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hacker_yackeron A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson

Anyone who claims to be self made is dishonest to themselves. "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main" -John Donne

hacker_yackeron Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing

AI will absolutely solve these problems, by inventing nimble AI native companies that disrupt these business models into the Stone Age, worker by worker, role by role. Death by a billion cuts.

hacker_yackeron Consumer Autonomy or Illusion? Rethinking Consumer Agency in Age of Algorithms

Consumer agency in the digital age is increasingly constrained by systemic barriers and algorithmic manipulation, raising concerns about the authenticity of consumption choices. Nowadays, financial decisions are shaped by external pressures like obligatory consumption, algorithmic persuasion, and unstable work schedules that erode financial autonomy. Obligatory consumption (like hidden fees) is intensified by digital ecosystems.

hacker_yackeron Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google

Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text or on social media. According to Forbes, those URLs are being indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up those conversations on the web.

hacker_yackeron Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

IMHO only reason cannabis is illegal is it's a threat to Pharma Industry, Pharma Lobby, aka organized, legal crime.

hacker_yackeron Positron, a New Data Science IDE

Cool. I use AI to cook up custom interfaces for each project.

hacker_yackeron Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical-cannabis-card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more.

hacker_yackeron Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile

Just wrong. Apple just acquired 7 AI companies (talent pool). And amazon's Bedrock has been solid and pushing envelope for years.

The problem is with your expectations. Apple is no longer winning all the time, so relatively, it feels like it's losing. And Amazon is the quiet beast lurking, it's just doing a poor job at marketing.

hacker_yackeron Made a GitHub repo with many ways to Rickroll, now it has modular rickroller

The files are not sorted, so its sorta a jumbled roll, but a roll nonetheless

hacker_yackeron Is economics education fit for the 21st century?

I think the structures are relevant, but I also think there is a huge opportunity for the concepts to be disrupted by AI.