Juliet Shen

we are hiring! we are a fully remote org building open source tools for safety. we're a nonprofit so no stock, but we aim for competitive salary.

see our work at GitHub.com/roostorg

our open roles: roost.tools/careers

If you were laid off from Block (or anywhere) and want to stay remote, @roost.tools is hiring for multiple SWE roles and levels.

If you're the kind of person who's deeply satisfied by figuring out why a service has multiple databases and ripping some out, we might be for you! roost.tools/careers

Just got off the phone with President Trump. In our meeting earlier, I shared my concerns about Columbia student Elmina Aghayeva, who was detained by ICE this morning. He has just informed me that she will be released imminently

ios engineers too!!!

exactly this

Like, AI might be able to produce code faster or even rectify tech debt on non-human timescales, but it can't retain the level of institutional knowledge that humans do. It can't help facilitate teams working together. It can't solve novel problems well.

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This this this

People followed the law, now they're changing the law in an arbitrary way to harm people for no reason other than they're hate filled assholes and they did it without any period to comply

It's wrong for every reason

some really really great people lost their jobs at cash app and across Block today

my partner is safe but if anyone is looking for client devs, some of the best android engineers especially are looking for new roles

A layoff announcement from Block, parent company of Square and CashApp, with the text in margin highlighting their high YOY profit growth

Hey, so everything about this is ass

and I credit @amybunny.tgirl.gay for posting!

The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.

www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

c/o @avibagla.com

How Measurement Can Fix Content Moderation's Language Equity Gap Of roughly 7,000 global languages, only a handful are thriving digitally, write Sasha Maria Mathew and Sujata Mukherjee.

this piece from @techpolicypress.bsky.social goes into the details of how measurement can address the inequality of content moderation with a great degree of measuredness

www.techpolicy.press/how-measurem...

Design Considerations for Moderation Tooling Ensuring protection of the protectors.

Content moderation tooling presents an entirely different collection of user interface and user experience challenges unlike any other software.

Design isn't for flair or optimising engagement but is instead about protecting.

I wrote about some considerations:
vale.rocks/posts/modera...

#UI #UX

DHS agents detain Columbia student after entering University-owned residence, Shipman reports <i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates. </i>

The student paper, the Columbia Spectator, has more details.

"Columbia neuroscience researcher Ellie Aghayeva, GS ’26, posted in a Thursday morning Instagram story, “Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help.”

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10000000000% agree. they're tools to help people and mods, not to replace. Osprey for example def needs a person to figure out what rules should be written.

Coop, the other @roost.tools tool, is designed for people as a review tool

I also really believe in moderator-focused tooling where they get to influence the tools features. I cohosted a series of workshops on designing better mod tools in the last year and will be making those results public too.

@iftas.org also does a great survey of moderator needs for tooling!

a ton of thought goes into these types of tools! i did a lot of this research when I worked at tech companies and put some of it in this paper when we were incubating ROOST: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Relying heavily on previous work by @riana.bsky.social I wrote a long piece about just how incredibly dangerously stupid West Virginia's "first in the nation" lawsuit against Apple is. By misunderstanding how the 4th Amendment works, if WV succeeds it will make it much harder to prosecute predators.

I once brought a Desi friend to popular east asian dessert chain Mango Mango and she interrogated the poor staff about what kind of mangos they used

but now I understand

the best part of working at Google was a mailing list called mangos@ where people joined in on placing bulk orders of mangos from India

the best part of my in-laws is every mango season they have us over for a sampling of Alphonso, Kesar, Dasheri, and Chausa

a little tuxedo cat with its eyes closed and mouth open lying on a faux fur blanket

maumau is SO CUTE

FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn The FBI obtained prompts used to make more than 200 sexual videos of a woman in a harassment case.

I'm curious how legal process will keep evolving around prompts used for online crimes. I think @mtechlaw.bsky.social has put together a dataset of similar prompts used for tech facilitated gender violence on @hf.co

story c/o @404media.co

www.404media.co/fbi-subpoena...

yeah it scared TF out of me when a random peppy voice started talking about grooming and live streaming

Meta’s AI sending ‘junk’ tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit

new from @katiemcque.bsky.social:

@riana.bsky.social has talked about this at length, but the actionability of reports submitted by tech companies to NCMEC is a huge unsolved and growing problem

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

a screenshot of UI in Google Docs. The left icon is a button that uses Gemini to read text out loud, located right next to the button to select editing-directly or in suggestion-mode

turns out when you work on a research paper about online child sexual exploitation, the proximity of the "read this out loud" button and the edit/suggestion button in Google Docs can become a new source of trauma

Osprey: Open Sourcing our Rule Engine Discord uses Osprey to quickly detect and remove new types of harm from putting our customers at risk. Now we’re open-sourcing this tool so others can do the same.

I worked on that one! Thanks for everyone at Discord and Roost, and thanks for my team @internetstudio.bsky.social

discord.com/blog/osprey-...

Osprey: Open Sourcing our Rule Engine Discord uses Osprey to quickly detect and remove new types of harm from putting our customers at risk. Now we’re open-sourcing this tool so others can do the same.

I feel so lucky and proud of my team, we got to partner with Discord and get this done !! discord.com/blog/osprey-...

thank you Bjorn! ❤️ I'm confident this can help platforms and developers investigate and identify abuse and potentially more dangerous situations

I only understand half of what osprey is, and it's one of the most impressive things I've seen recently.

I truly think this is a game changer for moderating content on the atmosphere and is such an amazing thing to have open sourced