To recap: OpenAI dumps the women from its board & brings on the guy fired from Harvard for sexist remark, appointed under interim CEO who said "40-60% of women seem to have rape/non-consent fantasies," all while bringing back the CEO whose sister accused him of sexual assault.

YIMBY valorization of Minneapolis zoning reforms too often misses the biggest reason for its success — and why it doesn't translate to other Tier Two cities with similar reforms. Its strong mobility system unlocked undevelopable sites via ultra-efficient building types. 🧵

The most consistent bright spot in the dark swirl of US politics is the competence of the Biden Administration's progressive enforcers: people like @chopracfpb, #JonathanKanter and @linakhanFTC, who keep demonstrating just how far a good administrator can go. 1/

Knowing, organizing, and presenting information has always been a key use of technology. DuPont was considered one of the best run companies on the planet because they figured out the purpose of corporate IT faster than anyone else.

Damning evidence against facebook

Why not to shop at home depot: huffpost.com/entry/bernie-m…

It's not merely that the #Sacklers - a multigenerational drug-pusher dynasty - made billions while murdering hundreds of thousands of Americans by lying about the safety of #Oxycontin, flagship product of their #PurduePharma drug company. *It's that they got away with it*. 1/

Logged in to delete some tweets and why are so many people still here?

me & my collaborators have done the most extensive research of the LAION datasets (3 academic papers & the first to investigate dataset in 2021 showing misogyny, pornography, & malignant stereotypes) yet, the Stanford study has not cited us once. this is academic misconduct

Substack joins extwitter in welcoming nazis to the marketplace of idiotic ideas theverge.com/2023/12/21/240…

I'd like to see the 2012 Obama era #HR4310, which weakened the #SmithMundtAct and allowed panic and confusion inducing pernicious propaganda to be inserted into domestic discourse, to be re examined in 2024. It has been a disaster imo.

Congratulations Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK for winning Strong Language’s top honors for 2023 stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/the…

For those of you in the data/ML/AI space, headed to Munich next week for TDWI data conference. Sunday is Kloster Andechs biergarten day if the trains are running. Let me know (via linkedin or bluesky) if you are in town and want to join the group for a beer and a conversation

$6 Trillion. Hard to wrap your head around the size of that number. A million seconds ago was 11 days ago. A billion seconds ago was 1993. A trillion? 29,600 B.C. Tax. The. Rich.

I'm doing a talk on real-time data analytics/integration Tuesday Sept 12 at 9:15am Pacific as part of a TDWI online summit. Event starts at 8:30 and talks go until 11. tdwi.org/Events/Virtual…

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What are you still doing here? GTFO twitter already! Anywhere. Masto, or bsky, or threads, discord, reddit, linkedin, frickin nextdoor.

Sen. Mitch McConnell after voting against Gabbard says “the nation should not have to worry that the intelligence assessments the President recieves are tainted” by a DNI “with a history of alarming lapses in judgment.”