dontinnovate.bsky.social
Reluctant Radical. Sometimes Professor, sometimes entrepreneur, always a dad, avoiding Covid like the plague (it is), passionate about learning. Did some things in SaaS pre-acronym. Want to bend that arc.
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I’m sure this is shocking to @edzitron.com
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all these accolades, what a joke
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the AI industry is built on extraction, fraud, deception, and lies
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"We were told to never mention our location or use Indian English phrases," said a former Bangalore engineer.
The team timed updates to UK business hours to maintain the illusion of automation.
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For eight years, Builder .ai marketed its "Natasha" AI system as a fully autonomous tool that could build software "as easily as ordering pizza." In reality, engineers in Noida and Bangalore manually coded client projects while being instructed to mimic AI-generated responses.
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Valued at $1.5 billion in 2023 with backing from Microsoft & Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, the company filed for bankruptcy protection this week after revelations that its "AI-powered" platform relied on 100s of engineers in India while executives orchestrated a years-long financial deception
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To understand them a bit better, read @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @xriskology.bsky.social or just watch Dr Gebru’s presentation. youtu.be/P7XT4TWLzJw?...
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I thought he bought a sailboat and sailed off into the sunset with his pile of grifting cash…
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That said, this should not be ideological. The evidence from studying public organizations show that politicization reduces capacity and performance. The center-right @niskanencenter.bsky.social wrote a comment that emphasized how managing by fear is also a bad strategy in the private sector.
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Another reason to oppose Schedule F (now Schedule Policy/Career) is that we know it will be used ideologically rather than for the stated purpose of performance. @adambonica.bsky.social shows that 90% of recent DOGE layoffs have targeted people working in agencies that serve more liberal goals.
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One thing that has changed since the Schedule F policy was originally proposed is that we have seen what it looks like when Trump really politicizes public services. Here are a couple of examples.
You can read other comments already made. Mine is here: www.regulations.gov/comment/OPM-...
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E.g., this paper. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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It’s also abhorrent. And cynical.
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It’s a great time to be a Nepo though! The Nepo Times loves 2025!!!
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It’s so facially absurd. Trump, in front of the world, admits that he doesn’t know what he’s signing or even if he has more documents to sign during his regular made-for-tv performances
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As Elon Musk and Donald Trump traded jabs online, their respective businesses took a hit—fast. It took only a few hours to wipe $152 billion from Tesla’s market cap and more than $100 million in value from TrumpCoin.
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True to form, Elon turned to social media to deal with the drama—like a high schooler posting a cryptic message about some ongoing beef, hoping everyone reads between the lines. Only this time, there was nothing cryptic about it.
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Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching it anyway.
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!
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The University of Michigan has been using DOZENS of private investigators to follow anti-genocide protesting students all over Ann Arbor.
Every single person involved in this should be fired. UM's accreditation should be called into question.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Full story here:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I saw a video a couple of days ago where a young gen z or older alpha was talking about the 2000s and the way they just said no one objected to or saw what Bush/Cheney were doing at the time, and it was mind blowing. It just becomes part of the narrative somehow, that there was no opposition.
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Some conference organizers appeared to be on high alert after a pro-Palestine demonstrator interrupted a panel with Palantir’s head of defense on Monday.
Palantir formed a partnership with the Israeli military in January 2024.
Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/palant...
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The incident with the WIRED journalist happened on Tuesday at the Special Competitive Studies Project, which is free and open to the public, including journalists. Later that day, Palantir had conference security remove at least three other journalists.