@julietshen
product @roost.tools. just another extremely earnest and Very Online idealist. proud public school alum with roots in the desert 🌵 full of personal opinions like the skeets below trust & safety, birds, hockey 🖤
Talk openly with the kids in your life about how offenders may use grooming or fake images to befriend, scare, or blackmail them. Teach them to report threats immediately and remind them it's never their fault. More here: https://www.ncmec.org/blog/2020/grooming-in-the-digital-age
there is no purer love than staying up and killing mosquitos that are biting someone you love
and then switching roles the next night
and the night after next
a person wearing sunglasses smiles at a Holi party, covered in green and pink and multicolor colored powder
holi in bombay was fun as hell until I showered and found out the colors dyed my skin
@rahaeli.bsky.social just acking your message - don't have my id on me right now so can't see the message screen but YES it's on our list! (sorry for public reply lol)
we are hiring! we are a fully remote org building open source tools for safety. we're a nonprofit so no stock, but we aim for competitive salary.
see our work at GitHub.com/roostorg
our open roles: roost.tools/careers
If you were laid off from Block (or anywhere) and want to stay remote, @roost.tools is hiring for multiple SWE roles and levels.
If you're the kind of person who's deeply satisfied by figuring out why a service has multiple databases and ripping some out, we might be for you! roost.tools/careers
Just got off the phone with President Trump. In our meeting earlier, I shared my concerns about Columbia student Elmina Aghayeva, who was detained by ICE this morning. He has just informed me that she will be released imminently
ios engineers too!!!
exactly this
Like, AI might be able to produce code faster or even rectify tech debt on non-human timescales, but it can't retain the level of institutional knowledge that humans do. It can't help facilitate teams working together. It can't solve novel problems well.
1000000%
This this this
People followed the law, now they're changing the law in an arbitrary way to harm people for no reason other than they're hate filled assholes and they did it without any period to comply
It's wrong for every reason
some really really great people lost their jobs at cash app and across Block today
my partner is safe but if anyone is looking for client devs, some of the best android engineers especially are looking for new roles
A layoff announcement from Block, parent company of Square and CashApp, with the text in margin highlighting their high YOY profit growth
Hey, so everything about this is ass
and I credit @amybunny.tgirl.gay for posting!
this piece from @techpolicypress.bsky.social goes into the details of how measurement can address the inequality of content moderation with a great degree of measuredness
www.techpolicy.press/how-measurem...
Content moderation tooling presents an entirely different collection of user interface and user experience challenges unlike any other software.
Design isn't for flair or optimising engagement but is instead about protecting.
I wrote about some considerations:
vale.rocks/posts/modera...
#UI #UX
The student paper, the Columbia Spectator, has more details.
"Columbia neuroscience researcher Ellie Aghayeva, GS ’26, posted in a Thursday morning Instagram story, “Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help.”
😑 💔
10000000000% agree. they're tools to help people and mods, not to replace. Osprey for example def needs a person to figure out what rules should be written.
Coop, the other @roost.tools tool, is designed for people as a review tool
I also really believe in moderator-focused tooling where they get to influence the tools features. I cohosted a series of workshops on designing better mod tools in the last year and will be making those results public too.
@iftas.org also does a great survey of moderator needs for tooling!
a ton of thought goes into these types of tools! i did a lot of this research when I worked at tech companies and put some of it in this paper when we were incubating ROOST: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Relying heavily on previous work by @riana.bsky.social I wrote a long piece about just how incredibly dangerously stupid West Virginia's "first in the nation" lawsuit against Apple is. By misunderstanding how the 4th Amendment works, if WV succeeds it will make it much harder to prosecute predators.
I once brought a Desi friend to popular east asian dessert chain Mango Mango and she interrogated the poor staff about what kind of mangos they used
but now I understand
the best part of working at Google was a mailing list called mangos@ where people joined in on placing bulk orders of mangos from India
the best part of my in-laws is every mango season they have us over for a sampling of Alphonso, Kesar, Dasheri, and Chausa
a little tuxedo cat with its eyes closed and mouth open lying on a faux fur blanket
maumau is SO CUTE
I'm curious how legal process will keep evolving around prompts used for online crimes. I think @mtechlaw.bsky.social has put together a dataset of similar prompts used for tech facilitated gender violence on @hf.co
story c/o @404media.co
www.404media.co/fbi-subpoena...
yeah it scared TF out of me when a random peppy voice started talking about grooming and live streaming
new from @katiemcque.bsky.social:
@riana.bsky.social has talked about this at length, but the actionability of reports submitted by tech companies to NCMEC is a huge unsolved and growing problem
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
a screenshot of UI in Google Docs. The left icon is a button that uses Gemini to read text out loud, located right next to the button to select editing-directly or in suggestion-mode
turns out when you work on a research paper about online child sexual exploitation, the proximity of the "read this out loud" button and the edit/suggestion button in Google Docs can become a new source of trauma
