ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
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we have somehow constructed a future where everyone is starved for labor and yet the robots are coming to unemploy us all. so many folks close to me have been looking for work for **years** with no luck, people who i'd love to put to work full-time on any of a million critical efforts, but none of us controls the capital to purchase labor, and owning someone else's labor sketches us all the hell out because we only sell our labor because the alternative is death.
late capitalism is so bizarre
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And we'll bring up our concerns to them. We are realizing that ZERO consideration seems to be given to the ethical implications of tech.
They don't even have a pat rehearsed answer. They are shocked at being asked. Which means nobody is asking those questions.
"We're not making it for that reason but the way ppl choose to use it isn't our fault. Safeguard will develop." But tech is moving so fast.
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ethically bereft tech
Unnamed tech dad, just this weekend: "There's only one degree I won't pay for [my kids to get]: liberal arts."
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Wowaweewa. "Twitter Offered Russia Today 15% Of Its Total Share Of US Elections Advertising" https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-offered-rt-15-of-its-total-share-of-us-elections
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Oh good, yes, do let's put software designed in Russia on all of the Things on the Internet in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language)
Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the Java virtual machine and also can be compiled to JavaScript source code or use the LLVM compiler infrastructure. Its primary development is from a team of JetBrains programmers based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[3]
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In another parallel universe:
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003) was followed - naturally - by Princess of Persia (2004), where you play as Farah, and the Prince is the sidekick who pops up to give hints and solve obstacles.
@Efi No. Other way around. Our illusion of the way things work that makes us think quantum tunneling is weird is because we make rounding errors when understanding the universe.
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A mastodon instance, but every 3 days a random user account is replaced with a "corrupted" version, which is just a machine learning bot that learnt from their posts
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Newsweek: At least 30 new monuments to the Confederacy have been built, mostly on private land, since 2000. That estimate may be low.
http://www.newsweek.com/new-confederate-monuments-are-quietly-going-across-us-690798?amp=1
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If something is "off the charts" then your charts are shit. Get better charts.
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When someone is described by an American journalist or novelist as "having a mid-Atlantic voice" I automatically picture them gurgling through a diving mask about 10,000 feet off the island of St Helena
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ah yes, the three genders
• foo
• bar
• baz
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TONIGHT! WE DINE! IN HECK!!!!
Like I should have guessed Pikachu was literally a Pika but I didn't
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/6/11161708/the-verge-review-of-animals-pika-vs-pikachu-pokemon
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"Markets, as we've repeatedly learned over the past century, are terrible mechanisms for improving the safety of products and services. It was true for automobile, food, restaurant, airplane, fire, and financial-instrument safety. The reasons are complicated, but basically, sellers don't compete on safety features because buyers can't efficiently differentiate products based on safety considerations. "
-- Bruce Schneier on Internet of Things security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/10/iot_cybersecuri.html#comments
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Bitcoin is the ultimate experiment in "how can we make a system that is so free of regulation, it appears to be basically a giant front for crime?"
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"If you could put any object anywhere at any time in history, what would you put where and when?"
The Sears Tower in Hitler's ass. Duh.
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Nearly one in four troops polled say they have seen examples of white nationalism among their fellow service members, and troops rate it as a larger national security threat than Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new Military Times poll.
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as someone who lives in NYC, I'm constantly thinking about how a lot of shitty tech follows (white, Silicon Valley) Californian cultural norms. two big examples
1. assumption that you will always be outside and in a place with a good network connection. this renders a huge number of mobile apps unusable on the subway, even when there is no good reason to need to be online
2. driving detection, and the assumption that you both have a car and are using it if you're going fast
How to compress air with no moving parts: http://www.coppercountryexplorer.com/2011/07/the-taylor-compressor/
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
