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a new realization I’ve had about the incredible people who organized resistance against the nazis is how many of them probably hated each other

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🧵1/3 La comparsa animalista @piztiak.bsky.social recuerda y visibiliza en cada fiesta la explotación y maltrato a los animales, ya sea por ocio (toreo), consumo de sus cuerpos (carne)... El tema de este carnaval fue los animales urbanos y el disfraz colectivo: ratas y palomas. Yo marché con ellas.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

finally... futurism.com/vape-tamagot...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

It's a real problem that the most effective way to do a thing is often unglamorous, inexpensive, and requires talking to people.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

submitted 9 days ago • 600 comments

Another way of looking at the problem is seeing the data set you are building. What is knowable about entities. It can lead you to ask questions about the (possible) distribution of attributes/metadata. This helps you to break down the problem and inform your segmentation strategy.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Reply with a gif from a movie you've watched ≥6 times.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

people asked if this will cause businesses to stop paying for the commercial license — instead we're seeing companies increase their contribution so they can be featured on the supporting orgs page 🥰 obsidian.md/enterprise/

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If it looks like there are two different fonts on this clay tablet from ancient Babylon, that’s because there are. In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

saw a comic years ago that perfectly captured the engineering mindset (might have been @tomgauld.bsky.social? definitely similar style) shows a giant robot flying around destroying the city, and in the foreground a person saying "my job was the rocket engines, and as you can see those work great"

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

In research you have to define clear variants and why you pick those specific variants to test against each other qual or quant. You have to find the control. We do this a lot when we investigate how new tech works in nuanced applications. It’s crazy how few people can think like this.

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Rothko chicken crosses the skyline.

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Perhaps the biggest maladaptive behavior of debate perverts in this era is attacking your opponent's arguments rather than their objectives. It doesn't matter if it's true or not if they do not believe it themselves. They don't care and neither should you.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Ethan Marcotte, who is one of the most principled and thoughtful people I have ever known and also a dear friend, has resigned from his job at 18F after being asked to meet with shadowy gov-dismantlers. The whole post is worth reading. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leaving-18f/

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

“The process of searching is the process of learning.” Thread. The process the author describes was never popular, and early Yahoo, not AI, foretold its sunset. But the main point holds true: we learn by searching as we learn by doing, for searching is a form of doing.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Mod makers rejoice: The Team Fortress 2 SDK has arrived! We've updated the Source SDK with all of TF2's client and server game code. Change, extend, or rewrite TF2, and publish them as mods on Steam. www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=...

submitted 18 days ago • 80 comments

My 2007 book Persuasive Games opens with the story of a game called Tenure for the 1970s computer PLATO, about the first year of high-school teaching. Its creator, Owen Gaede, ported the game to Windows in 2005. He died in 2006, and I got the files before his website went offline. (cont'd)

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"La idea de que la gente abandonará sus creencias irracionales ante la solidez de la evidencia presentada ante ella es en sí misma una creencia irracional, no apoyada por la evidencia." George Lakoff elpais.com/us/migracion...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Columbo self-portraits by Peter Falk. #art

submitted 603 days ago • 7 comments

My humanity is somebody else's edge case

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I was just saying to my wife how the thing I want most in the world is more subscription fees for services I can currently get for free that are heavily dependent on volunteer labor

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

I want to make something clear... Nobody is making Google do this. Not one person. They are CHOOSING to do this.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

A lot of companies see research as validation. I see research as a way to unpack compounded assumptions and scaffolding risk. It’s the difference between testing a perfect thing vs isolating the assumption & narrowing the trade off hypothesis. This way of working gives you strategy.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

AI's impact on labor through Claude.ai usage data. www.anthropic.com/news/the-ant...

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In my first calls with the hiring manager at my current job, I asked him what ratio of the job was strategy vs execution. This enables you to tease out the design culture of the job.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment