gnperdue.bsky.social
I am an assemblage of carbon-based nanomachines that transmutes coffee into science. My other computer is in a superposition of states, etc.
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Yeah, it’s one or the other. I don’t like either, but there’s not much I expect to be able to do about it.
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If I see an ad in anything but sports (which stops play for ads anyway), I’m canceling on the spot.
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Trailer looks good. I hope they don’t pull any punches and it is ludicrously, unreasonably challenging. Surely, Elden Ring has given the games industry space to just make games that are nearly humanly impossible like the old days.
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Friedman only makes sense in the context of professionalized board management. I believe it can’t be applied in the context of individual control (especially by the founder).
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Maybe the worst part is Trump will say over and over that this equivalent to overturning the verdict and that will become dogma for a huge chunk of the country. They’ll say “he was never really found guilty”, and believe it.
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Virtue signaled my way all the way off all their platforms. Good bye Meta.
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The challenging environment made your immune system stronger 😉
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Sounds like either a major security failure on the device or a tragically bad user interface. Not sure which is worse but I would be berserk with rage and worried about the security of operating my device. What OS are you using? (I am not a tech expert, I'm only hoping I'm on the other OS)
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I also looked at personal posts (on food, cats, holidays). Although the sample is much smaller, I see a similar trend.
This evidence suggests recent algorithm changes on Threads significantly down-weighted climate content as well as altering what people see.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/21/t...
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That looks like a bomb. Like an attack. That isn’t a mechanical malfunction in the truck.
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A speculation I’ve heard that I agree with is social media will eventually split into premium, paid domains with rigorously guaranteed human-only interactions, and free, anything-goes ad-driven domains that are mostly AI content and AI-AI interactions.
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Of course, the behavior from Trump and Musk, and statements like this from Sununu, will lead directly to a lot more corrupt behavior in government. Ethics standards are first enforced through personal choice, and a lot of people are going to start saying “if they can do it, so can I.”
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Sununu has proven himself to be a master of bad-faith arguments, gaslighting, and outright manipulation. He is given far too much credit for having arched one eyebrow critically in Trump’s direction once.
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It is indeed false to say everyone has a conflict of interest. I work in the federal space and today, at least, standards are quite rigorous in that regard. It’s also duplicitous to imply Musk can’t be influenced. The danger is that HE will leverage influence to further enrich himself.
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Articles framed like that are maddening. The great irony of every great prevention exercise is after the fact too many people think the positive outcome is proof the prevention wasn’t needed in the first place.
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My lord, yes - we could learn so much. We do need slightly better branding than "wastewater surveillance" though... "snoopy poopy"? I am not an ad-man, and it shows, but we need to *do the thing*. The actionable insights would be extraordinary and it couldn't cost that much, right?
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I can’t imagine how insider trading isn’t a problem, but maybe I’m too impressed by a handful of sensational outlier data points.
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You argue it isn’t a problem because of a published study that shows market underperformance, which is good, to bring real data to the discussion. I’m admittedly operating more anecdotally and see Congresspeople build fortunes on tiny salaries, but perhaps the bigger problem is influence peddling.
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Let’s not “whatabout” though and bring up other groups. Let’s stay focused on Congress - bottom line is you *don’t* see insider trading and influence peddling in Congress as a major problem. Maybe I shouldn’t pair those two. Let’s do insider trading first.
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Well, what do we do? First - do we agree insider trading and influence peddling are problems? If we agree on that, what do we do next? We can think about both “pie in the sky” solutions and what might be possible, politically. Worth thinking about both, IMO.
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That’s why I like some sort of “auto-impeachment,” but there are hard parts to solve there, of course. I’m working with 300 characters here. At the very least we need a way to give people standing to sue when politicians break the law (eg emoluments, etc.).
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But that seems like letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. I don’t want to put words in your mouth though - how do you propose to deal with insider trading and influence peddling? My suggestion can be improved, of course, and part of that is understanding your suggestions.
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Maybe I’m wish-casting, but I don’t think Trump wants to invade Greenland. He wants us talking about him and quivering in fear over what a chaos agent he is. He’s jealous of Musk’s coverage and this is a ploy to get it back. We should ignore him.
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The easy, obvious solution is to *require* members of the government, on pain of impeachment, to put financial assets in a blind trust and then pay a very competitive salary. People think it’s expensive to pay a Senator $1e6/yr, but what is ACTUALLY expensive is Senators being bought for $1e6/yr.
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He could build a GD space elevator and put us trillions of dollars into more debt with an outlandish health care give away… and pull it off! And he wouldn’t even really have to work at it! And it would give him even more cover for criming and draconian immigration policy!
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The irony is with the blank check he has with his base, he could do all sorts of stuff and get away with it. He could be transformative. He could completely remake health care for the better forever and reap MASSIVE popularity benefits. He doesn’t even have to be a good executive. He could delegate.
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This is one of the most baffling things about Trump, for me. You’d think he would actually be ALL OVER the idea of real infrastructure investment. He’s a real-estate guy, supposedly. Why isn’t he developing lots of stuff? He could. He could build so much stuff, and name it!, and he just… doesn’t.
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Although, please, not at the expense of performance. Even on brand new hardware these apps that are just loading the last 10 rows of some database are inexplicably slow and are the opposite of “surprising and delightful.”
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Also, this seems like a great (if potentially creepy) area for Apple Intelligence to matter more. Let me opt of it, but instead of making me rate or look at the “load”, look at all the data in MacroFactor, Oura, and Health to put together interesting diagnostics and recommendations.
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I appreciate the team working to add new features but I would beg them to start with performance. Why does the data display in Apple Health and the Fitness app take so long to load? Sometimes I have to give up and *reboot my phone* to look at the data for the past week.