Hey Fediverse, I’m still #LookingForWork! I have 20+ years of experience in automation and backend development, as well as infrastructure (physical and cloud) and DevOps (we used to call this “systems”).
Love me some Python, C-based languages, Rust, and Perl. (Yes, I said it.) I cut my teeth on *BSD and have written software throughout the stack from device drivers through UX/UI for web and mobile. I’m a generalist and polyglot at heart.
Please join us April 30th 2pm Central/3pm E. for the Tomash Fellow Lecture w/ 2023-24 Tomash Fellow MIT HASTS' Alex Reiss-Sorokin's "From Research to Search: Legal Research Technologies, 1964-1994." Register now! (free, required)
Today in Labor History March 11, 1811: Luddites attacked looms near Nottingham, England, because automation was threatening their jobs. At the time, workers were suffering from high unemployment, declining wages, an “endless” war with France and food scarcity. On March 11, they smashed machines in Nottingham and demonstrated for job security and higher wages. The protests and property destruction spread across a 70-mile area of England, reaching Manchester. The government sent troops to protect the factories and made machine-breaking punishable by death.
> But AI's sales pitch is not "Buy an AI tool and increase your costs while increasing your accuracy." The pitch for AI is "buy an AI and save money by firing workers."
...because I have been screaming it from the rooftops since day one. Maybe now you've said it, people will finally sit up and take notice?