In this #WIConf2025 session on GenAI and Algorithmic Impact, Yasmin Kafai and @metaxa talk about computational empowerment and break down #AI #auditing into simple steps for end users. Contributions by @luismn.
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https://www.ft.com/content/9fdb4e2b-93ea-436d-92e5-fa76ee786caa
WCAG 3.0’s Proposed Scoring Model: A Shift in Accessibility Evaluation, by @smashingmag:
How Accessibility Audits Are Shaping the Future of User-Centered Design, by @uxmatters.bsky.social:
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A pic I took from the top of #Revolution Hall, at the #WriteTheDocs #Portland conference last year.
Until today, I've remained publicly silent about my attendance at this conference because ... all in all, it was a major letdown.
Here (and here) I'll tell you why.
Conference started off well enough. A self-proclaimed "extrovert" got up on stage and vomited some baloney-and-white bread about how she was there to represent #Nginx. And that Nginx was there for no other reason than to have her be their representative, from what I recall of her stage presentation.
"I'm an extrovert, if you don't know who to talk to, come talk to me" she said.
Days go by, and all of the conference is very narrow on like, a very narrow slice of technology-related things, I felt it was lacking some broader perspectives of what my career -- Technical Writing -- was all about.
And I did not plan to give a lightning talk, but when I woke up the last day of the conference again thinking about how there had been way too much conflation of the words "technology" and "technical", I wanted to speak up for my career.
The conference was making the #DigitalDivide much much bigger and wider, which is not what conferences are supposed to do. Thus, I did not ignore my pressing intuition that I should attempt to speak up for the young talent present -- maybe not in these "exact" words, but you get the gist of the idea:
NO, you don't need a god-damn Macbook to be a technical writer... not all technical writing is about computer-related things.
A lightning talk is short, very brief overview and allowing a speaker to introduce their area of expertise.
So while the conference organizers thought this was A-OK for the white supremacist, Nginx "extrovert" to tell people to come talk to her, it was NOT OKAY for someone whose ancestors were there first?
Yeah, that snooty white supremacist who was put "in charge" of the conference talks did what white supremacists do,
✅ pretended like I don't exist,
✅ communicated how much more "important" her extroversion is than my idea for a talk
✅ that I should not have been there and should "go away"
After the talk was rejected, I approached her and asked to retrieve the document I'd prepared asking to give a lightning talk. A copy of that that Lightning Talk Submission document is included on this server.
🌩️ ⚡
"I'm #auditing for the documentation trail of my #documentation I told her.
She looked startled, hum-hawed for a bit, evaded direct answer, and I could see panic in her eyeballs behind her glasses. When she finally came up with the answer that she thought would make me go away.
She told me it was shredded.
LOL, she just happened to find the shredder in that huge building and dispose of all evidence?
Within 3 minutes of being rejected, she told me she'd shredded all the lightning talk submission papers.
SUCH A #LIAR.
And I told her: "Oh, good thing I took a picture of it".
*10 years before the year of this story, I was an approved speaker (not a Lightning talk but a full-fledged conference talk) at WTD Portland.
#Musk is not #auditing WIRED #magazine says.
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by #DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
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WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/ #DOGE #Government #Auditing #Musk #Trump #Politics #Cons #ConJob
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how #government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/
"federal #auditors with years of #experience... say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual #audit looks like...
“Honestly, comparing real #auditing to what #DOGE is doing, there’s no comparison... None of them are auditors”
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TGIF, for real.
This week has been a mess of stress with a customer coming in to audit at the day job (and I'm the primary contact person) and the spouse preparing for a work trip to LA (and no, he's not looking forward to it at all).
Next week will be Significantly Worse in that we're ISO 9001 certified and we have our Certification audit Tues-Fri and, once again, I am the main contact. While the parent company visits.
There will be Very Little Accomplished. 😭
#ugh #work #auditing
Currently going home from a 2 day internal #auditor #training from #DNV I followed with my entire team, with focus on #ISO27001. Despite the fact we've been doing them since forever, there still where some interesting points for all of us that we can use. There is always room for improvement!
Lunches where good too 🥪😏.
@tante problem is that almost all #employers don't want #sustainability, #accessibility and refuse to acknowledge #DueDiligence and #security as well as proper #testing and #auditing as features unless their #CLO literally threatens to resign and sue them personally.
- Because #developing properly takes time, time equals billable personnel hours.
Seen that in real life, no I cannot elaborate for legal reasons!
Lately I got a some new followers, so let me introduce myself again: Dutch citizen interested in Unix, #Linux and #infosec, in particular the combination. Was the original author of rkhunter, a #malware detector, nowadays doing primarily #Lynis development, an #auditing tool that is #FOSS. I share my knowledge as much as possible, as I believe there this will benefit us all. My primary channel is my #blog (see bio) and with a copy to here.
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*splat*
The auditing class is over. My students all passed. I have one last assignment to review and give feedback on (they wrote up a summary report for me).
I can barely effing focus my eyes. My entire body hurts, especially my hands and arms. And neck. I just wanna collapse.
So exhausting.
But at least it's done and they passed. My schedule stands. *weak pompom wave*
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