Notices by Avi Rappoport (avirr) (avirr@sfba.social)

@bstacey @inthehands Don’t forget VR and IOT (which kinda happened, in a bad way)

@jrose @beatnikprof @jwz @inthehands Don’t kick yourself, it had JarJar Binks, which negates much of the plot

@inthehands @hacksilon @__BRH__ The Graphing Calculator story is real, I heard it from the source and his smart friends.

Apparently the Tesla burning at the Trump hotel in LV is real not AI-generated, huh.

https://news3lv.com/news/local/vehicle-fire-fashion-show-mall-trump-international-las-vegas-strip-ccfd-southern-nevada-new-years-day

@inthehands Irregularly distributed though

Doonsbury 1973, on the occasion of John Mitchell's guilty verdict: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1973/5/29

@inthehands Everything should have a working Back button

@marick @rationaldoge @inthehands I think they’re off the jury

@marick @inthehands @rationaldoge They will probably be involved in bribery investigations as well

@inthehands It’s an important topic and worth researching. I read the article and it’s all opt-in and fully disclosed. I know that Apple has a good record on user info so everything that can be encrypted locally is. I’m sure they’ve tried to think through all the problems but there’s always something.

@inthehands I’ve worked with business and government: equally dysfunctional

@MediaActivist Performance and participative art is such a great way to think about it. And I just realized what a long tradition it follows, feels very Punch-and-Judy to me.

@inthehands @ZacSweers They still do. The problem is that it doesn’t apply to the LLM, because OpenAI jumped the gun.

@codinghorror The “bids for connection” concept is really helpful and I’ve been paying more attention

@inthehands Mine is just commentary, you’re the one on the front line

@inthehands My kids and their friends are so fierce and active and smart and beautiful! I’ve been pushing back against the “kids these days” complaint for years.

@inthehands @mekkaokereke I always hated ranking, it has so little to do with learning or work. It is actually counterproductive in that if the class is a wild success there’s no way to tell by the grades.

@inthehands @kevpluck I agree, would like a group to hold pundits to account. Did you see McArdle’s list of her failures? It was striking.

@inthehands @kevpluck McArdle admits her spectacular fails (in her piece on pro-abortion backlash):

"I won’t say this is the wrongest I have ever been; that would be ridiculous, given that I supported the Iraq War, and thought the collapse of Lehman Brothers would instill a bracing sense of moral responsibility in the financial sector. But I have not been this wrong since I decided in 2016 to go on holiday after the election, because I thought there would be little worth covering in Hillary Clinton’s presidential transition."

gift source article: 🎁 https://wapo.st/3S04UNJ

@Globaltom @garius When domain names went down to $35, a number of us bought the cool ones just for fun. It was a windfall of luck for some.