We continue working for fairness and justice for everyone, regardless of attempts to shame us back into the closet. The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Era of DEI by @anildash.com: www.anildash.com/2025/10/07/d...

It is easy to forget how amazing most tech services are, the levels of availability we get today are still high. But when things go wrong, even in smaller orgs, it is harder to restore due to poor management decisions sidelining or booting out experience staff. We might be annoying but we know stuff

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

That idea that culture eats strategy for breakfast rears its ugly head again. With Altmann, Zuck, Thiel, Bezos, M*sk, etc. leading the culture in tech, so much of what may be useful is made poisonous to society at large thanks to unbridled greed.

"ending remote work" is such a terrible, hostile, anti-worker thing that so many organizations have decided they need to do in order to subjugate their workforce further, and I pray it marks the beginning of a new and robust labor movement. senseless cruelty

Listen up, @pantheon.io: if you still host the websites of Heritage Foundation & their cursèd Project 2025 cuz of contractual BS, the least you can do is donate *100% of Heritage Foundation payments* to organizations that are working to protect communities targeted by Project 2025. And publicize it.

This is the ADF that Pantheon defended hosting a few years ago. There's a difference between platforming ideas you don't agree with, and enabling right wing terror and the dismantling of democracy. Still not sure Pantheon decision-makers know the difference. Or maybe they don't care?

Being scared of being vulnerable is real Constantly maneuvering to make sure the other person is always at a disadvantage is predatory

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

These techbro douches are shit terrible at their jobs, & at being nerds. They misunderstand the media they claim to love, & they're terrible at building things— because they are, at base, incurious, & lazy. They should be snubbed every time they enter a room & anyone who fêtes them, viciously mocked

Tech workers in the most corporate, nerdy, non-union, Northface-wearing-ass environment you can imagine have been putting their jobs, safety, and even immigration status on the line to try to stop a genocide, writes @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Did they forget garbage in garbage out?

I loved talking to Signal's @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, who is such a consistent, clear voice of sanity (and always a great interview). We talked about (of course) SignalGate, what AI means for Signal, why tech bros continue to be such a disappointment, and much more. Read, listen, etc!

Tech profiteers keep acting like we don't all know this

Don’t waste much time thinking about any ideology or policy reason for the H-1B visa change. This is so tech companies will have to pay Trump for exemptions. Same as they paid him for tariff exemptions. It’s just a standard mob shakedown.

Who could’ve predicted this, other than every single critical data studies scholar, who’ve been highlighting data bias issues for years and years? Given this previous knowledge, it’s criminal that this technology has been deployed at scale. A triumph of willful ignorance and wishful thinking.

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

We speak with five tech workers who have all been fired by Microsoft for protesting Big Tech’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. “The only way to stop our movement… is to end their complicity in the genocide.”

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

OK, Google

Unfortunately, they have not created an AI model that can replace your dignity

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Sign up for the #Drupal Code of Conduct training workshop happening next Wednesday! You can give back to the community without knowing how to code. buff.ly/Ahg3ttP

Please hold conferences of international interest outside of the US for the time being.

What happens when we don't hold leaders accountable to the community...

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The tech world's lurch to the right is the subject of my latest column for Prospect: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno... - it offers a super-brief history from the Whole Earth Catalog to cryptoconmen and anti-labor AI.

As for CEOs, a few have been openly linked to the monarchism of Curtis Yarvin, and my assumption is that with no one standing against it, the general sentiment is that it's not their job to preserve democracy but to ensure shareholder value by hedging against a coming autocratic era.

This is completely insane and a sign of how washed A.I. truly is. Why do you have to threaten people to use this if it's so good

It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.

So many of us have blocked those GG years out so that we can function professionally alongside tech bros (who never faced consequences for how they helped to enable and perpetuate that b*llsh!t)

Yet another attempt by AI obsessed tech bros to find some problems for AI to solve. It's not enough that this disastrous technology is being forced down our throats, now we also have to come up with use cases for it? new.drupal.org/ai/survey

I’m not sure I think that whatever plans Microsoft has for GitHub now are likely to be worse than the leadership of Dohmke or Friedman or any of the other tech bros who have run it, but this is still a good thing to do.

Oh, you thought Silicon Valley corporations/CEOs were so different from elite universities/presidents & were somehow going to be exempt from the fascist & unconstitutional attacks?

Yet another attempt by AI obsessed tech bros to find some problems for AI to solve. It's not enough that this disastrous technology is being forced down our throats, now we also have to come up with use cases for it? new.drupal.org/ai/survey

The rot in the leadership of the tech industry goes deep

I have another post about Substack that's gone semi-viral on LinkedIn and like HALF of the comments are people who had NO IDEA Substack was bad. Clearly we need to restate the facts more often

In time for Disability Pride Month, @drmbothapsych.bsky.social’s thread on our Q-sort paper on how neurodivergent researchers understood what the neurodiversity movement is and should be (I loaded onto it being a social justice movement and led factor that it should promote genuine social inclusion)

The paper referenced in this story does the same thing - never even considers the possibility that women have agency in deciding to not use AI and that maybe they're making the right decision. www.hbs.edu/faculty/Page...

ICYMI-- I did. A study of software developers found it took them 19% more time to do their work when they used AI tools. At the same time, they *perceived* they had saved time. They thought they would work faster and so they falsely "believed AI had sped them up by 20%."

Leaked documents confirm that Microsoft is providing millions of dollars worth of cloud computing and AI surveillance tools to coordinate airstrikes which have killed over 50,000 Palestinians so far. Microsoft employees demand an end to ties with the Israeli military. Eko.org/microsoft

Garbage in, garbage out. Why do we have to keep proving it over and over?

in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.

… I’m gonna be the meanie This isn’t “destroying young people” it’s a way for a very specific class of young people to be centered and force compliance with their peers to get their resources This isn’t a funny heehee .. Alex is contemptuous of others but privileged enough he’s indulged

We need more tech leaders like @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

It seems to me that Peter Theil is not smart in the way that a lot of men who are smart but vain become not smart - they decide that an unorthodox view makes them sound even smarter and then surround themselves with others dedicated to that view and try to be the biggest fish in that small pond.

“It’s tricky”

Literally why I support the idea of online/Virtual Reality conventions. Furality has proven that it can work out and that literally came about BECAUSE OF COVID. Not only can you avoid getting sick, but you don't have to travel, risk losing luggage, etc. You can literally do it from home!