If you use the word "junior" to describe a game dev position seeking someone with *at the minimum* a full, credited AAA role performing that position already, I'm simply going to assume you're trying to pay them less. AAA games take an average of 3.5 years to make. Nobody's a junior at 4 years in.

how the sam heck did i miss this? mark duplass is an absolute gem 🖤

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

This is legit why exec level in a lot of places are obsessed with copilot. It takes their word salad and turns it into a word salad that sounds smarter (but isn't).

In fantasy worlds you know there's gotta be guys who become huge nerds for other species. Like there has to be an orc who's obsessed with dwarven culture, he dresses like a dwarf and listens to dwarf metal and keeps talking about the heroic virtues of mining etc.

I think you have to have been an adult in the 1990s to understand that this is possibly the most Bill Clinton thing ever, and that the GOP right *still* fail to get him and only get themselves in so attempting will drive them even more insane.

Don't be a clown. Use alt text. And sure, Banks isn't wrong about creating AGIs. As far as I'm concerned, that's a settled philosophical question. We don't have, to my knowledge, the ability to even scope out such a project, I.e. meaningfully define intelligence. Certainly genAI? Not it.

everyone is being very polite and asking rhetorical questions about failures of ethics and duty and not just coming out and saying that the reason the media government etc let epstein get away with so much for so long is because key figures in all of our institutions were complicit with his crimes

I really don’t expect a perfect moderation team who’s decisions I always agree with- I do expect them to 1) not lie, 2) be transparent with the people who are impacted by their decisions and 3) do the things they said they were going to do

Like I think this is a stupid suspension- but like if they had transparently explained it from the beginning to Sarah it wouldn’t have been A SHITSHOW

You know maybe Bluesky would have a functioning system to tell people why they were suspended if they didn’t spent effort making a system to hide all the posts that made them feel bad in their replies

always remember:

lol must be right next to “provide information in other languages”

How Netflix's compute runtime team uses @honeycomb.io to analyze Kubernetes pod scheduling and runtime issues: www.linkedin.com/pulse/netfli...

Me: Don’t expect too much, it’s not like the emails will have a smoking gun. The emails: Please see attached smokinggun.pdf.

i see someone make this post at least once a year. a wholesome classic of social media

you could also take the post down and just not let them post for 24 hrs or whatever instead of disappearing the account but hey what if you prefer fostering an environment of distrust, rumors and chaos

it’s a pretty simple idea that when you have a social network, high profile accounts and journalists should get manual review before suspensions etc and probably just take the post down w/ warning as your first move if it’s clearly a joke otherwise you erode trust

Yall remember when Grandma would be watching her stories and the episode started with "Previously on General Hospital..." with the important recap scenes? This app has become an interactive form of The Stories minus the recap clips.

Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves

Doing that would require them to have functional moderation features, which they have absolutely not prioritized.

The phrase ringing through as I sign out for the night: hold out for the ending.

under no circumstances should you let yourself be distracted while on a runabout, that's how bottle episodes happen

With few exceptions, pretty much everyone knew these were bad men. They did much of their evil right out in plain sight. And what wasn’t in plain sight was loudly whispered about. But the endless “benefit of the doubt” that powerful men are freely given allows this kind of thing to keep happening.

I hope the people who need to learn the lessons offered today are starting to realize that when you endlessly give certain folks the benefit of the doubt, this is the kind of evil that happens.

numbers , not good for many things

“Me Too went too far because [shit that absolutely fucking did not happen]” is a recurring goddamned theme in our culture.

micro bioome anti biotics

I’m glad this fucker is dead because this was actually hell to try and alt text

gee I wonder if there’s any existing natural experiment that could tell us what ChatGPT will do to your brain after a few years of constant use

Mossad this, mossad that. Watching you parrot antisemitic propaganda makes me ssad

Sorry buddy, if you think Mamdani and Fuentes are “threats to the Jewish people” deserving “equal” denunciation yeah, um, we aren’t gonna be friends

emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts

Pulling on this thread, Landon Thomas Jr., wrote the big profile of Epstein in New York magazine in 2002 where Trump said Epstein liked "beautiful women ... on the younger side." It turns out in 2016 Thomas told Epstein that someone, he thought Trump, was denying Trump ever made that comment.

The documentation? It's on Notion, bro. It's literally on Confluence. You have to log into Coda. It's on Obsidian. It's on MediaWiki. You can find it on Google Docs. You can go to Google Docs. Log into Google Docs. You can Docs it. Oh, I guess that's out of date

Every time I see a moderate arguing that some social change is coming too fast, I am reminded that a significant number of people in the antebellum South argued that they were fine with abolishing slavery, if only we could find a way to do it that didn't leave "good folks going hungry."

TW: Virginia Giuffre, accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, dies by suicide: abcnews.go.com/US/virginia-... utterly devastating; sending hugs & love & solidarity to all her loved ones, her friends & all those she inspired.

When will it be evident where this leads—& who it will & will not harm? How many other traffickers, pedos, rapists, domestic abusers & conmen will Trump pardon (or appoint to his cabinet) before folks understand he does not view these as crimes, but as qualifications?! And as his own exoneration!

Senior leader at my employer (paraphrased): "Every line of code needs an owner. But owning a thing does not mean you have the capacity to work on it." Yeah, sure — except when it breaks at 2am.

One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*. They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.

music horiz vert info? circ polariz? rotate understanding

Portland’s Mayor, much of City Council, and many Portlanders spent recent days aligning themselves directly with Trump’s policies towards our precariously housed and homeless neighbors, while rabidly promoting a local extension of it. It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.

Yup the growing pains are real. And reminds me so much of how Twitter would often kick the wrong side of an interaction, leaving the instigating jerks and assholes in the mix thanks to key semantics/word choices. I hope Sarah considered rejoining and writing about it all lolsob

This is about WORK work by the way!!!! This is not necessarily true for art or writing or other things that are extensions of yourself This is about work you are doing for other people

this little difference right here is everything when it comes to attaching your ego to your work (and also getting hurt when businesses do a capitalism)

Practice stewardship over ownership. Ownership is about possessing something. Stewardship is about taking care of something.

equivament for sure

This is why my most "scare the hoes" political opinion is: MAGA is avodah zarah.

I don't know how I missed that this aired on American TV, because it was precisely the right year & design that I would have absolutely lost my little mind over it