also: i know that a persons's work emails aren't technically theirs…but it still feels really weird to me that bosses often get their employers' inboxes when they leave the gig. i get it but also…feels…kinda invasive!
@cwarzel
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Zombie Email Accounts: Managing Dormant Access After Employee Departure
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Anyone here (especially managers) have any good stories about what happens to email accounts when somebody leaves a job? heard one the other day about a zombie email account that was dormant for 8 yrs ( person got a new job at their old company all their old emails were there!)
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Senator’s Dual Capability: Fashion and Weapons Development
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sure the politics are tough but what about a senator who can wear pink *and* develop a weapon of mass destruction?
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Atomic Bomb History Mirrors Modern AI Development Race
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it’s a weird moment right now where pop culture is interested in the building of the atomic bomb and so are AI folks who think they’re doing the modern equivalent. I spoke to the historian whose work sits in the middle of this peculiar intersection
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AI Workers Obsessed with Manhattan Project History Book
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I hung out with Richard Rhodes, who wrote the definitive, Pulitzer-winning history of the Manhattan Project. His book is everywhere right now, partly because of Oppenheimer but ALSO because AI workers/doomers can't stop reading it. I asked him about it all
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Impressive Camera Effect Technology Demonstrated
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i dunno what the camera effect is here but it *whips* https://t.co/zYlRGJBkbH
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) 17 juillet 2023i dunno what the camera effect is here but it *whips*
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Twitter bug causes self-DDoS amid Elon Musk rate limits
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sickkkkkkkkkkk https://
waxy.org/2023/07/twitte
r-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/
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AI’s Role in College Admissions and Affirmative Action Policy
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you should be reading everything @matteo_wong writes https://
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
hive/2023/06/affirmative-action-ruling-race-conscious-college-admissions-essays/674590/
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Witnessing extraordinary technological breakthroughs in real time
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just feeling grateful i was born when i was so that i get to be alive to witness this kind of shit
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Internet reminds us humanity shapes digital spaces
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reading this is one of those necessary reminders that the internet — all the good, bad, and weird, is just people