Danny Ockilson - he/him @danny@justweb.dev

Donating food to a food bank is good and all, but giving them money is even better.

They can often buy straight from distributors at wholesale pricing, increasing your purchasing power.

This also ensures they get the freshest, healthiest items and cuts down on food waste.

For some reason a bunch of people I've long admired - and some lovely newer voices - agreed to write articles for my little end of year project and I'm very thankful for that and excited to spread the joy of native web features over the next 12 days!

Day 1 article drops tomorrow on https://12daysofweb.dev

You see how the entire “AI” agenda is driven by OpenAI? How every time they come up with anything that’s all everyone talks about? Does this seem like a healthy science or research attitude? This is a company run by typical overhyping, tech-utopia-brought-to-you-by-silicon-valley-billionaires bros who have managed to hijack or time and imagination cause, well, money, racism, sexism.

This Muppet meme makes a point.

cc @tim @aflcio #UnionStrong #unions #UnionsForAll

it's that time again: I'm fundraising for the port-a-potties at George Floyd Square! Because everyone needs a place to go 💛🤎

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Those of us who work in tech have so much privilege and access to resources. Let's use that privilege and access to materially support people holding it down on the front lines!

Thank you! 💛

Trams to return to #Glasgow is a huge step for returning the city back to the people over cars 👍

https://www.urbanrealm.com/news/10280/_Clyde_Metro_to_bootstrap_transport_provision_in_Glasgow.html

#trams #tramway #urbanplanning #scotland #infrastructure #urbanism #cities

Big recommendation: @heydon’s talk “Capitalism, The Web, And You” distills the essence of why capitalism is just another word for exploitation and why it drives you – who wants to do good! – into burnout.
https://front-end.social/@heydon/109438185952814720

The friendship paradox is the observation that most people have fewer friends than their friends have, on average. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox

There's a version of this for social media. For most people, the average post that shows up in their feed will have more boosts/likes/replies etc. than their own posts do.

Perhaps if more people knew about the friendship paradox, it would help them avoid online social comparison and all the ills that come with it. https://jedfoundation.org/resource/understanding-social-comparison-on-social-media/

Hey, fellow white people. Listen up.

Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color do not exist on this site or anywhere to “help” you or teach you how to be less racist, how to understand racism, or how to understand their experience of racism.

They do not owe you explanations, apologies, or education.

They do not owe you a seat at the table.

They do not owe you friendship, conversation, or even acknowledgement.

If you don’t get why, you have a lot of work to do.

has anyone written about using github copilot (or similar tools) while learning programming from scratch, for the first time?

I can't imagine what it's like to use these tools as a beginner and I'm very curious

I think I can put my finger on why ChatGPT is so unsettling, in spite of its technical impressiveness. It will inevitably exploit the fault lines of what's wrong with society.

Search results are already degraded by the incentive to publish mediocre affiliate bullshit. That will become more compelling. People are already cheating on homework. That will become much harder to detect.

We should be focusing on AI to help people detect (and reject) bullshit, but that's a much harder problem.