Aleena | Software Engineer

Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy

Yet another example that so much tech is someone trying to recreate a mother/wife/girlfriend. I think I'd find this so much more compelling if any of these "mundane tasks" put the perspective of caregivers and carers first. So many of the most important things in life are very mundane.

One curse of being a GMT+0 developer is that it is not easy to see errors relating to local time zone offsets

😀 what the fuck

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

YouTube video by Secret Weapons Natural Color Mixing with Mixbox

TIL that most painting software cannot mix colors like in real life scrtwpns.com/mixbox/

TSConfigs aren't that hard.

They're basically just 2 if/else statements in a trenchcoat.

More info:

www.totaltypescript.com/tsconfig-che...

The tech bro fascination with eugenics is so on brand. The idea that you could make accurate, actionable predictions from individual genotypes (with all their complex, non-linear interactions) from averaged, linearly modeled population-level genomic statistics is just another big data fantasy

Companies are so surveillance-pilled and data hungry that they are trying to get everyone to believe that one of the worst aspects of modern technology—that you are constantly surveilled—is now a thing you should wholeheartedly embrace and integrate into every aspect of your existence.

Oooh a quiz! Let's all do this to get to know each other better:

Name: Stop
Birthday: Giving
City: Out
First pet’s name: Your
Mother’s maiden name: Personal
First car: Information.
Favorite color. Damn!

Some of y'all are a hacker's dream. 😂 These questionnaires got you in a chokehold.

hi, i wrote a post - "Defining AI".

ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...

FOMO is not a strategy End of year reflections on how people are using genAI at work

"Nothing about AI is inevitable — and generative AI is just a series of tools. If the person who created the spanner was insistent that spanners had to be attached to everything, life would have gotten boring pretty quickly." buttondown.com/justenoughin... Brilliance by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Setting to require alt text on images in Bluesky application

This is a friendly reminder to enable the setting that forces you to supply an alt text when you attach an image.

Lets all do our bit to make this place as accessible as possible! 🙂

Lmk what you think

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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

A grid layout of A24 movie posters and descriptions, showing films from various years with their key details including budget, critics/audience scores, and plot summaries. Movies range from major releases like "Civil War" and "Room" to smaller films, color-coded by genre (action, comedy, drama, horror, romance, thriller, western).

Every film, everywhere, all at once. An oeuvrexplorer for @A24 - one of our fave movie studios
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/a24-movie-browser/

If you’re building a website or app from scratch, it’s so much cheaper and much less stressful if you add in accessibility from the start.

I’m currently trying to retrofit accessibility features and it’s taken a week to do something that could’ve taken less than a day if done at the start

Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral

🌧️ EmojiRain - Live 🦋 Emoji Visualization It's 🌧️ emojis! 👀 Watch 🦋's emojis rain down in real-time. ✍️ Long posts = 🐌 slow fall!

I built a silly usage of the Bluesky Firehose just to get my feet wet and see what was possible. It's kinda fun to just watch. www.emojirain.lol

One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful

It’s a different kind of troll.

Nightsky | hctr.dev See live conversations from all over Bluesky as a dynamic night sky

I made a thing!

I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev

It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃

Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

A gleam of hope: meet the Luddite Club I don’t need to tell you why this moment is so challenging. But permit me just one example: The tech billionaire who, it was recently revealed, is in...

I spoke with three members of the Luddite Club, a group of teenagers who avoid digital devices and social media.

There's reason for hope:
buttondown.com/creativegood...

AI for the rest of us AI for the rest of us is an AI conference and community designed for everyone. AI is ready for everyone. No matter who you are. No matter what your role. AI is ready for you, we're here to help you ...

Tonight is the night! I’m finally going to catch up on some of the talks I missed at @aifortherestofus.live

I organised the event so missed most of it doing event stuff and making sure everyone else had a good time!!!

Here’s the channel if you want to follow along!

youtube.com/@ai-for-the-...

Why a shared NHS patient record is hard, and what needs to change to make it a reality.

Written by @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social and @mattstibbs.bsky.social, who've both been at the sharp end of NHS data sharing.

public.digital/pd-insights/...

2023 Landscape Our latest report diagnoses concentration of power in the tech industry as a pressing challenge – and points the path forward to seize this moment of change.

An obvious one but I keep going back to the AI Now report ainowinstitute.org/2023-landscape