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Why an ads plugin concerns me is that paid ads come with a LOT of expectations around analytics and “engagement”. Which means that any instance running an ads plugin would explicitly be harvesting data from the rest of the fediverse to sell to the ad company.

Which is hostile and horrible behaviour, and to me means that federating with that instance is dangerous.

—@aurynn

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Congratulations to Mick Curren and @jcsteh for being featured in the upcoming episode of Australian Story. It’s a very well deserved recognition for the two of them and the project they founded, which has led to the democratization of screen reading technology for many #blind people via NVDA, giving us free and unencumbered access to the Windows operating system. Also congrats to the @NVAccess@fosstodon.social Project.

Announcement here: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2nd-june-2023/

#accessibility

—@ppatel

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Nowhere Girl (@gwynnion@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
There isn't a "crisis in masculinity." There are just guys who can't cope with there being any standards or expectations for their behavior at all after being told they could literally do whatever they wanted and treat people like property. There's a reason every proposed "solution" is misogynist as hell and involves forcing women into a social position where their lives, bodies, and livelihoods are entirely controlled by men. Because these men are pigs and want to live life on easy mode.
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“Come work for us! It’s fun and rewarding and we paid for this building so you’re gonna fucking sit in it whether that’s useful or productive or you want to or not, we aren’t measuring it and don’t care. Not in your own office or anything obviously, that’s crazy talk. You won’t even get your own chair. And we’re not paying you more for commute time or covering vehicle/transit costs or anything. This is about much, much more important things: performative management and amortizing real estate.”

—@mhoye

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“The article notes that one copywriter lost all 10 of his clients over the last four months — and though one later hired him back, he’s now training to be a plumber.”

This is not good, but also I’ve been advocating for people to learn how to be plumbers for at least 10 years… when plumbing no longer requires a person, nothing will require a person.

Hopefully, we reorganize society to realize that people still matter, but, plumbing is now the Turing test that matters

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/chatgpt-took-their-jobs-now-they-walk-dogs-and-fix-air-conditioners/ar-AA1c23Tf

—@jbigham