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links, etc Traffic Altercation - SNL - YouTube one of the best skits i’ve seen in ages. saving here for ref.

links, etc Prompt Engineering | Lil’Log this is a great introduction into prompt engineering. there’s a lot to unpack here. candidly, i have been mostly skeptical of much of the recent announcements and activity associated with AI. not that it doesn’t work for the vast majority of language oriented use cases, but that the behaviors and the outputs would still require that we confirm the results and that we’ve unleashed infinite bullshit generators upon the world....

links, etc Hiltzik: The truth about Lilly’s insulin price cuts - Los Angeles Times you really should pay attention to the markets when you’re evaluating the apparent “good” that a corporation is engaging in.

links, etc How to Find Joy in Your Sisyphean Existence - The Atlantic more in the vein of my personal dark philosophy … the secret to happiness is lowered expectations embrace the suck if you can’t change your company, change your company.

links, etc The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization quite possibly the best discussion i’ve seen of how (and really why) cisco eschewed technical innovation in favor of financial engineering. outlines all the notable disinvestments in differentiating technologies and acquisitions with the financial elements. if america wants to look at why it’s not a leader in many domains, perhaps a cold look at what the impacts of the financialization of nearly everything yields....