so fucking angry. just got off the phone with my credit card's fraud department where they asked me to confirm my identity by **reading back the security code they send me by SMS** i was fucking furious. i just said "no, i'm not going to do that, every single anti-phishing training i have ever taken says not to forward security codes to anyone." guy said "fine" and confirmed with a message to my app instead. but holy shit, what a disaster.

when you need to start on a new feature but you just finished rolling back the last one that turned out to be a bad idea and a huge waste of time.

I don't need a summary of the year, I just fucking lived through it and I don't really want to re-live through it, thanks.

oh wow I had no idea.

it's insane to me that the Biden administration sat on all this for four fucking years. what are we supposed to conclude from that. what kinds of conclusions.

as foretold by basically every critic of self-driving cars. and this is the case for all machine learning technologies. they can only do 90% of the work and expect the human expert to take over for the complicated bits, but after so long depending on a machine, the human is no longer an expert.

lmao

what a cool guy, thanks, The New York Times!!

the reason executives are pushing AI so hard is they've always **hated** that they need people who can actually do things. people who can draw, sing, write, code, dance, film. people with taste who can pick colors and design spaces and draw. People who know how to edit footage and audio, who know things about lighting and languages, who can do research and analyze laws and regulations.

this is optimistic imo. Germany never recovered its place in the academic world after fascism.