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It's shocking how once again the number one contributing factor to success is being born to parents who support you for your whole life.

Interesting read. I think I have an answer for why no one seems to remember them. They aren't white men.

This is really sad. What a dynamic man to lose so early. Working with him at GigaOM as an analyst was educational and fun.

It's an announcement that someday something may be accomplished.

This too shall be enshittified

I loved my n95.

Old problems are new again.

Maybe the United States can learn something from this

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Thank you for sharing this. It is sad that Google has by now destroyed every reason I wanted to run Android. Bye-bye.

Haven't we known this for years? There's been thorough documentation of the violation of privacy in period tracking apps as far back as 2021. It's even been written about when it comes to Meta. Meta ‘eavesdropping’ on Flo exposes how period apps are a data… | TBIJ https://share.google/qYTopS5goSKE0Dyna

Reminds me of when I kept my apartment warm with Breaking Point and Ixia load generators testing hardware.

It's The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | The Poetry Foundation https://share.google/4qBM0OVba40ljWlwo

TIL: there are still people out there who find value in x even though when I log in my feed is just hatred and false info.

I feel like maybe you're headed towards this https://youtu.be/K9a2_3XObNI?si=vkP_utLfo3M0LFGO

It's an old story. Is anyone really shocked that they rode the community up and then stripped all value ahead of the open source product, raised the price of the "Enterprise" product, and then destroyed the open source product?

The strangest thing I remember about my ti-99 was that I used to run software off of cassette tape. It was a good way to get games.

I used to work in a lab and we set up all 256 machines with the screensaver for when they weren't running tasks. It was fun to walk though there and think we were "helping".

You are hereby commanded to only make positive, affirming, statements about AI. We didn't need any negativity around here. It hurts my wallet.

Great stuff! Definitely helpful for working with texts and LLMs.

Get used to it. Culture your independence. Learn how to sit alone in a room by yourself and enjoy your thoughts. Get off the doom scrolling life path and love yourself.

Is it possible to warp politics more?

There's no source code, they copied files back and forth in a completely scientific and repeatable way.

Isn't everything a front for consolidation of resources and power?

It's a good thing we don't have an obese or diabetic president or this would really look like weaponized hypocrisy.

I just assumed we all wanted to leave the "United" States.

Is this a joke? It's like the kind of article about kubernetes that we would have seen 10 years ago. Especially some of the ridiculous claims like you can run every service on your local k8s that you could run in the cloud. No, building managed service equivalents to run locally is not trivial.

Public health officials have the right to go to court and petition for compliance in order to protect the general public.

I think it would be more accurate based on their methodology to say a quarter of American employees who are entitled to a vacation day have not taken a vacation day. This study omits people, like myself as a consultant, that don't get the vacation days awarded. I imagine the true number of Americans working without a vacation day in the past year is much higher.

We're still going to have rolling blackouts because PGE turns the power off.