Playing our part techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/fac…

Remembering clusterfug stories told in huggyrao’s class

“History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” - Reagan

Can’t say “be labelled ‘extremist’ by a borderline rogue state” was on my bucket list…

And I quote: “I want you to resist the urge to do this (ship the org chart).”

🙌🏻🇬🇧 gov.uk/government/new…

I’ve officially transitioned from Meta CTO->Senior Fellow—a part-time role focused on supporting strategic tech initiatives. I’ll be particularly focused on AI, which is the engine of so much of what we’re building. Congrats to Boz for stepping into the CTO role!

Musk astounds me. Man runs 3 ambitious companies, actually delivers the stuff he says he will, dates actresses and musicians, and still has time to do things like fuck around with Twitter. Just thinking about all this makes me tired.

“Microsoft sent a letter to Yahoo’s board on Thursday night to offer [$44.6 billion] in cash and stock. The price is a 62 percent premium over Yahoo’s Thursday close, but only about a quarter of what the Internet company was worth at the height of the dotcom bubble in 2000” #TBT

Apple Pay is the “easiest” way to make money with bots which steal targets' multi-factor authentication tokens. vice.com/en/article/n7n…

“You know who the best managers are? They're the great individual contributors, who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them.” ― Steve Jobs

Remembering my childhood favourite

“Apple, Google and Microsoft today announced plans to expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard ..will allow websites and apps to offer consistent, secure, and easy passwordless sign-ins to consumers across devices and platforms” fidoalliance.org/apple-google-a…

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Should I run Twitter ?

My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user" Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby

People still don't understand $OPEN. The company has captured the attention of a decentralized swarm of intelligent people on the internet. They are able to outsource their idea generation, leverage the crowd for free marketing, and the public accountability is going to force a

How Fat Tony got rich betting against charlatans like Justin Wolfers (Green Lumber Fallacy chapter in #Antifragile)