Cristiano Breuel

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Specialist in general computer things, contributor to universal entropy maximization. Opinions are my own, not my employer's.
@codinghorror This is why: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers
(they want to keep doing crypto crimes)
Of Tech Bros And Trumpers

The reason Silicon Valley billionaires at firms like a16z and Sequoia Capital suddenly decided to back Donald Trump is not a mystery.

The Cryptocalypse Chronicles
@timbray I agree that facing facts is helpful, and Israelis probably need more of that. But all nations have violent histories, which they embellish, romanticize and hide to some extent. The problem for Israel is that they missed the historical window in which it was normal to do that kind of thing.
What I'm trying to say is: framing the conflict in moral terms can be helpful at the level of individual actions, but not at the historical/political level.
@timbray Just to make it clear, I'm not defending settlers, they are part of the problem and all settlements should be dismantled.
But also, I don't think "stolen" is a helpful characterization in this case, because basically all nation-states incorporated some "stolen" land at some point.
@timbray That's exactly what they tried in Gaza, and we can all see the results
(not all of them do, of course, but the ones that don't do it actively support it through inaction - either because they don't want to or can't oppose the ones that do)
This is what's leading Israelis through that dark path that he correctly identifies, but he offers no solutions - comparing the IDF to the Wehrmacht certainly isn't one.
@timbray He's right that Israel's extreme right is approaching fascism (or is already there), and the rest of the country seems to be pulled in that direction.
But the comparison with the Wehrmacht is deeply flawed, because Jews did not slaughter thousands of Germans or swear to obliterate Germany from the map.
The central problem is this: how can Israelis make peace with Palestinians if every time they grant them some freedom, a significant number of them uses this freedom to attack Israel?

The government did not want to give out voting records, they refused. But 81% were recovered and uploaded to the internet, I have the record of my table. There were 65 in favor of Maduro and 364 for Edmundo! The number matches what was announced in my center!

I can now confirm, with evidence, that there was electoral fraud in Venezuela! If you see this post, help me by giving it a #boost so that it reaches more people and the truth is known!

https://resultadosconvzla.com/mesa/13472/13360

#Venezuela #Democracy

@grimalkina I struggle mightily to help develop this fundamental skill in teams.

It's hard to get people to take their hands off their keyboards so that they can stop and think hard about what we *know* for sure about the problem.

Evidence based reasoning has a flip side - that's writing down somewhere what evidence you have, and then collaborate to decide on the next experiment that gives you additional data points to narrow the scope of the problem.

We need to mentor this valuable skill.

Organisations when they hire consultancy services: “We need a company credit check and report to ensure your finances are stable and that this will be a sustainable relationship.”

Organisations when deciding on using OpenAI: “We understand you spend $700,000 per day and need $5 billion a year to survive as a company, which is way more than any company has ever raised in history. Please take our money. We will integrate your tool into all our tools now. The lottery is our favorite way of investing in our own future.”

"The finding is a measure of the extent to which many, many users hate #TikTok and #Instagram, even though they feel compelled to use them. To make clear the bizarre nature of his finding, Bursztyn drew the conference’s attention to another product, a refrigerator. Could you imagine, he asked, 60% of refrigerator owners saying they wished fridges didn’t exist?"

https://theconversation.com/would-you-pay-to-quit-tiktok-and-instagram-youd-be-surprised-how-many-would-235180

#socialmedia

Would you pay to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would

Even though social media is free to use, research found many US university students would pay to quit it – especially TikTok – if they could beat their fear of missing out.

The Conversation