Notes

Killer robots are already here, thanks to corporate politics, naive engineers, car culture, and Arizona’s government being happy to let them learn among their citizens. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/11/how-terrible-software-design-decisions-led-to-ubers-deadly-2018-crash/

If you think you know everything, you are probably useless.

The world is beginning to catch up to @LatanyaSweeney’s work from last decade, and it makes me wonder what she’s up to now.

This has twice led me to abort iOS projects. It feels like work more than e.g. a web app with Heroku.

People still don’t seem to be savvy enough to verify information they receive over Twitter or Facebook before acting on it. — @joshuakeating, 8 years ago

I’ve watched American political discourse evolve from “where do you stand on the small set of issues we discuss today” to “are you Crips or Bloods.” I’m still not quite sure how this happened and really don’t want to be anybody’s base.