Hazel Weakly
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I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
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For everyone who replies to stuff like this with "obviously"
- it's NOT LEGIBLE TO MANY INSTITUTIONS UNTIL IT'S MEASURED
- WE NEED TO HAVE EVIDENCE FOR THE THINGS "we all know"
- ACTUALLY SEEING THE MAGNITUDE AND NUANCES OF THESE KIND OF EFFECTS MATTERS AND IT MATTERS OVER TIME TOO
- it's NOT LEGIBLE TO MANY INSTITUTIONS UNTIL IT'S MEASURED
- WE NEED TO HAVE EVIDENCE FOR THE THINGS "we all know"
- ACTUALLY SEEING THE MAGNITUDE AND NUANCES OF THESE KIND OF EFFECTS MATTERS AND IT MATTERS OVER TIME TOO
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
For everyone who replies to stuff like this with "obviously"
- it's NOT LEGIBLE TO MANY INSTITUTIONS UNTIL IT'S MEASURED
- WE NEED TO HAVE EVIDENCE FOR THE THINGS "we all know"
- ACTUALLY SEEING THE MAGNITUDE AND NUANCES OF THESE KIND OF EFFECTS MATTERS AND IT MATTERS OVER TIME TOO
- it's NOT LEGIBLE TO MANY INSTITUTIONS UNTIL IT'S MEASURED
- WE NEED TO HAVE EVIDENCE FOR THE THINGS "we all know"
- ACTUALLY SEEING THE MAGNITUDE AND NUANCES OF THESE KIND OF EFFECTS MATTERS AND IT MATTERS OVER TIME TOO
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Speakers, don’t assume the knowledge level of your audience. If you have a new person there and you say “I assume everyone here is familiar with this” they don’t learn anything and they probably feel bad about themselves. Better to just explain the thing. The people who are familiar with it can deal
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Speakers, don’t assume the knowledge level of your audience. If you have a new person there and you say “I assume everyone here is familiar with this” they don’t learn anything and they probably feel bad about themselves. Better to just explain the thing. The people who are familiar with it can deal
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I am very excited to announce that I joined ING as an Architect V, working in the Global Engineering and Reliability department!
This is one of those rare opportunities that presents itself once in a lifetime.
This is one of those rare opportunities that presents itself once in a lifetime.
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I am very excited to announce that I joined ING as an Architect V, working in the Global Engineering and Reliability department!
This is one of those rare opportunities that presents itself once in a lifetime.
This is one of those rare opportunities that presents itself once in a lifetime.
Can I nerd snipe y’all with a question?
I’ve seen mentioned a few times obliquely about the toolkit of services that hyperscaler teams use to build high powered distributed systems…
But just what is that toolkit?
I’ve seen mentioned a few times obliquely about the toolkit of services that hyperscaler teams use to build high powered distributed systems…
But just what is that toolkit?
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Can I nerd snipe y’all with a question?
I’ve seen mentioned a few times obliquely about the toolkit of services that hyperscaler teams use to build high powered distributed systems…
But just what is that toolkit?
I’ve seen mentioned a few times obliquely about the toolkit of services that hyperscaler teams use to build high powered distributed systems…
But just what is that toolkit?
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Every KubeCon contributor/maintainer summit since forever I advocate for some policy or another that’s like tilting at windmills, so when I brought one up this year and everyone I suggested it to was like “oh yeah that makes a lot of sense, we should do that” I about died of shock
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Every KubeCon contributor/maintainer summit since forever I advocate for some policy or another that’s like tilting at windmills, so when I brought one up this year and everyone I suggested it to was like “oh yeah that makes a lot of sense, we should do that” I about died of shock
I am very excited to announce that I joined ING as an Architect V, working in the Global Engineering and Reliability department!
This is one of those rare opportunities that presents itself once in a lifetime.
This is one of those rare opportunities that presents itself once in a lifetime.
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I am very excited to announce that I joined ING as an Architect V, working in the Global Engineering and Reliability department!
This is one of those rare opportunities that presents itself once in a lifetime.
This is one of those rare opportunities that presents itself once in a lifetime.
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This is the dynamic that most consistently makes me doubt whether I'll be able to sustain a career in tech that really empowers me and truly values what I do
(which Hazel provides a counterexample on)
(which Hazel provides a counterexample on)
As a software architect, psychology is one of my super powers for this reason. We live in a world where the people building some of the most influential tools of thought are the very same people who refuse to acknowledge the difficulty of the problem or hold the human mind in sufficient reverence
As a psychologist, it's a really, really, really interesting and maddening set of problems here. Software development really exposes for me how we think about people's minds, even though it's an industry that likes to pretend it isn't thinking about people's minds at all.
But it really is.
But it really is.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is the dynamic that most consistently makes me doubt whether I'll be able to sustain a career in tech that really empowers me and truly values what I do
(which Hazel provides a counterexample on)
(which Hazel provides a counterexample on)
As a software architect, psychology is one of my super powers for this reason. We live in a world where the people building some of the most influential tools of thought are the very same people who refuse to acknowledge the difficulty of the problem or hold the human mind in sufficient reverence
As a psychologist, it's a really, really, really interesting and maddening set of problems here. Software development really exposes for me how we think about people's minds, even though it's an industry that likes to pretend it isn't thinking about people's minds at all.
But it really is.
But it really is.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As a software architect, psychology is one of my super powers for this reason. We live in a world where the people building some of the most influential tools of thought are the very same people who refuse to acknowledge the difficulty of the problem or hold the human mind in sufficient reverence
I love when women
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I love when women
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Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
On one evening, the speakers were divided up and went to dinner parties hosted by some of the wealthy folks who lived around Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. My dinner was delightful, with good conversation with our host (the mayor of a nearby village), his friends, and some other speakers.
34/41
34/41
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
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Science will never succeed until we recognize the humanity of all scientists and break the dehumanization cultures that crush too many people.
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Science will never succeed until we recognize the humanity of all scientists and break the dehumanization cultures that crush too many people.
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Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
It’s sushi, poke, or a violent amount of savoury carbs
Get ya ears off the charger and listen:
“I don’t know what I want” doesn’t mean I’m not hungry. It means I’m about two inhales from being violently hangry & lack the executive function to navigate a menu. Know what I like to eat and FEED ME so no one gets hurt.
“I don’t know what I want” doesn’t mean I’m not hungry. It means I’m about two inhales from being violently hangry & lack the executive function to navigate a menu. Know what I like to eat and FEED ME so no one gets hurt.
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
It’s sushi, poke, or a violent amount of savoury carbs
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Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
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who decided they should be called rust evangelists and not the cargo cult
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
who decided they should be called rust evangelists and not the cargo cult
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Living in Netherlands for most of 2025, it’s been difficult to explain American politics to Europeans — the U.S. middle might be further right than even the far-right parties here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Living in Netherlands for most of 2025, it’s been difficult to explain American politics to Europeans — the U.S. middle might be further right than even the far-right parties here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I would say that this aged like fine wine, but everything happened far far faster than even I ever anticipated
Apropos of nothing: now would be a real cool time for the CNCF to realize that North America includes both Mexico and Canada and decide that KubeCon NA can be somewhere other than the US
Just a thought
Just a thought
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I would say that this aged like fine wine, but everything happened far far faster than even I ever anticipated
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Whole thread is great but honestly I have built most of my “writer” career by being the guy who knows how to make better tooling for writers. It’s a problem I’ve been thinking about a lot. UX writers, game writers, localizers, tech writers all live in shitty ecosystems.
“But I can’t automate it!” So? Write code that helps you get to the next point
Sometimes all that code needs to do is be a reminder, or trigger the glue, or be a stub that will eventually get automated one day!
But ya gotta write it. Stop shoving “not-code” into a stale doc that never gets updated
Sometimes all that code needs to do is be a reminder, or trigger the glue, or be a stub that will eventually get automated one day!
But ya gotta write it. Stop shoving “not-code” into a stale doc that never gets updated
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Whole thread is great but honestly I have built most of my “writer” career by being the guy who knows how to make better tooling for writers. It’s a problem I’ve been thinking about a lot. UX writers, game writers, localizers, tech writers all live in shitty ecosystems.
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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My mom has told me this kind of mindset was driving force at Xerox PARC when she worked there and the fact that it’s almost entirely disappeared from Silicon Valley is a prime driver of the enshittification of everything
Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
November 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
My mom has told me this kind of mindset was driving force at Xerox PARC when she worked there and the fact that it’s almost entirely disappeared from Silicon Valley is a prime driver of the enshittification of everything
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✨What a concept! ✨
Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
✨What a concept! ✨
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This. So much this.
Preach, Hazel
Preach, Hazel
Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This. So much this.
Preach, Hazel
Preach, Hazel
This is such an important point, imo.
I don’t *want* science from 40+ years ago to be holding up just as well as the latest papers of a field. Like, what do you mean scientific progress in a field has basically stalled for decades? That’s tragic!
I love to see the progress happening! Evolution!
I don’t *want* science from 40+ years ago to be holding up just as well as the latest papers of a field. Like, what do you mean scientific progress in a field has basically stalled for decades? That’s tragic!
I love to see the progress happening! Evolution!
I'd definitely be more surprised if 50s social psych held up in today's scientific standards. It's all the work we've done since then that should count. That's what makes a field.
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This is such an important point, imo.
I don’t *want* science from 40+ years ago to be holding up just as well as the latest papers of a field. Like, what do you mean scientific progress in a field has basically stalled for decades? That’s tragic!
I love to see the progress happening! Evolution!
I don’t *want* science from 40+ years ago to be holding up just as well as the latest papers of a field. Like, what do you mean scientific progress in a field has basically stalled for decades? That’s tragic!
I love to see the progress happening! Evolution!
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that's a VERY good analogy
i try to tell people it's not intelligent if it can't act on its own. they do not get it. i guess they have always followed orders and nothing but.
i try to tell people it's not intelligent if it can't act on its own. they do not get it. i guess they have always followed orders and nothing but.
"growth" is an autonomous process. nobody has to tell a plant to drive down roots and soak up water and use that and light to build cells.
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
that's a VERY good analogy
i try to tell people it's not intelligent if it can't act on its own. they do not get it. i guess they have always followed orders and nothing but.
i try to tell people it's not intelligent if it can't act on its own. they do not get it. i guess they have always followed orders and nothing but.
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Wrestling with ephemeral things, creating interventions for them, is a threatening thing for many folks.
It’s a different kind of hard than they’re practiced at. They need their network of problems/solutions to be the toughest one in the world. Because that means they’re the best.
It’s a different kind of hard than they’re practiced at. They need their network of problems/solutions to be the toughest one in the world. Because that means they’re the best.
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Wrestling with ephemeral things, creating interventions for them, is a threatening thing for many folks.
It’s a different kind of hard than they’re practiced at. They need their network of problems/solutions to be the toughest one in the world. Because that means they’re the best.
It’s a different kind of hard than they’re practiced at. They need their network of problems/solutions to be the toughest one in the world. Because that means they’re the best.