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It's so disappointing seeing lots of my Developer Advocate friends turn into AI shills. I get it, the job market is trash and they're popular and paying. It's just the turn into a fully pro-GenAI take on things that's sad to see.
May 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It's so disappointing seeing lots of my Developer Advocate friends turn into AI shills. I get it, the job market is trash and they're popular and paying. It's just the turn into a fully pro-GenAI take on things that's sad to see.
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I've tuned Ezra Klein out, but I guess this fairly center-right take that there's just too much pesky regulation is central to his current book tour?
though he oddly doesn't really mention that authoritarians are destroying corporate oversight and the regulatory state entirely? Which is..odd?
though he oddly doesn't really mention that authoritarians are destroying corporate oversight and the regulatory state entirely? Which is..odd?
Ezra Klein: The insanity of government regulation | Lex Fridman Podcast
YouTube video by Lex Clips
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I've tuned Ezra Klein out, but I guess this fairly center-right take that there's just too much pesky regulation is central to his current book tour?
though he oddly doesn't really mention that authoritarians are destroying corporate oversight and the regulatory state entirely? Which is..odd?
though he oddly doesn't really mention that authoritarians are destroying corporate oversight and the regulatory state entirely? Which is..odd?
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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
March 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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(this is the important one)
4. His tweets create controversy > which generates headlines > which bring people back to Twitter > thereby increasing revenue through ads or other methods (it's a strategy)
So, the more tweets, the more ridiculousness, the more his name is in the headlines, the more $$
4. His tweets create controversy > which generates headlines > which bring people back to Twitter > thereby increasing revenue through ads or other methods (it's a strategy)
So, the more tweets, the more ridiculousness, the more his name is in the headlines, the more $$
February 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
(this is the important one)
4. His tweets create controversy > which generates headlines > which bring people back to Twitter > thereby increasing revenue through ads or other methods (it's a strategy)
So, the more tweets, the more ridiculousness, the more his name is in the headlines, the more $$
4. His tweets create controversy > which generates headlines > which bring people back to Twitter > thereby increasing revenue through ads or other methods (it's a strategy)
So, the more tweets, the more ridiculousness, the more his name is in the headlines, the more $$
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The universe speaks in mysterious ways.
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The universe speaks in mysterious ways.
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Consider this if you're thinking of going back to TikTok.
An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala
January 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Consider this if you're thinking of going back to TikTok.
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this is a common but grossly misleading analogy and wrong on many levels. the aviation industry operates under strict rules and regulations, unlike tech and early days of google search actually worked better (from information pollution pov) than what has become of it over the past year
January 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
this is a common but grossly misleading analogy and wrong on many levels. the aviation industry operates under strict rules and regulations, unlike tech and early days of google search actually worked better (from information pollution pov) than what has become of it over the past year
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it's a new year and I spent my first workday writing a quick ★ terminal survey ★!
it should take about 5 minutes and I'd love for folks to fill it out, I'm writing a zine about the terminal and my goal is to understand who we're writing it for a little better s.surveyplanet.com/wkepwlsp
it should take about 5 minutes and I'd love for folks to fill it out, I'm writing a zine about the terminal and my goal is to understand who we're writing it for a little better s.surveyplanet.com/wkepwlsp
January 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
it's a new year and I spent my first workday writing a quick ★ terminal survey ★!
it should take about 5 minutes and I'd love for folks to fill it out, I'm writing a zine about the terminal and my goal is to understand who we're writing it for a little better s.surveyplanet.com/wkepwlsp
it should take about 5 minutes and I'd love for folks to fill it out, I'm writing a zine about the terminal and my goal is to understand who we're writing it for a little better s.surveyplanet.com/wkepwlsp
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Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...
March 29, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...
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Give "Control Salt Delete" kid a medal you cowards
December 26, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Give "Control Salt Delete" kid a medal you cowards
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Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
December 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
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Just saw Doc Edgerton’s famous ‘applesauce’ photo shared here with no credit or info and the description: “There is a lot of high-end tech to used to take this. An example of what you can do with hyper-pro gear.” and I am still laughing.
Yes, at MIT. In 1964.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/style/ar...
Yes, at MIT. In 1964.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/style/ar...
‘How to make applesauce’: A photograph that made time stand still | CNN
Harold Edgerton’s image of a bullet passing through an apple was not only a work of art but a feat of electrical engineering that changed photography forever.
amp.cnn.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Just saw Doc Edgerton’s famous ‘applesauce’ photo shared here with no credit or info and the description: “There is a lot of high-end tech to used to take this. An example of what you can do with hyper-pro gear.” and I am still laughing.
Yes, at MIT. In 1964.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/style/ar...
Yes, at MIT. In 1964.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/style/ar...
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"Smart" does so much work in American culture. For example, another myth we don't talk about is how people who are intelligent and have technically marketable skills are also too "smart" to get duped by con artists. They are not. Nerds are huge marks tbh.
the foundational myth of the tech industry is that smart people can't be evil
December 23, 2024 at 9:49 PM
"Smart" does so much work in American culture. For example, another myth we don't talk about is how people who are intelligent and have technically marketable skills are also too "smart" to get duped by con artists. They are not. Nerds are huge marks tbh.
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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
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BLOW THIS UP!
Striking Amazon workers picketing outside an Amazon warehouse were greeted by a torrent of water in freezing temperatures from Bezos.
These mega corporations & billionaires will stop at NOTHING to stop us from organizing.
Fuck that! We stand with WORKERS. #SolidaritySeason
Striking Amazon workers picketing outside an Amazon warehouse were greeted by a torrent of water in freezing temperatures from Bezos.
These mega corporations & billionaires will stop at NOTHING to stop us from organizing.
Fuck that! We stand with WORKERS. #SolidaritySeason
December 22, 2024 at 2:21 AM
BLOW THIS UP!
Striking Amazon workers picketing outside an Amazon warehouse were greeted by a torrent of water in freezing temperatures from Bezos.
These mega corporations & billionaires will stop at NOTHING to stop us from organizing.
Fuck that! We stand with WORKERS. #SolidaritySeason
Striking Amazon workers picketing outside an Amazon warehouse were greeted by a torrent of water in freezing temperatures from Bezos.
These mega corporations & billionaires will stop at NOTHING to stop us from organizing.
Fuck that! We stand with WORKERS. #SolidaritySeason
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OK maybe I'm not being clear.
Saying "Musk is right about..."
Or "Trump was right about..."
Or "Hitler was right about..."
Is a silly rhetorical device designed to curry favor with people that hate you, but irredeemably loses you trust with people that used to like you. You never need to say it.
Saying "Musk is right about..."
Or "Trump was right about..."
Or "Hitler was right about..."
Is a silly rhetorical device designed to curry favor with people that hate you, but irredeemably loses you trust with people that used to like you. You never need to say it.
December 2, 2024 at 6:15 AM
OK maybe I'm not being clear.
Saying "Musk is right about..."
Or "Trump was right about..."
Or "Hitler was right about..."
Is a silly rhetorical device designed to curry favor with people that hate you, but irredeemably loses you trust with people that used to like you. You never need to say it.
Saying "Musk is right about..."
Or "Trump was right about..."
Or "Hitler was right about..."
Is a silly rhetorical device designed to curry favor with people that hate you, but irredeemably loses you trust with people that used to like you. You never need to say it.
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Pam Bondi, Trump's new pick for AG, has a very long history from when she was Florida's attorney general of helping Trump legally after he gave her contributions.
And there's more you need to know.
A brief thread.
And there's more you need to know.
A brief thread.
November 21, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Pam Bondi, Trump's new pick for AG, has a very long history from when she was Florida's attorney general of helping Trump legally after he gave her contributions.
And there's more you need to know.
A brief thread.
And there's more you need to know.
A brief thread.
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Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/
November 15, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/
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Remember: We take care of us. We keep each other safe.
That was true yesterday, and it will be true tomorrow.
That was true yesterday, and it will be true tomorrow.
November 6, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Remember: We take care of us. We keep each other safe.
That was true yesterday, and it will be true tomorrow.
That was true yesterday, and it will be true tomorrow.