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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 15h

Poor people: Cooking the books
Rich people: Disrupting standard business narratives with innovative accounting measures for the 21st century

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 9h

a lot of the cool new shit i’m finding in multiple areas of interest is not only made in china but designed in china, they are seriously innovating and really so good at taste & aesthetics, too. and western companies are just sitting on their asses for some reason

Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 21h

“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad.”

headline: western executives who visit China are coming back terrified

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1d

As above (or yesterday) this is a guy who can easily be goaded into spending more money and getting less for it than if he’d just been reasonable, normal, financially prudent. This is all public, it’s not anything that wasn’t reported at the time.

Journalistic malpractice all over 2016 and since.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1d

More on Lucky Loser:

The history of this man’s deceit, corruption, and irrationality was never discreet. It was always out there, always major.

The NYT itself committed major journalistic malpractice in not assembling THEIR OWN archives into a precís of negligence, dereliction, fraud, and abuse.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 12h

Hey so

Do you have a "Windows 10" machine you didn't upgrade to Windows 11

You should open this page and follow the instructions BEFORE WEDNESDAY. There are no downsides I know of & it means you get security updates for one more year. It may cost $30, or may not.

www.microsoft.com/en-ca/window...

Windows 10 Extended Security Updates | Microsoft Windows

Use Windows 10 securely with the Extended Security Updates program See how it helps protect your PC and find out how to get it.

www.microsoft.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16h

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 16h

yeah - I was impressed by the token-prediction as being as powerful as it is, but there's more going on than that and I don't really follow it any more.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 11h

There's a number of dinosaurs (and other fossil critters) who were lost in both world wars. Those aboard the Mount Temple provide an interesting example:
www.earthmagazine.org/article/benc...

Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur fossils lost at sea in World War I

www.earthmagazine.org

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 11h

What's the weirdest real thing you've heard some person, place, or country "lost it in the war"?

Items, vehicles, landmarks?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12h

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 12h

addenda: this is also a great reason to buy physical books, not just ebooks. The annotations never work right on a small screen. They need the columns and the columns need the double facing spread page.

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 16h

postmodern finance theory

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Mar 8

The entire field, from its macro history spanning centuries to how a student learns it, is:

Here's an intuitive definition. Oh my God what the fuck, how did that thing get in here. Ok here's a *new* definition.

Rinse and repeat.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17h

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Rob Lion @rnlion.bsky.social · 15h

Did they have LCD video monitors in 1985? That seems early to me.

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dcthings.bsky.social @dcthings.bsky.social · 17h

Genuinely embarrassing that no senior leaders I interact with actually read anything (yes this also applies to Biden appointees). No one responds to emails, no one reads past two sentences, no one does anything. The rest of the Pentagon follows along.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 16h

Meanwhile the government has actually stalled development because it can't find anyone willing to finance it in exchange for the toll revenue, but somehow as always this is the fault of the poor little bats

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 16h

The trouble of course is that if you go around saying "zero tolerance for naysayers", it doesn't save much because you still need a budget to distinguish them from "if-you-keep-taking-water-out-of-that-acquifer-you'll-get-sinkholes-sayers"

www.ft.com/content/d319...

UK planning to be speeded up with new powers for ministers

Government is adding amendments to infrastructure and housing bill to strengthen scope for more timely construction

www.ft.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16h

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 1d

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 19h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 19h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 18h

Reminder that California golf courses have a special massive property tax benefit over and above Prop 13. www.evolve-ca.org/news/hole-in...

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 18h

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23h

University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues]

Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university

Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here

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