@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology & dad joke aficionado who lived w/a great little gray rabbit until recently (RIP). I won’t share AI generated content, except to critique it. In person I’ll be wearing a KN95. If you care about me put one on too. www.marhicks.com
tbh I’m glad more people don’t🙃
Wow. Not doubting you but curious where did this number come from? She disclosed it?
“We learned as we went, and obviously the EPA did, too,” Roper said. “We don’t want to ever leave a site where it’s just a wasteland. If you take all the trees off, all the topsoil off and nothing can grow, that’s not benefiting anyone.”
Ummm…
The personal brand thing makes a lot of sense (unfortunately). I was wondering if this was a big part of it (even for folks I wouldn’t normally associate with needing a personal brand)
I reposted it with your bsky handle and Molly’s website—apologies again!
Timeline cleanse
(Reposting to tag the instagram video creator who is also here on bsky: @nostalgianerd.com. And the artist discussed in the video, Molly Sole, can be found at mollysole.com)
Apologies again, I didn’t realize you had a handle on bsky. Will be more careful to search for and include bsky handles in the future for insta videos👍
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
Please note most federal grants *required* information on how the grants would benefit underserved or understudied groups. If you applied for a grant, you *had to* include something that would speak to diversity and equity.
I’ve gone ahead and deleted the post.
Apologies, would you like me to delete the post, or add your bsky handle in a reply?
FT and I have met IRL and have been aquatinted for many years. What I cherish about our friendship is how I'm always moved to be more engaging and critical in my thinking, but also to have fun and find joy. Please join me in supporting my friend.
for sure—good luck 🍀
Lawyer (after asking the same question 12 times): “Respectfully I’m not asking you about Microsoft Excel’s capabilities.”
This bro was using every delay and trick he could to not say “we shoved all the grants into a shitty LLM from the makers of ChatGPT and let that make the decisions”
Guess why?
“I want to stay in the US because I’ve been here 18 years, my home is here, & my friends are here. Before New York, the longest I had ever lived in one place my whole life was six years. I’ve been in NY three times longer than I’ve been anywhere else in my life. This is my home.” gofund.me/65567b62d
Right??
Since this is Boston (and implicitly New Bedford, a lawless land if ever there was one) I’m guessing some hotel manager’s cousin or brother happened to see these cool pieces abandoned or on their way to the dump and sold them to the hotel on a “no questions asked” basis…
There's a new "design is dead, because AI" piece (thinly disguised marketing from Anthropic).
But looking past the hype headlines, the things Wen claims AI can do cover approx 0% of the job.
Devs aren't looking to UXers to write bad code. They're looking to us for what users need that code to DO.
Thank you! As a non-user and non-reader of substacks I did not know this. I guess the hope/possibility of gaining more following via the recommending algo is a big part of why people join/stay
wow
Yes, thank you for articulating these! Personally I think I am more interested in the first question but it was definitely informed by my uneasiness with that particular platform being the newsletter go-to.
This makes a lot of sense! (And thank you for not using substack!)
That the Wikipedia article neglects to mention women is perfect😅
Neat!
So, I’m asking more generally why people want one, not why they’re locked into that specific problematic platform. (A lot of folks are setting up new accounts there every day, so a lot of it isn’t about lock in.)
Thanks!
same
