Mark Gritter
@markgritter.bsky.social
Math and startup geek. Software Engineer at Thirdlaw. Ex-Postman, Ex-HashiCorp, ex-Tintri. he/him
Industry adoption of Uber's original legal hack claiming that offering car rides for hire was a distinct activity from all previous ways of hiring a car.
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Industry adoption of Uber's original legal hack claiming that offering car rides for hire was a distinct activity from all previous ways of hiring a car.
Not exactly "ride-sharing" then. Just a taxi, owned by a large corporation?
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Not exactly "ride-sharing" then. Just a taxi, owned by a large corporation?
I literally had my boss (an ex-academic) tell me that none of this mattered because the industry was "moving too fast".
The thing that depresses me most about the current bubble is that nothing matters-- no failures, no biases, no slop, no harm ever registers.
The thing that depresses me most about the current bubble is that nothing matters-- no failures, no biases, no slop, no harm ever registers.
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I literally had my boss (an ex-academic) tell me that none of this mattered because the industry was "moving too fast".
The thing that depresses me most about the current bubble is that nothing matters-- no failures, no biases, no slop, no harm ever registers.
The thing that depresses me most about the current bubble is that nothing matters-- no failures, no biases, no slop, no harm ever registers.
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The first paper session of the day is on Mechanics and Design, and we're starting off with a Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social talk arguing that Game Design is Generative Design.
Thinking through the argument here was really compelling, and makes me want to read the paper right this instant!
Thinking through the argument here was really compelling, and makes me want to read the paper right this instant!
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The first paper session of the day is on Mechanics and Design, and we're starting off with a Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social talk arguing that Game Design is Generative Design.
Thinking through the argument here was really compelling, and makes me want to read the paper right this instant!
Thinking through the argument here was really compelling, and makes me want to read the paper right this instant!
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His comments were not going out to nowhere. He directly told the brilliant and incredible grad students, postdocs, particularly people he had no reason to fear because they were in vulnerable and low power positions -- that they did not belong in science
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When I was a postdoc, CSHL held a Burns poetry night, which Watson attended.
I did a dramatic reading of Ice Ice Baby.
I hope he found it deeply offensive, and that the graduate students (many of whom he told didn't belong there) found it at least mildly entertaining.
This is a good day for CSHL.
I did a dramatic reading of Ice Ice Baby.
I hope he found it deeply offensive, and that the graduate students (many of whom he told didn't belong there) found it at least mildly entertaining.
This is a good day for CSHL.
Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
His comments were not going out to nowhere. He directly told the brilliant and incredible grad students, postdocs, particularly people he had no reason to fear because they were in vulnerable and low power positions -- that they did not belong in science
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Upwards of three-quarters of men marry and the divorce rate for first marriages, once as high as 50% has fallen to around 40%, so 60% of those marriages do, in fact, last forever.
So the modal straight man - 45+% of them - in the United States does, in fact, find a woman to stay with him forever.
So the modal straight man - 45+% of them - in the United States does, in fact, find a woman to stay with him forever.
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Upwards of three-quarters of men marry and the divorce rate for first marriages, once as high as 50% has fallen to around 40%, so 60% of those marriages do, in fact, last forever.
So the modal straight man - 45+% of them - in the United States does, in fact, find a woman to stay with him forever.
So the modal straight man - 45+% of them - in the United States does, in fact, find a woman to stay with him forever.