@codinghorror This is why: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers
(they want to keep doing crypto crimes)

@timbray I agree that facing facts is helpful, and Israelis probably need more of that. But all nations have violent histories, which they embellish, romanticize and hide to some extent. The problem for Israel is that they missed the historical window in which it was normal to do that kind of thing.
What I'm trying to say is: framing the conflict in moral terms can be helpful at the level of individual actions, but not at the historical/political level.

@timbray Just to make it clear, I'm not defending settlers, they are part of the problem and all settlements should be dismantled.
But also, I don't think "stolen" is a helpful characterization in this case, because basically all nation-states incorporated some "stolen" land at some point.

@timbray That's exactly what they tried in Gaza, and we can all see the results

(not all of them do, of course, but the ones that don't do it actively support it through inaction - either because they don't want to or can't oppose the ones that do)
This is what's leading Israelis through that dark path that he correctly identifies, but he offers no solutions - comparing the IDF to the Wehrmacht certainly isn't one.

@timbray He's right that Israel's extreme right is approaching fascism (or is already there), and the rest of the country seems to be pulled in that direction.
But the comparison with the Wehrmacht is deeply flawed, because Jews did not slaughter thousands of Germans or swear to obliterate Germany from the map.
The central problem is this: how can Israelis make peace with Palestinians if every time they grant them some freedom, a significant number of them uses this freedom to attack Israel?

The government did not want to give out voting records, they refused. But 81% were recovered and uploaded to the internet, I have the record of my table. There were 65 in favor of Maduro and 364 for Edmundo! The number matches what was announced in my center!

I can now confirm, with evidence, that there was electoral fraud in Venezuela! If you see this post, help me by giving it a #boost so that it reaches more people and the truth is known!

https://resultadosconvzla.com/mesa/13472/13360

#Venezuela #Democracy

@grimalkina I struggle mightily to help develop this fundamental skill in teams.

It's hard to get people to take their hands off their keyboards so that they can stop and think hard about what we *know* for sure about the problem.

Evidence based reasoning has a flip side - that's writing down somewhere what evidence you have, and then collaborate to decide on the next experiment that gives you additional data points to narrow the scope of the problem.

We need to mentor this valuable skill.

"The finding is a measure of the extent to which many, many users hate #TikTok and #Instagram, even though they feel compelled to use them. To make clear the bizarre nature of his finding, Bursztyn drew the conference’s attention to another product, a refrigerator. Could you imagine, he asked, 60% of refrigerator owners saying they wished fridges didn’t exist?"

https://theconversation.com/would-you-pay-to-quit-tiktok-and-instagram-youd-be-surprised-how-many-would-235180

#socialmedia

There is a weirdly racist trend where people blame hypothetical minorities when systems fail because management cuts corners. We saw it with the Boeing door collapse and now with the Crowdstrike crash.

There is no mythical "DEI engineer" doing sloppy work at these companies.

It's down to leadership cutting corners to make a buck. A software update causing a crash that takes down all of your customers is due to inadequate testing. It's not because some anonymous minority wrote the code.

@carnage4life I had the opportunity to ask directly to Amodei whether he thinks LLMs are all you need, and he said he believed we still can go very far with them. It seemed to me like he hasn't even questioned that assumption, and his company is single-minded about it. But, clearly, we've reached a phase of diminishing returns.
The real innovation is going to come from cheaper and faster open source LLMs deployed to applications that are infeasible today, until the next breakthrough.

@Patricia I loved this book for its rich history. I feel like I finally actually understand what money is thanks to it.
I'm less fond of the author's ideologies, especially in the later chapters on capitalism, but it was still well worth the read.

@Quinnypig Well, it is kinda obvious from the fact that you are human, though 🤷‍♂️

I'm collecting a list of all the breakup movies where they only made one movie.
Like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "The Break-Up"

Yeah, it's a non-relational no-sequel database.

@b0rk I think covering the internals, how things work behind the scenes would be really useful. I took a course on how its object system is implemented in grad school, a long time ago, and it helped a lot with the mental model of the language.

Tesla shareholder meeting this week.

@tomayac So I'll finally be able to click Google Meets links in Calendar?
Did Apple release an actually useful feature in MacOS?
Am I going mad?

@stux This is what I pay my internet bill for

@stux This is what I pay my internet bill for