This is the distillation of the most important lesson I’ve learned about communicating to groups of people, whether it’s about a cause you care about, a product you’ve created, or just a subject you’re passionate about. They have to be able to talk about you without you: anildash.com/2025/12/05/t...
Been writing about this a ton lately - it’s about people! In media, in politics, and everywhere else.
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It's because in part, customers tend to tip Black servers ~20% less than white servers for the same perceived quality of service.
So when white folk say "A typical tip is 15% to 20%!", and Black folk say "A typical tip is more like 10% to 15%!" They're both correct.
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You don't have to "Let the nazis talk." That's just a thing that people with more nazi friends than Black friends want you to believe. But it's a lie.
The biggest free speech bros deplatform trans folk and Black folk that say things that they don't like. So they are familiar with the concept.
And yes, she was a computer.
In a bank, ATM means Automated Teller Machine. A Bank Teller used to be a person.
At the phone company, Operator used to be a person.
At NASA, a Computer was a person that was very good at, well, computing! Often a Black woman. Your phone is an *electronic* computer.
Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"
"stick to menswear"
i let my son punch me in the head and i tell him the day you can kill me in one blow is the day you officially become a Teen
I said what I said. Schumer cannot protect you from what's coming.
It's not polling badly among white people. It still has more than 50% support among white people.
And 50% of white people in the US is a lot of people. That's more than 100% of the population of Germany pre-WW2.
You'd think? But no.
Part of their strategy (that they wrote down!) for taking over the US, involves creating *more* economic hardship for racist people. On purpose. 🙂🙃
Because they know that this makes racist people even more selfish, and accelerates the racism.
What Black folk are saying:
1) The unpopularity of his fiscal policies will not be enough to undo this. Because much of this comes from racism.
2) The most racist policies are not unpopular.
Crying about your 401k or your soybean farm, is not the same as being horrified by concentration camps.
Bill Ackman could've just sat there and been a billionaire. But no. He had to attack Black women in academia over ginned up plagiarism accusations. Then when people turned around and did the same thing to his wife, showing that she did all that and worse, he cried, "I'm being attacked!" 🤡
I joined Symbolics after our group at triple-I wrapped production on TRON. Several from that group ended up at Symbolics Graphics Division building early 2d/3d digital content creation tools. A screen shot is in the Tech Review article above. Here is another showing early boids tests:
I'm not saying don't protest. I'm not in the habit of telling people how they should and should not protest.
I'm just saying that some of the people that will be protesting, will drive up to that protest in a $100,000 Tesla, and I don't get that.
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You can't fight your own wallet.
There is no such thing as “leaking” information about Zuckerberg. He does not believe in control or consent over information being shared by others. He does not believe in the idea of social norms for interpersonal interactions based on respect or trust. There can’t be any transgression or betrayal.
Zuck claims that I’m making up that he supports Trump’s extremist agenda. Would be easy to prove me wrong, and I’d love to be wrong! Here’s a simple way to falsify my assertion, @zuck: simply say, publicly, “Donald Trump’s policy of defunding NIH health research endangers Meta employees and their families, so we object to it, and won’t be donating money or amplification to any political entities that support this policy, now or in the future, personally or as a corporation.”
lol whoops, somehow I’d missed that this morning Zuck had replied to me and insisted that I was making stuff up about him. So I explained to him how he could prove me wrong. www.threads.net/@anildash/po...
lol big tech is all like, “we didn’t like democrats criticizing us, we much prefer abjectly humiliating ourselves by publicly kissing the ass of MAGA idiots who make us jump through hoops and dance for them while saying our families are no longer citizens”
Has anyone written an "Is '..All you need' All You Need?" meta-survey paper that looks at the discrepancy between initial traction/social media impact vs long-term citation counts of papers with "...is all you need" in their title? Seems like it's been enough years now, this should be viable.
Trump starts his term as a lame duck president who barely won & will never be on the ballot again - one thing I’m watching both today & in the months ahead is how quickly the GOP decides he runs out of juice…
👩🏻Can I stay in the US? I want to pay high taxes and write code for you. I've been here since I was 12. The US is all I know.
👴🏻No! Go back to China!
👩🏻OK... I will leave. I guess I should apply for jobs to write code in China now.
👴🏻No! We compete with China!
👩🏻So... I can stay?
👴🏻No! Get out!
More important than this question, is the question of why we still pretend that hiring H1-Bs or US citizens is a zero sum game, when we all know it's more complicated than that.
And why we pretend that tech immigration is valid, but agricultural immigration or food service immigration are not.
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She has the option to use Optional Practical Training (OPT), to stay in the US working for ~12 months after graduation, to get some work experience. She does, and decides that she wants to work in the US in her field.
An employer can sponsor an H1-B for her. But < 3 years experience, is entry level
And I don’t mean that in a condescending way! Most cultural (and especially religious) traditions strongly discourage thinking through fundamental moral beliefs, let alone translating those to every day principles. But that’s what you have to start with. anildash.com/2022/01/31/y...
This is so key. I didn’t realize until recent years that most folks don’t actually know what they believe, which is why they find it stressful to speak on their beliefs, let alone to take action on them. It’s a great exercise to write down (or at least think in a structured way) about the basics.
Timeline diagram showing AI model releases from February to July 2024. Features month headers in purple and entries for each AI model release with name, company, and either "API Only" (red) or "Open Weights" (green) tags. Models include Stable Diffusion 3, Gemini Pro, Claude 3, GPT-4o, Apple Intelligence, Llama 3.1, and many others.
I really like this timeline of AI model releases in 2024 - I'd hoped to include something like this in my post but I ran out of time, and this one (by @reach-vb.hf.co is MUCH better than what I had planned huggingface.co/spaces/reach...
"Common Lisp expert specifically to implement a solid-leaf binary space partitioning tree as part of the 3d-spaces library."
shirakumo.org/jobs
#commonlisp #job
The caloric value in a chicken nugget is significantly less than the electricity required to train a massively parallel network of gpus, on unfathomable petabytes of data, to accomplish the same task of multiplication.
The human brain is an existence proof of a more efficient training model.
How is this real life? How are these real problems that I'm dealing with in 2024?
Half the country is trying their hardest to die from Oregon Trail type diseases. Unpasteurized milk? Polio?
What was the point of scientific advancement, if we're just going to die like Victorian era aristocrats?
