Theseus

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.

[Status-6 (War & Military News) @Archer83Able]

It doesn't... work like that...

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Good points here. Also remember the classic 1997 Frank Grimes episode where Grimes is mystified at how Homer can afford the house and Homer replies “Don’t ask me how the economy works” indicating the writers knew the house didn’t make sense for a guy like Homer.

[C Schmitz @chrisschmitz]

In Deutschland kleben sich jugendliche auf die Straße und wollen Ökokommunismus.

In den USA bauen die einfach sowas

https://t.co/RSRRaRLnBb

[Theseus @theseus_life]

@PeterRNeumann Wenn unsere öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien keine Propagandamühlen wären, und Vertrauen in Behörden nicht gleich null wäre, hätten wir das Problem nicht.

[Michael Guo @Michaelzsguo]

Jeff Dean 离开了 Google。他的传奇，一部分写在 Google File System、MapReduce、Bigtable、Spanner 这些系统里。另一部分，则写在互联网段子里，而且如今已经被郑重其事地整理进了 GitHub：

Jeff Dean 的银行卡密码，是圆周率的最后四位数。
Jeff Dean 曾经咬过一只蜘蛛。后来那只蜘蛛获得了超能力，以及 C++ 的代码审查权限。
Jeff Dean 的键盘上只有两个键：0 和 1。
Jeff 不需要耳机。想听 MP3 时，他只需看一眼文件的二进制内容，然后在脑子里完成音频解码。
Jeff 失眠时，会用 MapReduce 数羊。

这组段子叫做 “Jeff Dean Facts”，基本可以理解成程序员版本的 Chuck Norris Facts。它的起源，比段子本身还像一个 Jeff Dean Fact。

2007 年前后的一个愚人节，Google 工程师 Kenton Varda 用一套内部实验性托管系统 Prometheus 搭了个网站。Google 员工可以匿名提交 Jeff Dean 段子、互相打分，再查看排行榜。Kenton 还特意用假邮箱向公司邮件组宣布网站上线，自认为已经把身份藏得很好。

结果 Jeff Dean 神通广大，只花了一两个小时，就顺着内部状态页面、Borg 日志和其他基础设施痕迹，把网站作者找了出来。
https://t.co/6kgpODq7fI

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

Who would’ve thunk

[Turk @gitpush_gitpaid]

>fully remote
>overemployed working 2 jobs
>company for job #1 acquires company for job #2

[Theseus @theseus_life]

@PeterRNeumann Mit Sicherheit gewinnt man keine Wahlen.

[i/o @avidseries]

There was no limit on the distance I could walk or bike when I was 10 years old, let alone 14 years old. School was 10 blocks away, and I walked to and from it every day. Downtown was more than a mile away, and I regularly rode my bike there. I'd ride my bike past the town limits when I was 10, miles from home.

Containing a 14 year-old boy within a block is nonsensical at the individual level, and at a societal level will have far-reaching and deeply deleterious implications when these boys become men.

The goal of every parent should be to raise children who, when they reach 18, have the practical experience and skillset to quickly become independent and fully functioning adults. I can't imagine that keeping teenagers from venturing alone more than a block from their home is going to help parents reliably achieve that goal.

[Air Power @RealAirPower1]

Imagine you're a police officer raiding a gang's weapons cache. You expect to find AKs, pistols, explosives...maybe even an RPG.

Instead, you walk in and come face to face with a 12 ft long French BVRAAM worth nearly half a million euros 🫠

That's exactly what happened in 2019, when police in Pavia, northern Italy, busted a gang in possession of a Matra Super 530F. Not a mockup. Not a replica. An actual Matra 530 air-to-air missile. 🤯 1/2

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

It's remarkable how often LLMs will just regurgitate the common view from Reddit. AFAICT, no one really seems to see this as a looming knowledge crisis.

Unless you think relying on Reddit is OK, then LLMs desperately need to be fixed to stop doing that.

[Theseus @theseus_life]

@CarloMasala1 Um die Landtagswahl im Osten aus "Sicherheitsgründen" zu unterbinden.

[Theseus @theseus_life]

@80s_channel Observe Able Archer 83 in W. Germany. Launch 99 balloons over the border and see what happens...

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Just came across the wire - Microsoft disclosures suggest that OpenAI is about 70% of AI sales. Wow!

[Theseus @theseus_life]

@CarloMasala1 Terrorismus war in Deutschland auch oft false Flag. Vielleicht will jemand die Landtagswahlen beeinflussen.

[Brandon Warmke @BrandonWarmke]

How much have politically-motivated selective demands for rigor taken over academia?

A pathological plagiarist and fabulist with no groundbreaking ideas or research in a fake field that exists only for progressive activism can be put on a rocket ship up through every level of academia, enabled by dozens of faculty, deans, chancellors, and peer reviewers at multiple institutions for over a decade, and appointed to a series of three professorships in quick succession, promoted by a willing and fawning media complex that forsakes all journalistic curiosity and skepticism to play their proper role, and then when caught, enjoys full-throated and utterly confident knee-jerk defenses by hundreds of academics whose greatest complaint is that anyone had the temerity to notice and who robotically reach for the one smear they think suffices to refute any criticism they dislike: calling you racist.

Think just for a moment what must be true about this culture to allow even this single case. And this is far from the only case where standards are lowered to the basement for the progessive cause. No conservative academic could or should be treated this way. He would have rightly been run out of the profession before getting a PhD and told to never come back. The rot is so thorough and expansive I don't know how you'd begin to convince all these people they've done something wrong, let alone get them to stop behaving this way when the next opportunity comes along to promote and sacralize an academic because of their politics and identity.

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

Suddenly this story isn’t so funny any more.

https://t.co/g8tvFQMuBp

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Part of the political economy of New York City is that rent-seeking interests mostly operate in ways that leave the Wall Street economic engine intact and just skim off the top.

https://t.co/4aPpZU5MuU

[Theseus @theseus_life]

@HackingLZ Until last year he could have gone the Maltese citizenship by investment route for a good portion of the money. Not worth it tbh. He'd be stuck there or risk extradition.