Thank you!

Mostly because of her overwhelming sense of entitlement.

In her head, it’s her seat, and she deserves to be elected with a giant majority regardless of how useless she actually is.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs

It’s always one of the first things to get cut when companies try to save money.

That’s not how it works.

Parties are at the national level, and form alliances/blocks at the international level in order to get things done. These blocks shift and there is no guarantee that one party will continue to vote with a particular block.

Pick a country. Generally, the political parties in that country will stand for local elections, national elections, and EU elections. At that point you can ask what their politics are. But EU wide parties aren’t a thing.

I tried using some but they’re all equally shit.

That would be fine, if people weren’t using LLMs to write code, or to do school work,

But they are. So it’s important to write these articles that say “if you keep using a chainsaw to drive nails, here are the limitations you need to be aware of.”

It’s super hard to get involved as a UI person. If you’re a developer, you can just rock up to a project and fix bugs, and if you follow the coding style they’ll probably get accepted.

If you want to successfully contribute as a UI person you have to convince a bunch of developers that you know what they should be doing better than they do. It basically never happens.

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I changed companies and we all use teams now.

But none of that stuff helped when I did use it.

The problem was I was in AWS and needed to be subscribed to hundreds of channels. So when I needed to find something, I’d have to click through maybe 20 different channels all with similar names to find it. At that point the back button is useless.

Thumbs up is good for telling a person you’ve seen something. It doesn’t help the rest of the team know this, unless they like to go back and read old messages.

I mean the real take home message is “don’t work for Aws”. Slack just made some of the dysfunction worse, it didn’t create it.

Fuck slack though.

I hated the channel organisation, I would always click off a channel where I needed to respond to try and find other information, and then I’d never be able to find the channel I was responding to. Chronological sorting channels at least means I have a chance of finding where I was.

Also fuck their terrible reply options. I generally just wanted to acknowledge that I was responding to a message, I didn’t want to spin up some weird thread.

Basically, I hate everything, and don’t want to talk to anyone.

Yeah they’ve rolled it out to everyone, got a defacto monopoly and now they’re increasing the rates for new customers.

This is just capitalism 101 while pretending it’s for the regulators.

Honestly it’s good.

Trump is not going to stop embezzling from the campaign, and the more people point out the problems the more chance there is that the republicans start infighting, and donors drop out.

How fucked up would it be if your actual town square was owned by a private company?

You have just invented malls. Hugely damaging to society, but they come with convenient parking and air con.

I quite like the tag line X, the abandoned shopping mall of the internet.

I think it describes it well.

There is big money lobbying against this, and the AI act, and every other EU regulation.

US firms care if they can make money in the EU and actively lobby to change legislation.

It’s still an interesting question. Why was this a civil case rather than criminal?

And there’s no great answers. Basically a lot of it comes down to civil being easier to win and a safer bet than criminal proceedings.

https://apnews.com/article/crime-new-york-lawsuits-manhattan-bb0b240218679e38f59b6fe28566272c

Honestly, most of what Cambridge analytica did was blackmail, illegal spending, and collusion between campaigns that were legally required to be separate.

Much of the data processing/ml was intended as a smoke screen to distract from the big stuff that was known to work and consequently legislated against. The problem is that they were so incompetent that the distraction technique was also illegal.

Maybe the machine learning also worked, but it’s really not clear.

Well this is it. What really enforces the policy is rejecting commits that break user space.

Now if you’ve got a large enough group of devs, rejecting commits is fine, but if you’ve only got a small group you need everyone to be working productively, and you can see why Linus ended up giving angry feedback about commits that were wasting everyone’s time.

It’s half this, and half an explicit policy “we do not break user space”. Together it meant that if you did anything that screwed up the user space you got told about it at length.

Now Linux culture is established enough that it only really needs the policy, and not the cussing people out to enforce it.

Famous email about it here: https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE