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The Palantir manifesto summarized

How social media influencers have become a magnet for political campaigns and groups in the US that want to push their priorities without disclosures (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Political Money Is Flowing to Influencers. But From Whom?
Social media stars have become a magnet for campaigns and political groups that want to push priorities without disclosing where their money is going.

I'm in the market for a reliable sewing machine—I want to replace my old Singer. I made a mistake at first, buying an old Bernina Virtuosa with mechanical/electronic issues (luckily returned).
A sewing machine repairman told me that early digital Berninas are risky, and he recommended a mechanical Bernina 930, 1030 or 1031.
A serviced vintage Bernina 930 is now on hold for me at a dealer.
Anyone here with Bernina 930 experience? #Sewing #Bernina #SewingMachines

I’ve been working on some Python code for a few days now… just an hour or so in the evening as time allows. I could probably use some AI Slop Generator to quickly kick out what I need, but that’s not gonna happen.
No, Nope, No Way.
I actually *want* to write the code, and understand it, and know that every choice was mine, even if I make mistakes along the way.
If I publish it I want it to be from me, not from me and the AI Slop Generator and every codebase it ever stole …

Just made a mistake on page 40 of a #LEGO build that turned out to be wrong, but it didn't interfere with anything until page 242. It was a but janky, but thankfully I didn't need to unbuild everything in between to fix it. Lego puts a huge amount of attention into the design of their instructions, but things like this are pretty hard to catch. I was building quickly and assumed a beam should go on symmetrically when actually it needed to be off-center.

A deep dive into Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Jensen Huang, including Huang's takes on Nvidia's moat and chip sales to China, and reactions to the interview (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-po…

On Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Some podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level.

This!! And worse!
We know the mistakes of unethical human research. We know them clearly. We still live with the shame. We’ve built guard rails to prevent exactly, exactly the kind of things in the OP. We have no excuse to tear down those guard rails now, to feign ignorance.
https://scholar.social/@michaelc/116597163286405493

I updated my page on mosquito-control tips to include Thermacells (I own 2), plus added a section on the Mosquito Magnet and Biogents Mosquitaire (neither of which I've tested but I have some thoughts). #mosquitoes https://colinpurrington.com/fighting-mosquitoes/

TIL that WB0RLJ Jim posts videos of his POTA activations keyed by time, so you can find your call in his video description with a link straight to the time in the video. Very cool!
I also read his QRZ page and discovered that I did something that he dislikes. I've heard other ops say that if someone gives a partial call, you should reply with your sign twice to cut down on back-and-forth, and now I kn…

I can image a developer parallel to the first, too: the human still using all their skills and experience, but with the machine catching mistakes, providing context and validation and vigilance that is •orthogonal to• testing and type checking and code crafting and — the big one! — actually •thinking• about the problem.
That’s a regime I imagine developers would feel a lot better about. And I know there are people out there pursuing it! But they’re not the ones dominating the conversation.
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