Aleksey Yeschenko (@[email protected])

AI is the scariest beast we've ever created, says sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling newsweek.com/2023/07/21/ai-…

fire coffee dog memes will continue until people start justifying their metaphors

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Today I asked the AI to interpret the phrase "Soviet Afrofuturism" and this is what it spat out

“We’re looking for people who want to solve hard problems,” say half the job listings, oblivious to the fact that their hard problems are mostly organizational and not at all interesting or unique.

Their platform actively harms the arts. Facebook sucks. Metaverse sucks, and even if it didn't, nobody sane is going to move their art there, because we know facebook would fuck us there too. Leave, and do something that makes the world better.

Okay this debate is officially settled

I think about this Reddit comment a lot. I think this may be the core of human-centred design: observing the reality of how humans behave, and honestly accepting that it's not always going to align with your ideals for how they *should* behave

@jjirsa @_belliottsmith Right. This isn’t new, but it is well forgotten. This time I think we’ll find the cycles though.

A thousand microservices is a milliservice

One of my most controversial software opinions is that your sleep quality and stress level matter far, far more than the languages you use or the practices you follow. Nothing else comes close: not type systems, not TDD, not formal methods, not ANYTHING. Allow me to explain why.

Don't be scared of escalation, and don't submit to the politics of appeasement. You see that the enemy is weak, and has literally no changes against the united front. It's only if we get scared and polarised we lose our power. Push back on their imperialism and propaganda.

Accord: Fast General Purpose ACID Transactions at Scale for Cassandra li-boxuan.medium.com/distributed-tr… globally available consensus in one round trip with a timestamp protocol

"Here's the number I used to win the lottery" –Entrepreneurs giving advice

@dmofengineering This is one of my favorite tech debt representations.

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Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.

🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood. Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…