Steven Sinofsky
@stevesi
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Something I worry about with generative AI in business and commercial use: almost no one fully reads anything in those environments. Now imagine when even the author hasn't read what was written... yikes. How does AI writing and reading impact this reality? I used to write…
I said this before, and I'll say it again. Expired car tabs are a low priority for the Pierce County Sheriff's Office. I support "peaceful political protest". I'm not saying you won't get a ticket, but...Deputies have discretion. mynorthwest.com/jason-rantz/ti…
Hilarious. This kid draws classic fonts on the sidewalk. (via insta)
Many Founding Fathers wrote under pseudonyms Pseudonyms afforded the protection needed to write things that were controversial, to engender debate over things they didn't themselves believe in, and to encourage focus on ideas over reputations Thread of their known pseudonyms🧵
If it’s too hard to believe this was filmed in Gaza two days ago, just scroll to the end. You’ll find a screen recording and clips of the owner walking through ruins into the café☕️
The number of @nytimes articles linking Israel to genocide were 9X higher than the peak for Rwanda, where 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days. In an interview with @thefp, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee describes antisemitism as a virus that evolves to scapegoat…
Lots of really bad economics in today’s NYT op-ed on grocery store competition. Take this passage for example:
Yes.
Anthropic has been a series of ideological decisions later defeated by business realities
We are excited about the CLARITY Act. This is a watershed moment for crypto and America. Years of uncertainty have stifled innovation, exposed consumers to harm, and favored profiteers. The CLARITY Act could be a generational law. When our legal frameworks are designed to…
The House of Representatives recently advanced a major new “market structure” bill with overwhelming bipartisan support (294 to 134, with 78 Democrats supporting). This bill, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act or “CLARITY Act” (HR 3633) would establish a clear regulatory…
Judge Challenges Trump Administration in Hearing on Harvard Funding // This line of argument is total gaslighting as the entirety of the government's role in Civil Rights actions has been based on implied threats or explicit requirements in unrelated private institutions on…
Our infra team breaks down the concept of “context engineering”: @martin_casado - “If you are going to call a model, you have to know what to put in the context… At some point you’re probably going to use traditional computer science." @JenniferHli - “What’s the new form…
+1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering". People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an LLM in your day-to-day use. When in every industrial-strength LLM app, context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window…
UK moving on new penalties for Apple and Google amid trade discussions with Trump washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technol… // Literally the goal and only path forward for business is highlighted.
It was a setup. They arrested the wrong person. I’m sure of it.
Winning: DOJ Announces They Have Arrested Man Responsible For Creating Microsoft OneDrive buff.ly/fup29Pn
Sharing this good mastodon thread. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114881418…
Washington State is Now the Highest Estate Tax State in the Nation: There are quite a Washington State residents who, through a great deal of luck (and often some hard work too) have accumulated substantial wealth through employment at, say, Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, Zillow,…