Mike Masnick

Yeah, it's a limitation of the technology of reality.

On business leaders then and now COWEN: Sure. How were business leaders different back then from the current crop? Clearly, in many, many ways, but what stands out to you, as someone who knows a lot of top business leaders now and who has studied very intensively top business leaders back then? SORKIN: Oh goodness, I actually think they’re very similar. I actually think they’re shockingly similar. Here I am saying that John Raskob feels like Elon Musk. I think that so many of these individuals feel like modern-day characters. Charlie Mitchell, who ran National City, which becomes Citigroup. Charlie was the equivalent of a Jamie Dimon of his time, but maybe looks more akin to a Jensen Huang in terms of just his sunny disposition towards everything all the time. I think they’re still driven by the same things, which is, at some level, I’ve always thought that people are driven by an insecurity, a FOMO, a YOLO kind of a hole that they’re all trying to fill. Money is just one example of how they measure it all. I don’t think that they’re all that different, in fact. COWEN: Do you think they’re even more woke today? SORKIN: Are they even more woke today?

COWEN: Do you think they’re even more woke today? SORKIN: Are they even more woke today? COWEN: Or is that also the same, that there’s maybe the appearance of being more woke, but ultimately, attitudes on gender or race are more similar than one might think? Or not? SORKIN: Oh goodness. I’m struggling to relate the word wokeness to the 1920s. Interestingly, Carter Glass, who I think I told you before was sort of akin to an Elizabeth Warren — the truth is, he would have been a racist Elizabeth Warren because he was from Virginia. He was trying to bring segregation back to America, in fact. I’m not sure how woke these CEOs were at the time. The sort of upstairs-downstairs situation among the elites and the wealth in terms of where they lived and how they lived, and who worked for them and the various servants and others — I don’t think you’d think that they were that woke back then. COWEN: So that’s one difference. Did they do philanthropy better? You have the Morgan Library in New York, everything Carnegie did, which seems quite remarkable. Are today’s wealthy business leaders living up to that track record? Or somehow they’re failing to?

Once again, I'd have to argue that the "woke mind virus" seems to be a thing that only effects a certain class of people who seems oddly obsessed over whether or not other people are somehow "woke"

The funniest bit. "Claude tried to talk me out of this." I'd say that this is a PEBKAC situation more than an AI situation.

Nothing more hurtful than discovering what you thought was a deep friendship is fake

Totally normal thing for Senior Counsel at DOJ to tweet out at 2am

Then who's going to fire Markwayne's pilots?

Maybe this is just me, but I kind of think massive military operations, in which we're demanding unconditional surrender as the outcome, probably should be authorized by Congress.

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

They think, or at least pretend to think, that this doesn’t sound like obvious cope to everyone in the world

It’s an entire White House comms shop built on the premise of “my hot girlfriend lives in Canada” being believed by normal people

Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.

Did you know you can shrug and say "No can do boss" when a court orders you to do something

"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

We should never ever forget why they did it

nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

This is not good.

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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In that scenario, it's likely Bluesky would be powering Twitter.

nostr may be ideologically pure, but how many users does it have?

Maybe I'm a bit slow, but "the other ideology"? What?

From the context, it looks like his concern is Bluesky "the company," but it ignores all the steps the company has taken to keep the protocol open and truly separate from the company, while still making it useful.

Had some more thoughts on the latest between Anthropic and the Defense Department. The story is less about the specifics, and more about the way Anthropic now feels it needs to act to grovel before the Trump admin.

So, the only thing I'll say about this is that when I look at this picture I see an expression that my Dad makes, which reinforces (yet again) that I continue to become my Dad a bit more every day (which is not bad, he's always been a good dude).

This was a different sort of episode, but was a really enjoyable and interesting discussion.

The messy relationship between the media and how companies do Trust & Safety has fascinated me since working in early 2010 newsrooms.

So I enjoyed going deeper into with @masnick.com in special episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech — The (Content Moderation) Eras Tour (apologies to all Tay-Tay fans)

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Free Press Condemns ICE Arrest of Colombian Journalist Seeking Political Asylum The Nashville reporter’s detention by federal immigration officials poses a grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know.

Nashville reporter's detention by federal immigration officials poses grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know. A thread on Estefany Rodriguez: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...

US Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs, Unemployment Rises February data call labor market stabilization narrative into question

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“He says what the rest of us are thinking!”

New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice | StateScoop A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.

The latest NY chatbot bill would bar chatbots from conveying information that could fall within the scope of a licensed profession.

It’s basically a censorship bill disguised as licensure protection.

statescoop.com/new-york-bil...

Who will you blame when you don't get the job?

I'm a couple days late to this, but... neat!

Markwayne Mullin never served in US military, but often speaks as if he did www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

“Slurs filled a chat” is a beaut