#Solidarity and #gratitude to the hundreds of people who used kayaks and their bodies to blockade the world's busiest #coal port for 32 hours this weekend, and to the thousands who supported them, and to the millions who cheered them on, and to the billions for whose sake they were acting. This was a taste of an unstoppable force of collective #courage, #care and #commitment
This interview with Linus Torvalds on the qualities that maintainers need (in contrast to developers) and maintainer fatigue summarizes a few things I keep bringing up:
maintenance is not "bugfixing" as a lesser/different kind of coding, it's about experience, about having done a lot of things to give context to what you are seeing and to have some understanding of what second order consequences a choice might have
maintenance is about collaboration and cooperation with others, about bridging gaps between contributors and their goals
I'd have added that maintenance is #care work: Caring about and for the project/product and its development and sustainability, caring about and for the social structure that the project/product is built upon, caring about and for the people who will be using the product/project or who will otherwise be affected.
#Maintenance doesn't work without empathy, about thinking through long term consequences.
@tante Have you written up these thoughts? It would be good to be able to reference them. I am also interested in the #care tag on the talk - are you looking at care ethics in tech?
Folks, I'm starting my post-#PhD job search low-key on the side while I write up my #thesis.
I have an odd collection of skills - #Linux, #Python, #Jupyter, #pandas, #DevRel, and I've done a lot of work in team leadership and management, and have led a multi-million $ not for profit in the past. Keynote speaker.
I'm looking for something that harnesses all of these skills - and it will be a senior role with senior pay, given my experience, qualifications and proven capability. I have time and will be discerning about my next step.
Job titles that might fit here would be Senior Research Engineer, Engineering Lead, Lead AI Engineer or similar.
Looking for fully remote work, with one day a fortnight max in #Melbourne, AU. If you don't believe in #RemoteWork or #WFH, we're not a good fit.
Super keen on something full time rather than splitting my attention over multiple part-time roles.
Looking to start around August, so a fair amount of lead time.
Keen on organisations that have strong values alignment - #FAIR and #CARE data use, #EthicalAI, AI for social good.
#friendship#care
Hey all you peeps out there!
I have a request: If you appreciate the person I mention, find him funny and caring, sometimes serious and other times a little crazy but in a good way, please send him a heart ❤️ to let him know 🥰 @MaJ1 @Tim_Mctuffty
Hmm, no #yard#care or gardening for me. Heat index of 102.8F. I should have put the shade cloth back up, guess I'll do that quickly before my tomatoes die. #CAwx#heatwave#VenturaCounty
As a carer I found Celia Dale's book A Helping Hand (1966/2022) a strangely uncomfortable read. Its a tale of the banality of evil, with a couple taking advantage of vulnerable old women they move into their house & slowly encourage to die. Its sombre & unsettling fiction which in our age of unpaid carers is a timely criminal trade. Written largely in dialogue this is an all too believable tale of casual sociopaths at work.
Dans un pré à côté de chez moi y'a une annesse (normande, je crois) depuis toujours, son propriétaire (un cantonnier à la retraite) n'a plus la santé adéquate pour s'en occuper donc il la donne contre bon soins. Comme tout âne, c'est mieux si elle a de la compagnie (autre âne, moutons, poules...).
Vous avez des pistes ? C'est en région lyonnaise. #Lyon#Help#Âne#Don#Care
Huhu, ich bin #neuhier, lebe in #hannover und komme ursprünglich aus #bremen.
Ich bin Mama von einem Kind, das gerade in die Schule gekommen ist, und interessiere mich für #feminismus und #care, #bindungsorientiert es und #bedurfnisorientiert es Zusammenleben mit jungen Menschen, #nachhaltigkeit und #klimawandel und noch vieles mehr... Bisher war ich auf Twitter, hab meinen Account aber gestern endlich gelöscht und bin gespannt was hier so los ist =) Liebe Grüße aus Hannover!
Given the choice between supporting the #care sector, by helping #migrants continue to fill much needed jobs, or pandering to the anti-migrant right of the #Tory party, new home Secretary #JamesCleverly is doing the latter & looks likely to reduce work-related visas & raise salary thresholds.
We might say that reducing the dependence on foreign workers in #socialcare is no bad thing, but without a #workforce plan that's bringing UK #workers into the sector this is just more #Tory wrecking!
Denn die GPN hat ein neues Sicherheitskonzept:
jegliche Notfälle, sei es Auti, Medizinisch oder Sicherheit, werden von einem zentralen Dispatch entgegen genommen. Auch Anfragen an das Awareness-Team gehen grundsätzlich über den zentralisierten Notruf. Die gewohnten Nummern werden also weiter geleitet.
Intersex people who aren't trans are still subject to the fascist violence that is currently aimed at any and all people who fall outside of gender and sex norms
Intersex people who aren't trans are subject to nonconsensual surgeries and HRT and can have complex and nuanced thoughts on gender and sex even if we aren't trans
We need solidarity to exist and not just with people who fall under both intersex and trans labels. We need yall to care about all of us. Intersex people who consider themselves cis still often have to work every day to pass as their gender or be abused, rejected, and brutalized by society. We don't have to be trans for this to be a massive issue that impacts the intersex community as a whole.
La bonne journée, on tient bon (si on peut), on se couvre, on se laisse pas faire, on essaie de pas se coucher tard, on mange un bout avant de partir le matin et si on a besoin d'aide, parce qu'on a le droit d'avoir besoin d'aide quand ça va pas trop, on va voir des gens qu'on aime et on demande de l'aide à des pro qualifiés !
Gran: “He’s never done any of it in a malicious way. Why didn’t the school system put in more filters, or firewalls, to prevent children from getting into that?”
County Spokesperson: "Threats to over 100,000 students’ safety, including hacking, will be met with the full force of the law and applicable District policy."
Migrant care workers are being betrayed by the tied-visa system that bought them to the UK... when sponsors are striped of their license, it tis the care workers who are effectively punished - forcing them into a precarious race for alternate employment.
This is just one part of a national political hypocrisy on 'economic migration'... we want/need workers to fill posts, but some just want to punish them for coming here;
Been adding more #autoethnography to teaching & this piece caught my eye. However not sure when I'll be able to read, seems like such a gut-punch:
"intergenerational relationships & #transnational#care shaped by global #migration & aging. I reflect on the dynamics of my relationship with my mother, beginning with my departure from my home & spanning a period of 40 years. I contemplate theoretical models of intergenerational solidarity, ambivalence, & role ambiguity..."
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