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What in Mike Judge's rejected episodes of silicon valley did I just read?

Did you hear the news? Arlington County is considering a year-round prohibition of gas-powered leaf blowers. Don’t miss our virtual community meeting where we’ll discuss this potential change together. 📅 Thursday, Sept 25 🕛 6:30-7:30 PM 💻 Register now! www.arlingtonva.us/Government/D...

I made a magic quadrant about how to choose your tech stack Seriously, DYOR: no one will do it for you. Try out stuff. See what works. Ignore reports from people who don't do the work and are pay-to-play anyway

“All of us—nonprofits leaders, donors, funders, volunteers, clients—are like people living together in a village that is half on fire and rapidly spreading. In this situation, a retail-like mentality would be silly, if not downright destructive.”

You're playing what now? But for real this is fun!

Come join my team! We at @newdisabledsouth.org are looking for a digital fundraising manager. Apply at go.newdisabledsouth.org/digi-fundraising

Slightly diminish a book Man's Search for the Meaning of a Word

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I managed to recommend Kpop Demon Hunters on an org wide call and I could see some people be like:

One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.

I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:

Question for my ND people: What do you do with your physical mail?

Of course they are. 1) If it’s not worth the time to write it’s not worth the time to read. Which means no information (right or wrong) is being exchanged. 2) Generative-AI is wrong more often than it’s right, so it can’t be trusted (and it takes longer to check than it would to do it manually).

Great article, especially for people who claim 'learning to prompt better' will prevent inaccuracies or that there are no inherent issues with LLMs!

Is there a list of companies that are not "AI-First" or who are not pushing/forcing AI internally? Asking for a friend 👀

just gonna keep saying

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

I am starting to believe that the AI craze actually has, for once, created a genuinely useful way to test someone's intelligence: are they unquestionably on board with using corporate AI tools for everything, or are they going "whoa, hey, wait a second"?

Just putting this out in the world: There needs to be an animated tv show about a murder solving mallard, played by Rainn Wilson, called Muckduck!

Definitely ordering this for the office!

I've learned so much from PBS shows since I was a kid! I even quoted Mr Rogers in a meeting this week. "Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that mentionable can be more manageable."

I absolutely loved reading this paper! I felt the need to read 3.3 onward, out loud, to myself, in an appropriately dramatic voice.

So you've decided you want to lead with integrity! That's cute. Oh, you're serious? Cool. Just know that it's expensive, lonely, and rarely gets you promoted. Come meet the idiot archetypes we become while trying to survive in a system that doesn't care. open.substack.com/pub/jamesjbo...

We're doing a giveaway with Cards Against Humanity for their 100th Anniversary Edition Game 🟡⚫️ Rules: 1️⃣ Follow @culturecrave.co and @cardsagainsthumanity.com 2️⃣ Repost and like this post 5 winners will be notified on July 29

I find similar answers when asking people how they deal with physical mail.

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

This week's issue of RDM Weekly includes ✔️ Common survey design mistakes ✔️ Organizing tabular data from @marlahertz.bsky.social ✔️ @cessda.bsky.social Data Citation Guide ✔️ Principles of good DM from @teaguerhenry.bsky.social ✔️ Data Validation tips and more! open.substack.com/pub/rdmweekl...

Getting my Gallbladder removed reconnected me with Animal Crossing! I hope a new version comes out for the Switch 2.

Please share widely and help however you are able. Fatima is the only member of her family whose continued stay here wasn’t approved, due to timing and the current political climate. She is facing removal to Afghanistan as a woman, alone. She is an incredible human, and she deserves better.

Surgery seems to have gone well! My workaholic ass needed a time-out anyway. I just wish I could get myself to not be super invested in my work and take a break every now and then.

Welp, Wendy's just did me in. Waiting to see if I'm getting my gallbladder taken today or tomorrow. 🙃

Ever wonder how many court opinions have (so far) addressed filings with AI-hallucinated material? According to this page, the tally is... 129 across the globe since mid-2023; of which ~90 are from the US 🤯 www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio... 🤖😵

This is what I meant by curiosity! We had an intranet we called "the wheel" and it was effectively dead. I convinced our team to let me take on the project to 'reinvent the wheel'. I learned how to deploy a different wiki, about IA, and how to build a community of power users!

The biggest fear I personally have with GenAI is the loss of curiosity. Curiosity can lead to deeper understanding between the layers of abstraction. We're going to go from "why?" to "why bother, the bot will do it."

Nominate a chemist with disabilities for C&EN's Trailblazers 2025 This year, the issue will profile the lives and work of groundbreaking chemists with disabilities and highlight how they make their labs or their work more accessible to them: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #chemsky🧪

We’ve duct-taped data processes together for years. Now we want AI to run on top of that? Good luck. New blog: From duct tape to data discipline 👉www.m365princess.com/blogs/data #AI #DataExcellence #DataAsAProduct

Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with... How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb

The number of journalist in this piece who draw the line at “letting AI do the writing” but are fine with “letting AI do the thinking” makes me want to walk into the ocean. This is how you lose your edge — and the war on our industry as executives try to replace us.

I didn’t expect this many people to ask about my #PowerShell terminal setup at @mmsmoa.bsky.social, but enough of you did that I wrote it up. My daily driver that makes me feel like I have my life together. Blogpost: www.allwayshype.com/allways-hype... #MMSMOA

I keep coming across more employer/job listings for those looking for work in social science/education/public policy research fields. Seven links listed below. 👇 1. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 2. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 3. www.purposephilcareer.com 4. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I'm having such a hard time deciding on which book I bought, but haven't read yet, to carry around in my backpack for the next 6 weeks until I finally read it in 2 sittings.

Today is the last day to apply for YNAB's iOS Engineer role! jobs.diversifytech.com/job/1720714-...

Hypothetically speaking, what would it take to migrate an ERP to something like Dynamics 365 for a small/medium company? Also, who should I follow that works on D365?

My dear #MicrosoftFabric friends, if you fancy some weekend reading, stop scrolling... Fundamentals of Microsoft Fabric book, that @bweissman.bsky.social and I wrote for @oreilly.bsky.social is almost there! As of today, you can read 12 chapters in the early release www.oreilly.com/library/view...

Remove a letter, ruin a movie About Tim ...wait

The Oregon State open source lab which provides hosting for hundred of open source projects, as well as research, resources, and support to countless other others is in trouble and we will shut down soon if they can’t find $250,000. Spread the word and donate give.fororegonstate.org/PL1Uv3Fkug

Who are some great non-MVP or Microsoft staff who work with Azure, I should follow?! I've found I've naturally become biased and gravitated, but there are some great people out there! Reveal yourself!