Amanda CAARSON

Have a listen (or read the transcript) and sit for a while with three of the workers who did content moderation for ChatGPT. Thank you @karenhao for this important window into the human impact of this work.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-hidden-workforce-that-helped-filter-violence-and-abuse-out-of-chatgpt/ffc2427f-bdd8-47b7-9a4b-27e7267cf413

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—@emilymbender

Stuart Geiger highlighting importance of recognizing varied types of contribution to open source projects in his talk at #FOSSY.

One example he cites is the “All Contributors” bot, which is a nice way to continuously update your README with contribution credits in areas like design, accessibility, translation, user testing, bug reports, …:

https://github.com/all-contributors/app

Underlying spec:

https://allcontributors.org/

—@eloquence

“Begs the question” does not mean “raises the question,” and while I don’t expect *everyone* to know that, I do expect people who write for a living to be aware of the distinction. (Yes, I ran across another professional journalist who embarrassingly used the incorrect phrase.)

—@arossp

For pennies a day, you can save a South African child from bankruptcy. Act now, before it’s too late.

—@carnage4life

“The best part about a minivan? It’s actually an affordable place to live.” wow that YouTube comment is so true it kina hurt to read. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8OP8BLXy6k

—@codinghorror

If Facebook really loved the open web they’d hook Facebook itself up to it. Support RSS feeds in and out. Let users have rich text and links. I’ve been asking them to do that for over ten years, and sometimes it gets somewhere, there are people inside the company who believe in the open web, but somewhere … dave.micro.blog

—@dave

may i boldly suggest we start calling ’em maker machines instead of 3d printers

—@ChrisPirillo

I really prefer to be chill and collegial but I think coddling the mass of dudes who can somehow keep up with the minutiae of decades of software disputes but demand that every race and culture conversation grind to a halt while they demand a basic orientation has turned out to be a terrible strategy.

—@kissane

So, I noticed that a lot of trans people from Florida are seeking housing assistance, financial aid and other help as they seek safety in the US.

If you know any US-based initiative or a NPO that helps displaced trans people that flee abusive homes, please respond with them in this toot.

I’ll later compile a large list of all NPI and NPOs that people in Florida and from Florida can access to reach help quick.

—@YukiDeer

“Of all the cruel tricks in software engineering, this has to be the cruelest. Most of us entered this field because the machines are so much more logical than people. And yet, even when you’re writing code explicitly intended for the machine, you’re still writing. For other people. Fallible, flawed, distracted human beings just like you. And that’s the truly difficult part.” https://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-its-just-writing/

—@codinghorror

I really don’t understand why braille is so expensive. I’m not even talking about multiline refreshable braille displays or whatever the new tech craze is. I just mean printing braille on a surface. The thing that makes braille the most useful. The Perkins braille writer is $800–not the new one that’s supposed to be modernized, the one I went to school with that’s existed since the ’50s. The new one is 2000 dollars! Or the LoganTech thing you can type on to make labels, that’s $1100! Why?

—@objectinspace