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Well it is an 80-bit long key. [But] if it had 80 bits of entropy, it wouldn’t be exportable.

It turned out there were two types of Reader users: the completionists, who go through every unread item they have, and the folks who just scroll around until they find something. Both sides think the other is bonkers.

Systems where nobody takes responsibility do not lead to good outcomes.

Using the term “masculinity” to talk about male supremacy or male privilege is undeniably a bad idea; it normalizes patriarchy, framing political power and the abuse thereof as a “natural,” inevitable form of gender expression.

Specifically, they mean how well a man fills his role in patriarchy by (a) rejecting any trace of “femininity” or womanliness, so as to be the exact polar opposite of a woman, and (b) keeping women and queer people down.

the rise of AI will look like past labor-saving technologies, maybe like the telephone or typewriter, which vanquished the drudgery of message delivering and handwriting but generated so much new correspondence, commerce, and paperwork that new offices staffed by new types of workers — clerks, accountants, typists — were required to manage it

Imagine simplifying complex realities into something that is readable for a machine that is totally dumb

The question is, Who bears the cost for these fluctuations?” said Jindal of Partnership on AI. “Because right now, it’s the workers.”

“I remember that someone posted that we will be remembered in the future,” he said. “And somebody else replied, ‘We are being treated worse than foot soldiers. We will be remembered nowhere in the future.’ I remember that very well. Nobody will recognize the work we did or the effort we put in.”