Phil Wolff

It's great when it never works or always works. This intermediate robots get credit while humans take blame stage is hard all around.

Is "I didn't tell you to have your claw do it, I asked YOU to do it" the next Back To The Office move?

Preference for Wisdom of Crowds (page rank, wiki consensus) vs parroting the mindless autocomplete?

Everyone agrees to bid one billion dollars. And then...

OpenAI acquihiring OpenClaw is a blow to decentralization. As is big ai data centers buying out western digital drives for the year (nothing for laptops, phones, homelabs). As is AI search results at Google and chatbots choking off traffic to the web. Power concentration fueled for now by…?

The financial bubble popping affects innovation speed and direction. Rivals for capital starve. Imagine if all this R&D money had gone into biotech or greentech for instance.

The other thing is centralization vs decentralization. Of compute (see storage, chips, bots), of political influence, power.

You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????

So many DHS/ICE "reform" ideas floating around as the budget fight in Congress develops.

From 2010-2014, I helped negotiate & enforce consent decrees relating to racist/violent police agencies across the country as part of the U.S DOJ's Civil Rights Division (RIP!).

Here are my general thoughts.

Old line about having "a face made for radio".

Where the ecosystem is the product.

Your honor to name the unit of measure of absolute horseshit velocity.

@skeetsapp.com Android, please!

I'd like to see capability and performance metrics like these with #sustainability ( #negativeexternality?) metrics like wattage required, carbon footprint, tokens consumed, water used for data center cooling, etc. Can you increase capability faster than you increase societal burden? #AI

Candlestick phone rings on the holodeck. Picard as hardboiled detective answers. 2FA.

Titles?

Kinda waiting for a Masnick 230 MCP to stand in for you.

Activists say the thresholds for vast change are surprisingly few people as a percent of the population. #NoKings for example

The break ups are harder on away missions episode.

The dead school chum makes us grow up a bit episode.

The I really shoulda joined the Starfleet accounting academy episode.

The does this dress uniform make my biceps look bigger episode.

The strange team sport episode.

The parent issues episode.

The crappy roommate figures it out episode.

The culture-is-hard but love is harder episode.

The who gets to lead the team episode.

The spring break episode.

Three masked women in punky black dresses release neon-pink smoke into the air.

Russian prosecutors asking to have Pussy Riot officially declared an "extremist" organization.
From Pussy Riot's official facebook:
"Singing in the streets is not extremism. If telling the truth is extreme, then hold my Red Bull."

Like Versailles mirrors. So potempkin event turnouts look full.

Long Beach, Signal Hill, Avalon, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach & South Santa Ana. Let’s go!

There's already a Robotic Operating System. ROS is widely used, built 10+ years, a large and active community, and FOSS. www.ros.org

So are you senior in your role or do you focus on accessibility for older people?

Wait until thanksgiving with the fam. Not enough to fix Uncle's smart TV or niece's mobile. Now it's troubleshoot cousin's web scraper and keep nephew's essay generator from hallucinating. Pass the cranberry sauce.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social So, how do autocrats consolidate power when they fear losing their figurehead? Do they try to shift loyalties to a new DearLeader? To a new institution? Something else?

Kudos to Josh for doing an amazing job with TPM and entering the 25 year club at truly independent media, which I think consists of him, @techdirt.com and... um... not sure who else? Does @slashdot.org count? Probably not since they got bought at some point.

Scrooge or Grinch?