Okay last gripe. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between a remote workforce and a large corporation with many offices. Answer: we zoom from our bedrooms. Anyone who has worked in a company with multiple locations knows that someone somewhere is always remote to you.
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Don’t get me wrong. I’m an office person! When I had the choice of working from home versus going to the office, I went in probably 95% of the time. But I ran a remote organization and this sort of grumbling is a failure of empathy and imagination.
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And the line about quick answers to questions when one can stroll to a desk kind of belies that point. Office work is ALL interruptions, all the time. Also, the author appears to be unfamiliar with Slack and the myriad other ways of summoning attention.
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The argument that working from home has greater distractions than an in office job is clearly written by someone accustomed to the luxury of a dedicated office with a door that shuts and a personal assistant gatekeeping your calendar
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I particularly like the entirely speculative and gratuitous hand wave about SVB potentially failing because *the employees were working from home* rather than because the CEO lobbied to lift regulatory supervision or the execs and board failed to adequately supervise risk.
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In which argues working from home is a bad vibe before conceding there is no supporting data, just cranky white dude CEOs, and barely concealed desire to return to pre-organized labor levels of exploitation.
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Meet our inaugural class of Tech Ethics & Policy Summer Fellows! These fellows will work across various government agencies, think tanks, and legislative offices in Washington, D.C. to better understand how the U.S. government enacts tech policy. stanford.io/3ymCPqb
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It's only machine learning if the model comes with a manifest detailing the provenance of the training data.
Otherwise, it's just ✨sparkling✨ mystery bias recycling.
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I am giddy to be launching our whitepaper today. It feels like the beginning of the most important work I’ve ever contributed to. And it’s an absurd, extravagant honor to be working on this alongside my dear friends, allies, and intellectual heroes.
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Today, we are publishing the Collective Intelligence Project whitepaper, our R&D agenda for transformative tech governance.
It is our contribution to what we see as one of the world’s biggest problems. We couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. 1/
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This gives rise to three failure modes: capitalist acceleration, authoritarian technocracy, and shared stagnation. 4/
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Approaches towards governing technology are coalescing into three broad camps, based on the assumption that the way forward requires sacrificing either participation, progress, or safety. 3/
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Today, we are publishing the Collective Intelligence Project whitepaper, our R&D agenda for transformative tech governance.
It is our contribution to what we see as one of the world’s biggest problems. We couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. 1/
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What horrible news from Turkey. I hope that the world still has the capacity to respond generously to what is no doubt going to be a significant humanitarian need.
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Been trying for weeks now to get an issue with resolved, but the back and forth feels like a group text friend fight. It should not require this much emotional energy to get a prescription reassessed.
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Blake gave me my first real analysis commission, to write about the geopolitics of internet policy. This is so shocking and sad. I’m so sorry.
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I am so shocked and so sad to hear about the tragic death of Blake Hounshell (@NYTBlake @blakehounshell.) I met him in Cairo when I was 22, on the day I got my very first newspaper job. I was excited when he joined The Times and wish I’d spent more time hanging out with him here.
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Our long national nightmare…continues
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The House technically exists again.
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Watching CSPAN and that wailing baby in the House chamber is all of us. Or maybe just the holdouts. Unclear whom to project this on.
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Rep Quentin Williams was the model of a public servant and his tragic death has us all in mourning.
Q was a dear friend to so many in government and his community. His smile lit up a room, and he was admired and respected by all.
We send our deepest condolences to his family.
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DPLA to make cultural treasures freely available on Wikipedia with new Sloan Foundation support: dp.la/news/dpla-to-m
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As says, the idea that Y2K wasn’t a big deal after all is laughable - I remember my dad being deployed in a hotel in downtown Manhattan just in case everything crashed. I’m sure it’s exactly how he wanted to ring in the millennium.
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Tonight I’m really worried about a friend who has been fighting an infection. It’s hard to sleep. I hope tomorrow brings better news.
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I don’t mean this in a conspiratorial way, but in the sense that everyone who pitches an op-Ed has an agenda. They’re selling themselves, their company, their point of view.
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As always with a @nytimes opinion piece, the question is: what is the author selling?
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I'm wondering how a pedestrian crashes into a car.
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Officers responded to the area of Bay and Stockton streets at about 5 a.m. after a report of a crash between a car and a pedestrian. trib.al/5TDLPjs
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Not just their investigative journalists! Their product testers! So I'll take back the Wirecutter trash talk. (On the homepage of the right now, the Wirecutter endorsemsent of end-to-end encryption. LOL.)
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I'm imagining how all those investigative journalists feel about the utility and availability of strong encryption.
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Inadvertently, the oped explains how code can be a form of speech, where the app itself acts out the user and the publisher’s ethical and political views.
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In this case I'm guessing consulting services and expertise to friendly legislative offices, those interested in riding the usual stalking horses to a reinvigorated encryption debate. So, your friendly reminder that encryption makes the internet secure!
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Not only is privacy considered part of the interdependent, indivisible, inalienable web of fundamental rights, it's actively insulting to users to suggest they are not choosing from among a marketplace of competitive products.
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Does the routinely give that much space to non-profit's mission takedowns? Like, here's how XYZ undermines the sustainability of national health systems in developing nations? Or, ABC's mission is thinly veiled racially coded NIMBYism in the guise of conservation?
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Did the run out of year-end roundups of unlimited budget brownstone renovations and Wirecutter commission links? Can't think of another reason to run such an ill-argued piece.
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If this was a insulated bottle, this man would be a hero.
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Just watched a man at a bar in Penn Station order two martinis, pay for them, promptly pour them into an empty Evian bottle, and then walk out all while Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” played on the jukebox. Happy holidays!
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Everyone has Covid. Looks like it's gonna be an Orthodox Christmas this year. 🎄
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(8/11): urged to work w/ tech because “Industry has an equities in ensuring that bodies like #FOC continue to exist... The worst possible outcome for industry is the degradation of the multistakeholder system of internet, of governance, and of rulemaking.”
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Is it an honor to even be nominated?
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Can't be too safe. That's why I secured that sub-market sweater in a box, taped it real tight, tied it up with more ribbon, and then hid it out of sight under a tree.
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If it feels like cozy sweaters are more expensive this year, well…they are. “I would be cautious of sweaters that are below $400,” says one expert. on.wsj.com/3VhEcj0
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