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where is justice for Nurul Amin Shah Alam? when will those charged with holding the guilty accountable demand that justice?

Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here — where he should have been safe.

The cruelty is endless.

Say his name: Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

Justice for him and his family.

Simple language. Say it like it is

Instead of

"Extrajudicial killing deprives all Americans of their constitutional rights"

Say this

"The government is murdering people. That is evil"

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"

-DJT

This is the literal definition of coup. Sudden and illegal take over of a government

Complete control of the military, the FBI, the bureaucracy, the diplomatic corps. Comic book level super villains are green with envy of Trump. Political opponents are literally afraid for their lives and the lives of their families. As are children at bus stops. What can stop him?

no concussions or broken wrists?

You know what would be a genuine productivity boost for me? Something that could take all my daily newsletters, such as TLDR, and consolidate it to a monthly update. For example, I really don't need a daily update on new agentic advances. But a monthly update would be great

thanks @jayatillake.bsky.social . I'm interested in helping make those decisions that help every day people. Given all the fancy tech we have now, is there such at thing as BI at distributed scale can have not just 10s but 10s of thousands of users get answer to local questions?

Looking for a good AI enhanced personal knowledge base. Used Roam Research for a long time and loved the graph I built there. Disliked the lack of integration with, well, anything. Also really hard to generate and manage tasks. Anyone have a recommended tool for sucking in ALL my personal data?

You are blessed

I feel like I need to have a conversation with folks who want to talk about the potential social impact of this graph. Is there a "life's work" here? Who wants to chat?!?

I know I am late to the game. For a long time I didn't get Twitter. I'm just getting Bluesky how. @jakthom.bsky.social 's demos around Jetstream and duckdb were eye-opening. @jayatillake.bsky.social 's public experiment with dlt and sqlmesh are equally so.

Keep broadening the knowledge access by bringing any number of free and cheap analysis tools to the semantic layers. Picture community analytics using Lightdash, Superset, Redash hitting Cube semantic layers, populated with local 311 datasets.

Go back downstream and publish semantic layers designed to solve a wide breath of knowledge problems, from measuring nightly homeless shelter demand in New York City, to what the hot Black Friday deals are.

Go upstream and broaden the data collection, just like how Twitter became a lens into oppressed areas. Make the onramp as broad and easy a possible to get the funnel as wide as possible

If the "middle" is mostly solved, then the constraints go to either side. Preparation and analysis at scale to turn data into low level knowledge. Cue sentimental analysis models, scoring models, etc. Process and publish back out into the knowledge for downstream apps to use.

Knowledge is always about making better decisions that lead to better outcomes. Knowledge graphs are about collecting data, making it useable and pairing with decision makers. A truly open, distributed, ubiquitous, message queue adds so much muscle to a society wide knowledge graph

Was gym climbing with a good friend who is a data scientist and does conflict research in places like Ukraine and Myanmar. Got talking about sentimental analysis of Burmese posts. Finally clicked for me how a decentralized, open, social platform like Bluesky could be a societal game changer

Agreed. Maybe this is a peek into the time scale you can play in when you are that deep in the stack. Or maybe its just an accidental strategy

its all good for the consumer. This is the toughest thing about being a VAR. You build on top of someone else, grow the market but then become the target to leapfrog

I know of one company, that shall go unnamed, that lost $100M in a SINGLE quarter because they got their automated SEM bidding dramatically wrong.

what if you misidentify the profitability of your biggest customer cohort, hurting your investment strategy? You have both waste and lost of opportunity as negative value-add

If you've been in this business for an appreciable time and you don't have a horror story, I don't think you're paying attention.

The potential harm of bad or incorrect analysis in most cases out weights the potential benefit

What is your life's work? Please share

I want to be on platforms where I own my data, we collectively own our data or no one owns the data. The last seems easiest. It's also a reminder not to be an ahole publicly

Started climbing 20 years ago but had a big break when the kids were young. Mostly indoor top roping but in the last two years, 50/50 with bouldering

I'm also wrestling with (again) great being the enemy of good enough. I used to use Roam pretty consistently. However it just doesn't cover enough of my workflows. Now I use nothing, which is not better....