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bobsil1··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
He bought a physics diploma with a large donation years after dropping out.
bobsil1··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
He can regurg briefings, look again at what he says in anything you’re an expert in. E.g. software: he’s a total fraud.
bobsil1··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
Elon’s hourly clown show? What are you watching?
bobsil1··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
Oh yes, also CTO Twitter, chief neuroscientist Neuralink, chief researcher OpenAI, a regular Renaissance man. Never studied STEM.
bobsil1··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
>he knows what he is talking about when it comes to rockets

At a surface level. If you ever drill down on his shallow tech understanding, he sputters, kicks you out or flees.

bobsil1··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
> Musk’s strengths have always been in building things

*Hyping things, pumping stock, raising $.

bobsil1··on The day Windows died
Agree Win7 was the last usable. Ubuntu is great / fast but the UX feels like bad Mac clone, 5 years later.
bobsil1··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
Or, he’s as incompetent as he looks.
bobsil1··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Returning escaped slaves was in the constitution itself (fugitive slave clause).

Founders’ intent is pretty irrelevant to today’s problems. They ran forced labor plantations, hadn’t mastered electricity or germ theory of disease, and the biggest city was ~30K people.

1 person = 1 vote, get rid of all the rural planter rigs.

bobsil1··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
T•••• should've been arrested in the hours after the Capitol attack, like Brazil did with its coup attempt.
bobsil1··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
"some sort of technically-illegal" is a funny way to describe a combined lawfare coup / violent coup attempt.
bobsil1··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
States are artificial, national elections should be ranked choice, or at worst simple majority vote.

Electoral college was a sop to slavers and should be deleted. It doesn't empower small states, it empowers large states which happen to be swing states.

bobsil1··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
One person should = one vote, absurd that Wyoming gets 70× the Senate influence with the population of Modesto.
bobsil1··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
"nearly half" — T•••• controls ~a quarter of the GOP, which is ~a third of US voters, so < 10% of US electorate.
bobsil1··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Criminal impunity for political elites backstops their entire racket: laundering hard bribes into soft, insider trading and so on. They've blocked T•••• prosecution for things like the coup because federal law enforcement report to them, and they're wedded to the immunity. Only the most egregious get prosecuted, e.g. the Congressman insider-trading on the phone in the background of a public T•••• event.
bobsil1··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Yes. Dems were never going to, for example, indict Trump on selling US policy to the Saudis, that’s a key political-racket revenue source.
bobsil1··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
The opposite — the US constitution is more like a slaver bill of rights, rife with plantation oligarch backdoors. The checks and balances are akin to NBA owners negotiating how not to ruin each other. Those rights originally were only extended to white men formally, and only rich white men in effect.
bobsil1··on OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
Also lagging in ML, good point
bobsil1··on OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
Has no CS background, studied material sci → consulting → Google PM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai

bobsil1··on Ford Hires 550 Former Argo.ai Engineers, Creates Latitude.ai
Prompt 2: It should not crash
bobsil1··on Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
Windows getting into adware was like the raptor escaping the electrified fence
bobsil1··on Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
“… with that salt pond stink”
bobsil1··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
They were already under competitive pressure. I bought a candy bar Sony phone with built-in MP3 player app before the iPhone.
bobsil1··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
Googleplex → Google Parc
bobsil1··on Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
This approach is better for remix beat-matching than as new song recs, IMO.
bobsil1··on Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit
Compare with the plot of “Back to the Future”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future#Plot
bobsil1··on Tweetbot is back down again
APIs save Twitter R&D, marketing and support $, develop features to clone and apps to buy, lock in high-value customers who make custom workflows.
bobsil1··on Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce
I’ve heard Apple’s regimented, cog in wheel, need-to-know, follow orders…? At least for rank and file.
bobsil1··on Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission
Shotwell runs SpaceX, according to NASA chief: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/spacex-leader...

Based on Musk’s recent antics, pretty sure a VP runs Tesla too.

bobsil1··on How I hang Christmas lights without a ladder
Yep, we “hung the lights” this year by simply changing the 2-digit light show code in a browser from Thanksgiving to Holidays.
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