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Got my performance review.
September 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Got my performance review.
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People who experienced homeless encampment sweeps in Washington state and Tennessee wrote about the impact it had on their lives.
Our team @propublica.org added these to our page featuring stories from people across the country: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
Our team @propublica.org added these to our page featuring stories from people across the country: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
February 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
People who experienced homeless encampment sweeps in Washington state and Tennessee wrote about the impact it had on their lives.
Our team @propublica.org added these to our page featuring stories from people across the country: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
Our team @propublica.org added these to our page featuring stories from people across the country: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
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The correct framework for talking about this, KOSA, Visa and Mastercard, FOSTA/SESTA, and all other crackdowns on consensually created adult content
Prohibition.
We've tried it, it didn't work, it could never have worked, and it will never work.
Prohibition.
We've tried it, it didn't work, it could never have worked, and it will never work.
While preventing kids from allegedly harmful content online sounds like a great idea in theory, these laws set the stage for authoritarian censorship, violate young people’s core civil liberties, forcibly expose users to significant privacy risks and utterly fail at their goal of “protecting kids”
The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The correct framework for talking about this, KOSA, Visa and Mastercard, FOSTA/SESTA, and all other crackdowns on consensually created adult content
Prohibition.
We've tried it, it didn't work, it could never have worked, and it will never work.
Prohibition.
We've tried it, it didn't work, it could never have worked, and it will never work.
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I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
April 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
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Status: 😹
April 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Status: 😹
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The thing is we know very specifically the damaging role of consultants on this project. The lack of in-house capacity (10 state employees!) led to outsourcing absolutely everything to people whose goal is less building trains than maximizing profit.
www.latimes.com/local/califo...
www.latimes.com/local/califo...
How California’s faltering high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants
When California shifted its bullet train plan into high gear in 2008, it had just 10 employees to manage and oversee design of the largest public construction project in state history.
www.latimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The thing is we know very specifically the damaging role of consultants on this project. The lack of in-house capacity (10 state employees!) led to outsourcing absolutely everything to people whose goal is less building trains than maximizing profit.
www.latimes.com/local/califo...
www.latimes.com/local/califo...
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i don’t think dems should attend the trump speech on tuesday. skip it! youtube.com/shorts/w2mTb...
don’t go
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtube.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
i don’t think dems should attend the trump speech on tuesday. skip it! youtube.com/shorts/w2mTb...
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Dems should take a hard line: no CRs or debt ceiling increases without full reinstatement of fired federal employees with back pay and an independent special prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened over the last week with Musk.
February 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Dems should take a hard line: no CRs or debt ceiling increases without full reinstatement of fired federal employees with back pay and an independent special prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened over the last week with Musk.
My dad died a few months ago and I still have his iPhone.
I wish there was a service where I could send his iPhoto library and get back a book of the good/meaningful pictures, minus all the other stuff.
I wish there was a service where I could send his iPhoto library and get back a book of the good/meaningful pictures, minus all the other stuff.
February 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My dad died a few months ago and I still have his iPhone.
I wish there was a service where I could send his iPhoto library and get back a book of the good/meaningful pictures, minus all the other stuff.
I wish there was a service where I could send his iPhoto library and get back a book of the good/meaningful pictures, minus all the other stuff.
This is annoying, but also, don’t post pictures of your boarding pass on the internet. It has enough information to allow someone to call the airline and mess with your (current or future) flight itinerary.
Just found out about the aesthetic airport security tray pic trend and I'm ready to end it all
December 29, 2024 at 5:16 PM
This is annoying, but also, don’t post pictures of your boarding pass on the internet. It has enough information to allow someone to call the airline and mess with your (current or future) flight itinerary.
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The people behind and part of this community have been a huge influence on my own learning and progression around systems thinking and resilience engineering. I’m glad to see the community organizing itself—and to be a member of it all.
Introducing the Resilience in Software Foundation: a multi-disciplinary group interested in networking with and learning from each other's unique experiences, and helping to disseminate their knowledge to the broader software industry as a whole. resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1092580
Introducing the Resilience in Software Foundation
Software failures are inevitable. No matter how hard we try, we can’t make our systems flawless, nor can we predict every possible problem. The systems we’re building today are beyond the mental model...
resilienceinsoftware.org
December 21, 2024 at 8:45 PM
The people behind and part of this community have been a huge influence on my own learning and progression around systems thinking and resilience engineering. I’m glad to see the community organizing itself—and to be a member of it all.
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My absolutely lukewarm take of the day is that more organizations should hire librarians
December 17, 2024 at 8:36 PM
My absolutely lukewarm take of the day is that more organizations should hire librarians
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hi, I'm hiring a new right-hand person at work! are you great at administration, a web & data advocate with practical experience, a strong mentor & manager & all around wonderful teammate with a desire to make SF's digital ~things~ better for people? come work with me! careers.sf.gov/role?id=3743...
Deputy Chief Digital Services Officer - Digital and Data Services (0932)
The San Francisco Digital and Data Services team is transforming how residents interact with the City by building services designed around the people that use them. San Franciscans need services from ...
careers.sf.gov
November 26, 2024 at 12:52 AM
hi, I'm hiring a new right-hand person at work! are you great at administration, a web & data advocate with practical experience, a strong mentor & manager & all around wonderful teammate with a desire to make SF's digital ~things~ better for people? come work with me! careers.sf.gov/role?id=3743...
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The EA cult at the heart of silicon valley is just the culmination of the whole ethos, which is based on such a failed understanding of systems, humanity, value, purpose, ethics and people.
They're only open about it now because they've amassed enough power they think they're untouchable.
They're only open about it now because they've amassed enough power they think they're untouchable.
Like… at some point you'll believe those of us who tell you that silicon valley's values are inextricably interwoven with eugenics, and that this isn't a new development, but merely a louder one. newrepublic.com/article/1804...
April 27, 2024 at 10:07 PM
The EA cult at the heart of silicon valley is just the culmination of the whole ethos, which is based on such a failed understanding of systems, humanity, value, purpose, ethics and people.
They're only open about it now because they've amassed enough power they think they're untouchable.
They're only open about it now because they've amassed enough power they think they're untouchable.
Buying real estate in the United States is an exercise in navigating weaponized information asymmetry
September 27, 2023 at 4:48 PM
Buying real estate in the United States is an exercise in navigating weaponized information asymmetry
This is basically a cheat sheet for any systems design interview you ever come up with. www.codereliant.io/scaling-soft...
August 28, 2023 at 3:36 PM
This is basically a cheat sheet for any systems design interview you ever come up with. www.codereliant.io/scaling-soft...
Imagine having lost your way so badly that you stand up, and with you full chest, call people advocating for the homeless terrorists.
August 24, 2023 at 3:16 AM
Imagine having lost your way so badly that you stand up, and with you full chest, call people advocating for the homeless terrorists.
Honestly feel like I want this quote on my gravestone.
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series
Prejudices Quotes by H.L. Mencken
1 quote from Prejudices: Second Series: ‘Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem...
www.goodreads.com
June 29, 2023 at 9:36 PM
Honestly feel like I want this quote on my gravestone.
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series
It's days like this that make it hard for other companies to drag me away from Apple. It's so much more important to me to be part of the products we make.
June 5, 2023 at 6:45 PM
It's days like this that make it hard for other companies to drag me away from Apple. It's so much more important to me to be part of the products we make.
Another case where generative AI is effectively a DDoS on editors, graders, and moderators.
https://apple.news/AN_VUHFM1TFCr7Zv79DI9zg
https://apple.news/AN_VUHFM1TFCr7Zv79DI9zg
As AI-Enabled Cheating Roils Colleges, Professors Turn to an Ancient Testing Method
Oral examinations, which date at least to ancient Greece, are getting new attention
apple.news
June 1, 2023 at 8:12 PM
Another case where generative AI is effectively a DDoS on editors, graders, and moderators.
https://apple.news/AN_VUHFM1TFCr7Zv79DI9zg
https://apple.news/AN_VUHFM1TFCr7Zv79DI9zg
Turns out I’m just suffering from surface level (nitrogen) narcosis 24/7
May 29, 2023 at 7:48 PM
Turns out I’m just suffering from surface level (nitrogen) narcosis 24/7
When performance review time comes along, how many managers are going to use generative AI to write their reviews?
May 20, 2023 at 5:52 PM
When performance review time comes along, how many managers are going to use generative AI to write their reviews?
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I think we have to connect the dots between what Altman is saying and the Google memo that argued:
- there’s no moat for AI vendors
- open source AI is more powerful and affordable for certain users
if this is true, of COURSE: OpenAI wants the FEDS to build them a moat!
- there’s no moat for AI vendors
- open source AI is more powerful and affordable for certain users
if this is true, of COURSE: OpenAI wants the FEDS to build them a moat!
sam altman: AI is existentially terrifying and we should be deeply concerned about it
also sam altman: ok guys let's continue building the world's most advanced AI
also sam altman: ok guys let's continue building the world's most advanced AI
May 20, 2023 at 4:09 PM
I think we have to connect the dots between what Altman is saying and the Google memo that argued:
- there’s no moat for AI vendors
- open source AI is more powerful and affordable for certain users
if this is true, of COURSE: OpenAI wants the FEDS to build them a moat!
- there’s no moat for AI vendors
- open source AI is more powerful and affordable for certain users
if this is true, of COURSE: OpenAI wants the FEDS to build them a moat!