Making up stuff and telling it as the truth is not called "hallucinating".
It's called "lying"!

#AI

Protect your privacy today.
And someday, your privacy might protect you.

At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.

Time for a new variation on a classic.

What's worse?

#AWS #JWT

Capitalism didn't give us the internet.

Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.

Being ill sucks.

Haven't eaten properly in 2 days and now I'm not sure if I still feel sick because I'm sick, or because I haven't eaten properly in 2 days...

Hey so if anyone knows of any remote roles for a Lead Support Engineer or similar let me know.

Experience with Zendesk and live chat

Basic AWS, Linux etc but mainly customer relationship tasks

DM if any questions 💘

#getfedihired

@openrightsgroup Unfortunate typo there?

@sephster Register multiple keys.

Apple for example don’t let you add things like Yubikeys unless you register 2 of them at minimum.

I have one that’s on my keyring with me. One that’s safely stored at home. And one that’s with a friend as a backup should it all go to shit!

@sephster Nice! I have a few of them now, and a trusted friend keeps a hold of an off site backup one for me and I for them :D

@welshpixie 🤩

[open LinkedIn]

- AI post about how support staff are doomed
- AI post about how software engineers are doomed
- AD
- Sign up to my newsletter post
- AI post about how a company makes critical decisions using LLMs
- Ragebait post
- AD
- Person comparing work to weight loss to sell their “3 step program” for losing weight?!?!
- Post praising C-level and exec team folks after layoffs of people in a company

[close LinkedIn]
[remove app from my phone]

Software devs are so bad at estimation that there is a whole methodology/movement based on refusing to estimate, but devs report the time they have saved by using LLMs, and I’m supposed to take that number seriously?

@neil @firesidefedi @ozoned do you know if there'll be a VOD / recording of it available? I wanted to watch but unable to during the day with work!

When I was in my twenties, I was repeatedly denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I might “meet a man who wants kids”.

I was left completely disabled, forced to undergo six surgeries, multiple blood & iron transfusions to preserve a diseased uterus for a HYPOTHETICAL child.

This happened in Canada, where we tend to be more Liberal than our neighbours to the South.

I was cishet and white, so faced less barriers to care than marginalized people do.

I still wasn’t permitted to make a decision about my own body.

Wasn’t trusted to know my own mind

I had zero quality of life. There was no way I could have been a mother even if I HAD wanted to (which I didn’t).

Yet a hypothetical future husband’s needs and desires were repeatedly put before my own.

I was told I would feel differently once I was “in love”. That my dream man would leave me

Basically imagine every misogynistic and patriarchal nonsense you’ve ever been told… I heard it all.

I watched my twenties slip away from a hospital bed, confused and disheartened by the fact that I couldn’t convince any doctors to let me make the choice that was best for my life & body

I eventually did get the hysterectomy, but only because I was literally bleeding to death.

What could have been a planned & controlled operation was done as an emergency and left me with tons of complications.

Autonomy doesn’t exist for uterus owners. And we’re losing more each day

I tell this story because I feel sick over what’s happening to Adriana Smith in Georgia.

She was a black nurse who tried to seek medical care. She was dismissed and it cost her life.

Now because of an abortion ban her body is being kept alive for a 9 week old fetus.

Her family had no say in the matter. She’s been turned into an incubator by the State. Had “care” forced upon her despite the fact that she couldn’t access proper care when she was alive.

The same day I found out about Adriana, I discovered that police in the UK are being given guidance on how to search a woman’s home & devices for any reference to abortion after a pregnancy loss.

Choice is an illusion. So is autonomy. And it shouldn’t be.

I don’t know where we go from here, but I do know that if I faced a battle to obtain a hysterectomy, more marginalized people living in less Liberal areas have it far far worse.

We need to tell our stories. I’ve told this story before, and I’m going to keep telling it until none of us suffer this way.

For the Adriana’s who can’t tell their story. For those we’ve lost and will lose. For the next generation.

We need to keep fighting for true autonomy. We need to support each other.

We need to make it clear that we do not agree with patriarchal fascist means of controlling our reproductive organs and by extension, our lives.

When we share stories, we help others know they aren’t alone. We educate people on how far we are from equality. We change hearts and minds

#patriarchy #misogyny #fuckthepatriarchy #fascism #roevwade #abortion #womenshealth #disability #ableism #misogynoir #womenshealth

Later today - 14:00 UTC+1 - I'm stepping massively outside my comfort zone.

I've accepted @ozoned's invitation to be interviewed on @firesidefedi (https://stream.firesidefedi.live/).

Worse, last week the interviewee was Cory Doctorow. I am less talented, less erudite, and less interesting.

It's definitely not an AMA but, if you've got questions, feel free to toot them, and I'll see what we can do.

#FireSideFedi #live

Got a chilled day today, Emma's at work so it's just me and the dog kicking it at home.

Thought I'd get caught up on some photo editing after getting a little backlog over the past week.

Lightroom is being even more garbage than usual today.

5800X, 32GB RAM, 3080Ti with hardware acceleration turned on and it's more sluggish than I've ever seen.

Time to go edit on my M2 Pro 16GB MacBook Pro instead. It's so much smoother on there.

(comic) I am once again asking for your feedback https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-i-am-once-again-asking-for-8be