Scott Burton

@scottburton
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just use the In Utero font on everything, that's what we're doing
@daedalus one thing nobody on the outside understands about labor-cost-saving automations is that they almost never work without dedicated, consistent intervention and maintenance by the human workers they purport to replace.
I’m still of the minority opinion that OpenAI’s board was right and that maybe Sam Altman should not have accelerated towards a future of job-killing for-profit autonomous agents.
Github Copilot is getting really good. It's replaced a lot of my googling and yak shaving.
What it was trying to do was rehabilitate the old alt-right "falling birthrates" anxiety as as an important national issue, and not the obvious racist dogwhistle that it always was. No fucking thanks, @washingtonpost

Hard to summarize how I feel about this piece beyond "every single word of it was bullshit, even the punctuation."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/22/marriage-polarization-dating-trump/

If attitudes don’t shift, a political dating mismatch will threaten marriage

Gen Z women are turning left, while men are veering right. Can American marriage be saved?

The Washington Post
It is very hard to merge engineering teams. Not because teams subscribe to different best practices, but because "best practices" is mostly just made up.
Weird that as soon as Threads got useful and X finished melting down, my Bluesky invite code finally appeared…
OpenAI replacing the only two women on the board, and the only researchers actually interested in preventing skynet, with the guy who invented the like button and the king of neoliberalism is almost too on the nose.
@thomasfuchs to be fair to her, she is referring to MM’s account as “inauthentic”