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  1. Yep, that week pretty well did it.

    This week helped me make the decision to put dedicated energy into finding a new job so I'll be getting my resume polished and sent around.

    I'm looking to #GetFediHired, ideally working with a company that is interested in leaving the world in better shape than it was handed to us. Remote-only as I'm not looking to uproot my family.

    In terms of working with #AI, anyone who follows me knows that I'm against it, it's too harmful in its current iteration, but I am definitely interested in groups like #DAIR who study and understand AI and are interested in creating an alternate future with technology so if that's you then I'd love the opportunity to work with you.

    In terms of my background, nowadays I'm a people manager in Engineering but I have my own tech projects that keep my skills sharp. Primary skills are CI/CD development, OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, Python, Shell Scripting, C++, Perl, Go. I can do Windows scripting though haven't had cause to do so in a few years.

    I've been at this for 26 years so there aren't many things in the Ops/IT/DevOps space that I haven't at least played with a few times and I'm a quick study. Not meant to be a brag, that's just the reality I think of anyone who has been at this long enough. The landscape shifts and when we look back we all realize that we've worked with a lot of different tools over the years. Hell, my first job was working in Fortran 90 and COBOL and thankfully that knowledge is buried somewhere in my brain and will hopefully never see the light of day again.

    Ideally I'm looking to stick with a management gig as I enjoy people leadership, but if the company is a good fit, I'll gladly jump in and write code, it's just not what I'm looking for. For the right company though I'd probably make an exception, especially if you're working on bettering things for people.

    So yeah, shoot me a message if you have something, otherwise I'll start sending the resume out to places I find on LinkedIn and the like.

  2. Yep, that week pretty well did it.

    This week helped me make the decision to put dedicated energy into finding a new job so I'll be getting my resume polished and sent around.

    I'm looking to #GetFediHired, ideally working with a company that is interested in leaving the world in better shape than it was handed to us. Remote-only as I'm not looking to uproot my family.

    In terms of working with #AI, anyone who follows me knows that I'm against it, it's too harmful in its current iteration, but I am definitely interested in groups like #DAIR who study and understand AI and are interested in creating an alternate future with technology so if that's you then I'd love the opportunity to work with you.

    In terms of my background, nowadays I'm a people manager in Engineering but I have my own tech projects that keep my skills sharp. Primary skills are CI/CD development, OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, Python, Shell Scripting, C++, Perl, Go. I can do Windows scripting though haven't had cause to do so in a few years.

    I've been at this for 26 years so there aren't many things in the Ops/IT/DevOps space that I haven't at least played with a few times and I'm a quick study. Not meant to be a brag, that's just the reality I think of anyone who has been at this long enough. The landscape shifts and when we look back we all realize that we've worked with a lot of different tools over the years. Hell, my first job was working in Fortran 90 and COBOL and thankfully that knowledge is buried somewhere in my brain and will hopefully never see the light of day again.

    Ideally I'm looking to stick with a management gig as I enjoy people leadership, but if the company is a good fit, I'll gladly jump in and write code, it's just not what I'm looking for. For the right company though I'd probably make an exception, especially if you're working on bettering things for people.

    So yeah, shoot me a message if you have something, otherwise I'll start sending the resume out to places I find on LinkedIn and the like.

  3. RE: dair-community.social/@milamic

    📣 "Automated surveillance and killing machines experimented on Palestinians, for example, are exported to the EU and the US and used to harass refugees"

    📌 The Refugees, Migrants and AI research program from @DAIR connects personal narrative with political analysis to reveal how identity, policy, and technology intersect in contested socio-political spaces, such as borders.

    #AI #refugees #surveillance #palestine #gaza #migrants #DAIR #conversation

  4. RE: dair-community.social/@milamic

    📣 "Automated surveillance and killing machines experimented on Palestinians, for example, are exported to the EU and the US and used to harass refugees"

    📌 The Refugees, Migrants and AI research program from @DAIR connects personal narrative with political analysis to reveal how identity, policy, and technology intersect in contested socio-political spaces, such as borders.

    #AI #refugees #surveillance #palestine #gaza #migrants #DAIR #conversation

  5. The DAIR Institute makes sceptical videos warning about the dangerous hype and irresponsible practices currently driving AI, LLMs and related tech. You can follow at:

    ➡️ @[email protected]

    There are already over 70 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at peertube.dair-institute.org/a/

    You can also follow DAIR's general social media account at @[email protected]

    #FeaturedPeerTube #DAIR #AI #LLM #LLMs #OpenAI #SamAltman #Sceptic #Skeptic #PeerTube #PeerTubers

  6. The DAIR Institute makes sceptical videos warning about the dangerous hype and irresponsible practices currently driving AI, LLMs and related tech. You can follow at:

    ➡️ @[email protected]

    There are already over 70 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at peertube.dair-institute.org/a/

    You can also follow DAIR's general social media account at @[email protected]

    #FeaturedPeerTube #DAIR #AI #LLM #LLMs #OpenAI #SamAltman #Sceptic #Skeptic #PeerTube #PeerTubers

  7. An Internet for Our Elders dair-institute.org/blog/elders/
    "Our elders play an important role in preserving our culture. Through each generation, our grandmothers pass down stories of our history and family trees, our poetry and our music to keep our heritage alive. Serving as our “technologies of memory,” our grandmothers and other cultural storytellers have been responsible for preserving and passing down stories of our history and culture long before the advent of the printing press or the internet. Their contributions and wisdom are critical to maintaining our history, culture and a sense of who we are." #DAIR

  8. An Internet for Our Elders dair-institute.org/blog/elders/
    "Our elders play an important role in preserving our culture. Through each generation, our grandmothers pass down stories of our history and family trees, our poetry and our music to keep our heritage alive. Serving as our “technologies of memory,” our grandmothers and other cultural storytellers have been responsible for preserving and passing down stories of our history and culture long before the advent of the printing press or the internet. Their contributions and wisdom are critical to maintaining our history, culture and a sense of who we are." #DAIR

  9. today I learnt about #DAIR dair-institute.org

  10. today I learnt about #DAIR dair-institute.org

  11. Pluralistic: I assure you, an AI didn’t write a terrible “George Carlin” routine (29 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

    You almost don't have to listen to Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 after reading this, but please do anyway!

    dair-institute.org/maiht3k/

    pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay

    #DAIR #AIHype

  12. Pluralistic: I assure you, an AI didn’t write a terrible “George Carlin” routine (29 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

    You almost don't have to listen to Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 after reading this, but please do anyway!

    dair-institute.org/maiht3k/

    pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay

    #DAIR #AIHype

  13. @jacob @mttaggart @sidereal @pluralistic @neurovagrant
    An AI ethicist should probably be involved in all cases until we know more. I want the folks from that sub-discipline (the #DAIR folks, others) to be the ones who tell us what we should do. I assume they'll say most uses today should have an AI ethicist on staff. I will defer to them, but also I have opinions (below).

    (and)

    I discovered months ago that I could politely get most tech recruiters to leave me alone with their AI startup opportunity by replying and asking for info about the AI ethics team.

    (and also)

    I know there are legitimate, bias free uses. Inferring exoplanet atmosphere from starlight spectra seems like an obvious one. But still, I don't think that's my call.

    Someone in the AI Ethics profession should be in the decision process until they tell us otherwise. There are labor solidarity reasons for this. I can think of animal safety in film production as a similar situation. Civil Engineering has a healthy safety & oversight culture.

  14. So dair(.)ai DOES NOT look like the #DAIR folks to me, but instead an attempt to crowd out The DAIR Institute using #seo

    I dug around their GitHub project pages a bit, but didn't want to do an exhaustive search, but it seemed to have been started AFTER Timnit founded DAIR.

    Suss, right? Is this widespread knowledge in the AI ethics / AI critic camp and y'all just know to ignore them?

  15. Good statement by Distributed AI Research Institute (#DAIR) on the bombardment of #Gaza and the role of tech companies.

    dair-institute.org/blog/palest