"There’s an old adage in law – “a good lawyer knows the law, but a great lawyer knows the judge”. It’s a simple, offensive, reminder that law exists in a political economy – and that any effort to participate... will be subject to the affordances and asymmetries of privilege."

🏗️👷‍♀️ Good progress on the Google Austin building (and it'll certainly have a lovely view)! austin.culturemap.com/news/real-esta… I wonder how soon employees are going to start hanging out in physical spaces again–especially since Texas is opening up the vaccine to everyone starting 3/29? 🤔

I love this "“If we could become a friend of this land...and a friend to nature, all of this could be healed, and we could start the remediation process. And that was really a metaphor for what was going on with me internally. That kind of deep healing from the soul up.”

The Suez Canal, a generalization of: "The market is a large movie theater with a small door" (Dynamic Hedging). #Nonlinarities #Fragility

Congratulations Abe Gong on the raise! So wonderful to hear the news through the The Data Guild crew.

The big question of the 20th Century: how does a society best organize its bureaucracies? We fought two world wars and a cold war to figure that one out. 21st Century: how does a society best organize its networks?

Additional performers have been added to the 2021 lineup! For more info, visit FleetWeekSF.org Get your tickets now for waterfront seating in the heart of the action on Marina Green. Oct. 8, 9 & 10 The Air Show is Presented by United Airlines

Catchy. I prefer the Money Pit Missile. It better reflects the $200 billion price tag and outdated mission.

🚨Mind Blown🚨 In some "you can't make this stuff up" news, I've written a short piece that I hope gets some attention Fake News about our Fake News Study Spread Faster than its Truth… Just as We Predicted. cc: Kai Kupferschmidt Daniel Engber Johan Ugander Jonas L. Juul link.medium.com/0apVPPck0ob

Everyone dunking on a16z but I thought WeCrashed was really good and it seems reasonable that it would cost $350M to produce the sequel

The Artemis 1 mission is scheduled to blast off in a few weeks. When it does, NASA will return to the moon for the first time in half a century. It’s a major step in a plan to bring humans back to the moon for the first time since the end of the Apollo program.

Global starvation. Let that sink in. In a time when climate impacts are already contributing to food insecurity, and nuclear tensions are high. This is sobering reading from IPPNW @ippnw.bsky.social, but vital if we are to seriously consider the impacts of even a so called 'limited' nuclear war.

This is our norm, but it's not normal.

Anyone out there skilled in geospatial analysis in the PyData ecosystem? I have some questions about how to perform large-scale spatial intersections in a timely fashion to support interactive analysis. Trying to better understand the state of the art.

Big day. One of the biggest of my career. Some thoughts in the thread below... spacenews.com/maxar-signs-ag…

You don't do well by trying to be right; it is impossible for humans. You do well by figuring out when you're wrong faster than others do.

Cheatgrass is the invasive grassy weed that's been the kindling for many of our deadliest recent wildfires. Ranchers and conservationists have built an uneasy wartime alliance to eradicate it — what're the odds of winning? saraventiera takes a look: ambrook.com/research/envir…

The first nuclear weapon, built by #Oppenheimer, was detonated in New Mexico. I am standing in solidarity with the Downwinders of New Mexico on the anniversary of the Trinity test and in memory of the lives lost to radiation exposure. #RememberingTrinity #WeAreAllDownwinders

With the OpenAI clownshow, there's been renewed media attention on the xrisk/"AI safety" nonsense. Personally, I've had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions (+ some contacts from old hands who know how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes). 🧵1/

A reporter asked me today whether I consider ChatGPT a revolution. I said yes, but in: 1) Marketing: presenting generative AI as "general-purpose". 2) Exploitation of human labor: by harnessing underpaid human workers to improve AI. The revolution was never technological.