorer majority.

Yes, the entire system is broken. But, we should all be seeking ways for people to retire early. With some energy left to enjoy some life not treading the machine.

Yet again Germany flexes its sexist muscle... conscription for men 'new law introduces a “flexible activation” model which requires 18-year-old men to fill out a questionnaire about their potential interest in serving in the Bundeswehr'

This is amazing. I've been mulling this idea for years, because of paywalls. When are the big guns - @financialtimes.com looking at you - going to adapt to this reality?

It learns - and continues to learn - how someone communicates, whether that’s through a small movement, a sound, or a look so that a person doesn’t have to learn how to operate a complex system to express themselves.

GestureLabs Collective - Open Collective Help give voice to those who can’t speak. A3CP is a free, open-source tool that lets people with severe disabilities express themselves through gestures, sounds, and more. Join us in building a world ...

Something to watch if this is an area of interest.

A colleague is working on A3CP - it helps translate a disabled person’s unique, personal communication style into messages that others can understand.

opencollective.com/gesturelabs

@driesdepoorter.be like the password reset

A unicorn in a meat grinder

Can we retire the use of the word ‘unicorn’ to describe bloated valuations? We’ve taken something mythical & noble & fed it through a meat grinder of capitalist jargon. What was a symbol of wonder is now a frat-boy trophy of inflated importance, fiscal delusion & outright capitalist depravity.

It should have never been taken away!

I think there's a mismatch between the role title and the role. It overselling responsibility in the wrong direction. You might want to consider something like: Head of Digital Platforms & Insights

This is called age-discrimination, and shouldn't really be allowed under equality acts.

where can we provide feedback of 'broken' things?

No real pain if I get priced out of that shoe monstrosity!

It was intended to reflect the religious use of terminology 'persuasion', 'tendency', 'inclination' etc.

Personal opinion: Streeting's a religious conformist, despite the Church’s exclusionary treatment of men of his persuasion. Rather than reject cruelty, he embraces it as doctrine - as if the lesson he took was: “Thou shalt commit atrocities unto others, as were once committed unto thee.”

Raise you some blossom