Aditya Mukerjee ๐ฆฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
@chimeracoder.bsky.social
I was going to say this was a flight to Florida, but I realized that was probably redundant
Cops will inflate their pensions by doing unnecessary overtime, because pension payouts are based on the average compensation over the past X years *including* overtime. So they will do OT playing games on their phones and collect money from it for the rest of their lives.
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This doesn't even take into account overtime spiking, a practice which is basically outright fraud, but somehow persists because all cops benefit, and NYPD cops aren't accountable to anyone except other cops. bsky.app/profile/nada...
Cops inflate their pensions by doing unnecessary overtime, because pension payouts are based on your average compensation *including* overtime in your final X years. So cops will do OT fiddling on their phones and collect $$ for it for the rest of their lives.
bsky.app/profile/chim...
This doesn't even take into account overtime spiking, a practice which is basically outright fraud, but somehow persists because all cops benefit, and NYPD cops aren't accountable to anyone except other cops. bsky.app/profile/nada...
This doesn't even take into account overtime spiking, a practice which is basically outright fraud, but somehow persists because all cops benefit, and NYPD cops aren't accountable to anyone except other cops. bsky.app/profile/nada...
Guy down the street is retired NYPD. He grifted over a million dollars in OT pay and just built a $1.2 million home and will rent out the $700K house he is moving out of.
And he has a dozen buddies down here in SW Florida just like him.
People: "Yes, there's racism in old Disney movies, but you can't hold that against them. They didn't KNOW what was bad back then"
Disney executives, 1967: "People will call us racist if we cast a Black man to play a Black-coded ape talking in AAVE. So, cast a white guy in Blackface instead."
A few months ago I sat on a flight next to a cop who was telling her seatmate that she had done this, and that she had used her second cop pension to buy investment properties and rent them out, and I don't think there could be a more succinct description of everything wrong with society than that.
โfunโ fact: nypd officers often move to other places to get a second pension after working the required amount to get an nyc pension
we stan an environmentally-conscious baby
look, when you suddenly get two copies of your favorite daughter, it's best not to ask too many questions about the others
I'm pretty sure she's been an @xplainthexmen.bsky.social cold open at least once
Clinton already was *the* establishment, so that's not a particularly meaningful comparison.
Sanders, of course, was objectively popular, but the party establishment hated him so would never deign to grant anything for that
she did everything the party wanted, but at the same time, she was deeply unpopular (she came in fourth in her own home state), so she never had the leverage that even someone like Sanders could have
this is the second Weird Al reply to this and both are equally wild for different reasons
That's so sweet! It's my favorite album for vinyl - just solid fun from start to finish
I have the exact same problem from a completely different direction. My solution is just to get everything made-to-measure. If you are able to find and establish relationships with the right tailors, it's totally feasible and affordable, but it takes effort.
I've never seen Bob Dylan live, but that's unfortunate to hear he's not a good live performer.
at first I read that as Simon & Garfunkel ๐
What's the weirdest combination of main act and opening band you've ever seen?
@furioursus.dev and I are at an Echo & the Bunnymen show, and the opening act is... an easy listening jazz quintet
In the last 18 months, we have gone from a world where LLMs didn't exist (effectively) to a world where every service you use is actively stealing every piece of data you give it, even if you are a paying customer with enterprise contracts.
Part of the problem is that *everyone* is using AI as an excuse to simultaneously steal data all at the same time.
Yes, Slack automatically using your confidential data to train its LLMs is really bad. But what are you going to do - switch to Teams? Microsoft is no better!
Itโs rather surprising that corporate data governance and information security havenโt gotten in front of all of the various suites of office software turning into corporate data exfiltration channels
closest we got was Durbin saying "this is bad" but we don't need a strongly worded letter; we need actual prep work for a political campaign to forcibly oust Alito
it's really frustrating (albeit unsurprising) that zero Senate Democrats made any statement today indicating that they would take action against Alito (or Thomas, for that matter)
I think that we absolutely could sell Alito as a voting issue.
โThis man takes bribes from billionaires, and he took away abortion rights. Elect me to the Senate, and Iโll make sure he faces consequences.โ
the first part is not strictly true: "federally legalized" is kind of a murky term (we wouldn't say methamphetamine is "federally legalized" but insurance companies can and do cover it).
Schedule I means they cannot cover it at all. Schedule II and lower means it's possible, at least under the CSA, although that doesn't mean all other roadblocks are removed
"we" is doing a *hell* of a lot of work in this sentence, and that isn't even the biggest question I have
I am genuinely shocked that this didn't result in significant, noticeable downtime
Huh, looks like Twitter finally did the twitter.com -> x.com redirect.
For the last year, it's been the other way around - x.com has redirected to twitter.com (lol).
"At 22 you're old enough to die for your country, but not old enough to have an opinion about why you're dying" - Hillary Clinton and her ilk, apparently
Iโm tired of people infantilizing student protesters and suggesting they donโt know what theyโre doing, donโt understand whatโs happening in Gaza, are trying to get out of class blah blah blah, so I wrote this: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/o...
Opinion | What Hillary Clinton Got Wrong About Student Protesters
Older folksโ objections to protests and encampments may not be as reasoned as they claim.
www.nytimes.com
the good news is that I can't imagine any way this wouldn't backfire.
The students are already committed to their cause enough that some BS assignment from a private consulting firm is hardly going to make them question it
They act like we don't literally have a video of the NYPD tossing a person's limp body down a flight of stairs
After the Hind Hall raid, Eric Adams called it โprecision policingโ and said there were โno injuries.โ Minouche Shafik thanked the NYPD for their โincredible professionalism.โ I guess we must have just imagined these hospitalizations.
www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
New York City said 'no injuries' at Columbia arrests; students' medical records say otherwise
After the arrests of pro-Palestine student protesters occupying a Columbia University building last month, New York Mayor Eric Adams and senior police officials repeatedly said there were "no injuries," no "violent clashes" and minimal force used.
www.reuters.com
literally what I was going to post next!
"Anomaly detection" never works because observability is about learning more about your systems, and black boxes are the literal opposite of that
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As someone who has spent years working in the observability space, the phrase "AI-driven observability" could not be any less compelling to me
that is unfortunately not only not true, but a dangerous and harmful line of thinking. in fact, it's the other way around: NYPD gets away with even more than they used to specifically *because* Eric Adams is both Black and a former cop.
well Dorsey quit Bluesky super early on so even then his influence on product strategy has been pretty minimal
the real question is whether you should have them in consecutive clauses within a sentence ๐
something we just learned bsky.app/profile/chim...
While this description of the "Bluesky Elder" labeler may be assuming more intent than we have evidence for, it certainly seems to be an accurate description of its *impact* (click through to see the context)
"simply do not use our anti-abuse tools for abuse" is a pipe dream, not a policy lol
you say "for better or for worse" but I'm really only seeing a "for worse" in that lol
Dorsey left Twitter a month after Bluesky was founded, long before Bluesky even had a product, so that couldn't have been the "plan", unless it was clearly a delusional one
I simply do not accept the premise that a social network launched in 2022 has any excuse for not considering moderation and anti-abuse as a first-class, must-have feature for launch.
And doubly so if the entire premise of the network is a protocol that by design resists accountability.
While this description of the "Bluesky Elder" labeler may be assuming more intent than we have evidence for, it certainly seems to be an accurate description of its *impact* (click through to see the context)
oh, so the "Bluesky Elder" tag is basically crypto-Nazi propaganda, just like those "Classical Hellenist Art appreciation" accounts? ๐ฌ
I don't think that's the only criterion necessary for this to work, but it is one of them, and IMO one of the easier ones to solve, in theory
I think Bluesky should pay mods, and I also think they never will (in a meaningful sense), BUT I also think it's possible to satisfy the condition I outlined without paying mods (there are ways to establish community and social trust, if the feature/protocol/etc is designed with that in mind)
oh, so the "Bluesky Elder" tag is basically crypto-Nazi propaganda, just like those "Classical Hellenist Art appreciation" accounts? ๐ฌ
I agree with a lot of the things in this thread, and I think it roughly boils down to this: "composable moderation" without systems for establishing and maintaining trust in the moderators is just an abuse vector masquerading as a trust & safety tool.
without tools to annotate the origin of labels Iโm kinda of the opinion that decentralized moderation is doing more harm than good tbqh