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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 8mo ago

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It's worse than I thought @anildash@me.dm : "I talk to young founders these days and for them, there’s no other world than the Trump world. I ask them what inspired them to go into tech and they say they read Marc Andreessen’s manifesto, they read Peter Thiel’s books, and I think, “Oh, your brain’s cooked.” They come in pre-pickled. But everyone else who could have told an alternate narrative has been hounded out of the industry." https://sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickled-each-others-brains

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 4mo ago

RE: @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

What I did here is something I wish people did more often. I posted my IDEA for an image, rather than going to Mecha Hitler and struggling for a while to get the image I wanted and then posting it. I saved a lot of energy and water, and I provided all the information I needed to provide. There is a lesson here. Instead of prompting an AI and sending the output, JUST SEND THE PROMPT.

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 4mo ago

You really wouldn't know it from elsewhere but Waymo self driving vehicles have taken over SF. They are at least one of every 20 cars you see. I saw 4 at one intersection last night.

Seeing them in life has eased some of my concerns. But now, I have a new nightmare scenario about them.

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

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I want to show a co-worker something going wrong with my work website, but the website blocks screenshots, so I have to try to describe it in words. Of course this does not work very well, to the point that some people simply don't believe that this thing is happening. 3/

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

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That audiobook software does not automatically download books when the phone is on a Wi-Fi network, so if I don't remember to do so manually while at home, it plays in streaming mode, which does not work on the subway, because my city still does not have telephone service underground. That phone has all kinds of new AI features, like the ability to eliminate all of the people from my photographs, and the subway system has millions of dollars worth of cameras to prevent fare jumping. 2/

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 4mo ago

gonna start a financial news service that only has bad news, call it Gloomberg

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 5mo ago

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@peter@thepit.social i think it's that housing become an investment class in the 20th century, blocking new infill development, and car sprawl no longer works in the 21st There is a housing crunch in Singapore but because almost all the land is publicly owned, it's not the same at all. For a city with that economy, there is remarkable housing availability.

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 4mo ago

I just found out why Chinese people don't like to park near sharrows

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 4mo ago

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Lawyers really need to get on this. The profession can protect itself against the flood of idiotic pro-se filings and the fake precedents cited in AI-written briefs. But it goes much further, because the concepts like honor, fair play and reputation come naturally to humans and do not come, even after a lot of work, to computer programs.

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 4mo ago

Edging means using a Microsoft product to access the web

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 4mo ago

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@peter@thepit.social i actually think CEO is the correct position to replace, because it is the one with the lowest direct contact with customers, most supervision (a whole board) and highest per-employee cost. I don't think most people would notice if their CEO were replaced by a bot.

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 32mo ago

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By chance, I was watching that testimony live. It was utterly bracing. You could see that this member of the House had done her homework. She was the youngest Congressperson and was stll in her first year in office, but she did this.

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 3mo ago

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@drmaddkap@meow.social i think it's the opposite of school. Scold is the opposite of shot.

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 32mo ago

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I've watched this clip a few times but never watched the reactions. When she asked "who else would know this" and Cohen rattled off the names of three insiders, everyone who knows how criminal cases work could see exactly where this was heading. Look at those faces.

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 4mo ago

A counterparty is when you invite people over and they all hang out in the kitchen

Stick with me for more lessons in banking vocabulary

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 5mo ago

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@peter@thepit.social @DBG3D@masto.es turns out we are all children, learning from what we experience directly rather than from rule books

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 5mo ago

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@peter@thepit.social not only can i tell you how to stalk your ex, I'll send the messages for you -- any phone programmed by these dudes

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 5mo ago

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@peter cocaine would be a better writer if only it could get its hands on you

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 5mo ago

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@peter people forget that one option is to just nod, smile, shake one´s head, or frown, and move on

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 5mo ago

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@peter https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXhvwoQD3YK/?igsh=aTMxYmpidmE0dWVv

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

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@LanceTurner@mastodon.au thanks, I know how to do that, and many apps now block screenshots on mobile. They come out all black

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 5mo ago

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@teknomagic@todon.eu @peter@thepit.social people say this in every city but the evidence is never very strong. I am fine with taxing pied a terres to the point that they become less desirable then hotels, but beyond that? The idea that there is some vast reservoir of housing that will solve our problems without new construction is a widespread fantasy. It goes along with the myth that density requires high rises, when the densest development pattern is 5-6 stories. People fight really hard to avoid becoming like Paris

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 5mo ago

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@teknomagic@todon.eu @peter@thepit.social banks are not global, The banks that fund housing construction are overwhelmingly local. Unless you are hinting at some global banking conspiracy, which is a different and less polite conversation. Airbnb has been almost completely banned in New York and the impact has been negligible. I'm sure it helped, and it has definitely improved the quality of life in some buildings, but rents keep going up.

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 @stevenbodzin@thepit.social

· 5mo ago

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@teknomagic@todon.eu @peter@thepit.social in the United States, Blackstone is reputedly the biggest. It's a private equity company. Worldwide, there are huge real estate investment trusts and there are investment funds like Brookfield that specialize in real estate without being REITs.

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