Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team.” He was likely the company’s most cited ML expert.
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"text": "Over at The Verge, Nilay Patel has a good interview with Matt Mullenweg called How WordPress and Tumblr are Keeping the Internet Weird. (Matt is the CEO of Automattic, which owns WordPress and recently acquired Tumblr.) The interview covers a lot of ground, but there were a few highlights for me. For instance, I thought this was a good take on the state of open source and the tragedy of the commons:\n\n\n\n\nTragedy of the commons is from economics actually. It\u2019s a story. There\u2019s a common field that belongs to this town, but it doesn\u2019t belong to any one person. If all the farmers brought their sheep and cattle to graze in that field, but none of them were investing in maintaining it \u2014 maybe not having their particular sheep or cattle lay off it so things can regrow. The field gets overgrazed and dies. No more grass. Everyone loses.\nIn open-source, it\u2019s very easy for companies to use open-source without contributing anything back, but that\u2019s kind of one of the features of it. We can\u2019t complain about it really, because that is what the license says you can and should do. But I think that companies who think more long-term say, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m getting a ton of value for this. I\u2019m not paying a penny. How do I make sure that this is around five or 10 years from now?\u201d We\u2019ve seen examples of libraries that the whole internet depends on.\nMatt Mullenweg\n\n\n\n\nAlso, I really love the idea of this open, transparent approach to decision making and discussion for a company:\n\n\n\n\nWhat\u2019s interesting at Automattic is there\u2019s no internal email. I get a handful of emails a year from my colleagues. Everything happens on these internal blogs. What that means is we have essentially an organizational blockchain where every single decision going back to 2007 is on one of these internal blogs. You can find how every piece of code works, or every business decision, or every logo. Everything is in there somewhere.\nEven if you and I decided something in a meeting, we need to write it up afterwards. It\u2019s on this P2, so people can participate in it asynchronously. Future generations or future versions of ourselves who\u2019ve forgotten why we made a decision can tell why we did that.\nFinally, we try to say, \u201cReversible decisions quickly, and irreversible decisions deliberately, or slowly.\u201d We put pretty much every decision into two categories. Most \u2014 99% of what you do \u2014 is very reversible. Some things are really big. Who you take funding from, acquisitions \u2014 these things are hard to unwind, so you need to make those decisions very deliberately.\nMatt Mullenweg\n\n\n\n\nI don\u2019t think it\u2019d be the right choice for every company, because frankly not everyone is wired that way, but if you can cultivate that sort of culture, it\u2019s really appealing to me.\n\n\n\nIt was also interesting to get some insights into his plan for Tumblr, which gives me a bit of hope:\n\n\n\n\nIt used to be every post we did on Tumblr, people would say, \u201cOh, you launched this new feature. Why haven\u2019t you gone rid of the porn bots and Nazis?\u201d So we had to do that. There were porn bots and bad people publishing on Tumblr, and we\u2019ve done our best and still today are doing our best, to keep it a healthy, positive place on the web. If I have to say what I would love for Tumblr to be \u2014 besides just an alternative, another place you can go that\u2019s different from the other social networks \u2014 is a place for art and artists.\nArt is necessary for society. It feeds the soul. It\u2019s naturally transgressive. Art pushes boundaries. We need to evolve how Tumblr moderation works to encompass that. It needs to be the best place on the web for art and artists \u2014 a place where they can have a direct relationship to their audience and people can follow things, not an algorithm that\u2019s trying to enrage you.\n\n\n\n\nAnd then further down, this continues:\n\n\n\nIf we can create a third place on the internet that doesn\u2019t have an advertising model \u2014 you might have seen that we just launched an ad-free upgrade for Tumblr. Twitter and Facebook never do that because their business models don\u2019t allow them to. But, luckily, since Tumblr isn\u2019t making very much money right now, we can afford to do that and make it the model. I think that\u2019s pretty cool. We have a really decent chance to bootstrap a non-surveillance-capitalism-based social network, which I think is impossible for the incumbents right now. They just have the golden handcuffs.\n\n\n\nDefinitely some food for thought.",
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Decided to finally sit down and create a @glitch server to host my fun Fediverse bots going forward. Note the domain -- it runs on tinysubversions.glitch.me, a tiny server that is just for my bots to post on but anyone can subscribe.
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Hmm, it’s about 5 years since I got blocked by supposedly funny, quirky “alerts” account by pointing out how they promoted copaganda and appropriated the messaging of others
At this point, it is worth reposting my attempt to educate @pdxalerts about this very issue, about 2.5ya. For those who still think it’s just a funny, quirky account on...
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Apple’s News app still confuses me. Navigation is frustrating, the “today” section still doesn’t know me, etc. I can get the weekly New Yorkers in there, but — even though I subscribed via the app — weekly Economist content does not appear in News itself? A muddle. Anyone use it?
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Come on in, the lava's fine!
Burn, baby, burn…Progressive inferno!
Oh, oh, oh
I'm on fire 🔥
(because Progressives)
Hot, hot, hotter than hell
(Progressives) Burn you like the midday sun 🌞
twitter.com/rightwingwatch…
BREAKING: In a brief re abortion, Supreme court Justices Amy Coney Barrett/Alito's Draft, said US needs a “domestic supply of infants” to meet needs of parents seekin...
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They should, they need to create a committee to create a true structure. Otherwise, we have an army of lawyers and I have gone up again way bigger companies my entire li...
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"text": "Go ahead and come after our billionaire booster that happens to be a highly experienced and qualified lawyer. We will see how that goes. \ud83d\ude02"
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