It's wild that they are framing TikTok as a spy app ignoring that Facebook, Twitter and Snap all do the same shit.

Do you know what might work?

PASS PRIVACY LAWS.

If you think the US needs to ban TikTok because the Chinese government can run influence ops on it, just wait until you find out how easy it is to influence ops on platforms YOU DON'T EVEN OWN--even wholesome American platforms like our beloved Facebook.

I love the subtle pushback against racism and stereotyping that happens in Mark Rober videos. I wish more SF tech people were a little more like him. ♥️👍🏿

Plus, this Zipline drone delivery is pretty cool. I'm still sad that over the past 10 years, we put so much more time + effort + resources into trying to put monkey jpegs into people's 401ks, than into technology like this.

https://youtu.be/DOWDNBu9DkU

#VisitRwanda #BlackMastodon

In an AI-dominated world, it'll be important to prove - SON OF A BITCH!!! - our humanity with - CHRIST ON A CRACKER - overtly unpredictable, harder to model behavior.

Picard engineering tip: Maintenance of existing systems is just as important as building new capabilities.

In a world where a bit of math can pass as human on the internet, we are obliged to be more unpredictable, more chaotic.

Be the language model failure mode you want to see in the taco.

Just ran across the funniest shit, someone saying “Apple is so behind on AI”.

Meanwhile I’m using Apple’s AI stuff every time I make a photo with my phone, every time I search for images of stuff on my phone, when copying a photo without background, when copy & pasting text from an image, etc. etc.

I guess it’s true that Apple is behind on bullshit generators and lying search engines.

Burning Down the House https://micromobility.io/news/burning-down-the-house

Turns out, the disabled guy Elon Musk just shit all over was Iceland's 2022 Person of the Year, who took his earnings from the sale of his company to Twitter to build wheelchair ramps around his country. https://www.icelandreview.com/news/haraldur-thorleifsson-sweeps-person-of-the-year-awards/

I actually predicted this last week!

Now that outages have massively increased, Elon Musk pronounces Twitter's old code is a mess that can't be saved -- and there will be a re-write:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632810081497513993?cxt=HHwWkoCw1ceH9KgtAAAA

This is Stage 3 of Twitter's demise.

Now pay attention to the next stages.

It will be awhile before Twitter 3.0 will arrive. When it arrives, it won't be "real" Twitter.

See: https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109949723816737406

See screenshots.

How much hubris does one have to posses to tell the head of the Catholic Church what constitutes Christianity?

I’m not the most catholic person, but if I remember it correctly, that is the worse of the deadly sins to commit. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Saw a bag of these today and I guarantee at least one extremely old white man has died when his heart gave out from rage at these

✎ The design system mindset: https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/the-design-system-mindset/

In many ways, design systems work requires a wholly different mindset than other product design/development work.

I was very skeptical of ceramic coating for cars but after almost 5 months, I’m sold.

As the OCD person in the family a black car was never an option but it’s so much easier to keep it clean now.

Plus, makes for some awesome photos…

Many US companies are planning to shift production [to Vietnam], regardless of cost, Yoshinaga said. Others like Jabil Inc. are considering India. But overall, the flow is consistently going to be outward from China, he said.

“I don’t think it’s going to return. It’s one-way.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-suppliers-racing-exit-china-090000330.html

Please, please, stop using "foo" and "bar” in code documentation. Give us real examples that mean something. Not "if (foo > bar)," but “if (height > limit)." Not “foo++” but “counter++”. Give us a logical hook to hang our hat on, not nonsense words.

If you’ve used Twitterrific and/or Tweetbot and have a subscription — then this is your chance to be awesome and support awesome indie developers.

Here’s what to do: get the latest versions from the App Store, launch the app, and then tap the “I Don’t Need a Refund” button.

What is only a few dollars to you ends up, in aggregate, meaning a ton to these folks who work so hard and bring so much to our computing lives.

Once again, @JuliusGoat has written something worth reading.

"It’s almost gotten to be boring, the degree to which people believe that what they refer to as 'free speech' should not only allow them to say whatever they want (which it does), but should also prevent other people from understanding them to be the sort of person who says those things."

"People like Scott Adams claim they're being silenced. But what they actually seem to object to is being understood."

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

“My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed!” Nah bro, your reputation has been synced with who you are. If that’s negatively affecting you, perhaps some self-reflection is in order, painful as that might be. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/02/25/scott-adams-dilbert-canceled/

Twitter isn’t going to die, it’ll be around for a long time in some sad MySpace fashion, but Mastodon has 99% replaced Twitter for me.

My people are here, we’re engaged and sending interesting bits and stupid memes, and it just works.