Dear uni IT people, one does not roll out a new feature right before the holidays. In fact one goes for code freeze in the second half of December. Or whoever is designing your KPIs is completely clueless, if you 'had to do this before the end of the year'

Contemporary Asimov: Dr Susan Calvin, but as a big time social media influencer

Technological hell instead of singularity: somehow, your family misses to close your dead sister's Linkedin account, it is apparently her work anniversary in a job she couldn't have worked in the last 3.5 years, and some of her potentially random connections automatically post congrats under it.

Somehow still an unpopular opinion: workplace socials SHOULD be during working hours, not after.

My kid: I am 3 years old!
Me: True! How old am I?
My kid: 101, mama. You are 101 years old.

Thank you for your brutal honesty, kiddo.

Have been thinking about making this for a while :)

If there were more primary caregivers doing AI research I think we would be seeing less bs about how a model imitates a child learning the world with just one experience but more algorithms named like "learning through the endless repetitive hours of pretend play, over and over and over"....

German politics again and again:

Karen Hao(@karenhao.bsky.social‬)'s Empire of AI is one of the best books I have read this year so far.