“Texas is just a really terrible place for construction workers to do their job."
Antelmo Ramirez was one of more than 1,300 construction workers to die in #Texas between 2011 and 2021, more than California and Pennsylvania combined, reports @gusbova in this week's top story:
@atomicpoet I think whatever we become we'll really only have 'succeeded' if #Calckey leads the way with #FediverseSafety ahead of features and scale.
The Calckey I see would
have a diverse team of folks that has the time to listen to the safety discourses, and the lived experience to know why safety matters, and informs their #development decisions.
make importing #blocklists or integrating third party #moderation tools easypeasy, so no user finds themselves on an new server that's open to dogpiled by the worst elements of the #Fediverse.
have granular user controls for #safety - opt-in & opt-out; and features - like turning down/off MFM when it's overwhelming without a user needing to resort to CSS scripts.
not really care to be a birdsite or #Mastodon alternative. Let's work to be a better secret third thing, or fourth, or fifth thing.
If we really have to duplicate the big influencer account thing, I'd like to see more non-White, autistic, disabled, queers, and women voices. They're here, but they're often forced to be critics of a newer hegemony. Let's be listening for how can Calckey become the main service of choice for Black, POC and Indigenous women to join, spin up servers, become developers, and have prominent voices on. The rest of the good stuff will follow that.
I think we can do that, but only if we prioritise, and promote minority voices, and do the structural work to support them coming to the service.
Our company was dispatched to secure and hold a utility pole supporting an existing fiber optics line, while another company excavated a 14 ft trench to place new drainage pipes.
(You can get a sense of how big that excavator bucket is in relation to the worker on the left.) #Utilities#Safety#Construction#FiberOptics
Make sure to thank utility workers for all they do, AND drive safe in construction zones. Thanks.
Considering this set of principles by which #Anthropic tries to train its #AI, I found that it does not always meet those principles.
Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staff and that raised $1.3B, including $300M from #Google, details its “constitutional AI” for safer #chatbots.
“Proposed Texas Law Wants to Make School Children 'Battlefield' Ready
In response to school shootings, a new bill in Texas would require public schools to install "bleeding stations" and train kids as young as third grade in trauma care.”
@TonyStark@fsinn School children learning triage is nothing according to #gop compared to the #trauma of schoolchildren forced to wear masks during a #pandemic.
Honestly, I feel powerless against all this hate and violence. And right wing extremists keep saying we need more and more guns, and that trans people, women who have abortions, and black lives are the real existential threats to this great white nation.
Demystifying #AI#Safety: A curated list of papers for a safer, ethical & more reliable AI
Hello Fosstodon, with exciting news! 📢
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new #opensource project, Awesome AI Safety. Our mission is to democratize AI Safety by providing access to the latest relevant papers to make AI models more reliable, robust, explainable, ethical & accurate.
Help us achieve that goal by sharing this repository with your favorite #ML researchers 💌 https://gisk.ar/44st3le
Game 60: Richard Scarry's Busiest Neighborhood Disc Ever (1994), by Activision.
Educational program for children about the dangers of stress and overly high work pressure.
You see, everyone in Busytown is always busy. So busy, in fact, that in my short visit to the town I was witness to multiple workplace and road accidents.
Of course there was no gore or screaming but hopefully it teaches kids the importance of taking breaks and watching out for each other.
Really pissed to find out that a block means nothing on #calckey or #mastodon. Feeling ick being able to see the former partner of a friend who I have blocked, because someone on blahaj.zone has replied to them and there they are now sitting in the local timeline. They really fucked my friend up for years with their sociopathic manipulation.
Now I find out that she can see me if I'm not set to private. Why can't a block be an actual fucking block?
This is the basic shit many folks have been asking for while devs just fuck around with their basic bro stuff.
I really don't want to leave the #Fediverse, but how the fuck is this safe??? How can I feel safe knowing that she can potentially see me? I'd be safer back on the bird site.
“For the psychologist, Wilfred Bion, negative capability was about not giving in to the temptation to continually engage with the safety of the familiar.”
Yesterday, unfortunately, my main #smartphone was stolen. #Essen-#HBF, when picking up the daughter....
Should someone be offered a #Google#Pixel6a, with #GrapehenOS and small #Linux#Penguin sticker (hard to get off), please report. This should be my beloved #Phone.
Thanks.
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