Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

@tubetime the Vacuum Transistor allows fabrication of chip-scale vacuum tubes on normal CMOS process. These devices switch in the terrahertz range and require neither a heated filament nor a vacuum, since the source-to-drain distance is shorter than the mean free path (which means electrons won't hit any other atoms along the way): https://spectrum.ieee.org/introducing-the-vacuum-transistor-a-device-made-of-nothing

Here we have two kinds of Tesla employees: The ones who see nothing wrong with spying on customers without their consent, and the ones who think it's wrong but keep it a secret anyway.

@lowqualityfacts

Every study on the planet: 4 day, 32 hour work weeks prove to be just as productive as 5 day, 40 hour work weeks, and the company gets the benefit of happier, healthier staff.

Every company: What about nah?

Every study ever: Overworked employees are less productive. Employees who work from home are just as productive as employees who work in the office. The evidence is indisputable.

Managers: I see. But I have a hunch that the complete opposite is true.

Columbus Crew 2 player Abdirizak Mohamed, who is Muslim, was once carded by a ref for trying to break his Ramadan fast mid-game.

But this year women's and men's soccer leagues in the US/Canada/Europe (but not France) are adding in-game breaks to allow Muslim players to do just that. https://religionnews.com/2023/04/04/u-s-soccer-leagues-add-game-breaks-for-players-fasting-during-ramadan/

possibly uninformed hot take about corporate security trainings: they too often take a childish, hypothetical approach to security instead of just using stories that have actually happened. Seems a little odd to sugarcoat reality when you're literally trying to teach people best practices to use in the real world.

True crime and documentary is so hot right now, so why not use that same format to keep employees attention and teach them a thing or two?

This is the #government I want.

I think one underappreciated thing that's happening with ChatGPT is that it's reminding people of how joyful it is to do totally mundane searches, i.e. looking up recipes, and *not* get indundated with a million fucking ads.

If you write code you probably have to read this, because it’s by Steve Yegge: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need

I’m still unconvinced, but you still have to read it.

@colinstrasser In the same way there isn't literally an orchestra inside a vinyl record (as convincing as it sounds), there isn't sentience in LLMs and the rest.

The climate is changing
yes, but it must not be that.

We’ve surrendered to the virus
yes, but it must not be that.

The book banners are in power
yes, but it must not be that.

Bigotry is on the rise
yes, but it must not be that.

The youth are depressed
yes, it must be their phones.

In good news, the US NLRB ruling that nondisparagement clauses are void is apparently _retroactive_! Meaning everyone is now free to talk about former employers: https://ogletree.com/insights/nlrb-general-counsel-says-confidentiality-nondisparagement-clause-decision-applies-retroactively/

For years I've used "AI-complete" to indicate problems C-3PO could solve but computers as we know them cannot.

I would not trust chat-gpt near any of them.

The computer alchemy profession has some sort of P vs NP thing going on with this "I can't believe it's not AI" faces-in-clouds nonsense where closing the gap is likely to take multiple lifetimes if it can be done.

I want to say "computer science" but if you can't reproduce it from scratch under laboratory conditions, it's not science.

A left-wing conspiracy theory about the 1980 election was that GOPers convinced Iran to hold onto the hostages to sabotage Jimmy Carter's re-election.

Holy crap; it was actually true.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html