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bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.

Another sign (in a long series) that Altman is not actually a genius marketer, but a stooge who stumbled into the chatbot format by accident and has continued to randomly slam buttons rather.

Not only does he not know how people use his product, he doesn't care to understand - and breaks it.

Counterpoint: Being on time doesn’t mean you’re “Type A,” it means you have respect for others

Product manager? Oh, you mean Jira Experience Designer?

*Pulls up a chair* Let’s have a little talk about startup valuation and accounting…..

Funny how we force engineers to write ADRs for every trade‑off, yet billion‑dollar strategic bets live in hallway whispers and fluffy slide decks.

What if we treated business decisions like architecture? Context, options, trade‑offs, metrics, all in a repo, version‑controlled and reviewed?

Do Markets Value Fed Independence? An Event Study.

This whole "Let's use computers to do everything badly in the most expensive and unethical possible way" thing is really testing me.

How odd - two months ago it was 8%. I suppose in another 2 months it will be negative 5%.

you know, I have a ton of versions of this slide & talktrack in decks about government & technology over the years. not showing up to assist in a disaster is a breach of a very fundamental contract

There are hiring managers who separate the visual UI design from the case study. For me, the craft is part of it. The craft is table stakes. I expect designers to get that right. The graphic design choices impacts interaction, usability and brand. They’re all a part of the case study.

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..”

@niemanreports.org #Hellsite
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By the way, one of the most common uses of AI in my industry is precisely "making up a guy who might like our feature." It's called "synthetic users" and there are multiple companies who will make them for you and many consultants who will train you how to use them.

Just the dumbest shit imaginable

Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth

It's been less than 3 years, and nobody - except NVidia and the big consultancies, of course - is actually making any money, or shows any clear path to profitability in the foreseeable future. In what sense is it "an industry"?

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind. One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…

Can't believe that in the year of our lord 2025 I am STILL hearing people say "oh but LLMs are useful for summarizing"

They are not useful for summarizing, because summarizing is not what they are doing.

Many have pointed out Zohran ran a campaign that loves New York, in contrast to Cuomo who seems to despise it. Bold color, hand-drawn type, and texture made his branding convey an optimistic and forward vision for the city that retains the grit that feels central to it. A great design case study.

Tweet from @tomgara Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photos of it, assuming she’d recognise the look but not the name etc, and she was just like, this is pathetic, your ancestors were small and weak

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

"Subways are good. In a subway you might get a mariachi show. In a subway you might fall in love. In a subway you might see a dog.

You’re scared? You’re scared of this? You’re scared of the beating heart of New York City’s magical essence?"

YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process.

But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things.

That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

Humanities: reality is constructed through a social process

STEMlord: No it isn't! Facts are facts!

Humanities: So how come people can disagree about the facts?

STEMlord: Those people are just delusional!

Humanities: You're almost there.

First we had a text generating machine, but it wasn't enough to raise billions, so it became branded as AI.

A year later we still had a text generating machine, but to raise more billions Altman started hawking AGI.

Now even AGI isn't enough for yet more billions, so out comes Super Intelligence.

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

Good Science

xkcd.com/3101/

Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

"This is the original sin of software dev: it’s a pop culture where we’re trained to accept gossip as evidence."

Great @baldurbjarnason.com piece. And I don't think it's just true of software dev — software design and content runs the same way.

Everything was fine until Trump decided to unleash violent raids w/o grounds in elementary schools, shopping areas, & peaceful public spaces.

ICE then illegally blocked Members of Congress entry into the facilities they are disappearing people into, escalating the situation.

Let’s start there.

Shturmovshchina was a common Soviet work practice of frantic and overtime work at the end of a planning period in order to fulfill the planned production target. The practice usually gave rise to products of poor quality at the end of a planning cycle.

Agile Development was invented in the Soviet Union.

It’s shameful for a company like Apple to come out with a visual language that relies on behind the scenes settings to create a more accessible experience. Accessibility should be the default, not an afterthought.

There's this super cool thing tech companies use to decide what products to build. They ask people "would you use this?" and then use synthesis techniques to interpret the answer as "yes" no matter what it actually was.

This is called "validation" and you can make six figures doing it for a living.