tryandguess.com
Freelance journalism/computer science/policy expert
Formerly @ Duke Reporters' Lab focusing Mis/Disinformation and fact-checking mostly with humans, and sometimes ML/AI stuff.
Based in NYC, previously a lot of places in Europe/Africa/North America
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They have a pitch to subscribe to The Onion print edition right there in the copy.
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If you're not familiar with Scarfolk, my apologies, it's an art project satirizing the mid-70's in industrial towns in England. It's also hilarious scarfolk.blogspot.com
(I LOVE C&H btw)
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I’ve been a rails dev for 20 years, never been to a conference for it and Philly is very accessible. The ticket price isn’t an easy pull however ($1200?! That’s as much as my COBRA payment).
Is it worth it?
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Agreed. If this sort of graphic is going to be used stylize it as a sketch or cartoon. Or don’t use AI at all and pay for a graphics department like you would have 3 years ago.
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Thanks for the recommendation. Just grabbed the audiobook!
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Do you *really* need to know how it works or is it the newest hype word to distract from the fact that AI models aren't getting substantially better, and aren't very useful past boiler-plate problems, but the Anthropics and OpenAIs of the world need to keep goosing their stock prices?
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In my experience the EU is a massively mixed bag on allergies. Only 10 years ago I’d get blank stares and definitely ended up in a few hospitals living there, while I only had it happen once in my life in the US.
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There’s the oldish joke that the internet has convinced far too many people to give a shit about what 14 year olds think.
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I think it’s sort of like showing an un contacted tribe a smart phone or 3d glasses. The concept of this much corruption is incomprehensible to anyone who’s only reported on US national or local news their entire career. To those of who’ve spent time in Eastern Europe or Middle East it’s baseline
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I recently found a case of water and canned beans I had forgotten about for two years.
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Do you have any examples? What sort of time commitment would you be asking of volunteers?
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Here’s Mr Rodgers on Sesame Street. I’m not in your shoes but it makes me feel joy and I hope it does for you too, neighbor youtu.be/OqWDjJRhCkc?...
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The EU is putting $1 trillion euros of investment into their economy right now. There’s a lot of money in the air if it’s done right.
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I did that in college for awhile. Same reason I always buy manual transmission cars, basically the best thief barrier.
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See also Heartbleed where the major software supporting encryption across most of the internet was handled by one guy in Finland who was barely making minimum wage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed?wprov=sfti1
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It also doesn’t work very well for anything slightly interesting or if it’s not Python or JavaScript.
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It’s mostly middle eastern countries in my experience. Europe this isn’t the case for the most part (despite being chosen for “additional screening” before boarding in Iceland on Wednesday they let me keep the water I bought and the bottles I filled).
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Texas's government is just three horrible libertarian decisions in a trench coat.
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Why wouldn't you believe it? It's the majority narrative (and it's not wrong, sometimes). Thanks for engaging on it though!
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(Sorry to hijack your thread! Thank you for doing what you do!)
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I've lived for many years in Europe and Africa and, in general, I've found people are mostly good in general. It's the exceptions that make the news unfortunately.
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Texas is uniquely bad in the US, it's the only state that runs its own grid entirely with no connections outside the state because they apparently like wildly fluctuating power costs and no resiliency. The rest of the US is hooked up to each other + Canada + Mexico and were quite confused as well.
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Most of the time people either keep to themselves or volunteer. After Hurricane Sandy in 2013 a a substantial portion of NYC was without power for 5 days (the longest since Edison turned it on) and people didn't loot, they partied and volunteered to help the elderly and infirm.
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There's a certain type of "self-hating" American who likes to think their (my) country is uniquely awful and terrible. It's annoying and wrong. Wide spread blackouts happen *all* the time in the US, usually from hurricanes or other major storm systems. Looting is extraordinarily rare.
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I'd say your latter instinct is probably closer to the correct one.
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To be clear this was the case before the previous 100 days happened. Right now it's still mostly in tact, but it's also been untested since the inauguration but tornado season is here and hurricane season is coming soon, so we'll see.
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As for resilience, Europe is just as vulnerable as anywhere else. Just look at Iberia a few days ago. Europe doesn't really get tornados, or hurricanes, it's a different ball game when it comes to natural disasters (to use an American aphorism).
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There's many parts of the US where you can drive for 12 hours and basically not see any population centers, and at best you might find a gas station every 400-500kms. I'm not even talking about the National Parks either, which is its own thing.
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I would argue that for the majority of major population centers it's fairly similar infrastructure-wise between the EU and US. The big difference is there's much more just empty or *very* sparsely populated areas in the US. If you've not done a road trip in the US is really difficult to imagine.
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The US has every point you’re discussing, no doubt, and some people will always be horrible, but the takeaway I always go for is people, overall, are fundamentally good.
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In my experience doing disaster relief in the US, a lot, if not almost all, of the individualism melts away the moment things go really south. The kindness, generosity, and willingness to help beyond the point of exhaustion has been my main takeaway from so many scenarios.
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My take is that interest rate increases hurt not just start ups but small businesses, regular home owners looking to refinance or car buyers who budgeted for a certain lease payment.
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Like a reverse sovereign citizen.
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I bought a car once for $5k in cash. I didn't stop for lunch first though.
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Queen Elizabeth held her position as "commander of the faith" "by the grace of God" and was the head of the Anglican Church. Would it then not be appropriate for her since she was also a religious figure? He was a recognized head of state of a nation, if not allied, on friendly terms with the US.
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"In the event of the death of other officials or foreign dignitaries, the flag is to be displayed at half-staff according to Presidential instructions or orders, or in accordance with recognized customs or practices not inconsistent with law." Section m www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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Been there, every error's a learning experience. The idea is the hardest part of any project.
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Great project btw, sorry if I didn't express that earlier!
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I searched for “gout” so no fancy encoding issues or anything.