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Michael
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“…There are human problems and technology problems, and when we conflate the two and add money problems to the mix, that’s when the real trouble starts. …I don’t think we’ve solved too many of the human problems.”
Ok trying one more time: I wrote about my personal history of the internet so I can also write about my extensive experience working in tech / all the things wrong with tech / all the false promises of tech. Come join me pls!

https://leahreich.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-the-internet-and
June 22, 2023 at 3:08 AM
Every time I see academic dishonesty shenanigans like this I feel thankful for software engineering best practices. Git, unit testing, integration testing — all this helps things from breaking. But it also provides amazing transparency and non-fake-ability . It’s a pride-worthy mark of the trade.
[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): "Clusterfake" - Data Colada
This is the introduction to a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In 2021, we and a team of a...
datacolada.org
June 18, 2023 at 5:48 AM
Reposted by Michael
You know those awesome strawberry hard candies with the chewy center that seem to just exist in memories? Yeah. I got some. I’m that powerful.
June 13, 2023 at 3:04 AM
Reposted by Michael
A few years ago I wrote about how continued centralized internet was not really tenable, ironically in a post about Jack and the then nascent bsky. It seem more true than ever today. https://vicki.substack.com/p/jack-and-i-prove-that-humans-are
Jack and I prove that humans are not web scale
Of course, in a Twitter thread
vicki.substack.com
June 12, 2023 at 11:13 PM
Wait. “Organometallic” is a thing?!! In real life? Do other animals have it? How does that work?!
the best thing about the volcano snail is that it looks EXACTLY how you’d want a volcano snail to look
June 12, 2023 at 10:07 PM
Outside the window at my desk, a squirrel that I’ve named Ginger is building a nest out of tree branches with the help of an adorable little squirrel pup that I’ve named Snap. So guess I won’t be paying attention in any of my zoom meetings today.
June 12, 2023 at 7:20 PM