Mastodawn

Thiel's ongoing war on education:
Palantir thinks college might be a waste. So it tried hiring 22 high-school grads for a fellowship. https://www.wsj.com/business/palantir-thinks-college-might-be-a-waste-so-its-hiring-high-school-grads-aed267d5?st=gaTU1P

irobx Nov 2

Jeff Jarvis Nov 2

Just when you might begin to wonder whether beneath it all there might be a small glimmer of sanity....
Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-real-time-bill-maher

Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons

Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was Jewish

The Guardian

irobx Nov 25, 2024

Electronic Frontier Foundation Nov 25, 2024

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irobx Apr 26, 2024

@thurrott @leo You should check out this podcast on Microsoft. They go deep on the founding and history of the company -> https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/microsoft

Microsoft Volume I | Acquired Podcast

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Microsoft’s history and business strategy.

Show thread

irobx Dec 22, 2022

@leo @thurrott In the cloud MS approach to development is wildly different compared to on-prem. They start with a minimum viable product and add features only after overwhelming demand. And they retire features unapologetically!!! Not saying its perfect but it is a stark contrast to desktop app development.

irobx Dec 22, 2022

@leo @thurrott Listening to Windows Weekly today and I feel the pain when whinging that MS never gets rid of legacy. Except that in the cloud they are doing it! Look at what they did with basic authentication in Azure AD and compare that to the story around smb and ntlm. They should have gotten rid of ntlm in v1 favor of kerberos-only 10 years ago.

irobx Aug 9, 2021

@leo listening to TWIT this morning and I was surprised that in all the discussion on Apple’s CSAM decision there was no mention of their business motivations. Apple is not doing this because they want to help children, this is part of their business strategy. Their strong device encryption policy has put them in jeopardy of having legislation passed that will require them to have a backdoor. This is simply a way of trying to fend that off.

irobx Mar 21, 2021

This fox came to sun in our yard.