There's a reason I, and many other #designers, #developers, #technologists, #programmers use a plain text editor. I assure you it's not for #Microsoft #copilot
There's a reason I, and many other #designers, #developers, #technologists, #programmers use a plain text editor. I assure you it's not for #Microsoft #copilot
A letter to the American People:
https://18f.org/
"18F was doing exactly the type of work that #DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated.
When former #Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd took the position of #TTS director... he acknowledged that the group is the “gold standard” of civic #technologists... He repeatedly emphasized the importance of the work, and the value of the talent that the teams bring to #government"
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #18F #News #USA
Skilled technologists are being forced out of government
18F and USDS are gutted by DOGE
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-technologists-are-being-forced
"Musk is not just destroying core #government functions, he is also destroying the actual #tech capacity of govt. Because there are, in fact, skilled #technologists who work in govt. They are not enough of them, & they lacked power to make big changes. They worked mostly in the US Digital Service and 18F... And now they are mostly gone."
Some really horrible sh*t about to go down…
“At a broadest level, the concern is that #technologists are playing a role to monitor #employees & to target those who will be #downsized ”
“It is difficult in the #federal #government to actually evaluate who is performing well or performing poorly.
So doing it on some sort of mass automated scale where you think using some sort of #data analysis or #ai would automate that process, I think, is an invite to make errors.”#opm
https://apple.news/A0wVFiuyVTpW_MExDCZjInA
🚨 #TechWeenie Alert
Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
“An influential Silicon Valley publication runs a cover story lamenting the “pussification” of tech. A major tech CEO lambasts a Black civil rights leader’s calls for diversifying the tech workforce. #Technologists rage against the “PC police”.
No, this isn’t #SiliconValley in the age of Maga. It’s the tech industry of the 1990s, when observers first raised concerns about the rightwing bend of Silicon Valley and the potential for “#technofascism”. Despite the industry’s (often undeserved) reputation for #liberalism, its reactionary foundations were baked in almost from the beginning. As Silicon Valley enters a second Trump administration, the gendered roots of its original reactionary movement offer insight into today’s rightward turn.”
#BeccaLewis / #oligarch / #TechOligarch <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism>
Summit 2024! :blobcat_rss:
Join us at the Hotel Yak & Yeti in Kathmandu, #Nepal, on December 6-7 for two days of connection, collaboration, and conversation with #journalists, #activists, #technologists, and others from around the world.
📝 Register at https://lnkd.in/eyaemwtK!
Is the work of contemporary #writers, #poets and #artists impoverished from not being well-versed in #science and #technology and #IndustrialLife?
Conversely, is the work of contemporary #scientists and #engineers and #technologists impoverished from not being exposed to #arts and #literature and #economics?
What does this circus of the #arts and #humanities, and the #science and #technology folks, and the larger #fediverse hive mind think?
(continues)
Fausto De La Torre, Head of Enterprise Modernization, Platforms and Cloud, Europe, shares a memorable moment from putting the Radar together.
You can see the passion our #Technologists carry for the radar right here!
Get the latest volume of radar here: https://ter.li/vw1xnw
"The defining political question of the 20th century was: “What should be governed by the state, and what should be governed by the market?”
The defining political question of the first half of the 21st century is: “How much of our lives should be governed by technology, and under what terms?”
In the last century, economists drove public policy. In this century, it will be #technologists."
#publicinteresttech
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/cybersecurity_f_1.html
The 32nd NORDUnet conference #NDN2024🐦 Early Bird Registration - Now open!
📅 Date & Location: 10th-12th September, 2024 in Bergen, Norway.
🎯 Who Should Attend? #technologists, practitioners, #policymakers, and #researchers focused on research and #education infrastructure, #international partners, and stakeholders.
🌍 Networking Opportunity: Connect with European and global peers to exchange significant outcomes, current trends, and discuss future directions for NRENs.
https://nordu.net/NDN2024reg
This is AMAZING #technology - especially if it helps folks comunicate: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tongue-controlled-touchscreens-hit-market-year-rcna133270?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Personally, it also reinforces the belief that #technologists sit around reading @GreatDismal and trying to make what he comes up with a reality. This feels like tech straight out of #ThePeripheral!
This is an eye-opening (and hopeful) short #documentary that is so important to watch for #technologists, #architects and #designers. Two things that stood out to me were:
«Most of us think of a #Luddite as someone who is anti-technology or fearful of it, but as LA Times tech columnist Brian Merchant points out in his new book Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the #Rebellion Against #BigTech, they were #technologists themselves who simply questioned the ways it was being used against them.»
@terrygrundy@mas.to @breadandcircuses
Great to see science news recognizing the manipulation of a global #ClimateChange political conference as being "science news".
Easy to forget that most of the globe's scientists want climate change stopped.
How might a #GeneralStrike of #Scientists and #Technologists steer government action on climate change?
I see scientists numbered at ~9 million globally.
A far higher number of technologists?
Technologists are essential to climate change continuing.
The #UnitedNations stands at the forefront of promoting a more sustainable and inclusive future.
In line with this commitment, we co-created a playbook for #technologists at the UN and beyond that will help identify strategies to be more inclusive, aware of bias, and to mitigate negative unintended consequences.
Get the playbook here: https://thght.works/3FCrnKN
It reflects a sense of urgency among #antitrust enforcers that, w/o action, #SiliconValley giants will transplant their established #MarketDominance into the #NextGeneration of #technology, potentially stifling #innovation in futuristic fields such as #AI.
#Technologists say the arrival of advanced #generative AI signals an inflection point: a chance for new players rise to the top, or for the established victors to extend their lead.
Techtoots.com is a #Mastodon #community focused on #tech (any vintage!). We #welcome #technologists, #coders, #engineers, #gadget lovers, self professed “#geeks” & anyone with an interest and love of tech.
#home #welcome #spreadtheword #tellyourfriends #nicepeople #introduction #pleaseboost #spreadtheword #builders #community #happy to #have #you #letsdothis #safespace
Also our #greatdanes - because #dogtax and #cattax is a something I also believe in!
Our History Communication Institute has released its first official statement on Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
Find the full statement here:
https://historycommunication.com
#AI #History #Humanities #Policy #Regulations #Education #Technology #Society #Collaboration #Equity #Inclusion #HistoricalLiteracy #MediaLiteracy #Partnerships #Advocacy #Events #Debates #Experts #Scholars #Testimony #Technologists #SocialImpact #Justice #EqualWorld #Inequities #Ethics
Our History Communication Institute has released its first official statement on Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
Find the full statement here:
https://historycommunication.com
#AI #History #Humanities #Policy #Regulations #Education #Technology #Society #Collaboration #Equity #Inclusion #HistoricalLiteracy #MediaLiteracy #Partnerships #Advocacy #Events #Debates #Experts #Scholars #Testimony #Technologists #SocialImpact #Justice #EqualWorld #Inequities #Ethics
Our History Communication Institute has released its first official statement on Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
Find the full statement here:
https://historycommunication.com
#AI #History #Humanities #Policy #Regulations #Education #Technology #Society #Collaboration #Equity #Inclusion #HistoricalLiteracy #MediaLiteracy #Partnerships #Advocacy #Events #Debates #Experts #Scholars #Testimony #Technologists #SocialImpact #Justice #EqualWorld #Inequities #Ethics