@joelving
One of the things I've often ended up doing as a consultant is telling organizations things they already know in a way that they're capable of listening to. This is generally stuff folks doing the work have been telling them, but who the execs refused to hear, and sometimes it's stuff that folks doing the work haven't said, because it definitely wasn't safe — but as an outsider I can say these things.
@RuthMalan @nick_tune

@inthehands
The Democratic party exists to govern within a logical institutional framework. The right has spent almost 40 years working to undermine that structure, and is positioned to directly and immediately benefit from it. You think that the democrats going all in on post-truth discourse is going to help? There's no need to also defect from reality — you're not going to win any ground, but you will find there's more to lose. All the democrats need to do is decide they care more about people than money and actually fight.

They won't, of course. Nor will they yield the ground to folks not bought by oligarchs.

@kissane
It's always so weird when folks ask me how to get into security now. Like, I do my best to answer, of course, but it's almost an alien world.

@kissane
When I started in security, my boss pointed me at a couple of books to read in the month or so between getting hired and starting work, and then I was on-site at Microsoft doing code audits. And like, sure, I had part of a CS degree at that point, but for real it was just like, fuck around and learn it from first principles on the job.

@kevinriggle
The primary job of a development team is the creation and maintenance of a shared mental model of what the software does and how it does it. Periodically, they change the code to implement changes to the mental model that have been agreed upon, or to correct places where the code does not match the model. An LLM cannot reason and does not have a theory of mind and as such cannot participate in the model process or meaningfully access that model — written documentation is at best a memory aid for the model — and thus cannot actually do anything that matters in the process. The executive class would prefer that other people in the org not be permitted to think, let alone paid for it, and therefore willfully confuses the output with the job.
@inthehands

@kissane
If you're going wide, a little bit of metadata would be useful — qualitative or quantitative, networks and years studied, and some slim ontology of intents (increase diversity, reduce mental harm, encourage virality), focuses (moderation, recommendations) and mode (technical intervention, etc)
@jcalpickard

If I were a CEO, I'd simply ensure my business didn't kill so many people it inspired assassins.

@inthehands
"Free as in a piano" has been in my vocabulary for a long time, as another point on the "free as in [speech|beer|a puppy]" spectrum