@nvll

Keen on social empathy. He/Him. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. People over Capital. Probably worked in tech too long already. FFXIV and MH sometimes.

 Oakland, CA
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Joined December 2008
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"grandpa why did he call you nurru?" "well, you see, 70 years ago the handle I chose when I was twelve was already taken so... "
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I'm sitting this morning wondering which BigTech cloud the "Lavendar" & "Where's Daddy?" systems are running on. What APIs they might be using. Which libraries they're likely calling What work did my former colleagues, did I, did you contribute to that may now be enabling this?
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Christopher retweeted
UNRWA
@UNRWA17 Feb 2024
There are no words.
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New imagery from North Gaza. The target was never Hamas, it was all of Gaza. It was all Palestinians.
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Everyone should have healthcare whether or not you have a job. Everyone should have food whether or not you have a job. Everyone should have housing whether or not you have a job. Poverty isn’t a moral failure. In the richest country in the world, it’s a policy choice.
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What I wish people understood in the sub game controller discourse is that they're better off using that than all the home grown control systems I've seen roboticists come up with.
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Tech bros: hey writers! guess what? We've solved your biggest problem! Writers: OMG that's so awesome! We're going to be paid a living wage? Tech bros: Writers: The deeply disfunctional publishing world is going to improve somehow? Tech bros: Writers: Health insurance!?
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this is what unions can do for you
Will Rinehart
@WillRinehart19 May 2023
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population. livescience.com/animals/orca…

Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?

Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.

livescience.com
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This is Jordan Neely. On Monday, he was lynched. On the NYC subway he started telling passengers that he was fed up being hungry, thirsty and having no place to rest. He began to shout in his frustration, and threw his jacket on the floor. An ex-marine then murdered him.🧵
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Pretty incredible that Google is trying to get away with blaming macroeconomic conditions for their layoffs, when over the last year they’ve spend 57.36B on stock buybacks. That’s enough to support the 12,000 laid off engineers at their median engineer compensation for 23 years.
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Seeing some takes that locate tech's mass layoffs' silver lining in the fact that fired workers are now free to make startups + retake tech from the bigs But startups don't compete w big tech anymore. They license big tech infra & compete w each other to get acquired by big tech
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Every damn time
Billy Perrigo@billyperrigo18 Jan 2023
🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found (Thread) time.com/6247678/openai-chat…

Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

time.com
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Learn to make your own N88 masks with inexpensive materials! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1cDz…
A poster consisting of several quadratic panels, each with a hue of green or blue, on a white background. Top right panel is largest, is greenish teal, and has the largest text, "Covid mask build" in all capital letters and bold font. Immediately below it says "Common Humanity Collective," also in yellow save the first letter of each word which is in light blue. Top left panel is a woman with medium tone skin and very dark brown hair winking, with a yellow mask with a diamond pattern, a green v-neck shirt, and a ring on a necklace in gold; background teal. Middle left panel is dark blue and says "Aid and power to the people" in call capital letters, white, with three fists with arms visible raised with dark, very dark, and medium light skin tone. Middle right panel is the same blue says "01/22 1-4PM" Middle panel says "Follow us: @CHUMANITYC" and a Mastodon Logo and an Instagram logo. Bottom left panel "Where: arthaus 2744 E 11 St Oakland, CA 94601. Food provided"

ALT A poster consisting of several quadratic panels, each with a hue of green or blue, on a white background. Top right panel is largest, is greenish teal, and has the largest text, "Covid mask build" in all capital letters and bold font. Immediately below it says "Common Humanity Collective," also in yellow save the first letter of each word which is in light blue. Top left panel is a woman with medium tone skin and very dark brown hair winking, with a yellow mask with a diamond pattern, a green v-neck shirt, and a ring on a necklace in gold; background teal. Middle left panel is dark blue and says "Aid and power to the people" in call capital letters, white, with three fists with arms visible raised with dark, very dark, and medium light skin tone. Middle right panel is the same blue says "01/22 1-4PM" Middle panel says "Follow us: @CHUMANITYC" and a Mastodon Logo and an Instagram logo. Bottom left panel "Where: arthaus 2744 E 11 St Oakland, CA 94601. Food provided"

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Unsolicited new year advice thread: 1. Now and then walk around your home and record a video of it. Open the closets and drawers. Point out items of personal or great financial value.
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2. Print to PDF anything you can get a digital receipt for, or take a photo of receipts of any substantial value or for items you will likely keep for a long time
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Honestly that's it. We have insurance itemization on the brain and we're lucky we did do both of these things. If you own a home I think the process is different, but renters policies benefit from itemizing well. Happy New Year 🥳
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I'll admit that the NYE show put on at Seattle Center was fun. The Space Needle is a good platform for setting off a fireworks show.
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Every Christmas is going to be the Christmas to make up for the previous X years of Christmas holidays I consider stolen for various reasons, but then I just get hoisted anyway. If you asked me how long a 26' moving truck could remain missing I would not have guessed 3 weeks.
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Someone mailed me my switch back after buying it off OfferUp because they realized it was stolen when they saw the guy they bought it from and decided there's no way he'd play Into the Breach.
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I know "beggars can't be choosers", but if your house is empty it's really funny to receive someone's old saucepan sized pressure cooker I just don't understand how they expected this to be of any use right now
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