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patrick-boueri.bsky.social
RecSys/ML. Chicago Architecture boat tours on the side. Lebanese American. Lots of opinions, reskeets are reskeets.
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once again coming out on the side of "bullying people is always, 100%, every single time bad"

The “lets tell anyone we dont like to kill themselves” crowd are not welcome here sorry

telling someone who is interested in things u don’t like or u find off putting to off themselves isn’t praxis btw. the ai guy u told to kys? not praxis. the trans girl u told to kys? not praxis. the “shit lib” who (admittedly!!) posts bad and u told to kys? not praxis.

Like everything theyre getting better and pretending they arent wont help.

Coolest thing about bsky is everyone gets product data and can make their own theory of the case of what to do next. Twitch Plays Twitter

This is not necessarily an incorrect view. These trends are not great!

My take is that no good algo feed = no pay for exposure. Gotta fix that - if I’m a brand how can i get attention thats not just negative if i pay for it.

people get mad at me when I say this but it's a Serious Problem for bluesky's long-term viability that the userbase actively tries to bully people they don't like off here

Does anyone that writes about Chicago understand current chicago population trends?!? greatcities.uic.edu/2025/05/15/c...

“if you think you will continue to need to hire engineers into the future, you should really keep hiring junior ones.” Preach - see also: lethain.com/engineering-...

lol why would they admit what time the change was made. who the fuck else is up at 3 am crying about white genocide in south africa

Need Arnie to suit up www.indiewire.com/wp-content/u...

to put this another way: a sistah souljah moment could work for clinton because EVERYONE SAW IT. if kamala harris had set an effigy of kendi on fire, it is an open question whether it would have registered beyond anyone who was already decided on their vote

Newark Airport has always been sus because the food situation. Many different brands and themes - all the same slop by the same company.

My dog who is four years old, just started kicking after he poops out of the blue…. I’m weirded out.

The thing I’d be curious about for all these AI systems is how they operate software not just create it. What I mean by this is CICD and scaling and monitoring are all ongoing activities that influenced the design of the system. I’d say they’re very good programmers they’re not engineers yet

users: "the algo sucks! i keep [seeing/hearing] things i dont want to see!!!!" company: "okay, we'll work on the algo" users: "no, don't train your algo with data!!" the majority of people sharing content on soundcloud probably want their music to be heard, and soundcloud is tying to do that...

You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.

winner of the inaugural goldsmith prize for explanatory journalism. it’s good, read it!! (super interesting profiles of public servants and the work they do, humble folks who don’t ask for spotlight but are doing work that well deserves it)

Rümeysa Öztürk officially freed from ICE detention. (Photo from Rümeysa’s legal team)

The Trump administration has ended refugee resettlement from war-torn regions where people are in horrific scenarios, and has cut off support mandated by law to those resettled in the last year — and now they’re chartering a jet to fly White South Africans here as “refugees.”

Today's front page.

i can’t get enough of the chicago pope jokes

Pope from Chicago All things go, all things go

This is America.

This is The Last Supper now.

THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

This is the most Chicago editors note ever

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”

Update: Council passed this ordinance 30-18!