Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

#Google is trying to #kill the #OpenWeb.

Using the proposed "Web Environment Integrity" means websites can select on which devices (browsers) they wish to be displayed, and can refuse service to other devices. It binds client side software to a website, creating a silo'd app.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

This penalizes platforms on which the preferred client side software is not available.

While we are all talking about #union activity in the entertainment industry, #IATSE has an open public petition to #Disney to pressure them to voluntarily recognize membership in IATSE local 839, The Animators Guild, for its animation studios Production Coordinators, Production Managers, and Production Supervisors. https://iatse.net/online-action/disney-production/

As many if not most of you know, I have been writing about the ethical, epistemological, and social implications of of GPT-type tools since shortly after they hit the scene, and I've been writing about those same implications in "A.I." for a lot longer than that.

Now I am proud to present my article "Bias Optimizers," wherein American Scientist Magazine gave me the space and time to talk about those all of those things, to a very wide audience. I hope you enjoy it:
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/bias-optimizers

Hey #Journalism #mastodon, @mongabay is hiring an Indigenous news reporter. Please apply if this if you:

"Recognizing that life experiences and perspectives are critical to report effectively on issues related to Indigenous peoples and communities, Mongabay is seeking candidates who identify as Indigenous or have extensive experience living and working in Indigenous communities."

https://mongabay.org/mongabay-is-hiring-for-an-indigenous-news-reporter/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=linkedin

#Indigenous #News #Environment #Jobs

Include sex workers in your labor organizing. Sex workers' rights are workers' rights.

computers are pretty cool but its a good thing theyre not real! can you imagine!! it would be a disaster!!!

I don't post about work much here, but I spent 5+ years working on Vox Media's CMS Chorus. Straight up built my career by growing, refactoring and hacking on it.

Two things I learned:

- All code is dies. Some sooner than later.
- The most rewarding work is anything that reduces pain points for coworkers and customers.

Sad to see Chorus is shutting down. A lot of great engineers and writers worked on and in it, and I'm thinking about them today 💖

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/18/vox-media-chorus

Heads up, @cfaworkers has made a call for public support of their nascent union, which is facing union-busting tactics.

If you think civic tech workers deserve a union, this is the time to voice it to Code for America's leadership—specific instructions at the bottom of the post:

https://cfaworkersunited.com/stories/2023/07/14/cfa-actions-dont-align-with-values.html

Having a smartphone is not a luxury anymore, one sex worker in Kolkata said. “It is like having a laptop for an office going person. They need it for work. We also need smartphones for our work, because time is changing, everyone is online”
https://restofworld.org/2023/india-sex-workers-online-safety/