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Mason Morrow
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Design, Usability, and Software 🏳️🌈
Katılım Mayıs 2013
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Nobody is more stressed than a 25-32 yrs old thinking they are running out of time.
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Benjamin Franklin wearing a coonskin cap while being received by the French court. "Proper" attire at the time would have been a powdered wig, but Franklin enjoyed playing up his "rustic" American identity. On these trips, he asked for military support for newly independent US.
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can't actually think of a problem that wouldn't largely self-correct if we could just reduce the cost of housing by like 75%
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Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus.
Data: Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet.
Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.
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If you are a working historian thinking of your subjects at all in terms of “IQ” then you are not remotely competent
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without recognizing that major events in human history are shaped by high IQ, high-agency people who are bad and/or flawed and/or dangerous.
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Did you know that Medicare does NOT pay for long-term care. NOPE... 2/3s of long-term care for your grandparents and parents is paid by MEDICAID.
So if you want to cut Medicaid, get ready to have your parents move into your house when they need long-term care, because YOU will be providing it.
aarp.org/caregiving/hea…
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Instead of illegally trying to shut down huge pieces of our government that serve working people, Elon Musk could cut $2 trillion of actual waste by targeting handouts to the rich and powerful.
Here’s how: (🧵)
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A really eye opening moment for young me was hearing a labor organizer ask, “If capital can cross borders, why can’t labor?” It was such a simple encapsulation of the ethical & moral problematics of eschewing migrants, while creating the economic crises that led to migration.
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So much AI hype is due to techies who don't know about anything else suddenly playing literati, social scientists, philosophers, while ignoring centuries of ideas. Certain areas of tech seem to promote a view of tech people as universal intellectuals & they themselves buy it
Mason@webdevMason
Yeah so I think we're going to have to grapple with some difficult questions about the nature of creativity now
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Generative AI is essentially copy paste but with large datasets analyzed probabilistically. Maybe that's useful but it's not intelligence and doesn't justify the absurd amounts of investment it's attracted
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Hey Microsoft please stop trying to invent God and just make Outlook search work.
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Seems important that in Fahrenheit 451, books were still “available” in single-paragraph summaries—“read Hamlet in five minutes!”—but the books themselves had been banned for being too difficult. Tech boosters see a warning and think it’s an instruction manual.
alz@alz_zyd_
Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt I got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred actually teach much?
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This is coined, "Theme Park Urbanism", where vacation destinations, like Disney World, provide the average American with a walkable environment they can only associate with vacation, and never with their own neighborhood.
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard
Americans excel at walkable, mixed-use development when they’re designing ski resorts.
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Remember this? Disney understood 70 years ago what driving (& bad urban and suburban design creating car dependancy) can do to us. “Motor Mania” from 1950. Are you a Mr. Walker or a Mr. Wheeler? #CarDependency #RoadRage HT @LiorSteinberg
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