Jo
@jocrossick.bsky.social
Tech boss, mum, feminist, EDM listener, constantly curious, often opinionated, doing my best.
Parenting a teen: Teen: "I'm sorry I love you" Teen: pause Teen: "I'm sorry COMMA I love you"
View from a teenage girl: Most boys are arseholes. It's fine, you can just ignore arseholes. The ones you need to worry about are the creeps.
The 5 stages of grief, as experienced by a subscription service you're trying to leave:
As a Brit/European, there's something that makes my skin crawl in the simpering, sycophantic tone of most AIs. It's US cultural imperialism but worse for being more subtle. Please for the love of god someone create an AI that can tut under its breath in a way you can't hear but know is present.
Most rules don't really exist. People don't follow them because they choose to, they follow them because they don't realise that not-folllowing them is an option. Following rules is generally good, but do so because you choose to, not because they're there.
Omfg It’s Bunsz !@copaceticbunsz.com · 2y agoIf you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
I'm coining reverse imposter syndrome: when you blame yourself for the fact that others can't keep up with you. The smart girls all know what I'm talking about.
If you're mourning the loss of DEI initiatives, then stop. I've put a huge amount of effort into this space in tech over the past decade and from what I saw they had limited impact. Dismantling DEI programmes is a call to arms - time to get radical, and do stuff that works. Act without permission.
People at work were beyond surprised that I was going to the opera because they know I like techno. Why is music the only field where enjoyment of one genre presumes exclusion of others?
One of the interesting things about the Gen AI revolution is how it's (1) more business-oriented than consumer-oriented and (2) pretty much being forced on people. Here's what I'm seeing and why I think that's a good thing....
Slowing down traffic with banana skins
Matthew@enragedodin.bsky.social · 2y agoConfess your crimes to me
I have a lot of opinions on the falling birth rate in western countries, and one of the more minor ones is this: we tell horror stories about later parenthood, and glorify the early years. This is the wrong way around.
Your communications are vague and indirect, and you take a long time to get to the point. This really lowers the impact of what you're saying and leaves people feeling disoriented. Have you considered being assessed for neurotypicalness and getting help with that?
Getting tired of social media because it's all AI horror stories or political horror stories from the USA. Trying to make interesting observations about the world of work, feminism and software delivery, but struggling to cut through the noise of emotional-button-pushing content
I can tolerate some pretty nauseating corporate jargon, it's the sporting metaphors that kill me.
Family life with teens and tweens... Eldest daughter: I think three is the perfect number of kids, because I always wanted a younger sister Us (parents): Err... you have a younger sister?! Eldest: no not THAT one Youngest: I'm not a sister, I'm a pigster
I struggle to understand how people can compose or create content with AI. I suspect they have an idea of what they want to say before they say it. Whereas, for me, the act of writing (or talking), is the act of bringing my ideas into focus
The thing I hate about hotels is how dark they are. Perpetual gloom in the rings. Why? It's so annoying.
Staying sane in insane times... When faced with something extreme, people tend to either back away or be drawn to it. It's very hard to hold your own position when the ground is being shaken. Every position is defined in relation to the new, extreme, thing
My experience with Ryanair recently is that they're leaning into the positive parenting vibe. Instead of checking bag sizes they are instead letting people live with the natural consequence of being humiliated by trying to squeeze their bags into tiny overhead lockers.
If you're going to take anything from this weird and unpleasant situation in the USA, please let it be this: most of the people who tell you that you "can't do that" either can't or won't stop you when you do, actually, do that. ~95% of restrictions do not actually exist.
If you're facing your first family ski holiday, may I recommend introducing the ski fairy. The ski fairy leaves special gifts for little children on the dinner table each night, but only for children who managed a full day at ski school.
Ski time. Ladies I am totally in love with my new Head Super Joy skis, they really feel like a ski designed for women. Light, flexible, fast.
OpenAI complaining about DeepSeek using their work to train its own models has a beautiful symmetry about it
So fed up of having to spend the last 8 years dressing processes up as "structures", "culture", or "reasonable defaults" because everyone in leadership is so terrified of bureaucracy, meanwhile team members are just so sick of everything being so hard.
Ok I'm going to say some unpopular things but as a women who has survived and at times even thrived in tech, I've earned it. I'm not worried to see the DEI departments go in tech companies, in fact part of me is pretty happy to be rid. Isn't it clear by now they're not working?
If you want a really thoughtful, rigorous exploration of what a world with rampant climate change, massive data collection and all-pervasive AI in the mid-near future could look like, please read Utopia 5 by A.E. Currie
"Physical world a significant challenge in developing a self-driving car" is a hilarious indication of how tech execs are falling into technology ivory tower thinking. Let's solve world hunger by farming spherical cows in a vacuum while we're at it.
The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2y agoOh you mean “reality.”
