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Christopher

@nvll

Keen on social empathy. He/Him. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. People over Capital. Probably worked in tech too long already. FFXIV and MH sometimes.

 Oakland, CA
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Joined December 2008
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I'm sitting this morning wondering which BigTech cloud the "Lavendar" & "Where's Daddy?" systems are running on. What APIs they might be using. Which libraries they're likely calling What work did my former colleagues, did I, did you contribute to that may now be enabling this?
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UNRWA
@UNRWA17 Feb 2024
There are no words.
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New imagery from North Gaza. The target was never Hamas, it was all of Gaza. It was all Palestinians.
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Everyone should have healthcare whether or not you have a job. Everyone should have food whether or not you have a job. Everyone should have housing whether or not you have a job. Poverty isn’t a moral failure. In the richest country in the world, it’s a policy choice.
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Tech bros: hey writers! guess what? We've solved your biggest problem! Writers: OMG that's so awesome! We're going to be paid a living wage? Tech bros: Writers: The deeply disfunctional publishing world is going to improve somehow? Tech bros: Writers: Health insurance!?
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this is what unions can do for you
Will Rinehart (@WillRinehart) profile pictureWill Rinehart
@WillRinehart19 May 2023
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population. livescience.com/animals/orca…
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?

Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?

Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.

livescience.com
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This is Jordan Neely. On Monday, he was lynched. On the NYC subway he started telling passengers that he was fed up being hungry, thirsty and having no place to rest. He began to shout in his frustration, and threw his jacket on the floor. An ex-marine then murdered him.🧵
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Pretty incredible that Google is trying to get away with blaming macroeconomic conditions for their layoffs, when over the last year they’ve spend 57.36B on stock buybacks. That’s enough to support the 12,000 laid off engineers at their median engineer compensation for 23 years.
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Seeing some takes that locate tech's mass layoffs' silver lining in the fact that fired workers are now free to make startups + retake tech from the bigs But startups don't compete w big tech anymore. They license big tech infra & compete w each other to get acquired by big tech
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Learn to make your own N88 masks with inexpensive materials! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1cDz…
A poster consisting of several quadratic panels, each with a hue of green or blue, on a white background. Top right panel is largest, is greenish teal, and has the largest text, "Covid mask build" in all capital letters and bold font. Immediately below it says "Common Humanity Collective," also in yellow save the first letter of each word which is in light blue. Top left panel is a woman with medium tone skin and very dark brown hair winking, with a yellow mask with a diamond pattern, a green v-neck shirt, and a ring on a necklace in gold; background teal. Middle left panel is dark blue and says "Aid and power to the people" in call capital letters, white, with three fists with arms visible raised with dark, very dark, and medium light skin tone. Middle right panel is the same blue says "01/22 1-4PM" Middle panel says "Follow us: @CHUMANITYC" and a Mastodon Logo and an Instagram logo. Bottom left panel "Where: arthaus 2744 E 11 St Oakland, CA 94601. Food provided"

ALT A poster consisting of several quadratic panels, each with a hue of green or blue, on a white background. Top right panel is largest, is greenish teal, and has the largest text, "Covid mask build" in all capital letters and bold font. Immediately below it says "Common Humanity Collective," also in yellow save the first letter of each word which is in light blue. Top left panel is a woman with medium tone skin and very dark brown hair winking, with a yellow mask with a diamond pattern, a green v-neck shirt, and a ring on a necklace in gold; background teal. Middle left panel is dark blue and says "Aid and power to the people" in call capital letters, white, with three fists with arms visible raised with dark, very dark, and medium light skin tone. Middle right panel is the same blue says "01/22 1-4PM" Middle panel says "Follow us: @CHUMANITYC" and a Mastodon Logo and an Instagram logo. Bottom left panel "Where: arthaus 2744 E 11 St Oakland, CA 94601. Food provided"

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RTs 🙏 Itls been a hell year and I've avoided asking for too much from people in this rea during it if I can, but we're officially at a wall and I just dob't wanna lose my home rn ahahaahaa gofund.me/9713b46c
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Alfred Twu@alfred_twu1 Oct 2022
Honk if you're voting for Rebecca Kaplan for Supervisor! Rebecca's campaign just organized a big canvass for four Democratic-endorsed candidates: ✅@Kaplan4Oakland ✅@ShengForOakland ✅@nikki4oakland ✅@alfredtwu_act
A goose in front of a Rebecca Kaplan for Supervisor sign

ALT A goose in front of a Rebecca Kaplan for Supervisor sign

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🧵 (of particular relevance to the fellow techies who follow me - the 'rationalist' quantification-of-altruism / earn-to-give rhetoric is something we're primed to fall hard for, but the actual absurd conclusions are demonstrably eugenicist, white supremacist, & wrong-headed.)
@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) (@timnitGebru) profile picture@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)
@timnitGebru23 Sep 2022
My collaborators were talking about starting a movement called "innefective altruism" but I think defective altruism is an even better name :) currentaffairs.org/2022/09/d…
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My collaborators were talking about starting a movement called "innefective altruism" but I think defective altruism is an even better name :) currentaffairs.org/2022/09/d…
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every post that’s like “i’ve been programming for 20 yrs now and i look up everything on stackoverflow” just makes me feel a little sad. there’s such a huge inspirational element to people who are Really Good At Things and we should celebrate that in a non-toxic way.
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debugging strategy: write a unit test
strategy: write a unit test If your program already has tests, adding a failing test can be a great way to work on your bug! person (thinking): "this function should return X, but it's returning Y" * it forces you to pinpoint what exactly the bug is * it's easy to tell when you've fixed it (the test passes!) * you can keep the test to make sure the bug doesn't come back

ALT strategy: write a unit test If your program already has tests, adding a failing test can be a great way to work on your bug! person (thinking): "this function should return X, but it's returning Y" * it forces you to pinpoint what exactly the bug is * it's easy to tell when you've fixed it (the test passes!) * you can keep the test to make sure the bug doesn't come back

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and by the way.. its not just this, but also the fact that when black and brown folx who "make it" come from a poor family, we typically become the financial support system for our entire family... meaning we can NEVER escape the cycle of poverty
NPR (@NPR) profile pictureNPR
@NPR13 Aug 2022
White adults are more than twice as likely as Black and Latino households to get sizable financial help from parents or elders, a new joint NPR poll finds. That has profound intergenerational effects. n.pr/3QFFmTt
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Y’all. This is it.
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Cis people: I need you to understand (and help others understand) that “the trans debate” is NOT relevant “to only a small number of people” but to everyone. Thread below for why: (This is focused on cis women, but cis dudes I need you to listen too. You are also in danger.)
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