> Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their...

tolerance for abuse.

> these "laws" contain so many internal contradictions

Also notice how many of the so-called _software laws_ are actually statements about human behaviour and people-problems.

Confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger Effect, Sunk-Cost Fallacy, Ringlemann Effect, Price's Law, Putt's Law, Conway's Law, Brook's Law, Peter Principle, Hanlon's Razor, Amara's Law...

Of the 59 "laws", only a small number are guiding principles specifically about planning and software.

Human behaviour is hard to change -- the same dysfunction can be seen everywhere. As a fundamental principle, you need to use the right/best tool for the job; you will know when you are using the wrong tool/solution because you'll spend a significant amount of time trying to correct/mask the unwanted consequences.

And if you enter a shop where many tools are wrong... consider going to work in a different shop.

> advertising is how folks make money on the web, the surveillance state will persist.

It is more pernicious. Those in the state who want to surveil will enlist those who want the obscene revenue from pervasive advertising. Working together, their lawyers will claim that "you never had any privacy or freedom anyway, so stop wriggling."

> arm desktop are still not a thing

The desktop market is not the only product space anymore.

Apple has had brilliant success with its ARM processors, proving that ARM is more than capable. Before Apple's switch, Chromebooks had been using ARM since 2011.

Android is the dominant operating system in mobile and most Android devices use the ARM platform. Many of these devices have desktop capability -- they are a viable convergence platform.

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52eaHKtX0ks

Excellent point. Suddenly Corporatron finds it easy to censor content in its product.

But why must we limit ourselves to simplistic, false dichotomies such as "Good vs Evil", "Education vs Ignorance", "Community Well-Being vs Disinformation and Arrant Nonsense", "Democracy and Social Confidence vs Propaganda and Conspiratorial Mayhem", and "Mental Health vs Despair and Self-Harm" ? We really are focused on building apps that people love.

> Somehow that just doesn't land the same.

I fear that a modern colloquial rendering would disappoint yet further:

    our besties tune

Certes, challenging to translate!

"Our secret song"

"Our shared song" is looser, though context helps.

"They're playing our song" still captures the timeless feeling. But is wrong for the poem.

For this command in particular, one can add a cheap bar chart with awk:

git log --format='%ad' --date=format:'%Y-%m' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{printf $2" "; for (i=1;i<=$1;i++){printf "-";} print ""; }'

This is a neat trick for a quick visual presentation, thanks!

> censorship [...] that prevent people from hearing all perspectives

A casual conversation is not to be held to the rigour of legal or legislative opinion. But perspectives, like other sorts of opinions, are not all equal in value.

Some opinions are just noise and there is no value in "hearing all the perspectives" from sources that have no interest in even trying to think things through.

The worst opinions are calls to violence -- that lead to actual violence in some cases -- from people who incur zero risk from their extremism.

Idle statements about bombarding civilians, flattening countries, committing war crimes, "sending countries back into the Stone Age where they belong", are examples of arm-chair blather from people of whom the best we can say is that they have never lived under bombardment nor served in a time of conflict in any capacity whatsoever.

I hear your point.

I still think it’s valuable to hear Iranian voices during this conflict.

I’m definitely not saying you have to follow through on what they say!

But it’s valuable to see where people are emotionally. Because when I asked my wife and she essentially said “bomb the regime supporters” it says a lot about where anti-regime Iranians are emotionally.

It also helps people understand why anti-regime Iranians have been pro Trump during this conflict.

Keep in mind that my wife is from Tehran, and has a huge network of family in Tehran. This isn’t some abstract thing to her. And it’s consistent with the other expats I know who want continued pressure on the regime.

> has a huge network of family in Tehran. This isn’t some abstract thing to her.

If the huge network of family in Tehran is clamouring to be bombed, I will concede your point, Sir.

> then we all have lost.

Yes, we have lost sound leadership and stability. Pakistan has brokered the cease-fire in a war started by the US for no good reason. The current US administration was supposed to be non-interventionist.

It is hard to watch the grim spectacle of the US fallen to the point of simultaneously making despicable threats to destroy another country and sending love and best wishes at election-time to Hungary's anti-EU, pro-Russian Orban.