106 karma · joined August 4, 2020
1. The internet
2. The misinformation, sensationalism, and emotional manipulation in the groups themselves
3. A massive gap/amount of disinformation in mainstream media/lexicon/knowledge base
People are massively overestimating number 2, and massively underestimating number three. The general populace is not as stupid as people and the media like to think, it’s blatantly clear that there’s more to what’s going on than is encapsulated in the current public narrative.
At a major company, over ten teams were automated in a year.
Beautiful and useful abstractions around data and data processing tasks that provided extreme value.
I could never replicate it, but it reminded me about the power of software and the extreme ability that some have to weird it.
You’re talking about a few thousand people a year