ᔑᐸᐱᑚᕬᐱᑎ @skanman@qoto.org

@ceepolk Is it challenging living in paradise? I'm asking for a friend.

It just occurred to me how some governments like blocking social media, and how blocking Mastadon would be a neverending nightmare.

#fediverse #mastadon #freespeech

@freemo well you seem like a great dude.. and they say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree..

@Baley ugh, everyone else already said the inspirational stuff, umm, I'll go villain.

Coffee reduces hunger, and sugar supplies a cheap stimulant to get things done. So candy it is.
#tgif

@freemo I'm no lover of them either, I can't do that either, I'm just saying it's not fair that they get a bad rep based on the data that is visible. There's not much to go on. If I go by logic though, I don't think the CIA would be a fan of killing either. I've had a few conversations with my grandparents after they died, and it was impossible to get information out of them. Don't judge me, I was sad. But yeah, kind of hard to get data from a dead guy. Torture however, I'd believe that's more common than we know. And that's crap too.

I'm glad you had a good relationship with your dad, and his moral compass was great. I love my dad too, he's awesome. But I have so many friends who don't know their dads, or worse. I'll call my dad later.. I'm inspired 👍

@freemo side note: I think the CIA gets an unfair reputation. I mean like most everything they do is kept quiet, it's only when someone screws up royally that it makes the news. But what about the other 99.9% of the time when things go as planned? Nobody knows. Like when documents get leaked, there's always like 50,000 documents that get dumped, and the media finds the 1 with the screw up. The other 49,999 are boring, but that's them doing their job right.

@freemo
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

@freemo thank you for this, I cling to any shred of hope for humanity these days.

@freemo is the lighter light lighter when you're lit? Cause you can lower the lit lighter light lightly a little.. unless it's a Zippo.

@trinsec @favus and wake up Saturday morning feeling refreshed and energized?! You're mad I tell you!
Happy Friday:)

@favus BBS days.. dialing in and waiting for a node to free up, bad handshakes, noise on phonelines, call waiting dropping connections, ah the good old days.. happy Friday!!

#showerthoughts

Elon Musk purchased Twitter.
Many people leave not liking the control he has over it.
But who is he?

Everyone thinks "eccentric tech billionaire".
That's not who he is, that's a what.
Who is he? He's a guy who loves puzzles. Because they have logical process and a reward for discovering that process. If he can't solve a puzzle it's painful for him.
But why?
Because he has autism.
He has challenges discerning others emotions. He understands logic and technology very well, and that's beneficial because of the profitability of technology.
But he has difficultly with relationships personally, and socially. So naturally understanding these things are a puzzle he wants to understand. If you couldn't understand them, what better tool would exist than a system based on technology that tracks social involvement on a global scale. A social network. So it actually makes sense a guy with autism buys a social network and makes mistakes with it.

Would I hire someone who publicly denounces an autistic guy for buying a social network and learning from it. Nope, I don't care if you're black, white, a Muslim, a PhD, a nobel laureate, an IQ of 180, or gay, it's nothing personal, and maybe you're overqualified, I don't care, I'd still hire you and overpay you, and promote you. But, if you make observations based on limited data, and let social validation emotions override your discernment enough to make that public knowledge, I don't think you'd hire you either if you really think about it. I'm a fan of irony, and a server full of #STEM fans, pro rights, intellectuals, who are bullying an autistic kid. It makes me sad.

Plot twist, making me sad is a great thing because it's something very very difficult for me to do. I have difficulties feeling emotions of any kind. I know the difference between right and wrong though, so that's something 🤷

@ErikJonker hey Erik, I'm a bit concerned for the future of quality academia. I mean a PhD is validation of knowledge you could accumulate for free from a library or the internet. That's what people want out of other people, trust that they know what their doing, and will do that. So trust me when I say I greatly value and respect people with a PhD. I'm concerned what will happen when that process is also automated. Validation is not that tricky to automate. It seems like in the future it would collapse the financial stability of good academic institutions for the sake of efficiency. But that doesn't replace the hands on engagement of a quality academic institution. The value of quality collaboration.

My sister is a doctor of medicine, and it baffles her that I built a company as a college drop out, and I employ well tenured scholars, and also college drop outs, well that's not really what bothers her. What bothers the both of us, is that I have partnerships with universities that couldn't facilitate the curriculum faster than the evolution of the tools developed. Most people I interview who are academic veterans, (I call them vets cause they're burned out already), their knowledge is already obsolete. I've even started it this practice of giving fresh graduates I've hired no concrete job desk for a few months. Like a workation if you will. Not like an internship, but give them a chance to decompress and acclimate. This one guy I immediately sent him on paid holiday just as an experiment, on his first day he didn't question it at all, he just literally thanked me for my understanding. Also a lot of my fresh graduates seem to have developed bias from their institutions, and that's horrible. When I investigated that, it's not even the institutions fault, they do it to themselves and the institutions not aware. Yet they used the institution to do it. I'm really at a loss here. Please forgive me, I'm not trying to rant, merely trying to paint a picture. My organization is multinational, and I'm observing this globally at all levels of life. You have any advice? I'm even considering retirement, getting my diploma, and becoming a professor of something and draw no salary. But that's a bit extreme. So far the problem is manageable, but the growth is constant over the past 10 years. I'm also not the only one experiencing this, my contacts at IBM, Google, and Lockheed have asked me about it over the years and I can only contribute, "I don't know". :-) anyways I apologize again for the long windedness of this. I would greatly appreciate some solid thoughts or ideas. I've got plenty of resources to dump into this. There must be a way to achieve a symmetry between academia and the evolving state of workforce demand. How do I go about getting the ball rolling here? What do I need to do to incentive the academia side? I've hosted lectures, given grants. People show up, take notes, nod heads, agree. Even conglomerates like Sinarmas and Samsung have gone as far as building there own Universities. I've kicked that ball around my board room, and while it's easy to green light, we're all pretty sure we'd wind up contributing to the problem after studying the analytics 😂.

Again sorry about the long windedness of my toots but I think clarity drives quality.

Thanks and I hope you have a lovely weekend.

#STEM #academia

@bernardrentier
I see your point but let's pretend there's only 2 houses in the world and a very large wall separating them. A red house contains all the people who value products and the blue house contains all the people who value making products. While the vast majority of the population live in the red house, the people in the blue house continue to build the wall separating them larger. Why would they do that? The people in the blue house are in control of the people in the red house. But without the red house, the people in the blue house serve no purpose. If the people in the red house are exposed to the blue house, they will deplete the ability of the blue house to supply them with product. If the wall is too big, you get over production and values are destroyed. If the wall is too small, you get under production and the value is too high.
The caveat: both houses value certain types of data, but not each others data. But as time goes on, both houses change the value of products they use.

The result of this is highly entertaining to watch. As time goes by both houses change their color in alternation. But neither house is aware of the condition of the color of it's opposing house because of the wall.

This creates a value of disparity in raw data.

Simplified Example:
You build cars.
You eat food.
You value metallurgy, physics, engineering, the more you know, the more you eat.
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I grow food.
I drive cars.
I value meteorology, agriculture, chemistry, the more I know, the nicer car I drive.

But more people cook food than build cars.
So food is cheaper than cars. People are comfortable with this balance.

Both collect raw data in their job to make their job process more efficient. But here's the catch, once they both have used the raw data to improve efficiency. The efficiency holds the value and the data is no longer necessary. Why isn't the data shared between the both you and I?
Simple answer:

I don't want you building cars AND growing food, makes your value higher than mine.
You don't want me growing food AND building car, makes my value higher than yours.

So we protect the data that's important to us. Then once we've used it, we destroy it or hide it because of competition. We build walls between our houses.

One day, a new guy builds another house. But he doesn't grow food or build cars.
He builds signs.
Drives cars.
Eats food.

He is more expensive because he can choose to help you or me become more competitive than the other. You and I both need him. You and I both pay him. But you pay him more and I pay him less. But he makes more than you and I combined. Now you and I want to do what he does. We could if we had each others data, but we will never share it because of competition. But the new guy uses tools to gather the data anyway.

See, the data was always gold.
We always knew the data was gold.
We have always been so selfish with it.
Because we're so greedy, now you and I want to be Google. The sexy guy with all the data.

There's a dangerous reality though.
If we don't eat we die.
If we don't drive, were ok.
If we stop paying Google, nothing changes.

One day the data will be worthless cause everyone will realize we have always had it. The machines will build the machines. But that food.. who owns more farmland than anyone else? Oh yeah.. Bill gates 😂

I love this planet.. it's so entertaining watching everyone rushing around competing with each other 😁

Happy Friday my friend, I wish you good food, healthy family, and all the data in the world.

@Baley I'm a cheese junky, I've been known to spend 2 hours stirring smoked Gouda, butter, and milk on low heat, to reduce it to a sauce, which is a feat cause smoked Gouda is stubborn. Not all heroes where capes, mine wear rinds. I dunno how I'm skinny, must be a tapeworm or something. Eww, but I'd keep it. I digress. My favorite way to eat brie taking a sliver and wrapping it around garlic fried peanuts, rice, challots, diced cucumber, then dipping it in tempura batter, fry till crispy and dust it with a little lemon pepper. Result is like a French crispy sushi roll. Sorry for vomiting my ADD at you. Happy Thursday.

@Paulos_the_fog yeah, the symptom affects the observation here, if you're brain is in enough of a fog, a lot of people probably won't make the association till others externally notice. Can wind up going chicken or the egg debate with this particular combo for a while.