I went on a (Buddhist) monastery retreat this summer, and it felt like the sisters did not know how to talk about AI beyond seeing a socio-technical tidal wave coming.

I’m personally very uninterested in the culturally Christian “AI has no soul“ narrative about the technology itself, and more interested in getting to a cultural understanding about the practical impacts of things like generative AI.

Can you tell I opened Facebook?

There’s one recruiting firm that has cold contacted me and tried to make me think we were picking up an existing application process.

I try to put items like that in the front corner of my pantry cupboard, but I should really get a dedicated bowl or something to force consistency.

Also, the moon.

- Fancy modern tools don't magically solve performance bottlenecks if math or compsci fundamentals are neglected

- Reliability/productivity aren't strictly at odds (or variations thereof of good-fast false binaries)

- "Communal" responsibilities/ownership are abandoned without incentives

- Engineers are savvy about over-complicating projects to claim more innovation was needed

It’s basically a worse (sub-)medium with an upside that doesn’t really exist anymore. I get a little irritated at how film photographers index a bit heavily on stuff that’s expensive or novel vs necessarily… good.

It’s an incentives problem. If recruiters were more targeted and higher-touch with candidates, their various quotas wouldn’t look as good. And people seriously looking for a job are going to jump through hoops and close the gaps.

We can restore at least 2019 service if we pass Muni Now, Muni Forever's community parcel tax proposal.

But Daniel Lurie is pushing his own version that would lock in cuts (in order to save millions for downtown companies like Marc Benioff's Salesforce who just got Trump tax cuts). Write a letter!

In the glass-and-steel canyons

They've got really cool and varied stations! I loved Lionel-Groulx for the optimized transfers - it's stacked platforms, where each platform has an Orange-Green cross platform transfer.

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