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Culture is set at the top… The situation is extraordinary because asking for consent, getting a firm “no,” and then going ahead and doing the thing anyway is an almost too-on-the-nose encapsulation of the hubris and contempt permeating the AI industry. https://futurism.com/sam-altman-openai-scarlett-johansson CNC: Consensual Non-consent
And you can’t run industrial policy or a war economy if you want fake profits based on not actually producing good new goods at cheap prices. It can’t be done. If an entire society is based around “give me money for the least possible effort”, you’re cooked China’s government, while not without serious flaws, works,…
You might not have heard of the company yet, largely because they rarely advertise which major e-bike brands use their motors, controllers, and other components. But to put things in perspective, they produced around 6.5 million electric motors last year. Most of their products are built for the massive domestic market, but around 600,000 were…
Never in my 20+ years as a practicing Catholic had I seen the Rosary framed as a meditation of confession as a unblocking mechanism. It makes perfect sense. Like a lot of religious practices, the eye of someone familiar with actual spiritual cultivation practices can see what they were intended to do. Rosary practice and…
One of my big cargo-cult beefs is the endless consumption of “non-fiction” management books. It was so bad at my last job that I laid into my boss… “we keep reading histories written by winners, but we have not idea how they struggled to WIN and we have no idea about the losers”. It’s a…
… we need to recognize that the Human Tenure Trap is not a personal failing, but a systemic challenge. It’s a reflection of our human limitations and the way we’ve structured our organizations and institutions. It’s only by understanding the trap that we can hope to escape it. Otherwise, we risk winning limited battles and…
He’s only in it for the Twitter engagement and trying to create class division. We’ve got actual problems to solve and all he can do is culture war grandstanding. He is a criminally unserious man hell bent of divisiveness. He tried it with the Treaty and he’s trying it all over again with school lunches.…
It has been a long time since I’ve seen a company shit all over their core brand proposition so utterly. It’s like Tim Cook is pissing on the street sign at the corner of Liberal Arts and Technology… What. The. Actual. Fuck. Apple? It, honestly, hurts to watch that “Crush!” video… For the last year…
… because of progress like this:
“When I was a teenager, I remember gay rights being weaponised politically. That always felt ugly and nasty. We look back on that, 30 years later, and those people are clearly on the wrong side of history,” [David Tennant] said. “Now, there is a similar weaponisation of these topics being taken by mostly the right…
The chutzpah… one day get pinged by the auditor general for a shonky no-bid $1M contract and then the next day lecturer us on how we’re not doing competition right.
From the “dammit! i should’ve made that connection” file: News flash: there’s already a gadget named the Rabbit and it is very well reviewed. If there were ever a case for diversifying leadership in the tech world, this is it. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/3/24148260/we-need-to-talk-about-the-rabbits-name
New “idiot test”… if you still cling to the idea that govt spend drives inflation in Western economies you’re either an ideologue with an agenda or you’re ignorant… either way you’re an idiot in this context. The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing…
… and here is a good explanation of why: In EVERY Node/TS app I’ve worked on… you spend a lot of your time battling over framework shit – not shipping your product. In Rails, you pick up the defaults and forget about the framework and get on solving your problem.
This tracks. Tesla has behaved like a company (in the past 12 months) that knows it can’t compete… Elon Musk just fired the entire Tesla Supercharger team. Why? It’s not about cutting costs or streamlining operations. It’s a signal. A signal that Tesla is pivoting away from being an electric vehicle company. https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/elon-musk-is-abandoning-evs
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