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NYC MIT WPAFB CIN PDX, kinda in that order
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Working for tech companies since they made hardware.
The gurney is the reward, as my NeXT colleagues put it.
Expect book and media reviews, comments on science and technology policy, frequent #NoirAlley #TCMParty posts.
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@tilton Who wrote this? What's it a comment on? (I know it's about LLM's etc but what specific thing is it responding to?)
"Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse": Aarian Marshall @ Wired
“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month
https://www.wired.com/story/emergency-first-responders-say-waymos-are-getting-worse/
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@paninid@mastodon.world I saw this story which mentioned possibly unsent emails from Epstein claiming that Gates asked him for medication treating an STD. Nothing about his now ex-wife, nothing about dosing her surreptitiously. Do you have links?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/bill-gates-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IlA.lQ1M.PrkK1dGGxrQC&smid=url-share
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@jonhendry It's sad because they're a nostalgia food for me. We found an Amy's-like brand once that was close. Now we just make our own whenever we have day or two old baguettes.
the racism is strong in these price boat scenes
This movie is reminding me of the Chuck Barris biopic, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
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@JoeWynne TCM outro from 2014 https://youtu.be/Y3_M9xjuS0k?si=iUg-3Cp43FAhLb8m
#MonsieurVerdoux is probably one of the most confusing, self-indulgent, unfunny but well-produced comedies I've ever seen. It doesn't know what it wants to be except a vehicle for getting Chaplin in front of eyeballs. It is not redeemed by the self-righteous "moral" at the end.
So damn weird.
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@JoeWynne We should get a list of where it's available.
I know that Eddie Muller is doing a watchalong of #RideThePinkHorse this Saturday. Maybe the following one, 2/28?
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@tubetime@mastodon.social reminds me of the Robert Symons quote in this piece on cold-cathode traveling wave tubes:
“If the transistor had been invented first, the vacuum tube would have been invented immediately afterwards.”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-quest-for-the-ultimate-vacuum-tube#toggle-gdpr
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@Pwnallthethings@mastodon.social Strange… isn’t the #SpaceX dream to be refugees from a ruined Earth in asylum on Mars?
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From a product perspective, the requirements which the product team did the work of tying to organizational goals (revenue, market share, or user requests) are the source of truth.
That's what leadership agreed to.
That's what needs to be tested.
That's what's buried in your prompts. /
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This doesn't eliminate a layer, it buries it. Those requirements need to be the sources of testing criteria and market/community success.
What these tools do is classic misdirection: "Look here, at what the tool generated. That is true."
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It ignores consensus. It mistakes an output for a product.
It ignores what the humans in the organization agreed upon after debating its meaning to bring clarity. /
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These engineers and designers are stuck in their own hallucination of what work is. They don't get it. They are puppies salivating at ClaudeCode ringing a bell, mistaking a conditioned response for being part of a team creating products to solve human needs.
Needs that they bury in prompts in order to forget. /FIN
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@JoeWynne I might not be able to start until after 9 PT. Does that work?
Did they just play a poker variation of the Casablanca roulette scene?
holy shit vincent price needs to break the tabs in half next time
I'm not sure I ever realized how expressive Russell's face is, before. Maybe I was distracted.
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@JoeWynne TCM intro from 2014
https://youtu.be/2SScX557VSo?si=NUivGd_iIGTc7qjU
"Knowledge is required to prepare a work of scholarship, but only ignorance gives the courage to publish it."
Elias J Bickerman, in the introduction to his Chronology of the Ancient World.
#TheBoys 5.4 is a pretty perfect execution of an hour of serialized SF tv: great characterization, plot twists, dialog, and homage to inspirational work.
There are multiple times during the boss battle at the end of the ep where Fisk's crotch is vulnerable and DD fights clean.
Bourgeois fight choreography.
Hit him in the nuts, Matt.
watching daredevil and wait is that gia goodman
In the annals of shit-talking, Gavroche's response to a National Guardsman who tries to stop and frisk him in Les Miserables are historic:
Voilà de vilains mots. La première fois_ qu'on vous donnera à téter, _il faudra qu'on vous essuie mieux la bouche.
"Nasty language! You suck your momma's tit with that mouth?"
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@Wolven @mmitchell_ai
Anyone know how that works? How does DNA Relative expose your genome when a relative finds you?
visited the African American History Museum in DC and got an appropriate new notes pencil for Les Mis
A good piece about why Apple's chip architecture is good for current-gen AI models, the sad state of Intelligence, and why that's led to huge lead times for hardware.
IMO, if designers thought of models as ways to solve a11y UX issues, they might catch up.