I talk to programmers about VR games at @Meta. Did @WintermoorTC, and a bit of Halo. He/him.
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Machines are tools, not persons. Today, some propose granting these systems rights, or even legal personhood. Such an approach risks obscuring human responsibility and leaving those who suffer harm to confront a faceless entity.
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Striking detail in the big NYT piece on Taiwanese families adjusting to working at the huge new TSMC chip plant in Arizona: their surprise at the lack of rigor in US schools.
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So if you thought Doom on Linux in a fragment shader in VRChat was crazy... Turns out if you optimize it enough to run Quake 3 Arena! I also added VR controls. And even a barely working LAN connection between users via Udon.
World: vrchat.com/home/launch?world…
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It's crazy that there's a tool out there that's become vital to they way I do my job, parent my kids, and make major life decisions; and yet we barely spend more on it than AI
I love this, but I must admit it’s strange given this isn’t a Social Democratic stance.
Whatever, I guess! Republicans aren’t conservative and Democrats aren’t liberal anymore, it’s all vibes.
If the respectable third party challenger has the name “Social Democrat”, then sure
Mayor @ZohranKMamdani on cutting down wasteful budget spending:
There was waste. There's also this addiction to consulting. When we looked at the city budget, we realized we had to save money through efficiency. So we set up something called 'Chief Savings Officers' in every department. We saved $94M just by renegotiating contracts to a better rate. We saved $24M by letting go of unused office space. I believe that government has to be the most excellent, efficient version of itself to be worthy of people's trust.
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Hasan Piker had a heart-to-heart with his community about the power of being 'normal' with the goal of bringing people to our side. It's important to be palatable. He also talked about the dangers of gatekeeping and about why it's important to extend olive branches to those unfamiliar with leftist and socialist ideology: "It's probably unhelpful to make it even less accessible if we are feeding into the preconceived notions of what it means to be a socialist; an annoying woke-scold. I've never done that and perhaps that is a major part of the reason why this community is the size that it is. Throughout many different hinge points when this community has grown, there have always been people that have demanded a retreat over and over again. 'Why are you welcoming these new people? They are reactionary. Why are you welcoming these new people? They are ableist. Why are you welcoming these new people? They are racist and transphobic.' Some of those people we have welcomed with open arms and they have changed their minds over time. Is your goal to have the perfect safe space where no one disagrees with you? Or is your goal to build a mass movement? Purity testing, taking a morally righteous, maximalist position; these are poisonous for community development. Poisonous for organizing."
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i found out this guy is the ceo of liquid death and immediately went to look for this tweet and also found out i’m blocked
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Peter Pham is not the CEO of Liquid Death. The CEO of Liquid Death is the founder, Mike Cessario. Mr. Clutch Pizza is merely an investor and board member because of his early investor status.
linkedin.com/in/mikecessario
cnbc.com/amp/2022/11/26…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_De…
medium.com/scienceinc/lea…
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I will say that the funniest thing Muse has done for me so far was offer to draft an email RSVPing "no" to an event tomorrow because it would conflict with covering Meta Connect, which it called "the most important event on my beat of the year"
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🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.
That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.
So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."
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> get introduced to someone new
> being told that they are high agency
> ask if they mean breaking the rules and soiling the commons or figure out a way to push the pareto and create positive sum
> she doesn't understand: "they're high agency sir"
> meet the person
> they're soiling the commons and externalizing internalities
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hey @macklemore im sorry i tweeted in 2014 you should mackle less. you can mackle as much as you want. free palestine ✊🏽
