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Cassidy James :roost: :gnome:
@Cassidy James :roost: :gnome:

Building open communities and useful, usable tech for good.

:roost: [@roost](https://hachyderm.io/@roost ) OSS Community Manager
:gnome: nostr:npub1dug5p7c3y6svstg23pc684plfpd3mp5fdnc2m5a8f3yvthpwnssq00kxeq Foundation Director

Previously: partners & community nostr:npub16ewv5c4kza5qjxf47pch3q7pum957n3f7pchxn52fyrp8304drwswmurp9, co-founder & CXO at nostr:npub16nmwcgrwpafla5huw7mmyjdtsr5x6yer0klheyy3mw3d9rjsgm6q4zcc46; UX & web at nostr:npub1mjjwpc0ka48cf4jmxcdxa7pew42rujug7xllmr5hrreghrr67xysesa2m6.

Still an emo kid at heart šŸ–¤

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Website, blog, links: https://cassidyjames.com
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Location: Colorado, USA

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Cassidy James :roost: :gnome: · 47w
This is so freaking sad. The criminals behind this are reprehensibleā€”but the buck doesnā€™t stop there. It is the responsibility of social media platforms to work to prevent these schemes from succe...
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This is why trust and safety (T&S) is so important for online platforms. Itā€™s not just what you might think of as moderation, but actively working to safeguard the people on a platform from harm.

It means combating the spread of harms including hate speech, grooming, child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), terrorist and violent extremist content (TVEC), and extortion.

#trustAndSafety #socialMedia
Cassidy James :roost: :gnome: · 47w
This is why trust and safety (T&S) is so important for online platforms. Itā€™s not just what you might think of as moderation, but actively working to safeguard the people on a platform from harm. It means combating the spread of harms including hate speech, grooming, child sexual abuse materials ...
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there are so, so many posts telling people to use the terminal for Linux. People think they are being helpful, but too often just reinforce this idea that using Linux *requires* you to use a terminal. You can just pop open your app store and install basically whatever you want these days thanks to Flatpak (and Snap on Ubuntu), but if the first time you Google how to do something on Linux you come across ten posts telling you to open a terminal, you're gonna do that.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@samreich/115543462893041980

Excuse me, Sam Reich, CEO of Dropout, is posting on Mastodon with *nicely captioned alt-text!*

If you don't already subscribe to Dropout, you really should. Itā€™s like if American comedy was actually funny; a spiritual successor to Whose Line Is It Anyway in many ways, but also leaning into all the nerdiness and queerness of theater kids, D&D players, and comic book geeks. Truly smart and hysterical humor that lifts people up while never punching down.

I really like Dropout. šŸ„°

Sam Reich @Sam Reich Ā· 49w
nothing that starts past 8pm please https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/543/462/709/801/506/original/1d7c197192c2837a.jpeg https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/543/462/825/756/857/original/3db47a8861232aae.jpeg
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Itā€™s really tiring hearing the, ā€œopen source is bad for security!ā€ argument whenever it pops up, but especially in domains that *have a lot of work to be done* when it comes to adopting open source, like LLMs and AI models.

Being MORE open is not the problem here. Opening up the weights and releasing under open licenses does not suddenly create security vulnerabilities, unless you believe solely in security through obscurityā€”which, Iā€™m sorry, the tech industry has moved on from for the better.