Sam Mikes

@ankahajkova Selfishly, to put on my wishlist; broadly, to ask for the gift of your experience. Topic? Anything…

@ankahajkova wondering if you have any book recommendations to share? General topics as well as your areas of expertise. :-)

Time to re-read “On Tyranny” by @TimothyDSnyder , lesson 1 youtube.com/watch?v=9tocss…

@StrictScrutiny_ Findings of vibes or findings of fact?

We break down last week's arguments, focusing on the big voting rights case that might allow legislatures to get away with racial gerrymandering by calling it partisan gerrymandering. + the Justices & an advocate made some jokes about ... buying boats crooked.com/podcast/big-br…

@GergelyOrosz Is there prior art from the telephone, electricity, and water delivery systems? Were they open about their failures/challenges ? The context is different— utilities came to maturity over about a hundred years, generally as monopolies. But still maybe lessons to learn?

It makes zero business sense to publish public postmortems for established businesses in a competitive market. Also little to no sense for those in a (near) monopolistic position. And they won't, unless it's regulated. Until then, everyone keeps failures quiet, to themselves.

It is worth asking if and when regulators will mandate public services to share a public postmortem after a tech outage happens. A bit like how many cloud providers already voluntarily do this. Doing so would create more transparency, learning, and - hopefully? - accountability.

AND* it can be negated as I didn’t buy an orange AND a pear. = I bought some fruit, but not both an orange and a pear * maybe or?

I want to ask— is the issue in Pulsifer about whether “and not” is the same as “not and”? I bought an orange and a pear Can be negated as I didn’t buy an orange or a pear. =I bought neither an orange nor a pear = I didn’t buy an orange and I didn’t buy a pear

Absolutely brilliant episode as usual… I’m sure this is a terrible programmerly simplification but, I want to ask— is the issue in Pulsifer about whether “and not” is the same as “not and”?

In case anybody needed the reminder, Canada and Britain were not allied with the Soviet Union during the WHOLE of the Second World War. Between September 1939 and June 1941, Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich were allies.

@screamlet @meakoopa Accurate summary, +1

Asimov had a story - Galley Slave - about an academic who made a robot to correct the proofs (galleys) of academic writing. Is there an interesting echo here with GPT models? @parismarx @emilymbender More broadly, has anyone looked at early Sci-Fi in light of current AI hype?

Why root-cause when you can nuke and repave? Excellent explanation here. Nuke-and-pave works for one-off issues. But when the one-off issue turns into an epidemic, an attractor consuming the fleet, then the only way out is through. And the root will lead you through.

@real_sag_astar Root cause understanding for remediation at scale in future instances it craps itself. I was NOT expecting it to be this hard and eventually just said fuck it and that plan worked...

@Nayfield @espiers Good as a long shot

@SwiftOnSecurity Tell me you’re at LAX without….

My plane has taxied a longer distance than some European countries

@StrictScrutiny_ @katemasur @ProfMMurray @kateashaw1 @LeahLitman If Sam has the Katniss energy, does that make Kavanaugh the little sister who represents childhood innocence in book 3?

@StrictScrutiny_ @katemasur @ProfMMurray @kateashaw1 @LeahLitman Begins with an amazing review of Alito-sourced WSJ op-ed … the background info on Rifkin is fascinating; Taranto wrote the extremely salty “best of the web today” column at WSJ for years, is there additional tea there?

IT’S OUT: our episode with the great, award winning historian @katemasur about the fight for equality before the Civil War and the Supreme Court’s takes on history! (With some comments first on the Alito x WSJ collab) @ProfMMurray @kateashaw1 @LeahLitman crooked.com/podcast/americ…

If there were only two prime numbers, the quintic would be solvable.

@StrictScrutiny_ @ProfMMurray @kateashaw1 @LeahLitman @MelodyRowell @AshleyMizuo Did someone say the “Ginnification” of the court? Great energy, loving the references 🔥

@ProfMMurray @kateashaw1 @LeahLitman @MelodyRowell @AshleyMizuo

your ears didn't deceive you! as a special bonus for this week, we shared the Strict Scrutiny x #WITHPod crossover (with @chrislhayes) that is a look back at the most recent #SCOTUS term! crooked.com/podcast/bonus-…

Two new Nature papers out both assessing effectiveness of NHS Test & Trace app. Both estimate that depsite only 25% of people using it and imperfect adherence, it still prevented 100,000s cases & saved 1000s lives. Imagine if we could have got test & trace working better! 1/2