Josh Parsons

As mentioned in the analysis, incidents like these are demanding and complex. But having the kind of internal culture willing to earnestly talk to one another about these intertwining sociotechnical impacts and learn from them will always be incredibly valuable.

I was one of the engineers involved throughout the entirety of this incident, and I really appreciate what this report conveys. Most particularly, how the analysis highlights key, intertwining sociotechnical effects that impact incidents like this. 1/

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE.

Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help?

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We keep us housed 💛

Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors!

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A screenshot from the first DLC of the game The Talos Principle called Road to Gehenna. In front of a wall of off-white stone with grey blotches is a black terminal screen with a grey and white keyboard below it. Two robotic hands are typing on the keyboard. The text on the terminal screen is in white. At the top of the terminal screen, the word GEHENNA is displayed, stylized with a combination of monochromatic box-shaped glyphs. The terminal is showing the home screen of a virtual forum community made by other androids in Gehenna. Below the word GEHENNA reads: Displaying active threads filtered for user URIEL_COPY [6]. * Mod Discussion#329 Re: Solutions [8+] * 454E[]44[][] * A Message to the Future * Mod Discussion#330 Re: War Room [8+] * Ascension: An Objective Review * The Outer World * Mod Discussion#335 Re: The Asset [9+] * Mod Discussion#327 Re: Urgent Topics [ATCH] [8+] * Mod Discussion #316 Re: PD Findings [7+] <a line of garbled text, composed of box-shaped glyphs> Farewell Atlantis [ATCH] Save Yourselves Goodbye A Short Bildungsroman by Uriel_Copy Scared Top 10 Things I Love About Gehenna Jefferson Goldboom (Announcement). Why do we deserve to be saved? Straton Fragment #13 A Small Apology An Historic Occasion [6+] The word Exit is in the lower right of the screen. Below the terminal screen and above the keyboard, the word IAN is imprinted on the frame of the terminal in off-white serif lettering

I couldn't quite put my finger on exactly why others' descriptions of moltbook felt both weird and also strangely familiar to me. And then it dawned on me, The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna explored some of these same ideas.

The bee's wings had the Kafka logo drawn on it, so, I could consider this Kafka-shaped!

My company surprised me today in the most joyful and special way by letting me and other incident responders break a Kafka-themed bee-shaped piñata with a makeshift cardboard stick. The care and whimsy and thoughtfulness of my co-workers brings me so much joy and incredibly moving.

A screenshot of the Feed preferences option in LinkedIn. It reads as follows: Feed preferences Do you want to see political content in your feed? Show political content To the right of Show political content is an On/Off toggle switch. The screenshot shows the toggle switch in the On position. Then at the bottom: Learn more about how we define political content. Discover sources to follow.

I know that LI has a feed setting for seeing political content. I think folks are opted out of this by default. On desktop, if you click on the "Me" menu in the upper right -> go to Settings and Privacy -> go to Feed preferences in the General preferences section you will see this:

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

The lyrics running through my head today:

Now you're punching and you're kicking and you're shouting at me
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fists
- Depeche Mode, People Are People

With video of another street execution from ICE going around, a reminder that while video documentation of atrocities is important, you have no ethical obligation to watch videos of people dying. Traumatizing yourself isn’t advocacy. You do not have to watch the video to be outspoken against this

Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.

My story:

bsky.app/profile/grim...

I feel this deeply in my bones. These are the terms I would use to describe my craft. /end

When I build something, am I building it for myself and my own satisfaction and it happens to be something that others find useful, or am I building something that meets others' needs? I can and will do both, but my professional joy stems from the latter.

The ideas in this thread are so well stated, especially this, and it just flipped a switch in me that I think is tangential to this thread, but hits at something that continues to be a crucial theme of mine: What does it mean for me in my career to meet people where they are? /1

This is an example and the model for the kind of energy I'm going to be carrying with me.

When you’re doom posting about how everything is inevitable and no one can stop them, you’re doing their work for them. Stop that

There's a whole chunk of things in here that I'm bringing with me into the next year, but especially around how this idea applies to and informs my craftsmanship.

"They needed to stub their toe and wait in line and see that CHECK ENGINE light. They decided to leave their existence just a little short of perfect, because they wanted to want."

"People defeated scarcity. Everyone had what they needed, and nobody got sick, but they found that they needed things to be just a little bit difficult once in a while."

"If they advanced too much further technologically, those advances would inevitably intrude on their humanity. People wanted to walk. They wanted to take the bus that smelled like cigarettes. They wanted those precious three minutes between asking a question and knowing the answer."

"Humanity could have advanced if it wanted to. In fact, it did. Almost everything you thought they would invent, they did. Flying cars, buildings that build themselves, jets that can take you from Arkansas to Paris in five minutes. You don't see any of those things because people didn't want them."

It's the part where Ten's giving Nine a talk after Nine asks why technology hasn't advanced 15,000 years into the future. In 17776, Earth is a post-scarcity world, where time is infinite and nobody dies. In this passage, I see the same kinds of parallels Emily talks about in her piece.

I really like how Emily has expressed this. I'm in strong agreement with her on this idea, and it brings to mind something I've been carrying with me a lot from one of my favorite parts of 17776 from Jon Bois.

Software cultures are absolutely deprived of compassionate moments where we get to be human together and experience being on the same side together. I really believe that humanness changes people's lives and I'm not giving up on its power. I have seen it measurably work, again and again.

Here we go:

www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

It's difficult to put into words exactly how much happiness these two have brought me over the years. It is an overwhelming amount of joy and happiness that is still going strong.

I will speak for myself here in saying no, not really. Kafka remains a piece of infrastructure that fits very well with what we do at our core, and there weren't many outcomes in this incident that felt terribly off-script given the chain of events.

If You Value This Work, Today Is the Day to Show It

Every day, people tell me how essential this work is.
How much clarity it brings.
How much it challenges harmful narratives.
How much it helps us all break free from the supremacy myth.
How much it supports those harmed by it.

And yet, far too many remain spectators.