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> Because our daily complicity ... Exactly this. We were (still are) complicit in our own destruction and worst yet when other courageous people spoke up we shout them down, hid aw…

Billionaires are also susceptible to extreme forms this disease. It was also known as hubris to the ancient Greeks.

First, we need to make it illegal to say you are buying something when you are actually renting. Words mean something.

There is just no skepticism these days. We are constantly being lied to by tech leaders.

This is going to sound controversial, but sometimes it is good to have a paper copy stored in a secure vault.

> This is a terrible way to learn. What you are saying is not evidence based. The lecture method has delivered the greatest minds in western and eastern civilization for centuries.…

I asked Gemini to generate a picture of Peter Pan and Wendy (for a workbook I am putting together for youth summer reading) and it preceded to refuse due to copyright. Not everythi…

Good analysis, goes through the pros and cons of the adaptation. IMHO Nolan made some strong choices and the result is a great film, don’t miss it! What a time to be alive!

Large lectures (100+ students) should have little to no interactions between students and lecturers. It has been this way since the 11th century. You are not supposed to be learnin…

I am genuinely fascinated by this. I don’t like piling on especially with security vulnerabilities, but man how many red flags do you need to ignore? They won’t stop abusing us unt…

Funny enough I have had this conversation during the ACA “Obama Care” national (US) debate in the early 2000s. I have had one of my colleagues say if we give healthcare to everybod…

I think we are all villains here. Good healthcare coverage is just another status symbol to be attained. If the poor have it then it becomes less of a value. To some degree we are …

Exactly. Nothing is going to get better until consumers realize they have the power (at least for now).

Good! Did you really need more Stargate? Just watch the classic movie, and 200+ episodes of SG-1 and then 100+ episodes of Atlantis. Let these franchises rest.

This is just my subjective opinion, but it looks like the car has a Pixar aesthetic. I am not in to it, but I am glad Ferrari is willing to take some design risks. I am not sure wh…

Here is a fun one, my mobile phone company has an account lock along with a pin and OTP over SMS system. In order for me to activate a new device (like an phone upgrade) with eSIM …

Memory optimization is incredibly low hanging fruit. We have been so spoiled with the abundance of memory. There is just so much code out there that does not manage object life cyc…

The semiconductor fab process changes dynamically to manage yield. It is not a static environment, automating with robotics is fine when things are static like a automotive assembl…

Buddhism was never intended to be the way you organized societies. It was a monastic tradition where you practiced outside of society with the support of people who had to live in …

If the richest people in the world are chronically unhappy then that indicates that excess wealth does not bring happiness.

Motorola chip was called 68000.

Performative expression is critical. You need to actually do the thing you believe and if it is of political significance say it and do it visibly. Otherwise there is no impact.

LLMs are definitely a game changing technology, but there is just so much fake money in the market right now (circular deals, paper valuations, etc.) that I cannot take this seriou…

Aside from the AI writing the blog itself seems to have a false timeline. It says there are posts from April 2017, but the domain has only been up for a year. There is all of this …

The school does not take responsibility. Schools will tell you what you kid does at home is the parent's responsibility even if it is done on the school device. Parents do not have…