𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 𝕣𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕕

@matthewreinbold
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Software strategy consultant and writer. Started climbing a ladder only to realize it was up against the wrong wall. Working to be better. St. Paul, MN.

Who called them hashtags and not "expound pounds"?
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𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 𝕣𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕕Jan 17, 2023
RustyBertrandJan 16, 2023
Stop anthropomorphizing billionaires.
𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 𝕣𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕕Jan 17, 2023
Carl T. BergstromJan 17, 2023

I've been speaking and writing lately about how tech companies try to shift the discussion on misinformation, polarization, harassment, etc., away from the systems and structures that are inherently toxic and toward questions of individual behavior.

This way they can blame their own users for any pathology and steer clear of calls for systemic change.

Today Elon Musk has come through with a perfect illustration for my future talks.

#socialmedia #twitter #ElonMusk

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Everybody is different. If you love The Last of Us, that is awesome - it really does look like they are kitted out to tell a great story there.

And, really, "not now" is not the same as "not ever". I might get around to it eventually. However, with what downtime I do have I'm trying to be much more conscious about what I take on, and how it tees me up for the next day. The Last of Us joins media like The Road and Station 11 of maybe someday. But I need something else right now. #TheLastOfUs

𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 𝕣𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕕Jan 17, 2023

By all accounts, HBO's #TheLastOfUs is amazing - fantastic cast, intriguing worldbuilding, fantastic visual and audio design, etc; it is the video-game adaptation everybody has been waiting for.

And I can't watch it for the same reason I STILL can't bring myself to watch Contagion, the early pandemic streaming rewatch. With all that is STILL happening, biological disaster movies are a nerve too raw, an anxiety too real, a stress still too lived to also "unwind" too.

#TuesdayTellAll #tlou

𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 𝕣𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕕Jan 17, 2023
#QOTD: "I view a manual as a software designer's list of failures." - Paul Heckel
𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 𝕣𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕕Jan 16, 2023

A masterful Blue Monday drop by Vintage Culture for your Blue Monday: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8LIfod6dNd0&feature=shares&t=16320

#NewOrder #BlueMonday #VintageCulture #Remix #ExtendedMixes

Vintage Culture live at Laroc - Extended Set

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Ted UnderwoodJan 16, 2023

I don't think #LLM are a crisis for teaching. I do think they will eventually force us to be frank about the difference between:

a) asking students to internalize/memorize received knowledge, and

b) asking them to do new, independent thinking, likely based on new archival / experimental evidence

Currently we can do (a) but pretend (b), because 5-page essays look and feel independent even when they're really rehearsing received ideas. Automating them will take away that dodge.

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Ted UnderwoodJan 16, 2023
Speaking as a historian who cares about freedom of thought, Gary Marcus's suggestion to kick people off social media for using a language model is bad enough to deserve public push-back. When you hear ideas like this in Communications of the ACM it's a sign we need more carbon rods in our moral panic.
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"-people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work... and without this hard work time
itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation."
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"Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

Incredible observations throughout that are as relevant in 2023 as they were in 1963.