Michael S. Kirkpatrick

I just saw a truly horrible UX design choice: Ask for a date of birth, default to today's date, and require clicking back month-by-month (rather than allowing year selection). So middle-aged users literally have to click through 500+ months. 😡

Agreed

That’s awful. I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with that.

That’s horrible. I’m so sorry. 😞

This is my new mantra.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

Just like Jim Crow, they want to silence your voice

One picture with two people in Ku Klux Klan robes and another picture with two Black girls running away from White police officers. Both pictures appear to be from before the Civil Rights Era.

This is what Republicans in VA are resorting to. Comparing the redistricting (passed in direct response to red state redistricting tactics) to Jim Crow. Ugh.

I’m so sorry to hear that. It’s awful.

that is their future. And they’re right to do so.

45-60 is a terrifying age bracket when it comes to money. You’ve accumulated a boatload of financial responsibility so that a job loss becomes crushing. And our society is so ageist that getting a new, reasonably paying job is incredibly hard.

from her job in sales at IBM. 20+ years experience and the only job she could get after a year of trying was cashier at BN. Mortgage debt, kids’ college bills, savings wiped out. Her retirement plans were gone with no hope. And that was about 25 years ago…pre LLMs. A lot of people are terrified…

This whole thread is great, but this point in particular is key. I’ll also highlight how age plays into this. In my younger years, I worked part-time at Barnes & Noble (book discounts…hooray!). One of my co-workers was a woman in her early 50s. A year and a half earlier, she had gotten laid off…

The kid with the firecracker… yikes! Throw in the Haitian deportation angle to make it that much more gut-wrenching.

These companies’ leaders are saying plenty of other stupid and inane garbage. But it’s notable what they are not explicitly saying.

This is exactly one of my key gripes with AI boosters. So many people are thrilled to advocate using AI for law, medicine, and other specialized professions. But the companies making the tools are NOT advising these things…for good reason.

I’m becoming convinced that our current trajectory leads us to a Wall-E future.

Atheists would hope for Richard Dawkins and end up with Bill Maher. 🤪

In our society, rich people get medical advice from doctors using statistical information to guide professional judgment. Poor people get dice to roll.

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

If our redistricting maps hold up, I’ll be so glad to see McGuire and Cline gone.

Yup. My administration has made it clear that they’re not happy that we are not leading the AI adoption vanguard.

If I go based on my actual life timeline, the Singles soundtrack came first. But that was because I was a big dork in high school. I discovered a lot of these much later than that...

It's a twist on Kahneman & Tversky's Linda problem. Here, the more descriptive text isn't just a subset (which it is, logically, like Linda)...it's a subset that is pretty much equal to the whole. But bad faith arguments have really screwed this whole issue and hurt so many kids in the process.

OMFG. My kids' school district sent out an email earlier today letting us know that a middle school teacher was arrested for child porn. And they f***ing included the students (grades 6-12) on the email.

Wait…so you’re suggesting college students are…people? Like with autonomy, opinions, and dignity that should be respected? What kind of monster are you?

Well, it’s a good thing the military doesn’t depend on…technology…

💯 All it takes is five seconds of thinking about what else “at birth” is relevant for identification to realize how stupid this is. Weight? Time? Length? APGAR score? All as irrelevant as sex, but the state forces the latter to be used.

Far too many moderates are just useful idiots.

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Well, I guess it has been a decade since the last filming of that particular novel.

They’ve got to plug their tell-all book deals somehow! 🙄