Emma Snoeijs (@[email protected])

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[Emma Snoeijs (@[email protected]) @esnoeijs]

@ReinH I consume twitter read-only, as a conscious choice, which I'm now breaking.
There is no other twitter, the old twitter is gone, the new twitter is a fading memory, a rotting husk?
Bluesky or mastodon are not twitter.
Twitter is gone and we are all at a different stage of grief.

[Andrew 'Steiner' Hodgson @DistantValhalla]

In 2011, a Japanese comedy named The Hero Yoshihiko and the Demon King's Castle aired. It's still an all-timer that I think about often. I ask that you watch this clip then seek out the full thing for yourself.

[Emma Snoeijs (@[email protected]) @esnoeijs]

@geekingthething that's twitter now. Ads, blue checks and the 5 people still worth following

[Emma Snoeijs (@[email protected]) @esnoeijs]

@johncutlefish Thanks for this, I will probably use this for our teams offsite to ask the question, where are we, where does each of us want to be, what would that look like, what needs to happen.

[/Fay-lee-nuh/ @Felienne]

"Yeah but it is only incorrect like 1% of the time" But these mistakes will, inevitably, impact lives! And yeah, human translators too can make errors, but they can oversee the impact of them!! They know such documents can mean life or dead, an AI does not!

[Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH]

It would fundamentally change the software industry if programs were 100x easier to write but 100x harder to review. I don't think this change will be "progress".

[Steven Shorrock @StevenShorrock]

Reflections on the practice of Human Factors.

In this webinar, I reflect on what I learned in the > 25 years since graduating and have found to be most important to practice in the design and improvement of work.
https://t.co/YjLaChLuZz

[Emma Snoeijs (@[email protected]) @esnoeijs]

@ReinH What if the engineers convinced elon that april fools skipped the weekend so was on april 3rd this year.

[Emma Snoeijs (@[email protected]) @esnoeijs]

@ReinH but it gets worse

[Rosanne Liu @savvyRL]

Fixed.

[Niall Murphy @niallm]

@yvonnezlam a few answers
- because we conflate 'better' with a bunch of other attributes
- because in companies we mix 'continuing ability to fund effort X' with 'knows what to do about X'
- long-standing cultural habit of confusing org leaders with parental figures, and ourselves with kids

[Trans Safety Network @trans_safety]

Some preliminary testing indicates that Twitter is deboosting tweets containing certain words, including preventing them being shown as previews in DMs.

Current suspected words include (without letters not punctuation):

- Tr@ns
- G@y
- Lesbi@n
- Qu££r
- Bisexu@l

Try yourself.

[The Trevor Project @TrevorProject]

Six trans and nonbinary young people sat down with Daniel Radcliffe in a candid and heartfelt conversation about their journeys and what genuine allyship looks like.

🎥The first episode of #SharingSpace premieres on YouTube tomorrow at 12 PM ET. ➡️ https://t.co/nlE3HxCkKn

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

A reminder on International Transgender Day of Visibility:

💙 Trans rights are human rights
💗 Trans rights are human rights
🤍 Trans rights are human rights

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

X : DMAIC or PDSA?
Me : Hmmm ... neither and yet ... both. You can derive either from OODA. As a rule of thumb (gosh, this image is so old to be in the old mapping format) - https://t.co/4yF2Go8vKA

[Emma Snoeijs (@[email protected]) @esnoeijs]

@ReinH Just don't look up what the red pill (Premarin) is made of

[Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov]

"How would you explain programming to your grandma? How would a product manager describe what they do to their mom?"

My grandma programmed mainframes before you were born. My mom has been a PM since before you started school. Maybe they should explain these jobs to you instead.

[Paul Mainwood @PaulMainwood]

This is odd. The official @microsoft accounts (@windows, @azure) only follow a few people each.

But amongst those few, they each choose a neo-Nazi whose timeline is exclusively made up of calls to slaughter Jews.

[Jessica DeVita @UberGeekGirl]

Slides from my research on harm and trauma in tech workers presented at #Qcon22 "Reckoning with the harm we do: In search of restorative just culture in software and web operations" https://t.co/wO13N0d0kS