Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

How to know you're raising an east-coast kid right: at the end of the best powder day of her life at Stowe, we hit a scraped-out section of one trail and Riley said to me: "dad, I really like skiing on ice."

But they are often entirely wrong, because they've stumbled into a new field they're largely ignorant of and so their first impressions have no foundation of deep knowledge on which to find stable ground. And they take their disagreement with the orthodox views not as a (defeasible) sign that they perhaps lack understanding, but instead an indicator that they have discovered a suppressed or undiscovered truth.

One time in grad school, I decided to finally learn Haskell, so I asked Barbara Liskov if she could explain monads to me.

She said "no" and walked away.

In that moment, I was enlightened.

it SNOWED.

#azwx #photography #tucson

The lawsuit we're fighting isn’t just about the Internet Archive. It will determine the future of all libraries & their patrons, including those with print disabilities. #Accesstoknowledge for diverse communities will be impacted 🌍

Over the next 20 days until we go to court, we’ll be giving you 20 reasons to care about this lawsuit. We can’t wait to introduce you to the teachers, doctors, journalists & many more who rely on our lending library #EmpoweringLibraries https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive

Mastodon is the exact right place to ask the universe for a photo series of estuarial animals called

MARSH MADNESS

Please, for me, someone do this

#MarshMadness

The best thing I've seen written on Musk and Twitter is this random YouTube comment (that I can't find a way to link to directly)

Already smarting from a breach that put partially encrypted login data into a threat actor’s hands, LastPass on Monday said that the same attacker hacked a senior devops engineer's home computer and obtained a decrypted vault available to only a handful of company developers.

“This was accomplished by targeting the DevOps engineer’s home computer and exploiting a vulnerable third-party media software package, which enabled remote code execution capability and allowed the threat actor to implant keylogger malware,” LastPass officials wrote. “The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.”

A person briefed on a private report from LastPass and spoke on the condition of anonymity said the media software package that was exploited was Plex. Interestingly, Plex reported its own network intrusion on August 24, just 12 days after the second incident commenced.

It's not clear if the Plex breach has any connection to the LastPass intrusions. Representatives of LastPass and Plex didn’t respond to emails seeking comment for this story.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/lastpass-hackers-infected-employees-home-computer-and-stole-corporate-vault/

How many Polish people (including myself) feel about the war (or rather - what lead to it and the reaction of many opportunistic cowards) and why a ton of my peers are extremely pessimistic, nihilistic, and depressed in the past year, seeing not much hope for the future and the world.

bees: a black market in live bioweapons

Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American community. 81 years ago today, when I was just a boy of four, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast and our long years of internment inside ten barbed wire prison camps.

We must never let such a thing happen again in America, and and we must strive everywhere to prevent the forced relocation and mass incarceration of innocent people. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

Incredibly fitting we were first in line for the #Section230 fight.

There's a layer of irony here though: certain education systems are hell-bent on producing human AIs. Schools focusing on rote memorization and solving cookie cutter problems are basically aiming for the same thing: mindless drones that can do what they've been trained to do, but nothing novel.

I remember I was one of like 3 people who solved the last problem in a Physics I final, out of 100+ students. It wasn't a hard problem at all, it was simply a slight twist on a problem we'd all solved before. You could solve it by just plugging in another equation and doing simple algebra.

But that twist was something we hadn't seen before, and it threw most people off because they'd been trained to expect the same problems they'd seen before. Like all they have is a lookup table in their heads of problems and solutions.

Maybe instead of all the hype over how smart AI looks we should start focusing on not dumbing down actual humans first. *We* can do a lot better.

Ready for today's session on building multiplayer games?

We'll be using Discord for Q&A- if you’re not already in our Unity Multiplayer Discord, here’s your invite to join! https://discord.gg/unity-multiplayer-network

And here’s the channel for this series: https://discord.com/channels/449263083769036810/1074696953385988167

See you there!

hahaha wtaf why have they not pulled the plug on this idiocy https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/