#Tech

M Mabeuf

mmabeuf

That cynical formulation where you're like "was this author compromised" and then you realize that he died of an untimely heart attack 6 months after he published, so he probably

Noria Fireheart 🔥🔥🔥

noriathereader

Woke up to homophobia, Nigerian style which is a mix of “there’s a law against it” (like there’s no law giving the police the right to search your phone), it’s

Joy Buolamwini

jovialjoy

https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/23/the-term-ethical-ai-is-finally-starting-to-mean-something/This analysis of the Gender Shades paper seems to miss how it has been employed to shift policy + industry practices contribute to legislative wins

Morgan McGuire

CasualEffects

Coming soon in the next version of the #quadplay fantasy console... My original intention was to support games like Wizardry, but this example supports full Dark Forces style camera and

Pinboard

Pinboard

Her attacks on Zuckerberg notwithstanding, Ocasio-Cortez has paid Facebook at least $2.8M to run ads for her campaign, possibly the safest seat in America.https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1266172952481017859 One of very few politicians in

Emil Lamprecht

EmilLamprecht

Somedays it really feels like trying to constantly "do good" is the quickest way to loose. The fastest movers consistently seem to be those who desire to fulfil their ego

Claudio Francavilla

ClaFrancavilla

#TradeDay21: here are some ideas on how #EUTrade can be better used to improve human rights and environmental standards worldwide - provided serious political will to use it as such.

Janine Sickmeyer

myfriendjanine

One year ago today, my SaaS tech company that started as a sketch on an airplane napkin, was officially acquired. Here's my short story. In 2009, I was a

Plum Q Frog 🐸🇱🇷⭐⭐⭐

plumQfrog

1/Why doesn’t President Trump like mosquito’s?CHINA EXPOSED – In detailI saw a lot of people out raged about this article below and I felt a need to expand. And who

Aaron Stewart-Ahn

somebadideas

Forgive me, gonna go off the rails on a little sci-fi speculation why modern billionaires may want to limit access to COVID vaccines around the world / have downplayed &

People_of_Space: Julie

People_Of_Space

Sometimes, science fiction can accidentally stumble into science facts... that's the case with Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels... In the book, the mythical Laputans reveal their advanced knowledge of Mars and

Oluyomi Ojo

OluyomiOjo

2008, we went for a pitch. All was going well until I identified as the CEO. “You don’t look like some that can handle projects worth millions”. We lost the

bletchley punk

alicegoldfuss

It seems tech has taken the "CS first principles" side of whiteboarding interviews and applied it to ops roles, where "first principles" means "build an entire monitoring system from scratch"

Karthik Rajkumar

k__rajkumar

I’m hearing stories of how some pre-doc positions in econ are now as competitive as getting into a top PhD program. So what started as a way to get unprepared

kain.eth

kaiynne

Here comes a long and meandering thread about markets, competition and social norms, with some personal history thrown in. I’ve been thinking about what precipitated my interaction with @sgoldfed yesterday

Palle! 🇸🇪

Palle_Hoffstein

I think there are some misconceptions about how and why these graphical and technical innovations happen in AAA games. I’ve never seen pushes for these graphical or technological innovations come