David Friedfeld

Is #GenZ Using #AI to Have Difficult Relationship Conversations ? The answer is NOPE!! EACH of us using AI will learn how to engage AI in our daily communications. AI is not a substitute for good communication skills . It is a good teacher for skills flip.it/tLC_v8

Prof Mizrahi states AI use may widen disparities by encouraging students with weaker skills to delegate thinking to chatbots rather than strengthen their own. My experience says weaker students are weaker bc they do not understand AI . We need AI adoption flip.it/RRHxGQ

A cyclist who understands physics well. [📹 Sergi Llongueas]

I’m at the Airport, flight is 4 hrs late. TSA’s been a disaster. Lots of cancellations. No one is happy I need an electric socket. I see one . When I approach a young teen asks,”would you like to sit here?” I ask him why was he so kind? He replies,” my dad taught me “

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This Was Iran Before 1979… | Before Islamic Revolution youtube.com/shorts/61RkswD… via @YouTube

#Trump promised a #manufacturing boom, but factory jobs continue to decline Our President went about this in the wrong way. To bring manufacturing jobs back we need 3 groups collaborating 1. Entrepreneurs 2. Favorable government policies 3. Academia flip.it/r_F-u1

Spring 1992. Steve Jobs stands in front of a room of MBA students at MIT, pitching a computer that almost nobody bought. The company was called NeXT. It sold about 50,000 machines in its entire existence. By every measure, it was a failure. The software inside it became the foundation of every Apple product ever made, and the platform on which the World Wide Web was invented. He's 37. He's been fired from Apple, the company he co-founded. He spends 70 minutes talking. He tells a room full of future consultants that consulting is a waste of talent. "Without owning something over an extended period of time, where one has to see one's recommendations through all action stages and accumulate scar tissue for the mistakes, one learns a fraction of what one can." He compares consulting to looking at a picture of a banana. "You might have a lot of pictures on your wall. You can say, I've worked in bananas, I've worked in peaches, I've worked in grapes. But you never really taste it." He says, "I think everybody lost" about being pushed out of Apple. "I think I lost. And I wanted to spend my life there. I think Apple lost. I think customers lost." Then: "Having said all that, so what? You go on. It's not as bad as a lot of things. Not as bad as losing your arm." He says hardware can never be a lasting competitive advantage. "Hardware churns every 18 months. You can make something one and a half or two times as good as your competitor, and it only lasts six months." But software, he says, is a different game. "You can make something five or even ten times as good as your competitors in software. And it's very, very hard to copy. I watched Microsoft take eight or nine years to catch up with the Mac." Then he makes a claim that almost nobody in the room would have believed: "Object-oriented technology is the biggest technical breakthrough I have seen since the early 80s with graphical user interfaces. And I think it's bigger actually." He was describing NeXTSTEP, the software his "failed" company had built. Object-oriented programming, in plain terms, means building software from reusable building blocks rather than writing everything from scratch. Jobs said developers could build apps on NeXTSTEP in about a third to a quarter of the time it took on other systems. Almost nobody cared. By industry standards, NeXT was a flop. But four years after this talk, Apple was nearly bankrupt. They bought NeXT for $427 million. Jobs came back. NeXTSTEP became Mac OS X in 2001. The same code became iOS when the iPhone launched in 2007. Every Mac, every iPhone, every iPad, every Apple Watch runs on what Jobs was selling while Sun was trying to put him out of business. One more thing. In 1990, at a physics lab in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee needed a computer to build a prototype for something he called the World Wide Web. He chose a NeXT. He built the first web browser and the first web server. The internet, as you know it, was born on a machine that couldn't find a market. When asked what he learned from being fired from Apple, Jobs pauses. Then he says, "I now take a longer-term view on people. When I see something not being done right, my first reaction isn't to go fix it. It's to say, we're building a team here, and we're going to do great stuff for the next decade, not just the next year." He was 37, running a company most people thought was dead, standing in a room full of MBA students. Apple is now worth $3.7 trillion. Every dollar of it runs on the thing he built when nobody was watching.

Construction spending on factories has slipped during Trump’s presidency, but the pace remains relatively high largely because of continuing work on Biden-era Chips and Science Act . We have more factories in Arizona, Texas & Idaho as a result flip.it/Xtksc1

Thanks @WellsJorda89710 This was the history that I grew up with and I appreciate your point of view 👍

🚨To every Black person tempted by the antisemitic wave sweeping right now:🚨 Back when white mobs lynched us in the streets... When we had no money, no power, and literally no movement... Who stood with us? Who risked everything? The Jews. They weren't just allies—they were family in the fight. - Jewish leaders co-founded the NAACP in 1909 and funded/led it for generations when no one else would. - When Dr. King and our people were arrested, beaten, jailed—Jewish lawyers defended us for free, and Jewish money paid bail bonds and court fees while others turned away. - In Freedom Summer '64, half the white volunteers risking death to register Black voters? Jewish. - Rabbi Heschel marched arm-in-arm with MLK in Selma—our struggles linked forever. Without their blood, treasure, solidarity, and courage—there is no Civil Rights Movement as we know it. No Voting Rights Act. No dream realized. That's why I stand with the Jews. They were our only true friends when this country hated us—when doors slammed shut and ropes hung high. They showed up, bled, and built with us. So to my people joining this demonic, divisive hate today: Pause. Remember. Honor the alliance that freed us. Our histories are bound. Our freedoms were won together. Betray that, and you betray the very martyrs who died for our rights. Black-Jewish unity forged the dream. Don't let hate destroy it. I stand with my Jewish brothers and sisters—always. ✊🏾🤝✡️🇮🇱 Repost if truth > trends. If gratitude > division. If history matters. #BlackJewishAlliance #RememberOurAllies #StandTogether #CivilRightsTruth #NoToAntisemitism

Hay personas que tienen unas habilidades increíbles.

Thanks @koshercockney Great statement about how the Oscars should be respected I’m okay with having a POV . There is a time and place to represent that view

While a Syrian refugee in Germany is encouraged to become a "German of Syrian descent," a Palestinian in a refugee camp is often encouraged—and legally forced in some instances —to remain a "refugee" until the conflict with Israel is resolved.

In countries like #Lebanon, #Palestinians are barred from dozens of professions (such as law &medicine), cannot own property, and have limited access to public healthcare and education. These "draconian" restrictions are often designed to ensure their presence remains temporary

June 1983. A 28-year-old Steve Jobs walks into a design conference in Aspen, Colorado. He asks the room who owns a personal computer. Nobody raises their hand. He says “Uh-oh.” Then he spends the next 55 minutes describing the next four decades of technology. Jobs told the audience Apple’s strategy was to “put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you, that you can learn how to use in 20 minutes… with a radio link in it so you don’t have to hook up to anything.” That’s an iPhone. In 1983. The Mac hadn’t even shipped yet. He described an MIT project that sent a camera truck down every street in Aspen, photographed every intersection, and built a virtual walkthrough on a computer screen. Google Street View launched 24 years later. He said office networking was about 5 years away and home networking 10 to 15 years out. The web went mainstream in the mid-90s, about 12 years later. Dead on. He described software being sent electronically over phone lines, with free previews and credit card payment. That’s the App Store, 25 years before it launched. He even compared it to the music industry and said software needed “the equivalent of a radio station” for free sampling. Apple built the iTunes Music Store 20 years later. The AI prediction is the one that hits different now. Near the end, Jobs talked about machines that could capture a person’s “underlying spirit” or “way of looking at the world,” so that after they died, you could ask the machine questions and maybe get answers. He said 50 to 100 years. ChatGPT arrived in about 40. The weird part is this speech was lost for nearly 30 years. The full hour-long recording only surfaced in 2012 when a blogger got a cassette tape from someone who attended the original conference. The Steve Jobs Archive didn’t release actual video footage until July 2024. His timelines were consistently too fast. He wanted the “computer in a book” within the 1980s. Apple’s first attempt was the Macintosh Portable in 1989, which weighed 16 pounds and cost $6,500. The iPad arrived in 2010, 27 years late. He guessed voice recognition was about a decade away. Siri launched in 2011, nearly 30 years later. The vision was right every time. The clock was wrong every time. Apple was doing about $1 billion a year in revenue when Jobs gave this talk, with under 5,000 employees. Today it’s worth $3.7 trillion.

Javier Bardem wears Palestine ‘resistance’ and ‘No War’ pins at The Oscars to condemn U.S. and Israeli “horrific actions” against the Iranian regime. Meanwhile, the actor has stayed silent on the Iranian regime massacring 36,500+ civilians.

From 1938 to 1939, Swiss border commander Paul Grüninger falsified 3,600 Jewish refugees' passports to help them enter neutral Switzerland. While he saved thousands from the Holocaust, Switzerland ended his career, labeled him a criminal, and stripped his pension. He died in poverty in 1972.

@tomorrowsashes Senator. There are tankers that come and go north through the Suez Canal. I suspect you’re worried about the Houthi’s in Yemen.

quick question, what's at the southern end of the red sea?

Saudi Arabia built that game-changing East-West pipeline back in the early 1980s! Construction kicked off in 1981, and it was commissioned in 1982 right in the middle of the Iran-Iraq War. The tanker war raging in the Gulf had everyone worried about the Strait of Hormuz getting shut down. Saudi leaders saw the risk coming - Iran threatening to close the strait and choke off exports. So they built the Petroline (East-West Crude Oil Pipeline) as a smart bypass straight from Abqaiq in the east to Yanbu on the Red Sea. It runs about 1,200 km across the desert, originally designed to move millions of barrels safely away from Gulf threats. Capacity got boosted over the years, hitting up to 5 million bpd by 1992 and even higher with later expansions. The timing was spot-on foresight - built amid fears of Hormuz disruptions, and now it's proving its worth big time as the regime tries old tricks again. This pipeline has been a strategic lifeline for decades, letting Saudi oil flow no matter what happens in the strait. Thoughts? ⬇️