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The story of stories and the land

TikTok · 05:16 · Oct 19, 2023

A story of how stories changed as we untethered them from the land, and how we might remember stories that lead us back to the land and rewrite current stories.

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Can you imagine different devices?

TikTok · 02:09 · Sep 4, 2023

Can you imagine how different our phones and other devices would be if they weren’t designed in Silicon Valley where the individual is the center of the universe, where winning is always the goal?

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2023

TikTok · 03:10 · Aug 28, 2023

2023, what a time to be alive. The perfect time to spark change and reclaim time as our own.

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The way we practice agile software development is broken. Constant sprinting and demands for delivering “business value” leave little room for ethical debates and treat developers as code monkeys. We can and should do better.

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Cease fire.

TikTok · 02:15 · Nov 13, 2023

What else do we have to witness live to rethink the stories we tell and start valuing all life on planet Earth? What human values are we aligning our AI models to?

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2hr meetings

TikTok · 06:40 · Sep 1, 2023

Everyone loves to hate meetings, but the problem is not with taking the time to meet with people, but rather that we don’t make enough time for quality, in-depth, relationship building meetings. I think we should make time for at least one or two 2 hour meetings each week with max 3 people. (And have fewer unsatisfying short ones.)

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Green web development tips

TikTok · 03:38 · Aug 30, 2023

Just because it’s digital, it doesn’t mean it’s clean and green. I share three basic tips on how you can reduce the carbon footprint of your websites and a couple of links that can help you learn more about green web development:

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Witcher's code

TikTok · 01:13 · Aug 19, 2023

What if we took a note from Geralt of Rivia and used our guild’s code as an excuse to get out of icky feature requests? At least until we can actually agree on our guild’s code of ethics.

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AI Cassandras (part 2)

TikTok · 03:12 · Aug 17, 2023

Learn more about the work of the AI Cassandras profiled in the Rolling Stone article and other women in the field of artificial intelligence.

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AI Cassandras (part 1)

TikTok · 05:08 · Aug 17, 2023

Highlights from the Rolling Stone article about five AI experts, all women of color, who have been trying to warn us about the risks and harms of artificial intelligence – and were, in some cases, fired for sounding the alarm.

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GPTBot rant

TikTok · 02:37 · Aug 14, 2023

A short rant about how we let OpenAI and other companies scrape our data without our permission. We now have the ability to block the GPTBot web crawler, but why is this opt out instead of opt in?

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Why does ChatGPT lie?

TikTok · 01:34 · Aug 13, 2023

When using ChatGPT, keep in mind what it was actually designed to do: generate plausible sounding text. For now, fact checking remains in your capable human hands!

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AI ethics & gender (part 2)

TikTok · 04:18 · Aug 10, 2023

Women and other marginalized people have been making the most significant contributions to the field of AI ethics – and suffering the consequences of speaking up –, yet we keep elevating the voices of tenured men who often take a surprisingly long time to realize the possible misuses and negatives impacts of their work.

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