Mo Mack

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It's here! "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech" brings to life tales of the unsung heroes of responsible tech and the science fiction that inspired them.

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I keep seeing people saying “I don’t think I’m the kid of person who should be using a food bank” so I want to clear up what kind of people who should be using foodbanks:

ANY PERSON WHO NEEDS SOME FOOD

We had 100 people attend Data Umbrella ‘s December webinar:
Introduction to Git - Version Control Basics

And …. the video is now available❕
➡️ youtu.be/edCiPBn_dj8

The defensiveness and then radio silence of the team when it comes to critique or requests around anything difficult (racism, transphobia, ableism) is irresponsible, harmful, and downright insulting.

They built a platform on people who 1) live on the internet 2) are members of the most marginalized groups 3) are the world's best trolls and 4) staunch advocates and activists who 5) are fucking brilliant at organizing and 6) don't let shit go when people's lives are at stake. What did they expect.

ah jeez this is embarrassing… their “apology” forgot to include an apology in it! 🙈

for dropping this in the middle of the night three days after people called for a response, you’d think they could do better.

- **apologize** to Black users
- clear T&S hiring plan
- plan for future accountability

Are…

Are there Black people that work at Bluesky who are involved in moderation protocols or whatever? People. Not person. Multiple persons.

This.

There’s a lot of things that can give away indications. If hate speech isn’t tolerated, you would never incorporate this setting.

You would ban them at the door.

Thanks! Butterfly Mush was taking headshot commissions for a while before she moved to Columbia. https://shop.butterflymush.com/

I’m working on a story about student loan debt and hoping to speak with Black folks of all ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, etc., who have debt. If you’re interested, please send me an email at aallyah.wright@capitalbnews.org.

Hiyeeeee!!!!!

If you are a person who provides technical support to survivors of abuse in an ad-hoc capacity and you would like to contribute to a set of shared resources for your counterparts all around the world, drop me an email at eva at eff dot org.

Block is looking for a Staff Developer Advocate in Jackson, CA, United States We build platforms and protocols to advance the state of decentralized technologies, and we're doing it all in the open! We know the best innovations on the web were born in public. They've b...

I'm hiring a Staff Developer Advocate (L6) who'll work directly with me to educate and enable developers seeking to build decentralized web apps!

Please repost for reach 🙏🏾

https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ni/Square/d6a82029-93a4-46ce-9f6d-28b3591e1368-staff-developer-advocate

Are you wanting to use a screen reader? TalkBack is Google's screen reader for Android devices and the most popular. When you go into accessibility settings on many Android phones talkback is there and has a tutorial. If you are wanting more dev material. I recommend Victoria Gonda's book.

It must be really strange to be a kid learning about the Civil Rights movement and see America doing the same thing to trans people but your teachers just ignore the connection in classes.

Have you ever had a coworker that mindlessly repeats whatever an exec says?

And have you ever had an exec that thinks that person is a genius?

Ok - you know understand LLMs.
You're welcome.

twitter and reddit beginning down the paths of self-destruction in the name of preventing scraping and AI abuse demonstrates that the solution to that problem is not going to be a primarily technological one

Lorielle Pankey isn’t (just) protecting her Meta investment by lying about Lina Khan; she’s also protecting her future job at Meta after this bullshit gets picked up by Republicans (and the WSJ which can’t stop lying about her either).

As well as @feerst.bsky.social and @dwillner.bsky.social and other task force members who may be on Bluesky that I missed?

Join us today for our launch event, which we’ll stream https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/report-launch-scaling-trust-on-the-web/

And check out the report!

If eagles start attacking private jets we’ll know these are coordinated animal attacks.

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BEYOND proud to present "Beyond the Repository: Best practices for open source ecosystems researchers", a collaboration between myself, Amanda Casari, and Juniper Lovato that was just published in the the ACM Queue.

Please share!

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595879

I often say decentralization is not a feature most users are asking for.

The ability to own your own data is sweet, but it can't be at the cost of one's safety.

I’m seeing fewer and fewer posts from Black, Asian, Native, and/or Latiné people on here since all the nazi discourse. It makes me sad. This was a viable alternative but it looses that ability if it can’t make the site safe for those communities.

a closeup of the side of an NYPD patrol vehicle with a rainbow decal and the text saying HAPPY PRIDE MONTH - ALL COLORS ARE BEAUTIFUL

Someone snuck an ACAB into the NYPD’s Pride month decal design.

This is a real decal on a real NYPD cruiser. The photo was posted by the NYPD Commissioner. On ALL her socials.

Open source AI is coming to getcha! https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

If you remember me please reach out when you open it up, Id love to send you some books!

Its been 1 year since I opened a Little Free Library! Hundreds of books have passed through these humble shelves. There have been many weeks where I didnt have time to check in but the community took care of the library anyway. Kids books by far are the hardest to keep stocked.

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