Pollen's big-brain execs apparently misread "delete" as "deceit" and thought #Google was a genie 🧞‍♂️ for removing articles. Meanwhile, the Pragmatic Engineer is adding "Magician" to his #LinkedIn profile 🎩.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-callum-negus-fancey-and-google-is-assisting-to-it/ #Pollen #Misunderstanding #Magic #Delete #Deceit #PragmaticEngineer #HackerNews #ngated
Pollen tried to remove my article about CEO Callum Negus-Fancey and CTO Brad Wright, and Google is assisting to it

In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen, founded by Callum Negus-Fancey. The short of it: Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid

The Pragmatic Engineer

#FWakeSober #TotalMisunderstanding

"sober, modern Occidental judgment is founded on a total #misunderstanding of the realities depicted in the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedies of redemption." - year 1949 /\

@GeriAQuin

It's a #Memorandum of #Misunderstanding and nothing else.

@paulcoholic_1

A paid sham, since #OfficeEU is a paid service, but I have checked and it is not the #euro_office is another service that substitutes the Workspace and 365, and it is free. Sorry for the #misunderstanding. On #Wikipedia there is more information about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro-Office

Euro-Office - Wikipedia

#awkward #onlyrealisedlater #misunderstanding

Yesterday a colleague said “I really like those trousers” and I thought I followed their eyes to a purple pair of jeans on sale, replying “yeah, nah, they’re not really my thing”.

They were talking about the trousers *I* was wearing, and I inadvertently shut off the compliment dead 🙄

Just your daily oops moments when there’s two wonky-brained souls bluffing through the shift.

(I do wonder if he was equally as confused with the interaction)

🤖🚓 Oh, the tragedy! #AI mistook a face and now a poor man is caught in the world's worst game of Guess Who! Meanwhile, the article is an Indiana Jones-style quest through a jungle of misplaced news, with more detours than a GPS on drugs. 📡🗺️
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/ai-misidentification-results-wrongful-arrest-man-seeks-justice/I7UQJWV33FBN3LMKHCSXI6FIVA/ #Misunderstanding #Tragedy #GuessWho #IndianaJones #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated
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Shout out to all the 80s/90s UK kids who used the word nonce to describe themselves (or others) as being akin to a numpty or a silly billy. I have felt such relief in discovering that it wasn't just me who didn't realise the actual meaning of the world. Such innocence but also so much cringing!

Are there any words or concepts you completely misunderstood or misused growing up?

#misunderstanding #misheardwords

🔍🚀 Surprise! Humans still fail at understanding #AI but hey, let's just blame the #data #centers instead! It's like trying to stop climate change by banning thermometers. 🌡️ Who knew server racks were the real enemies all along? 🤖🤦‍♂️
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/490350/data-center-moratoria-ai-backlash #Misunderstanding #ClimateChange #BlameGame #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Americans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.

Americans are trying to stop data centers over water, energy, and noise concerns. But the deeper fight is over AI, and the political failure to regulate it.

Vox