Aaron Parecki

• Features designed, implemented, undone on a whiplash whim with zero understanding of implications
• "Neutral Ideology" actually means "Desperately Propping Up My Own Ideology"

When will he get bored with this toy and put it back on his shelf? Any bets? Oh Happy Friday lol 😅

It's v. funny that everything predicted about this place is coming true

• Blue checks almost exclusively bought by slimy loud chuds who previously made fun of them for years, ruining the market for good folks
• Wheels wobble off after firing everyone who knows how this works

Lots of boomers showing up to protest but folks, if you loved how Ronald Reagan lowered your tax rates, then yes, you voted to convert cities to suburbs, whether you understand how government works, or not.

OTOH 'post-processing fuckery unrelated to the actual photons' is like 90% of how actual human vision works so you could say technology is finally approaching human levels of capability

It was just coded so sloppily it's counting internal service loads (even if they don't actually show the tweet to a person, Twitter passes the tweet around its various services aka internal systems) as "views"

This was me, my 6.5-year stint at Twitter comes to an end today. Proud of the work we did and have full confidence the three or four people left will be able to honor Elon’s requests to artificially inflate his view counts (and view counts for advertisers). Not me though 🫡

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):