J. L. WestoverSecret Panel HERE 😑 https://tapas.io/episode/2927671
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nixCraft 🐧A massive power cut has hit large parts of Spain and Portugal. Shops, restaurants, and card payments were plunged into darkness. Card payments are not being accepted due to the power outage. Huge queues at cash points to get some cash for daily stuff. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t This is why keeping some cash at home or wallet is so important. You never know. Too much reliance on digital world can mess you up badly. I hope it will get sorted out quickly.
Software developer job interview https://madeofmistake.com/proglang
JA WestenbergAI doesn’t need to become self-aware to be dangerous. It just needs to be plugged into HR, healthcare, and credit scoring systems with no appeal process.
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Nick in MoldovaLenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat.
Frederic JacobsWhen Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the communications of civil society, journalists, just regular citizens ...
The threat model of military operations & sharing your hate of Europeans was not what Signal was designed for. Ephemeral messages and cryptographic deniability are not fit for communications that require accountability.
But I appreciate their effort to make government more efficient by adding journalists to the chat instead of requiring to go through FOIA.
The extractive tech playbook:
1. Target an industry where people create actual value
2. Build an app that makes transactions marginally easier
3. Burn billions in capital to subsidize artificially cheap services & kill the competition
4. Bleed everyone dry
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-great-tech-heist-how-disruption-became-a-euphemism-for-theft/
The Great Tech Heist - How "Disruption" Became a Euphemism for Theft
I've lost count of how many times I've been cornered at conferences by men in meticulously over-casual $300 t-shirts, evangelizing their startups with religious fervor. "We're DISRUPTING the entire industry," they insist, with the insufferable confidence of someone who believes their "Uber for X" app constitutes a revolution on par
