@skinnylatte and slap a vaguely racist name like "Trader Ming's" on it for good measure!

@skinnylatte aha, the TL *is* a hotbed of illegal activity just like I was always told!

@irene managed to achieve peace for our time this morning!

Well, until Miso finished his food bowl and wanted everyone else's, anyway.

#cats #catsofmastodon

@irene @timnitGebru @sharon Oh, and let's not forget the part where, when we did run the survey at an ACM conference, they put together a survey of their own and told people to take it instead "because it'll take only 2 minutes and doesn't ask any uncomfortable questions"

@irene @timnitGebru @sharon after that meeting, I looked into the ACM DEI council and its budget, and, well, you probably won't be surprised by the results.

Dan Ports (@[email protected])

I took a look at the annual reports of the ACM's Diversity and Inclusion Council going back to its founding. Let's see how much ACM, an organization with $211,000,000 in assets and $10,000,000 in annual income is spending on this: - FY24: $0 - FY23: $50,000 - FY22: $50,000 - FY21: $0 - FY20: $0 And where did those $50,000 budgets go? Marketing. To add diverse stock photos to "embed a DEI lens within current ACM communications", to "build ACM DEI Marketing Website Content Strategy" and "for targeting diverse nominations" for ACM's existing awards.

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@puppygirlhornypost2 a while back I bought a pack of "voice activated" stickers and started putting them on random objects around the office -- a research lab where it would be totally plausible that some random object would be voice activated.

I might have to get some new stickers that say "AI enabled" and try that again

@irene posted earlier about the controversy about the UW CSE grad student skit being cancelled for criticizing the administration (https://discuss.systems/@irene/113600301389320679) and then reinstated, but I thought I would share the actual storyline behind it because it is great:

The new art installation in the CSE building, a creepy robot, becomes sentient and starts eating students. Students express concern to the administration, but it brushes them off and refers them to the Title 404 office, which handles robot-related complaints. The department refuses to ban the robots from the building because they threaten to sue, and instead says "let's let this play out in the Title 404 office. Students always have the option to work from home if they want to reduce the risk of being eaten by a robot." The department refuses to hold a training on how to deactivate robots until the Title 404 investigation concludes. Instead, the students have to organize themselves to fight back against student-eating robots.

@ricci it just occurred to me that if the Time Cube guy hadn’t died he’d probably be getting nominated for Director of NIST or something right about now

@atsuzaki @ionchy @bhaktishh that one is in fact listed as an option on my upcoming flight!

I hate to imagine what an airline caterer would do if you asked for the food to be *more* bland…

@ionchy @bhaktishh @atsuzaki this seems like a good time to break out the official International Air Transport Association list of meal types