Author: Hrefna. FeatherPub is a dialect of ActivityPub that I am toying with creating for a personal project. (more)

re-frame of technical debt as being associated with increasing complexity (more)

From startups to NASA, Deepgram APIs are used to transcribe (transcript) and understand millions of audio minutes each day. Fast, accurate, scalable, and cost-effective.... ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) sucks and it costs too much. So we rebuilt it. We believe we can fundamentally change the way we live and work by unlocking insights trapped in our conversations. We are working to make voice intelligence available to all with faster, more accurate, more scalable speech recognition made possible by end-to-end deep learning. https://deepgram.com/ (more)

Making data visible as passing through the Real World (more)

I'm playing with Deepgram but it's not happy that I still have Python 3.8.x which is fair. (2021-02-07) Migrating to Python3 (on server) coming from (2020-10-02) Setting Up Python On New MacBookPro (more)

Book: Evidence Guided by Itamar Gilad (cf Evidence-Based) (more)

Scott Alexander: Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor. At its best, philosophy is a revolutionary pursuit that dissolves our common-sense intuitions and exposes the possibility of much deeper structures behind them. One can respond by becoming a saint or madman, or by becoming a pragmatist who is willing to continue to participate in human society while also understanding its theoretical limitations. Both are respectable career paths. The problem is when someone chooses to apply philosophical rigor selectively. (more)

Ed Zitron: Software Has Beaten The World. Every single stupid, loathsome, and ugly story in tech is a result of the fundamentally broken relationship between venture capital and technology. And, as with many things, it started with a blog. (more)

Itamar Gilad: Who Should Rule the Product? Recently the product sphere boiled-over over Airbnb’s controversial move to remove product managers from product teams and convert them to product marketing managers. The Airbnb transformation may be a one-of/One-off. (2023-09-09) Itamar Gilad On Linkedin Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management (more)

Psychological safety is the ability to show and employ oneself without fear of negative consequences of self-image, status, or career (Kahn 1990, p. 708).[1] It can be defined as a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.[2] In psychologically safe teams, team members feel accepted and respected. It is also the most studied enabling condition in group dynamics and team learning research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_safety (more)

Aikido (more)

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (Arabic: محمد بن سلمان آل سعود, romanized: Muḥammad bin Salmān ʾĀl Su‘ūd; born 31 August 1985), colloquially known by his initials MBS or MbS, is Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia. He is also the chairman of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs and the chairman of the Council of Political and Security Affairs. He is considered the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, being deemed as such even before his appointment as prime minister in 2022. He was minister of defense from 2015 to 2022. He is the seventh son of King Salman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Salman

Lester Lawrence "Larry" Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University,[1] and is a member of the Illinois Bar. Lessig is a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election (Presidential Candidates 2016). Lessig is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on Copy Right, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In 2001, he founded Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon and to share legally. Prior to his most recent appointment at Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation; Software Freedom Law Center; the Washington, D.C. lobbying groups Public Knowledge and Free Press; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig (more)

Larry Lessig: On Joi and MIT. A couple of weeks ago, I signed a petition (the site has since been taken down, but you can see it at archive.org) expressing my support for Joi Ito. Not unexpectedly, that signing produced anger and outrage among many, and among some of my friends. I had wanted, in the spirit of the Net, to respond and explain then. I was asked by Joi’s friends not to. Yesterday’s events terminate that injunction. (more)

Ethan Zuckerman: On me, and the Media Lab. A week ago last Friday, I spoke to Joi Ito about the release of documents that implicate Media Lab co-founder Marvin Minsky in Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes. Joi told me that evening that the Media Lab’s ties to Epstein went much deeper, and included a business relationship between Joi and Epstein, investments in companies Joi’s VC fund was supporting, gifts and visits by Epstein to the Media Lab and by Joi to Epstein’s properties (more)

Justin Peters: The Moral Rot of the MIT Media Lab. The Lab’s leaders weren’t averse to making the world a better place, just as long as the sponsors got what they wanted in the process. (more)

Head of MIT Media Lab faces crisis that tears at lab he helped elevate. Last week, Joi Ito acknowledged that he had extensive personal and professional ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who committed suicide in prison this month while facing federal charges of sex trafficking of underaged girls. (more)

Top MIT officials knew of Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Media Lab, e-mails show. According to e-mails that circulated in 2014 and 2015 among university officials, at least two top MIT fund-raisers, along with a finance department administrator, were aware of Epstein’s involvement in the Media Lab and knew that his donations were to be treated as anonymous in the university’s donor tracking system. (more)

Why MIT Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Jeffrey Epstein’s money. What on earth were they thinking? On Sunday, we got a partial answer via an essay by Larry Lessig. (2019-09-08-LessigOnJoiAndMit) (more)

power-holder in oligarchy - see also kleptocrat/klept/kleptocracy, plutocrat/plutocracy/billionaire; cf ostracism, pathological; fascist/authoritarian?