Having incompatible measurement units can lead to bizarre situations. One of these is the story of the Gimli Glider, a Boeing 767 which, after its fuel density was calculated in pounds per litre instead of kilograms per litre, had to land with no engines on a decommissioned runway on which a motorsport event was taking place.
Anyway, setting aside the ethical concerns, it seems perfectly clear that "setting aside the ethical concerns" is *precisely* the problem.
It is what got us in to this nightmare, and it is what is keeping us in this nightmare.
Please stop pretending that "setting aside the ethical concerns" is anything but a verbal signal indicating one's unwillingness to take personal responsibility for one's actions.
copilot is just for entertainment? Per the TOS...
Highlighting is my own. From that last boost.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse
As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I thought it would be a disaster, but it wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116311819757776279
"While it's true that the Trump regime in the USA is unusually bad, a lot of the personality traits that we see in Trump-appointed leaders come up in a lot of corporate leaders the world over: a disdain for expertise, deep incuriosity and an unwillingness to learn shit that might change their worldviews. A lot of CEOs are generally just... dullards."
Just the linkedin-relevant, uncritical content I came here for!
Apparently this requires restating:
We should not want a European Palantir.
We should not want an open-source Palantir.
We should not want a non-commercial Palantir.
If it is supposed to do what Palantir does, we should not want it.
And I don't care to what extent Palantir's products are shaped by political or profit motives. We know enough to reject its logic altogether.
Someone suggested not pulling any April Fool's pranks this year and I think we all need to get on board with that.
Because, you know, all this.
80% of soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge never fired their weapons. 80% of your Slack workspace has never shipped anything. Marshall called it diffusion of responsibility. We seem committed to calling it "culture."
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