mastodon 4.7.2+glitchDisabled genderfluid Black immigrant nerd who frequently plays games and talks about their life experiences! Pronouns are any.
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Can we just talk about the fact that folks will report Black users for creating mutual aid over a ""concern"" about scams while folks like this are actually stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars? No?
Edit: Who OP is reporting about, not OP themselves.
Recommending Blacksky users on Mastodon to choose the 4th option in their recent poll.
Blacksky is deciding on how much (if any) agentic coding that they should be using. Right now, the developer team is erring towards using agentic coding. They make it clear that this will only be used for coding.
Here are the 4 options listed below:
Option 1: Ship new features, grow our user base, and organically grow the business by better supporting our members as well as other communities that want to use our infrastructure. This does require using agentic coding within our developing of features as needed.
Option 2: Raise venture capital and use the funds to hire more developers so that we can offset using AI coding tools. Leaving aside the various ethical problems with venture capital, in the current environment, raising money for a startup that is not building an AI product – and we are not doing this – is incredibly difficult. The founder, being a Black, first-time founder, makes these odds nearly impossible. Doing this with a commitment to not using AI coding tools makes us uninvestable (which is not necessarily a bad thing!).
Option 3: Implement traditional social media business models that will let us hire more developers without relying on AI coding tools. These include selling user data to advertisers and/or running ads in the app.
Option 4: Not grow. Keep the existing Blacksky product as it is, use existing funds and time to manually maintain existing infrastructure and pay moderators, but this will put Blacksky at a higher risk of cannibalisation from competitors that provide feed services, and leave the core team with the hard choice of possibly stepping away from their work with Blacksky in order to find viable full-time work to support themselves.
To me, Options 1, 2 and 3 would increase anti-Blackness with only the 4th not having that. There is also the fact that currently Blacksky is the only alternative to Bluesky for the protocol used and that there does not seem to be short- term risk for other setups due to how computationally expensive it is.
Link to article for details: https://blackskyweb.xyz/blacksky-algorithms-policy-towards-agentic-coding/
Can we help a Black Trans person stay in a hotel until his new place is ready?
He recently moved out of his last place due to it being a sensory nightmare along with having a few people stalk him at his place. However, he cannot move in until the 15th.
Funds will be going towards staying in a hotel for the remaining days, laundry, and food. Any extra will go towards transportation to the new place.
Goal is 550 CAD.
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ndmathnerd/goal?g=54
You may also DM for Paypal if you prefer.
Goal: 520/550 by TOMORROW
Wait, this month is Poetry Month and Arab American History month? Sweet!
Finally something to look forward to in April!
Please help my friend recover from gender affirming surgery!
1400/2000
http://cash.app/sotreu2
http://venmo.com/sotreu
http://paypal.me/rikiam
#MutualAid #BlackMutualAid #TransMutualAid #BlackTransMutualAid
Can we help a Black Trans person with buying some masks?
Due to having to stay in a hotel, he had to use more masks than usual and thus exhausted his mask supply. A pack of 10 KN95s or similar will be enough to hold him over until his next paycheck.
Just 16-20 CAD needed (blame import fees).
Goal: 0/20 CAD by FRIDAY
Stretch Goal (to cover remaining expenses for this month): 0/60 CAD by MONDAY
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ndmathnerd/goal?g=100
You can DM for Paypal or etransfer information (etransfer should reduce this to about 12 CAD needed). Paypal mandates a 15 CAD minimum to transfer.
