NaibofTabr

The tech worker pipeline:

help desk > sysadmin > CISO > goat farmer

It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you!

It’s OK as long as he’s attractive. Or rich. Or both.

Hmm, what’s the name of that line around which a geometric figure rotates?

Yeah, at this point Cloudflare should just trademark network outages.

Oh, but that’s because you don’t think like a mobster.

Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much.
Or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance.
So are everybody else’s.

~ Baz Luhrmann

You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.

Seems more like unecessary corpo powertripping, to me.

None of the tech companies want to do this. They’re being forced by age verification laws.

GPUs are not the target. Purpose-built AI chips are.

There are two important questions about whether the lessons of this coalition government have value outside of its formative context:

1. Can it scale? Can the organizing principles be extended to a second city, a province, a nation? How much of the strength of this group is built around the personalities of specific individuals who are providing a backbone of leadership that cannot be replicated elsewhere?

2. Is it sustainable, ideologically? What happens when the outside threat which forced this group to unify is no longer felt, when the first generation which fought together and saved each others’ lives in a very real and practical sense dies and the following generations don’t feel the same sense of unity, didn’t bleed together, don’t share the same level of trust in each other? What sustains the group identity?

“Circling”? Is she an airplane waiting for a runway to clear?

No Oddjob.

but did you ever play 4-player Mariokart64 on a…

A lot of advertising is built around making consumers feel good for buying particular products, not convincing them to buy in the first place. Debate in this context would be useless because it’s more about confirmation bias than coercion.

This is an ad.

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China’s not interested anymore. The PRC is “encouraging” companies to buy locally developed chips.

xkcd #612