Posts by Paul Gilzow
If i can give junior developers just one piece of advice: never, EVER assume that what makes sense to you will make sense to anyone else. Always, ALWAYS challenge your assumptions. Ask your fellow devs to check your assumptions. Ask someone in a different role. Ask your MOM.
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It's Tuesday. Bovino may be gone but nothing has changed. ICE is still in Minnesota, still not following the law or court orders. Stephen Miller and the agents who murdered Good and Pretti are still on the job. Trump is giving an econ speech in Iowa.
The work continues.
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Took him long enough!
Barriers to AI adoption isn’t just about technological trust—addressing the economics of attention will be key to achieving human-AI collaboration.
Read the full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We keep saying: "AI will handle the boring stuff, and humans will supervise." But the problem is--as AI reliability improves, it becomes really hard to motivate a human to conscientiously monitor it.
In a new WP with Gerard Cachon, we describe the "human-AI contracting paradox."
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are required to do. sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...
Grocery stores, especially you, Kroger/Gerbes: why do you put the baskets on the outside of your security check point coming in? How am i supposed to get a basket once I'm inside of i decide i need one? Trying to go back out sets off the alarms. UX fail
Does anyone know how to instruct Spotify to not suggest Christmas/Holiday songs until after Dec 1?
Does anyone use mintlify to manage their technical documentation? if so, message me.
so when he says "freedom" what he means is freedom for the capitalistic system (aka the rich). Not freedom for you, or for me, but for the rich.
/me looks at energy bills
uh.... in what universe?
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.
@wired.com #ICE
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
a haunted house but it’s just an all hands meeting where people start disappearing
So we’re all clear: The guy who decried foreign involvement by America in the 2010s and then got the never-Kamala people to insist he’d keep us out of foreign wars wants to start something with Venezuela.
I really wish advertisers would provide a way to give feedback on ads. No matter how many pumpkin spice latte ads you show me, i am never, EVER going to buy one. It's a waste of my time and your money
In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/
ICE would be wise to remember what it says in the Bible.
Matthew 25:40 - "Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me."
NEW — Videos obtained by The TRiiBE show federal agents detaining a Laugh Factory worker on Chicago’s North Side this morning.
He and another person were detained around 9:20 a.m., according to rapid response teams.
Story TK shortly on thetriibe.com.
The meme of Woody Harrelson crying into a handful of money with the caption, “PHP developers when someone says ‘PHP is dead’”