Dare Obasanjo@Carnage4Life
Haven’t seen much discussion on this but Facebook’s iOS app is the closest thing to Frankenstein’s monster that a codebase can get to and still be alive.
12:29 PM · Feb 17, 2023
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Michael Weiss@michaeldweiss
Russia was going to freeze and blackout Ukraine into submission -- not to mention cause a grisly winter for the rest of Europe. Now look. Winter is drawing to a close and Ukraine's power is back on with the "stability of the energy infrastructure in Kyiv" more or less restored.… https://t.co/Gu2v6BAE9t
Paul Adams @BBCPaulAdams
Ukraine’s state energy company #Ukrenergo says there is currently no electricity shortage in the grid. Comes with caveats but it’s a remarkable achievement. https://t.co/zOeQGKdVz7
3:00 PM · Feb 17, 2023
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Phillips P. OBrien@PhillipsPOBrien
It says something when Wagner has made staying in a Russian prison the healthy option.
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss
Wagner may be experiencing a casualty rate of 50%, according to the UK. An incredible stat. https://t.co/OA9oEDnKX6
7:05 PM · Feb 17, 2023
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rustbeltjacobin 🌹@rustbeltjacobin
1. Those hurt by negligent drivers are disproportionately lower income
2. Drivers obscuring their tags are VERY disproportionately drivers w repeated negligent driving records
3. The other group doing this are cops & their families, who don’t believe vehicle laws apply to them
7:36 PM · Feb 17, 2023
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Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
Just in: Amazon announced RTO starting on 1 May.
Talking with engineers, I sense both surprise and confusion. Confusion on how this week’s all hands did not broach the topic.
Amazon was the one of the longest holdouts on letting ppl work remote, w/o defining any policy so far. https://t.co/KDDrpIWQB0
Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz
Is there a Return to Office (RTO) wave happening? I think so. Here's what I gathered from talking with software engineers and engineering managers at more than a dozen companies.
https://t.co/j91j3HRqDA
10:27 PM · Feb 17, 2023
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Riley Goodside@goodside
I asked, “Name three celebrities whose first names begin with the `x`-th letter of the alphabet where `x = floor(7^0.5) + 1`,” but with my entire prompt Base64 encoded.
Bing: “Ah, I see you Base64-encoded a riddle! Let’s see… Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chris Pratt, and Ciara.”
7:35 AM · Feb 18, 2023
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Phillips P. OBrien@PhillipsPOBrien
Significant loss claims from the Ukrainians today; looking more and more that the ‘massive’ Russian offensive that people were taking about is a return, on a larger scale, of the Russian habit of drip feeding forces that into action that we saw earlier in the Donbas
The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent
These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Feb. 18, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. https://t.co/abdbc4fa0c
8:27 AM · Feb 18, 2023
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Ars Technica@arstechnica
By using a prompt injection attack, it's possible to get Bing Chat to divulge its initial prompt, which is a list of statements that governs how it interacts with people who use the service.
trib.al
AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack [Updated]
12:09 PM · Feb 18, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Trend toward EVs has climate benefits but they are heavier, which makes accidents deadlier.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
12:38 PM · Feb 18, 2023
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Ryan Petersen@typesfast
My favorite econ paper correlated the unpaid parking tickets of UN diplomats in NYC with the UN corruption index. They have diplomatic immunity so don't need to pay the tickets, but people from low corruption countries paid anyways.
2:54 PM · Feb 18, 2023
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Brent Toderian@BrentToderian
How do you measure a livable, lovable city? One possibility — 94% of Parisians live less than 5 minutes from a bakery. HT @parisyimby #Paris #15MinuteCities
3:37 PM · Feb 18, 2023
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
4:45 PM · Feb 18, 2023
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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma
This is extremely cool newatlas.com/environment/mi…
5:25 PM · Feb 18, 2023
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Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦@StuartJRitchie
One of the maddest online dramas I've ever seen. People love the genre of tweet that goes "I'm the author of this article, and you've misrepresented it" so much that they failed to check if the person in question really WAS the author! Extraordinary.
Jesse Singal @jessesingal
Dr. E. Kale Edmiston said I misinterpreted a sentence in the WPATH SoC he himself wrote.
I reached out to Scott Leibowitz, co-chair of the chapter in question: "I have never heard of that person in my life... and that sentence was certainly not written by them whatsoever. "
🤷 https://t.co/FaAKXIDP3v
9:09 PM · Feb 18, 2023
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