Constantly surprised by how SV AI bros can hold both the belief that everything in the universe is knowable, that all "intelligence" can be boiled down to 1s and 0s; and a mysticism about AGI that borders on religious fervor—without experiencing any kind of cognitive dissonance
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Finding out Alex Pretti's parents found out via an AP reporter broke me
What's frustrating me is the complete bifurcation of the narratives. Techno-optimism on one side that is divorced from the reality of most people's lives, and complete skepticism and frustration on the other that disregards how genuinely useful these tools can be. Tribal sentiment all around
Colbert calling the Board of Peace a "Kirkland UN" got me
Sociotechnical systems theory would call us a failure of joint optimization: tech gets deified and optimized while human concerns are neglected
He's going to ask this Board of Peace to give him some kind of award, of course
TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected!
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Settling comfortably into my role as Chicago's second favorite Caleb
I am shook
Was today the first day back? Or is tomorrow the *real* first day back ... ?
AI notetakers are becoming the electric scooters of Zoom meetings
Do I put stuff like this out into the BlueSky ether hoping to re-create 2010 Twitter ... ? Probably
Good: Switching to Notion Mail from Gmail in my browser means I'm not just constantly getting distracted by emails
Bad: Now I just don't respond to emails ... oops
Research is clear about why every AI pilot (MIT: 95%!) is stalling right now: bad data, no workflow clarity, no clear business cases—and especially, lack of trust.
Stop letting the technologists lead every conversation. These aren't tech problems—they're people and business model problems.
Three years into the AI ReVoLuTiOn, and every event I go to is still talking about what AI is supposed to do in the future, without solving for right now.
It's still hype, without much practical application. It's wild tbh
Chicago: ICE was just spotted taking people on Elston just north of Montrose. Keep alert
Is it just me, or has TV writing gotten really bad lately? The last three shows we've tried, the writing was so, so bad I could barely watch
It happened: November 15, 8:30am.
First instance of "All I Want for Christmas is You"
How does every major media outlet not have a running log of how long the government has been shut down prominently on their sites?
almost wonder if he's gonna lose interest in the east wing and just like leave it half built and like exposed
First AWS, now the internet on my block has been down all morning. This week has been one big reminder of how fragile our infrastructure is
"Why is this font so small?" ... is something I'm now saying to myself a disturbing amount of times.
Next level for the ambitious: create an automation in Shortcuts to open Hand Mirror automatically when you join a video call
Zoom hack that's saved my sanity (and minimized Zoom dysmorphia):
1) "Hide self" by default so you're not always looking at your own face
2) Download the Hand Mirror app (or equivalent for Windows) to quickly check your camera settings instead
of any person in the trump cinematic universe, the person whose influence i desperately want to learn more about is Baron‘s
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.
She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.
This is not about immigration enforcement.
It's about terrorizing Americans.
It's wild to me that Gmail doesn't have an option to filter any unknown senders from your inbox in the Year of Our Lord 2025. Would be super helpful for nuking spammers.
Anyone found a work around?
so at this point it seems like *nothing* the feds said was true? it's a legitimate miracle that this woman is still alive.
entirely plausible that the greatest success in business in this country over the next five or ten years is going to come down to whether or not your c-suite has been poisoned by groupchats or not
