Extroverted Developer

“I know the goddam trouble with me, I thought. Enough brains to see it and not enough guts to stand up to it. Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, rootless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.”

― Budd Schulberg, The Harder They Fall

Around the world the fallout from the Epstine file disclosure in the US continues to ripple through out the world. At the time of writing the World Economic Forum CEO Borge Brende has stepped down as a result.

The Wall Street Journal and NY Post have started publishing stories in their opinion section with titles like “Even Contemptible Men Don’t Deserve Mob Justice“

I disagree. It’s about time these people felt the results of the very policies they use against regular working class people. You can’t even get a job in Finance if you have any kind of criminal record. Not because it’s illegal to work in finance if you’ve stolen a candy bar, but that’s just the corporate policy. Merely being arrested is often grounds for termination if you’re an hourly worker. Those corporate policies don’t require evidence or conviction in a court of law for the consequences to be wrought.

You have to be subjected to the humiliation of random drug testing to be a warehouse worker, but not if you’re an executive at that same company?

It is about time they felt the consequences of the policies they either put in place or never questioned because it didn’t affect them.

Where was the WSJ opinion section decrying these policies before they affected “their class”?

On a whim I decided to go to the theatre this afternoon. Had no idea what was playing but OMG am I happy I found Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.

I didn’t think we were capable of making a movie like this anymore. It felt like the 90s again. Loved it. If you want more risks like this instead of Scream 7, run, don’t walk, to the theatre to see this one

Unpopular opinion: I don’t think LinedIn needed a vertical videos product

The city of New York dropped a ton of new openings today

https://cityjobs.nyc.gov

Here’s a couple of my favorites

Social Media algorithms use many signals to choose winners (going viral) and losers (most of us). Every now and then you stumble upon one which really matters. I just found out that when a big account blocks you it’s a HUGE signal to the algo not to show your stuff.

Recently Dare Obasanjo was being his typical man child self and I called him out on his childish behavior. He then blocked me as is his right (coward).

Dare: Google declares it won’t have ads in Gemini!

Me: They put ads right next to the AI overview on the Search page

Dare: link to article reiterating what Google said

Me: It’s the same AI

Dare: Take the L and move on

Me: Obnoxious as always I see. I remember this when we were at Microsoft too. Grow up.

I really am surprised he hasn’t matured in his online behavior in all those years.

I’ve never been a fan of Google. I always thought “Don’t be evil” was naïve at best, and a lie and attempt to reputation wash at worst.

I was vindicated when they removed it after building military robots. They do evil things all the time, including shutting down people’s accounts with no recourse. Not fixing bugs in Android like when I texted “I love you” to my then girlfriend, it went to my BOSS who was quite confused. Found the bug online with “Won’t Fix” as the status.

So when Google says they won’t put ads on their AI, when they clearly already are, I take issue.

Unfortunately the block by such a large account put a severe distribution penalty on my Threads account. So I’m in distribution jail until the data used for that flag falls out of retention.

In the 1970s a researcher named Bruce Alexander was researching addiction using rats.

Rats in lab cages were given a choice of plain water or water laced with morphine. They chose the morphine like all the time. Many overdosed.

Then he built “Rat Park”. A 200x larger play space with food, play toys, other rats to play with.

They were given the same choice in water. Most chose plain water, none overdosed. He forced a set to get addicted, but in Rat Park they chose to go through withdrawal.

I think about this study from time to time when it seems like my alcohol intake is a bit high or I start smoking, etc.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs

Originally posted on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@jimfwallace/post/DQu5b82ATb5

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