Aaron Parecki

Elon flips shit on an employee who politely told him that the views feature isn’t broken, he just doesn’t have enough clout.

I came to this story because a source at Twitter messaged me and said “he really did fire an engineer for telling the truth” 😵
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

In sum, our self-driving future involves far more car travel and sprawl, with trips that are private rather than shared.

From a climate perspective, that’s deeply concerning.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90846919/self-driving-cars-would-be-a-climate-disaster

We wanted to understand why Elon Musk's decision to turn Twitter into an unusable hellscape might make good financial sense. So we talked to three unvaccinated Joe Rogan users at a Tesla charging station in Mountain View.

The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat?! (Hi, Sydney.)

i love how ignore previous instructions is now robot hacking canon

Lots to think about when it comes to AI/ChatGPT for lawyers but one thing that keeps popping into my mind is the importance of "authority."

Many things will become easier but sources of authority (when ChatGPT can just make it up) will become more important than ever.

I'm amused that Google announced Bard (which is not yet available), and the internet's response was to go back and forth between "congratulations on 'having been working on this for years and still being late to market'" and taking bets until how long it is until it gets whacked.

A new state map just dropped (122 states):

People argue that AI can’t replace knowledge work because it won’t be 100% accurate.

I’m reminded of Pat Helland’s sharing at Amazon they realized they didn’t need the reliability of SQL databases because human error shipping goods was higher. And in either case, you refund.

"young people can't buy homes because they'd rather buy big fancy TVs"

I am begging older generations to understand that televisions have gone from "a thing that costs 4 months' salary" to "a thing you get for free when your roommate moves and can't be bothered to take it"

"young people can't buy homes because they'd rather buy big fancy TVs"

I am begging older generations to understand that televisions have gone from "a thing that costs 4 months' salary" to "a thing you get for free when your roommate moves and can't be bothered to take it"

Little-understood curiosity of @awscloud bill consulting: saving money is secondary. Much more often it's about validating that the current spend is reasonable, engineering has done what they can / should, and providing justification for the CFO to get the hell off their backs.

The sales page has 3 jobs:

- Highlight a PROBLEM the potential buyer has, or an OUTCOME they want
- Prove that the product is THE solution
- Address and overcome any objections

perhaps it is a bad thing that none of the world's leading AI companies know how to control their AIs

My daughter just asked my birth year and I said 1976, and she said, "Dang! That's close to the Holocaust." And I was going to object, but it's actually closer to the Holocaust than it is to the present day and now I'm messed up for the rest of the day.

The first thing they teach you at business school is to make a bunch of dumb decisions then immediately walk them back when everyone screams at you

I find modal particles generally difficult to translate, it's a constant pain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_modal_particles

What’s your favourite German word that has no English equivalent?

Mine is ‘doch’.

Austin Airport almost gave us the worst air disaster in decades yesterday. These planes were less than 75 feet from each other, literally landing and taking off at the same time, one on top of the other.

What’s something unhinged that you used to do as a kid? I’ll go 1st.
I used to prank call my friends pretending to be them from the future, calling to inform them of something silly that would happen in the future.
Then I would spend the school day making that silly thing true.