alex nicksay

[full-snack developer 🇭🇹 @notdanilu]

I read an article about the “end of the subsidized millennial lifestyle” wherein it discussed the fact that platforms such as Uber, Lyft, DoorDash etc were only cheap due to being subsidized by investors + favorable market conditions, but now those platforms need to turn a profit

[soul nate @MNateShyamalan]

excuse me one question, what did you just fucking say

[Mekka 💉x7 @[email protected] @mekkaokerekebye]

🙏🏿Lord please grant me the confidence to deny a brilliant woman prof / researcher tenure track, demote her, push her out of my school, to be the adversity that she had to overcome in life... and when she overcomes me and wins the Nobel prize, to roll in like I did something. Amen

[Rachel Blum @groby]

Not only that. You will also lose access to a whole bunch of tooling you built yourself, to support your work style.

Because your previous employer will have claimed it and/or your new employer has security frights.

A new job is in many ways starting from scratch.

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

Fahrenheit 451 was never my favorite Bradbury/dystopian fiction because it felt a little too blunt, too far-fetched in its metaphor— the state deploying high-tech 'firemen' to burn books to maintain its censorship regime? A bit on the nose.

Currently reevaluating that assessment

[Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh]

“A typical vaccine teaches the human immune system to recognize a virus or bacteria as an enemy that should be attacked. The new “inverse vaccine” does just the opposite: it removes the immune system’s memory of one molecule.”

We might have a vaccine for type 1 diabetes!

[Danny Miranda @heydannymiranda]

This graphic is useful:

[François Chollet @fchollet]

NFTs, the metaverse, and web3 felt like that to me. And so did the AI insanity of Q1 2023.

We are now well past the peak of the LLM bubble -- things have already came back down to a large extent. There's still some way to go until everyone sobers up completely, though.

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Welcome back, Voyager 2.

@NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2. We shouted 12.5 billion miles (19.9 billion km) into interstellar space, instructing it to turn its antenna back to Earth – and after 37 hours, we found out it worked! https://t.co/bJDKh6Icg5

[jordan @JordanUhl]

An uninhabitable earth

[alex nicksay @webdevjesus]

This matches my current thoughts but I haven't been on bluesky yet to check so maybe hachyderm is the place to be

[Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 @paulbiggar]

@polotek Been thinking about this for a while. Bluesky is best UX but the racism-at-the-core thing is a deal breaker, so it's gonna have to be Mastodon I guess? Not a whole lot better in general but Hachyderm seems to be so...

[alex nicksay @webdevjesus]

Anyone have a bluesky invite they're willing to send my way?

[alex nicksay @webdevjesus]

Or is there anywhere else people are heading? Is mastodon still active?

[GL @gldivittorio]

In January I was diagnosed with a weird form of lacrimal cancer & while the US healthcare system being bad isn’t exactly a revelation, I want to give a glimpse at how that system actually functions from a patient & policy standpoint, along with legislative origins & options

[David Pfau @pfau]

There is absolutely no way in hell that this is practical, and it's probably not even more than an extremely stage-managed demo, but it's also about the most futuristic-looking thing I've seen in years.

[Sam Greene @samagreene]

Open protocols … to do what, exactly?

Collect taxes? What about privacy?
Military defense? What about opsec?
Make laws? What about representative democracy?
Enforce them? What about judgment?

Honestly, does anyone in Silicon Valley actually know what gov’ts do?

[Roger Sollenberger @SollenbergerRC]

Oh look, Joe Biden didn't replace the politically-appointed Trump prosecutor who ran this investigation from the jump, allowing him to see the whole thing through. https://t.co/rJbH1ub0Xq

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The awesome power and stunning beauty of a humpback whale breaching seen up close.

Credit: Beau Pilgrim
https://t.co/Y1I1VMrG3d