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jmsdnns

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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

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jmsdnns, to random
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Zoom's terms of service now include training GenAI with no ability to opt out

Check section 10.2 Service Generated Data; Consent to Use.

https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

paninid, to random
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Gritty is not wrong.

jmsdnns,
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@fedwards9965 @paninid BUT, the real value of saying "white man's suffrage", as absurd as it is for us in 2024, is because it leads right up to the way southern elites lied to their population to get them to fight in the civil war.

The southern elites pitched the war as "equality for white men" to states where ~70% of working white men worked in slave based industry.

THOSE people didn't think that war was about slavery. They believed they'd escape poverty, eg. white men's suffrage 🤮

jmsdnns,
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@ramsey @paninid @fedwards9965 John C Calhoun was first exposed to ideas about secession during his time at Yale in 1804, where Federalists were exploring it essentially because they hated Jeffersonians. Many years later, Calhoun becomes John Quincy's VP and also Jackson's and he mentions secession once to Jackson who promptly lost his notorious temper so badly that historians say it delayed the civil war by 30 years because it scared the shit out of Calhoun, who quit his job as VP and went home

jmsdnns,
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@ramsey @paninid @fedwards9965 Jackson hated banks and banking, so he became friends with Aaron Burr entirely because he shot Hamilton, creator of the first national bank. Through that, he learned of Burr and Wilkinson's plot to sever land from the US to create a new nation and Jackson wrote to President Jefferson to tell him about it while promising to defend the nation. He testified as a witness in the Burr's trial for treason where John Marshall defined "treason" for the first time in US law

jmsdnns,
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@ramsey @paninid @fedwards9965 The main detail that makes Jackson unusual relative to the early 1800's south was his fierce loyalty to the union. IMO, that loyalty emerges from two things: British soldiers tortured him as a child, which is why he wrecked them so hard in the war of 1812, giving him a furious blend of trauma and narcissism tightly coupled with stories about defending the nation.

His narcissism is arguably why he is a little more good than bad, which is a mindfuck

mekkaokereke, to random
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I always think it's funny when right-wing types get mad at Star Wars for becoming "woke." They didn't notice the obvious fascist imagery? They didn't realize that they were the villains in this whole cinematic universe? So unobservant! I would never make that mistake! I'd know if I was the villain in a whole cinematic universe!

Anyway, I can't wait to watch the second installment of Dune! What'll happen next in Arrakis(Iraq)? Will the spice(oil) flow? Will Paul's Jihad topple the empire(us)?

jmsdnns,
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@mekkaokereke almost no one knows the first dune book is about the rise of a brutal dictator that hates democracy

we must be careful how much we cheer for Paul, cuz Frank Herbert is teaching us a lesson about how easy it is to root for the wrong side

https://youtu.be/SzJvpmoWQrI

jmsdnns, to random
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AI just doesnt matter next to electric vehicles, healthcare, or education

jmsdnns,
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@benroyce I should elaborate. the tech bros are essentially trying to give us a tech based communist revolution, where they give us utopia and we give up automomy. the generated information could easily be filled with propaganda and it is unlikely we'd ever know, perhaps writing it off as hallucinations.

and yet, the same people dont care about helping hungry people on the streets of SF

jmsdnns, to random
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I'll never forget the way the tech industry was sacrificed to counter inflation

Nov 2022: The Fed minutes show they want increased unemployment to stop inflation (1st pic)

June 2023: Bernanke and Blanchard say the labor market will have increasing influence of over inflation, and the Fed should continue slowing the economy (2nd pic)

May 2024: Where we are now, and tech roles are still rare. The few openings that exist still receive thousands of applicants

The image shows highlighted text from the Bernanke & Blanchard paper published by Brookings, available here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-caused-the-u-s-pandemic-era-inflation/ > To the extent that commodity prices stabilize and sectoral shortages moderate-processes that both seem well advanced as of this writing (June 2023)—the goods market component of inflation is likely to decrease in importance, and the labor market component to become more dominant. Looking forward, with labor market slack still below sustainable levels and inflation expectations modestly higher, we conclude that the Fed has to slow the economy to return inflation to target.

jmsdnns,
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@sqrt2 you think that's all they do? history tells a different story over and over and
over. you'll find important recent lessons both in the 2008 crisis and the management of SVB's collapse.

worth digging into, but without that there is no need for me respond further. ✌️

kjhealy, to random
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As someone who still has a strong streak of Dream-of-the-90s Web in their bones it's a bit demoralizing to find the AI Search-Summarize-Slop Loop seriously confronting me with the question of why I, or anyone, should ever again write anything of substance that's just freely available online to people who might be interested.

jmsdnns,
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@kjhealy the best answer might be so we can know it was you who wrote it. AI totally obscures who said what, but we need experts and we need to know what the experts said

jmsdnns, to random
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> in 2020, only 268 titles sold more than 100,000 copies, and 96 percent of books sold less than 1,000 copies

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

jmsdnns, to random
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> In Manhattan, brokers have started to market debt backed by a Blackstone Inc.-owned office building at a roughly 50% discount.

> A prime office tower in Los Angeles sold in December for about 45% less than its purchase price a decade ago.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-14/real-estate-lenders-confront-falling-us-commercial-property-prices

jmsdnns, to random
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💻 An Interactive Intro to CRDTs

Written by a Recurser

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/

jmsdnns, to random
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💰 What caused the U.S. pandemic-era inflation?

by Ben S. Bernanke and Olivier Blanchard

> Non-competitive behavior is another possibility, as the food price index includes distribution margins, and the retail food industry has become more concentrated in recent decades

That is academic 🔥 for saying greedflation was real and came from companies having too much power. Bernanke and Blanchard are two giants of economics, so it is HUGE that they concluded this.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-caused-the-u-s-pandemic-era-inflation/

jmsdnns, to random
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😕😟😣😭 noooooooooooo https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/

jmsdnns, to random
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🎸 Shower Days, by NOFX (guitar cover)

I drank a lot of coffee and then did a guitar cover for the most rippingest NOFX song

#musodon

https://youtu.be/QcDUefYqztQ?si=poop

jmsdnns, to random
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📺 Rick Beato interviewed the bass player I was raving about this morning, from the WILLOW tiny desk video

Her name is MOHINI DEY

It is rare for someone to be as talented as she is... I mean, as far as bass goes, she's right there with someone like Les Claypool. She is THAT good!

#musodon

https://youtu.be/OJTXqHxt_UU

jmsdnns, to random
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The experiment we just did at Penn to see if AIs can do homeworks for AI students concludes with everyone reassured that AIs completely fail at getting the logic right for anything complex, even with good feedback for improvements

I tried having it generate code for markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, basic language models, and perceptrons, and the AIs did an absolutely terrible job

You can see the homeworks we tested on here http://artificial-intelligence-class.org/

jmsdnns, to random
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The US national motto needs to be changed back to E Pluribus Unum

God has no place in government

jmsdnns, to random
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Lina Khan is incredible.

You can see for yourself in this week's Daily Show with Stewart.

https://www.cc.com/episodes/v02eeq/the-daily-show-april-1-2024-lina-khan-season-29-ep-25

aeva, (edited ) to random
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Is there a Linux [window manager / desktop environment / whatever they're called these days] that has good support for fractional resolution scaling on hidpi displays? My aging eyes really want 150% scaling for this Framework 13 laptop, but gnome only offers 100% and 200%.

EDIT: so far KDE does the right thing. I wish there were more options though.

jmsdnns,
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@aeva kde does. i switched from gnome to kde two weeks ago and think it's great so far

jmsdnns, to random
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📜 I look forward to starting my weekend with this interview with @ProfMSinha about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, about the Reconstruction period after the Civil War

Her book, The Slave's Cause, was phenomenal and I cant wait to finish my current book so I can start this one!

https://youtu.be/4Ag-Z1dAJsQ

jmsdnns, to random
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do people still like meetups? if so, are they still using meetup.com?

i have an idea for one and i'm not sure where to go

dabeaz, to random
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Trying to convince the kid to do summer community band with me. Aside from the big hurdle of "playing with a bunch of olds", I contend that community band is the way to get good.

We'll probably play 20+ songs. Real arrangements. Stuff they'd play in the top HS band. You'd probably only get 1-2 rehearsals per song--tons of sight reading. People are there to play and have fun. So, it's totally chill, not competitive. Get to be out in the community. And it's free. Unlike band camp.

jmsdnns,
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@dabeaz "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." –Benjamin Franklin

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