hammondj 🇨🇦

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Systems engineer. Environmentalist. Photographer. Aspiring author.
Toronto, Ontario
Currently reading non-fiction“The Second World War” by Antony Beevor
Currently reading fiction“We Will Rise Again” ed. by Annalee Newitz, Malka Older, Karen Lord
"There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."
- Albert Camus
"A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret..."
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"At the end of the street, the night was beginning to take possession of the town, and the street-lamps were being lit. The air was still warm. The few people who were out were walking in a leisurely way, and the noise of their footsteps on the pavement seemed to echo the silence of the sky."
Camus

Whenever you hear "ban for kids" on the internet, read in reality "ID collection by a sketchy third-party company that will definitely use it or leak it or both for every adult."

Because that's what this truly means.
Also, it doesn't even help the kids.

#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

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an LLM is a compiler in the same way that a slot machine is an ATM

Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.

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Nobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."