Toots for zeska@fosstodon.org account

Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-02-03 at 21:17

"It's all you guys fault and nothing to do with our contradicting requirements, spiralling business logic, or us insisting that you do as we say and stop questioning things."

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-02-03 at 21:14

This morning our tech lead told us to write code with fewer bugs for anyone still wondering what passes for leadership at big corpo.

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-01-23 at 12:21

I feel like I failed those people and made a permanent place in my heart for them, even if they don't know it, and even if those same people are now rabidly clamouring to ruin other people's lives.

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-01-23 at 12:19

It's heartbreaking to think that there are men just walking around out there being the most awful people possible, probably as a shield to stop anybody truly saying something about their core that could hurt them, but also that they're desperate for just a tiny bit of kindness that nobody can find a way to show to them because not only can they not stop hurting others, but that they can't even demonstrate a single other thing about themselves.

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-01-23 at 12:15

But there were some accounts I still think about that were even worse. Their entire online presence consisted of ironic facades and hate. I pored over these accounts looking for something good. I spent days pondering them. Thinking about them as I went to work on the bus or shopping.

And to this day I don't know what they expected or imagined I might say? I ended up so angry and sad with some of them I told them as much. Others I just felt I had to "overlook".

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-01-23 at 12:12

And with some of those it really wasn't easy. There were people responding who I wouldn't usually want much to do with and who would not have been kind to me if they'd met me in most other contexts. But regardless the point was to give everyone a chance so I pressed on where it was difficult and wouldn't otherwise have really wanted to compliment those people.

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-01-23 at 12:10

On twitter I once replied on a big account's post about men's mental health that if any man wanted a compliment that they could reply and I would compliment them.

Hundreds of replies started coming in from all kinds of different people.

Every single responder I researched their account and tried to find something nice to say about that person.

Can I compliment their physical appearance in a photo? Can I compliment an action they took or something they said on the platform?

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-01-17 at 13:16

I believe it could be damaging to children to be presented with language as if there's real thought and love behind it when in fact there is not.

Are you not just conditioning people to tune out every damn thing they see written down or spoken to them? And also creating an environment where every single thing we say and write has to compete with ever increasingly convincing ever increasing amounts of word soup?

How are kids supposed to learn to communicate with us?

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-01-17 at 13:09

I have a friend who is a primary school teacher who's very much in that group of friends with different politics to me.

Recently she keeps messaging me about using chatgpt to generate lesson material or as a substitute for contact time with children.

I've told her I don't like that she does that and would like her to stop, but she keeps messaging me about it. I think she's trying to win me over or something?

I'm trying to find good language for why I don't like it or want to hear about it..

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-01-16 at 13:19

Cory Doctorow as chief engineer

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2025-01-16 at 13:15

I demand a star trek series starring Yanis Varoufakis as the starship captain

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2024-12-17 at 14:01

That microsoft employee who closed a PR because AI might not be able to read it did re-open the PR, and his apology seemed quite sweet.

I'm still a bit baffled by the original comment, but because we are the mastodon community we should give him the benefit of the doubt and leave him and his app for busy dads to also be cool dads alone.

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2024-10-04 at 08:59

This tech lead I swear to god turned around in the office on Tuesday and asked my male colleague sitting right next to me about something I had said in a meeting the week before. 🫠

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2024-10-04 at 08:58

Today I encountered a new and insidious ChatGPT and tech industry phenomenon.

There seem to be tech leads that won't accept what developers (or at least women) are telling them, but if ChatGPT says it then suddenly an argument holds more persuasive weight than if a human had said it and they become much more reluctant to disagree.

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Written by Ada Hashtag on 2024-09-30 at 18:37

Suddenly having some profound feelings about knowledge. The academic system for "research" and writing papers and publishing "journals" to preserve and propagate knowledge feels kind of borked right?

And the internet has been amazingly successful at transmitting tons of knowledge and skills to millions of people. Like I learned most of what I know from the internet.

How do YOU want to preserve and transmit knowledge? What's stopping us from doing that right now? You, me, all of us.

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