finally the best argument for offices with walls: they're necessary to keep you safe when people come to shoot at you
blurgh
― alvin noto (mh), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
#notallcourtyards
― Jeff, Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
YouTube shooting highlights danger of open work spaces, expert says.
oh ffs. has this fucking expert ever noticed the danger of hundreds of millions of easily available guns?
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
just think of what a huge security risk the outdoors is
― jmm, Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
that's why I stay inside
― alvin noto (mh), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
Tbh I have no objection to office workers using shootings as a reason to protest open plan offices
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
Or an excuse, rather.
i'd had this in instapaper since it was published and finally got around to reading it
whoooo boy it has not aged well
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 6 April 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
I jumped in on a twitter thread criticizing his trite tweets
for me, throwing out ideas is dumb postulating, but there's the aura of ~ideas~ every time one of these VC/incubator dudes says something. what's their game here, just ruminating about an idea and then crowdsourcing to see if anyone's on it and throwing money at them?
I’m interested in genetically engineering plants to be much more efficient at photosynthesis and grow faster as a potential way to fight climate change. Anyone working on this?— Sam Altman (@sama) April 1, 2018
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
if I wanted to know about something like this, I'd.. google it? and maybe go to a few sites that publish academic papers, read up a little (or have my assistants do it, if I am running a business and have them) and then maybe reach out to scientists who are already experts in that realm?
I guess this is why I'm not a VC wonderboy
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
i don't see how anything could go wrong with this
― vermicious kid (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
I realized again last week that I'd love to see more government and academic labs doing things. A national lab that was connected to my college had a segment on public radio for their anniversary and they mentioned this project:https://www.energy.gov/articles/after-15-years-new-top-earning-patent-ames-lab
The patent's expired now, but it's work that resulted in something that's definitely good for both industry and the environment, and not subject to some VC clown figuring out how to skim the profits.
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
mh he's not doing research he's soliciting pitches
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
yeah, fuck that approach
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
or at least figure out who you should solicit pitches from, other than "random twitter people"
the people who actually know their shit are probably busy doing research, but I guess there's the chance a couple might be hunting around for monetization strategies or funding
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
That Sam Altman tweet just seems like he's plowing the ground for someone to pull off The Big Con on him.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
good afternoon NYC, what fresh hell is this pic.twitter.com/y6gv32emdy— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) April 5, 2018
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
lol @ genetically engineered plansourcing. i suppose he never opened a 3rd grade science textbook
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 6 April 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
I'm going to "schedule time" and rent jabbbbbrrrrboxes and tell homeless people they can spend the night.
― dan selzer, Friday, 6 April 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
Nice ep of On the Media on the ideology of FB and SV as a whole:
http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-2018-03-23/
(Even mentions Comte)
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/17/get-rich-quick-silicon-valley-startup-billionaire-techie
oh boy
― alvin noto (mh), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
“I worked until 9pm because dinner is free if you work that late ... And they’ll pay for your cab home,” he went on. That became his routine, and he never questioned it. Come to think of it, like a lot of his contemporaries, he never questioned anything.
― alvin noto (mh), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Corey Pein has been hitting the lefty podcast circuit on his book tour, and this was a fun appearance on the Michael Brooks Show:
http://michaelbrooksshow.libsyn.com/website/37-stomping-fascist-nerds-w-h-bomberguy-corey-pein
Lots of dumping of Elon Musk and the bizarre cult around him online
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
The chief executive and co-founder of WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging app, is leaving the company over disagreements about privacy and encryption.Jan Koum will also step down from Facebook’s board of directors, a role he negotiated when WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19bn in 2014, according to the Washington Post.“It’s been almost a decade since Brian [Acton] and I started WhatsApp, and it’s been an amazing journey with some of the best people. But it is time for me to move on,” wrote Koum on his Facebook profile.“I’m taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches, working on my cars and playing ultimate frisbee. And I’ll still be cheering WhatsApp on – just from the outside.”
Jan Koum will also step down from Facebook’s board of directors, a role he negotiated when WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19bn in 2014, according to the Washington Post.
“It’s been almost a decade since Brian [Acton] and I started WhatsApp, and it’s been an amazing journey with some of the best people. But it is time for me to move on,” wrote Koum on his Facebook profile.
“I’m taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches, working on my cars and playing ultimate frisbee. And I’ll still be cheering WhatsApp on – just from the outside.”
i am leaving the company i founded because its current direction conflicts with my high-minded principles
don't worry tho i'm still an asshole
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 08:50 (six years ago) link
No he feeds the Porsches to his cars.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
you don't understand, 'rare air-cooled porsches' is the name of my dog
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
imagine being a human being and thinking that is an even vaguely acceptable thing to say
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 11:32 (six years ago) link
Sounds like the kind of shit professional athletes say all the time and nobody bats an eye
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 11:59 (six years ago) link
But yes who can we drag at Facebook if not the people actually resigning from Facebook? Can’t think of anyone
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:01 (six years ago) link
if i ever listened to anything professional athletes had to say i'm sure i'd feel the same 'ready the guillotines' way i do about this dipshit
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:14 (six years ago) link
Anyway, between this and the other WhatsApp founder putting a bunch of his millions into Open Whisper Systems (the Signal people), I assume WhatsApp’s default encryption is going to be Zuck-read-all sooner rather than later
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link
― El Tomboto
the enemy of my enemy is still an insufferable prick
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
I think a more legitimate criticism of WhatsApp is: what did they think was going to happen to WhatsApp at Facebook? The answer of course is they knew precisely what would happen, but it was worth 19bn to them, and they knew they could resign 4 years after the acquisition with the vested money in the bank, and that would be long enough for them to claim it was a principled privacy stand.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
or facebook would have actually succeeded at some point in ousting their messaging platform supremacy -- fat chance on that one for every country that isn't in north america -- and it was take $19bn now or not much of anything much later after fighting facebook for a few grueling years
if this was the late 90s/early 00s and it was microsoft instead of facebook, we'd have been treated to a couple shittier versions of whatsapp before they decided to roll it into a product with a name like Skype International Messenger and then quietly killed it off a few years later
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
See also Google Hangouts, Google Allo, etc
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
I think hangouts has a boost from people using android phones but I'm unsure
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
No that strategy is over. the new Google thing is bullying carriers into implementing a richer SMS successor that is totally transparent to the carrier and not encrypted at all
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
what could possibly go wrong
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
I lol'd
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/aaron-traywick-dead-biohack-ascendance-tank-herpes-12878414.php
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
that is some Darwin Awards shit
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
I've got so much morbid curiosity about what the hell actually killed him
injecting weird shit is definitely the obvious answer, but...
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
assholism
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
a good summary of why foucault was right and the techno-utopians were wrong:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/i-watched-an-entire-flat-earth-convention-for-my-research-heres-what-i-learned/
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 6 May 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29638/html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link
i haven't fully digested this, but i do agree that IDEO extremely sucks
there's a hell of a lot to digest in there
the dissection of the Creative Commons/Lessig stuff really hits home. when all you have is the US-model copyright system as a lens..
― mh, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
Zing really needs to let you change your DN so I can become “the howl of whiteness” right now
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
the money quote via twitter
Fascinating article by @gleemie on the invention of "design thinking" as a new form of expertise mobilized to defend (white) North American design from Asian competition https://t.co/HrUh1QHKWf pic.twitter.com/IVFwKulKcb— Ben Tarnoff (@bentarnoff) May 15, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
Yes. Because Asians can't design things, the Japanese automakers in the 1970s and 1980s slavishly copied the stunningly creative designs coming out of Detroit, like the fondly remembered AMC Gremlin, the Chrysler K-cars, and every boxy model of Cadillac. Except they were too dumb to design them to get 10 mpg and fall apart in four years, and other features US customers were demanding.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
In how many ways is this entire thread really about taking a dump on Stanford, when Harvard dropouts are the REAL problem?Or: do Stanford grads exist as the legitimizing engine to explain that the lottery winnings of Harvard dropouts are the products of genius and not borrowed sparks, accidental timing and fucking over your partners?
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link