I've been saying this since jump, but this business I'm in has people in it that are trying to craft a narrative about creating something so powerful and mysterious only they can make, stop, or control it, framing themselves as the heroes of their own sci-fi stories.

The biggest tech innovations of the last 10 years. 😁

I love it when for-profit academic journals want to charge me to view the final published version of my own article.

I love my job, but I do find it frustrating how much of my job consists of repeatedly arguing obvious stuff like "phrenology is bad even if a computer does it" and "using probabilistic lossily-compressed text databases to guess next words is not sentience" and "understanding Merkle trees does not guarantee you'll make tons of money in speculative trading of unregulated currencies" to students and peers and occasionally university administrators.

The former Special Agent in charge of the New York FBI Counterintelligence Division has been charged with a multiple crimes including money laundering and violating U.S. sanctions on Russia. Charles McGonigal is accused of working with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. McGonigal allegedly received nearly a quarter million dollars in cash while still working for the FBI. I'd imagine they will be adding more charges with a superseding indictment. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/ex-counterintel-head-fbi-new-york-mcgonigal-arrested-rcna66995