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99.97% of Venture Capital money goes to people that are not Black women.

0.03% of Venture Capital goes to Black women.

The US Supreme Court cited civil rights law when it said that it is racist to stop anyone from having access to VC based on their race, and that setting aside VC for people of a given race is racist.

So they ruled *against* a group of Black women looking to give their own money to Black founders. For violating the civil rights. Of white men that want that 0.03% too.🙂🙃

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When people say "or" they often mean "xor".

@Wolven I was asking honestly, but I appreciate you're probably more into this than me and have had this conversation before. Have a nice day :)

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@lcamtuf How about "trust but measure outcomes"?

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You ever wake up, kiss the person sleeping beside you, and just feel glad you’re alive? And just like that I’m not welcome aboard Air Canada any more.

@Wolven What exactly should he apologize for? What harm has come to whom from him?

@Wolven It's still better that he changed his mind. May be more believable as an AI sceptic.

@lcamtuf I think anyone protesting against genocide is a friend of mine. Anyone asking for genocide is an enemy of mine. Do you really think those protests are pro-genocide?

@blair_fix I just don't see efficiency as a one way cause of increased consumption, I think they boost each other.

@blair_fix Also, it can be explained by market efficiencies resulting from higher sales volume, no? Assuming your claim is that efficiency results in more use. I imagine a similar graph can be made for car sales vs fuel efficiency.

@GGMcBG @thomasfuchs Sundar is not an expert at AI. He's a manager. His role essentially is to manage the stock price.

@ramsey I don't even know if it was a decision :) I just get a 404 error message when I click "edit".

@ramsey My Mastodon instance/client doesn't allow editing posts, which is kind of a blessing.

@fox For context, I've tried something like 5 specialized note taking apps, but I always come back to Sublime because of the versatility and editing features (multi-line editing, transposing lines up and down). A big downside is that it has no multi-device sync, so I use Google Docs if I need that.
But great thread, I might try a few of the suggestions, thanks.

@fox Open unsaved tabs in Sublime. The stuff I want to keep goes into a git repository which I periodically commit and push to GitHub as backup.

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I've just watched the #Amiga demo HAMazing by Desire and I want to say a few words about it. The first ones are: it's insane what hardware that's almost 40 years old could do. It blew my mind as a kid and rightly so.

The demo is all about leveraging HAM mode, which allowed you to display up to 4K colors simultaneously. Let me explain how that worked and how remarkable this demo is. 🧵 1/6

yewtu.be/watch?v=i0gilhsxaEA

#DemoScene

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