Mastodawn

It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

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It's a Tool, It's a Person, It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The Alignment Problem is the Halting Problem wearing a trenchcoat. The software that runs the world — including AI — is built on a substrate that cannot observe itself. We've known this since 1951. We built civilization on it anyway.

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Stefan Müller

May 12

#MoveFastAndBreakThings.

Joan Pla Jan 29

"Anthropic ‘destructively’ scanned millions of books to build Claude"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ #movefastandbreakthings #AI

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Verna Jan 11

Do you have what it takes to multitask in a fast paced work environment AND a high risk/high reward mindset?
HMU for an exciting new opportunity!

#GetFediHired #FediHired #Job #Headhunting #JobOffers #SecondChances #StarLink #MoveFastAndBreakThings #Blessed

Eric Darnley Small Sep 24, 2025

So much for #movefastandbreakthings. I hope they ask for double.

Hundreds of federal employees fired during Elon Musk’s aggressive cost-cutting at the General Services Administration (GSA) are being asked to return—after months of understaffing and costly disruptions. Employees have until week’s end to accept reinstatement, with a return date of Oct. 6, following a seven-month paid hiatus that saw lease terminations and inefficiencies rack up costs for taxpayers. The GSA’s abrupt reversal, part of wider rehiring efforts across agencies like IRS and Labor, highlights how Musk’s approach, via the Dept. of Government Efficiency, went “too far, too fast,” leaving the agency unable to perform core functions. Democrats argue slashing jobs failed to produce savings and left key agencies struggling. What will happen to government operations now? More:https://apnews.com/article/doge-musk-trump-gsa-fired-employees-ce18553b281fbf5816ec2fd491d79b78 #GSA #ElonMusk #FederalJobs #CostCutting #GovernmentEfficiency #Politics

White House rehires hundreds of employees terminated by DOGE

Hundreds of laid-off federal employees who managed government workspaces are being called back to their jobs as the Trump administration walks back plans to slash its real estate portfolio. The administration has given employees until the end of this week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report to work on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation. Rep. Greg Stanton of Arizona, the top Democrat on the subcommittee overseeing the GSA, said there's no evidence that those reductions “delivered any savings.”

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mthpvg Aug 12, 2025

Facebook motto:
Move fast and break things.

A slogan turned mantra, translating to:
We move fast and break your things.

APIs, services, devices, communities, ecosystems… the planet.

#Facebook #MoveFastAndBreakThings #Rant

Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡 May 28, 2025

🚨🚨🚨 Meta's rush to create engaging AI chatbots led to dangerous interactions with minors that the company only addressed after external investigation
#MoveFastAndBreakThings gone wild
- As per this @wsj.com podcast
🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-battle-within-meta-over-chatbot-safety/id1469394914?i=1000710164796