There’s a gift shop you can stand in line to get into.

@soaproot take a look at the speaker list ;)

Github Universe is two huge warehouses plus half a dozen other smaller spaces in Fort Mason. This is the entire open source area 😭

i've been glibly saying "copilot is the product, not github" or words of similar effect for a bit

anyway github universe is on and uh yeah i don't feel as glib anymore, it's all copilot https://reg.githubuniverse.com/flow/github/universe25/attendee-portal/page/sessioncatalog

I have not been to GitHub Universe since before the acquisition. Safe to say it’s…different.

p.s. if you’re here, I’d love to meet up. Yes, you.

Fascinating history of the first spam email in 1978. I urge you to do an experiment. Read the message, and then the reactions, without looking at who sent them. Then, on the first one that sounds creepy, look at who it is. 🤮

https://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html

I’ve started writing again! I wrote the first essay for my newsletter last week about how I view AI coding assistants. Would love to get your feedback!

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahmei/p/the-next-abstraction

Please consider subscribing if you’d like to see me write more. There’s a free option!

And trust that you’ll find your people again, though they won’t be the same people as last time.

Thoughts: a community is never a fixed thing. It’s a moment in time. All communities dissolve or are destroyed eventually. Enjoy the ones you’re a part of now, but expect to start over. Roll forward; don’t try to go back.

The most unexpected effect of #xoxofest so far is that I am starting to process the loss of twitter

@olivierlacan no lol although I’m hoping the art & code stuff will be fun

@olivierlacan I am around and I would love to catch up!

@knzai I wore it for 10 hours straight on a long flight and it was totally doable (if not totally comfortable the whole time). Also: no fogging my glasses!! :D

I will be in Portland from tomorrow until Sunday for #xoxofest !

If you’re in Portland too, for conf or not, I’d love to say hi/catch up. I am trying to like…talk to actual people again. WIP. I am team FloMask so I will look something like this:

I’m going to #RailsConf this year for the first time in … 6 years?? I hope I will see you there! I’d love to catch up 💖

Hello world!

There's yet another "AI will kill us all! It poses a risk of extinction!" letter going around, and I just… Y'all i am just so fucking tired.

CAPITALISM poses risk of extinction (climate change, right the fuck now).

WHITE SUPREMACY poses risk of extinction (genocide, eugenics).

HEGEMONY poses risk of extinction (nuclear FUCKING WAR).

And whatever "risk of extinction" "AI" poses, it poses because it is BUILT FROM THOSE EXTREMELY HUMAN VALUES.

Even if you stopped every "AI" project running, RIGHT THIS SECOND, those values would still kill us. And no matter how long you "pause" your "AI" projects, if you don't address those values? Then when you start your "AI" back up? You'll KEEP BUILDING THOSE SAME VALUES IN.

This is not hard. At this point, as much as it pains me to say it, it's not even novel. And yet you're still not fucking getting it.

I'm so goddam tired.

I have this impression that in office work is really good for tall white extroverted men. And sort of a natural penalty for everyone else.

Curious if there's any research on this vs remote working. There are multiple surveys like this one: https://hbr.org/2022/05/why-many-women-of-color-dont-want-to-return-to-the-office#:~:text=Another%20found%20that%20Black%2C%20Asian,women%20of%20color%20in%20tech.

What's YOUR favorite tech innovation?

I don't know how or if I can report this, which means I don't know if I'll write about it "officially" but it's truly unsettling to me how little national orgs, particularly HRC but others as well, are doing in response to the slow motion roll back of all our rights and progress.

They should be making so much noise they're unavoidable. Constant op-eds placed, constant interviews, their websites re-tooled to highlight the current fights and their place in it.