@honer.bsky.social Who are the pioneers today in adapting history’s lessons to the next wave of naval technologies?
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Should improve authoritarian surveillance of US state governments?
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3w agoA look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product (Washington Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
@radiofreetom.bsky.social how well do presidents surround themselves with capable staff and cabinets?
It's not just automating coordination to flatten orgs. This autocratic-flavored enterprise ambition is to stop renting smarts from human experts (who leave, die, have opinions) and make smarts owned by the company in full. Scales better, keeps improving, doesn't question orders, works weekends.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2mo agoA recent Y-Combinator talk explains why Silicon Valley is at war against middle managers. The argument is if AI native companies document every process and record every meeting.then leaders can simply ask Claude what’s going on and AI can suggest process/business improvements overnight.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social Do private US companies (like Amazon) historically have recourse for US War Department damage to their assets? Is there some online form to request reimbursement? news.slashdot.org/story/26/05/...
Amazon Stuck With Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes On Data Centers - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon's cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal ...
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So someone comes to your town to build an AI data center that will pollute, raise local energy prices, and lie abandoned in five years as old chips don't matter and the funding goes away. What can locals do to get the AI wildcatters to shoulder all the pain? www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economic...
AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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So what's the fully loaded cost of using AI (the way you'll want to use it a year from now)? Without the subsidy? Adding in taxes, to cover the externalities?
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 3mo agoChips used to be considered the limiting factor to meeting AI demand but electricity has proven to be an even bigger factor. The cost to build new gas power plants has gone up 66% in two years given larger demand from datacenters and the waiting list for gas turbines now stretches into the 2030s.
I wrote a piece explaining why open protocols are even more important in a world where everyone can build their own software - and what that might mean for social. werd.io/one-size-fit...
One size fits none: let communities build for themselves
How open protocols and agentic development could lead to a whole new generation of social applications.
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A PE duopoly on ambulances with three year backlogs and US$500K prices seems like a great opportunity for a startup incubator. Or foreign entrants. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/code-red-w...
Emergency Prices: How Private Equity Captured the Ambulance Market
Emergency service costs have been going up for years, frustrating city officials. One reason seems to be private equity, which bought up ambulance makers and raised prices.
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So if you have budget for 100 agents as direct reports, what percent do you dedicate to roles that defend you from internal political attacks, that wage quiet wars on rivals, that support sponsors and allies as you accumulate power? More than your colleagues? Less than your boss?
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 4mo agoA peer recently went from overworked to praised for being on top of things by delegating tasks to dedicated Claude agents. Since agent context fills up over time, I’ve learned giving them dedicated roles ensures optimal performance. Your coding agent shouldn't also be your meeting summary agent.
Persistence of a customer relationship must span products, projects, and companies. The lifespan of all of these can be shorter than the time to build enduring relationships (or communities) and trust that creates value over a lifetime. So if your relationship is not with the software pop-up?
Armin Ronacher@mitsuhiko.at · 5mo ago“If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/so...
Is #peakoil about historic levels of production? or historic prices? Who thought it would come in 2026? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
Peak oil - Wikipedia
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You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????
So many DHS/ICE "reform" ideas floating around as the budget fight in Congress develops. From 2010-2014, I helped negotiate & enforce consent decrees relating to racist/violent police agencies across the country as part of the U.S DOJ's Civil Rights Division (RIP!). Here are my general thoughts.
The break ups are harder on away missions episode. The dead school chum makes us grow up a bit episode. The I really shoulda joined the Starfleet accounting academy episode. The does this dress uniform make my biceps look bigger episode.
Phil Wolff@philwolff.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe strange team sport episode. The parent issues episode. The crappy roommate figures it out episode.
The strange team sport episode. The parent issues episode. The crappy roommate figures it out episode.
Phil Wolff@philwolff.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe culture-is-hard but love is harder episode. The who gets to lead the team episode.
The culture-is-hard but love is harder episode. The who gets to lead the team episode.
Phil Wolff@philwolff.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe spring break episode.
Russian prosecutors asking to have Pussy Riot officially declared an "extremist" organization. From Pussy Riot's official facebook: "Singing in the streets is not extremism. If telling the truth is extreme, then hold my Red Bull."
Long Beach, Signal Hill, Avalon, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach & South Santa Ana. Let’s go!
@radiofreetom.bsky.social So, how do autocrats consolidate power when they fear losing their figurehead? Do they try to shift loyalties to a new DearLeader? To a new institution? Something else?
Kudos to Josh for doing an amazing job with TPM and entering the 25 year club at truly independent media, which I think consists of him, @techdirt.com and... um... not sure who else? Does @slashdot.org count? Probably not since they got bought at some point.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 9mo agoPHOTOS: TPM Celebrates Our 25-Year Anniversary in NYC talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/phot...
About a generation ago there was a huge movement to capture the expertise of skilled and knowledgeable employees in side of a company or other large organization in ways that could be reused. Sometimes in the form of manuals and documentation, or training programs and curriculum, or software. /1
Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · 10mo agoI don’t talk about it much because the situation doesn’t really change but it’s still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.
Can you design or regulate 2026-era data centers for a productive retirement? Readily-recyclable aged compute and network gear? Repurposed physical spaces and real estate? Or will these become the next industrial abandonware, rusting, crumbling hulks like a new rustbelt?
Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 10mo agoOh what’s that? They will depreciate at roughly 3 times the rate previously touted and require constant replacement and 2-3x the revenue to match initial expenditure?
Maybe someone you work with needs help talking to people or giving feedback. www.eventbrite.com/e/presenting...
Presenting Work with Confidence!
It doesn't matter how good your work is, if you can’t present it it's going in the trash. Come learn how to present with confidence.
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If you are in the US military, this is your reminder that it is illegal to follow an unlawful order.
When companies hire back laid off humans (to fill the gap until... whenever) will workers #unionize? It will be a moment of employer vulnerability and labor opportunity. #aibacklash @carnage4life.bsky.social
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 12mo agoFearmongering about how AI will take people’s jobs just makes people hate the tech industry and will cause a backlash when people figure out LLMs aren’t that smart.
Regular reminder that Skynet Sentience day is next Friday, on August 29th.
Professional manga translators have adopted the tics of scanlators. Also the bar is pretty low considering the demand. Think this Rachel Thorn article from 2009 about the low quality of manga translation is a good read: web.archive.org/web/20140828...
On Translation
"Translations are like wives: the faithful ones are not beautiful, and the beautiful ones are not faithful." A horribly misogynistic quote to begin an essay with, I know, but it's a quote that has ...
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