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dave.alvarado.social.ap.brid.gy
Full-stack dev in a non-tech company. Cishet brown dude. He/him. I play a chaotic good tank in real life. [bridged from https://alvarado.social/@dave on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Diverse group of scientists gets sick of white dominance of health research, decides to do a whole ass study to highlight that we'd get better outcomes if we started asking non-white people stuff. I can't help but picture this as a mic drop. When the abstract quotes "The Other America" in the […]

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Do any of my follows/followers have an influence on tech conferences? This is a brilliant idea from Dr. Hicks. https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/114427691980872618 @shanselman @logicalelegance

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

One of the things that makes me happiest about Tesla's stock crashing is that Elon took his eye off the ball. Tesla's current problems are new, but in the past he has been able to release a new model for everyone to get hyped about to pay for the previous model that was a flaming dog turd. But […]

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

On today's episode of "we didn't think that through", the FAA no longer says who is an astronaut or where space begins. That's the "fuck around". The "find out" will be when somebody sues American Airlines for not doing proper spacecraft testing. After all, 30,000 feet is now "space" as far as […]

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Scientist and/or researcher friends: how do you read articles and papers? I mean like...what's your physical process? Do you print them out? Read them on a big computer screen? Read them on a laptop? Download them to a tablet of some sort? I'm curious what works for you.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

One of the best things I ever did for the quality of my Mastodon feed and my mental health in general is to shut off boosts on my home feed. It cuts down on discoverability of new people, but I don't need that right now. The thing I need is that it turns the volume waaaay down on outrage. I see […]

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

"[N]ot only do the structurally empowered eighty-to-ninety-percent-men of technical organizations...get to choose emotions over efficacy, they get to do so while also maintaining the notion that they never have emotions in the first place." And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why the phrase […]

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

People who use the phrase "meet-cute" in a published love the move The Holiday. I don't make the rules, I just call them like I see them.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

To my friends who work with computers: "A person with a PhD in human things and who deals in human problems and human solutions cannot ever be Technical no matter how dense her statistics are, how many conferences she speaks at, and how comprehensively she has given examples of generating […]

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

"Also at the end of the day I have mischief in my heart and I love to ask Bad Questions." Why I have an affinity for @grimalkina summed up in a single sentence. If she seems like your kind of people too, go check out her new project at https://www.fightforthehuman.com/

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I just got a marketing email for Keychron's Easter sale. Can we just like...have five minutes where everybody isn't trying to sell us everything? I'm utterly failing to see how the claimed resurrection of Jesus of Nazereth has anything to do with mechanical keyboards. I love Keychron but c'mon […]

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I posted this to my Elite Dangerous group Discord and discovered three new autistic people. It's such a good test! If you identify with the main character, you might be autistic. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s2yLHBJyBjM

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments