I’ve long believed STEM people should do more humanities, but seeing twitter authors threaten lawsuits left and right because some guy counted words in their book is really convincing me humanities people need some tech literacy classes.
There is someone with like 500 likes on the discover feed who appears to genuinely believe only soldiers die during a land invasion and no one is pushing back on that.
I think people with this view are largely missing the point. Humans will always be better than machines in some ways. Even in manufacturing, things like handmade Lamborghinis are much nicer than mass produced Toyotas. There's a reason I drive a Toyota though.
You’re telling me that the post twitter field is split between a usurper that uses the name of the previous hegemon as a shield, the young upstarts, and an established power that holds all the most valuable territory from the start? I’ve heard this one before.
The number of paragraphs in a book about Chinese linguistics before Yuen-Ren Chao is mentioned is kind of like it's Chinese linguistics Bacon Number, and I think this one takes the case. The second sentence of this book is the earliest I have yet seen. It deserves an award!
Seeing people get out their fainting couches because it turns out it’s easier to automate drawing a logo than it is to automate construction work as if the very first industry to be automated wasn’t skilled textile workers. Skilled work has never been immune from automation.
Beyond that, the idea that the key limitation on building more microchips is a lack of fabricators severely misunderstands what makes microchip manufacturing difficult.
Consumer VPNs are bad. They have highly ambiguous privacy protection value (in many cases, the value in that respect is *negative*), degrade user experience, and provide false feelings of security. Decisions that lead to more people using VPNs are very bad.
Amazing job Utah lawmakers did shoveling mountains of user data to sketchy VPN companies.
Looking forward to trawling @beijingpalmer.bsky.social’s follower list to see which members of China twitter have merely gone lurker instead of inactive.