Jason Short

My youngest graduates from @GonzagaU this year. Holy cow. #Classof2022

Haven’t been on here in a while. See it continues to spiral into madness. “Engagement” by forced exposure to really bad people who are still being given a platform to spread hate and false information. Twitter is lost.

Good run down here of Elon's immediate agreement to block accounts President Erdogan wants blocked just before the election in which he appears to be trailing. turkishminute.com/2023/05/13/twi…

As I handed my Dad his 50th birthday card, he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said: “Y’know, one would have been enough.”

April is #MonthoftheMilitaryChild, a time to salute the strength & courage of our nation’s surviving #militarychildren. TAPS provides programs & resources for all kids grieving the loss of a military or veteran loved one. Show your support at taps.org/donate. #purpleup

OpenAssistant released their Conversational dataset (OASST1) under Apache 2.0. 🤯😍 The dataset includes: 💭 161,443 messages 🌳 66,497 conversation trees 🇺🇸 35 different languages and was created by 13,500 volunteers. 🤗 👉 huggingface.co/datasets/OpenA… huggingface.co/datasets/OpenA…

Fuzzy hashing logs to find malicious activity from Steve Versteeg buff.ly/3KzqhCJ #Azure

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said: "[AI] is going to eliminate a lot of current jobs, that's true. We can make much better ones."

a favorite xkcd I haven’t seen in a while

Just had a meeting with someone who has been at Microsoft over 30 years and just got paid off. That’s a long time.

@timheuer Its about "engagement" now. Meaning send hateful stuff that goes against everything you normally follow to get you to response. I refuse. Twitter sucks now.

Twitter "following" is broken. I'm now basically seeing anything that a follower has RT'd as well -- I don't recall that being the case prior.

@mehran__jalali You see what they want you to see. Screenshot from the docs:

Go time is here! Starting my charity ride tomorrow! classy.org/fundraiser/438…

10 days off. Here we go. Doing a charity ride of 4500 miles. Can’t wait.

Want to have a little fun? This video from @MSDev discusses building a 3D Printed Clippy Powered by #ChatGPT from OpenAI and Azure Cognitive Services. Drop in on the discussion and explore. msft.it/6016506fM

Heads up on northbound I-5 in Fife. Rollover semi-truck. Expect long delays through the area.

@marypcbuk Mostly because they are very young and influenced by social media. They believe the hype. It’s dumb. Web3 is the pump and dump for stock of the 80s.

There are a handful of people at Microsoft who think web3 is going to be A Thing and a big workload for Azure and I do not get how they don't see there isn't any there there

Oh FFS Microsoft how is this responsible or in line with sustainability commitments? So, how is Firefox these days?

@terrajobst @timheuer You need an adventure or dual sport for that. Both are fun.

The views were terrible in southern AZ this weekend.

Trying to make my LinkedIn profile more interesting if a recruiter is using a large language model like GPT-4 to send me a message. Looks like it works on the public version of my profile!

Jupiter acts as a "shepherd" to the asteroid belt, maintaining its stability by preventing the asteroids from being pulled towards the sun or propelled towards another planet. Credit: Petr Scheirich

I genuinely mean this. Download the Bing iOS app right now. This is the most remarkable tech product I’ve seen in years. You can just talk to it. Ask it questions. Ask it to explain concepts you don’t understand. Google search instantly feels outdated and useless.