I wrote about the scourge of people with titles like "evangelist" spouting senseless jargony buzzwords that produce a kind of negative information where you somehow know less about a subject after listening to them newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/6…

These glasses can't come to market soon enough:

Seems like a good day to remember that the whole "bootstrap" thing is a lie.

In a complete reversal, I am coming back from 48 hours away from Twitter because I got tired of everyone talking about Twitter... to talk about Twitter. Specifically, what specific features I'd pay a monthly subscription for.

With all the talk about migrating to mastodon, I'm starting to picture myself as a tribal elder who realizes he has already made his last migration as he watches everyone pack up their furs and babies and earthenware pots and start traveling south ahead of the advancing glacier.

Fun fact: If you spent $1,000 shorting the 2022 Super Bowl advertisers, you'd be a billionaire today: ▫️ FTX ▫️ Carvana ▫️ DraftKings ▫️ Uber Eats ▫️ Meta Oculus ▫️ Rocket Mortgage ▫️ Coinbase ▫️ Vroom ▫️ Salesforce ▫️ GM

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

I mentor a young lad with poor literacy skills who is starting a landscaping business. He struggles to communicate with clients in a professional manner. I created a GPT3-powered Gmail account to which he sends a message. It responds with the text to send to the client.

"Hey boss, we just finished the prototype of that new nose-cancelling headset you asked for." "Did you say..." pcmag.com/news/dyson-zon…

We did it!! Now nobody move, give birth, or die.

Just popping back in to say: it's time to go. You didn't join Gab, Gab joined you. But now you're on Gab and you shouldn't be. x.com/elonmusk/statu…

This isn't that hard, people. Just add "people" and it works. Clarifying, too. Is "the French" referring to French people, or the French government, or something else? x.com/APStylebook/st…

It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 14 years, since 19 Jan 2009 (via Twi Age 🥳).

NEW FROM US: Block—How Inflated User Metrics and "Frictionless" Fraud Facilitation Enabled Insiders To Cash Out Over $1 Billion hindenburgresearch.com/block $SQ (1/n)

#notallharlans

I described some of the most beautiful and famous mathematical theorems to Midjourney. Here is how it imagined them: 1. "The set of real numbers is uncountably infinite."

"p Values Are Useful for A/B Tests, Sometimes" A nuanced & useful article by Harlan Harris Read here: 🔗 harlan.harris.name/2023/05/p-valu… #datascience #statistics

New blog post: A Critique of The Markup's Investigation into Predictive Models of Student Success buff.ly/3N1RMGt #edtech #DataScience Good investigation, but adding additional nuance on motivation, use of race/ethnicity information, and communication of risk scores.