Dan Dean / is on Nostr

Mostly unprofessional venting. Run!

Staff Software Engineer at JOB.

Previously: Platform Tooling at #Splice, Frontend at Simple (the bank) and POP, and long-ago art director at #Fantagraphics Books.

Played drums in #SharksKeepMoving, #Nineironspitfire, and #Screwjack, and session drums for #RockyVotolato.

Trained in #photography. Exhibited interactive installations. Hobbyist in #ceramics.

Black Lives Matter. Trans rights are human rights. DEI is good, actually.

Last Notes

2024-10-12 23:54:11

Only 8 months until we can free ourselves from the private school industrial complex.

2024-09-12 03:32:37

The owner of X posted "a joke" threat on X to impregnate a celebrity because he disagrees with her politics. That anybody continues to use that site for their professional presence implies a general lack of professional integrity.

2024-09-10 20:21:34

"We're using AI to make this unnecessary and immoral task easier to perform"

2024-09-01 19:24:20

My wife and I were talking about whether to get the tiny Fiat 500e as our next car, and she was a flat out “no” because of how many large cars are on the road.
It’s a car size arms race and everyone loses.
https://mastodon.social/@davidzipper/113063094962867449

2024-08-26 18:15:56

Is there a way to get more than one #Covid vaccine per year? We're delaying our updated shots until November in order to increase its effectiveness over the winter.

2024-07-09 15:58:27

I just learned that some people pay a monthly subscription for their doorbell.

2024-05-06 23:24:09

Taking my kid to school this morning and heard a story on KUOW about AI in #Seattle schools. Every school teacher interviewed was an uncritical AI booster, and the only risk discussed was "cheating" – no mention of how LLMs can mislead.
One teacher boasted about how much less work it was to research historical events, and it made me sad to think that people are relying on a **language model** to convey details and interpret the meaning of historical events.

2024-04-03 03:47:22

Babe are you ok? You’ve barely posted 5 key takeaways from the xz debacle

2024-03-30 01:43:57

It’s pretty cool that modern work relies on installing an unbounded set of dependencies provided by humans within a system which lacks any form of coherent oversight or accountability. Pretty cool, yeah.

2024-01-19 20:05:19

I just absolutely love that "If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It", a dogmatic truism attributed to men with Big Management Brains, is merely a fiction embraced by the corporate world.
https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/mhsu/blog/files/deming_measurement.html
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