I can’t tell which of these profits are in actual currency and which are in fake money.

As usual, the business fundamentals thing happens after the compensation has been paid out.

I’m getting the picture that governance is a great thing until you find out that other people want to govern you back.

The encouragement of a situation where you disconnect with those outside, the sleep deprivation, the drip of hints that you’re not meeting the standard, the trust in the great leader.

It also sounds corporate, yes.

You know how sometimes you use a grocery app and it’s fairly obvious that the people writing them don’t spend time in grocery stores? I’m getting that same impression here.

That startup founder. Is he okay?

With so many parts of tech operating like a mixture of religion and fandom this would be the atheistic answer. (This is my diametric opposite of a sneer.)

Well look if you no longer had a Silicon Valley executive’s salary you might have opinions about that situation too.

Weird sort of wartime to be investing new dollars into Israel though I thought?

Oh wait right. https://bdsmovement.net/news/israel’s-most-important-source-capital-california

Imagine being a skilled San Francisco-style tech worker, at the apex of your industry, and the heights of intellect and rigor you can scale outside of that very specific context turn out to be “race science” apologia. Probably a lesson in there somewhere.

To your edit, there do seem to be very many people emotionally invested in append-only ledger technology.

This is only one of a vast number of possible AI hellscapes. https://awful.systems/post/1061543

Riffing on this post title: https://awful.systems/post/1053906

Regardless of what he did, it was a very annoying way to teach the world that there are these people called systems administrators who have all the access to everything and all the passwords besides. That was a very irritating year at work. “Yes, how did you think I was able to answer all those questions you keep asking,” and other replies to questions about access privs.

“We have an incident response capability … (to) prevent Kraken from being used in (exactly) this way (that you all saw happen here)”.

Sure you do.

I know that crowd’s politics are ultra-reactionary, and yet it’s still fascinating just how few ideas the tech revanchists have that aren’t “this thing is bad and should be rolled back”. Do they have any ideas developed from socially acceptable principle at all?

Is this stuff deliberately written to be word salad?

I was definitely hoping it would be some kind of fascinating non-obvious catch. I think this thread is teaching me that often it’s just the usual everyday buttcoin catch.

Have an upvote.

Are we keeping a list of things that refute CEO worship? Here’s an item for the list.

I haven’t paid that much attention to the software and platforms behind all this. Now that you mention it, yes, they are all products not underlying technologies. A bit like if somebody was a Zeus web server admin versus AOL web server admin without anybody being just a web server admin. Or like if somebody had to choose between Windows or Solaris without just considering operating systems.

Then again, what with all the compute and storage and ongoing development needed I’m not convinced that AI currently can be a gratis (free as in beer) thing in the same way that they just hand out web servers.