Happy thanksgiving! Teaching Ahmed python today

Would people be interested in a talk about the work I did on the antitrust case to support the DOJ against Google?

9 on a bad day and 5 on a good day

This will be out last fall in the northeast.

anyway if you're ever in a position where you're likely to say "they never knew how much that meant to me", please do your best to make sure they do know. before that becomes true

We need to bring back the concept of selling out to a degree.

Teaching young kids to respect consent and that people shouldn’t be violating their space or they should not violate others’ space, privacy, etc., especially in embarrassing situations, shouldn’t only matter once puberty hits. Little kids are still humans even pre puberty

Ahmed loves seaweed, but a classmate of his takes the seaweed from Ahmed without asking. Should I pack an extra seaweed for the kid? Or should I tell Ahmed to stand up for himself?

In SF right now, I am reminded this city has so much potential if the people in charge or the affluent cared for beauty.

I was telling someone that my child isn’t allowed to watch aggressive sports like UFC or watch aggressive media. They looked at me strangely and thought I was controlling. Ah, to be young and not know anything about the media we consume and how it can influence our children’s and our own behavior.

My son wants to play for the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social and has me watching every Eagles game and keeps asking me why I love soccer more than football? I never would have thought this would happen when I moved to Philly.

My son turned 6 today. Where did the time go?

I wonder if it’s possible we can create a kind of “differential privacy tool” that instead of making it easier for people to analyze data sets without exposing personal information, instead it poisons the well of data that is available to these “AI” companies.

Ahmed is turning 6 next week. Am I just going to be surprised how much time flies for the rest of my life?

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

As a father to a little boy, I just realized men are people only after I had him, and he started to call me annoying.

I don’t know how long this side quest of consulting on antitrust remedies is going to last, but I am 3 for 3 with expert witnesses to tell the courts how to break up monopolies.

I’ve been away from writing Scheme programs for years, and I recently wrote one. It’s a dumb idea. Instead of raising an error when the program fails, it calls out to an LLM to generate a fix.

Functional programming didn’t make it because purity testing is one of the stupid, bizarre, dumb, and self-victimizing statements I have heard around programming languages.

Welp

Research papers are easier to read for me at least if I extract the text and put it in a Markdown file. 😭

I Somehow found myself helping on 3 anti-trust remedies cases from a software and distributed systems perspective in the past year.

That’s right

What a great keynote! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVm...

Klarana is losing money, and that makes me happy.

elon is basically doing the forbidden ai alignment experiment of trying to make an ai pro-genocide. he is doing it in public, he is failing, and he is generating voluminous records of what he is doing, why he is doing it, and why it is failing. this could be very good or very bad in the future

Imagine picking a fight with MS.Rachel

It's wild that grok's sloppy prompt engineering now provides an up to the minute snapshot into whatever talking point the fucked-vibes billionaire groupchat is obsessed with today

Where are all the right-wing free speech absolutists? Every day they prove that these evil pigs only used free speech as a shield to be racist, mysonginst and horrible humans.

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socalpython.org/in-memoriam-... I miss my friend Goodwill (Michael Ryabushkin to those that knew him professionally), hearing the news of his passing this morning was incredibly difficult. I do like that the SoCal Python group put up an in memoriam for this larger than life amazing person! <3

Someone with more time needs to look into why a lot of people are using alternative investment methods like alt coins, Pokémon cards, etc., in chasing wealth and the relationship with doomerism and cynicism.

I am big fan of zed editor. Probably going to be my main editor going forward

Anti-Arab hate is so prevalent and accepted by society that I’ve become numb to it, and people don’t even realize when they’re doing it.

I miss the days when the internet was a place in the house that you had to sit in or a a computer at cafe that you had to go to.

Airflow 3.0 is pretty exciting

I never thought in a million years my job would ever require me to read depositions and court documents, but here we are.

Biggest week of my career impact wise next week and I can’t talk about it 🤫

Let’s gooo www.reuters.com/technology/u...

Me everyday

These buy now and pay later services need strict regulation, especially in our culture that’s dominated by pessimism.

AI tab completion is pretty good, but I am not a fan of agentic coding.

Eid Mubarak friends

We humans need C2PA more than ever to help vet images for authenticity: c2pa.org

You can now pay for overpriced food with Klarna. What a time to be alive!

Green card holders basically are losing their rights to free speech and self-expression, and no one can do anything about it.