#blind-spots — Public Fediverse posts

Successful Companies Go Blind

https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859678

#HackerNews #successfulcompanies #businessstrategy #innovation #blindspots #entrepreneurship

Successful Companies Go Blind

https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859678

#HackerNews #successfulcompanies #businessstrategy #innovation #blindspots #entrepreneurship

Crafting a Compelling Villain: Goals, Motivation, Conflict

Crafting a Compelling Villain: Goals, Motivation, Conflict – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 210 *** “In addition to your villain’s goal, they need a motivation. They feel like they’re the hero of...
The post Crafting a Compelling Villain: Goals, Motivation, Conflict appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/06/22/crafting-a-compelling-villain-goals-motivation-conflict

#HOWTOWRITETHEFUTUREPODCAST #Antagonist #backstory #BethBarany #blindspots

Crafting a Compelling Villain: Goals, Motivation, Conflict

Crafting a Compelling Villain: Goals, Motivation, Conflict – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 210 *** “In addition to your villain’s goal, they need a motivation. They feel like they’re the hero of...
The post Crafting a Compelling Villain: Goals, Motivation, Conflict appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/06/22/crafting-a-compelling-villain-goals-motivation-conflict

#HOWTOWRITETHEFUTUREPODCAST #Antagonist #backstory #BethBarany #blindspots

Are We Ignoring Some Remaining Weaknesses With the Texans?

Given how the Houston Astros’ 2026 season is sliding into the toilet, and given how disappointing the Houston…
#NFL #HoustonTexans #Houston #Texans #Blindspots #C.J.Stroud #Football #homepage #NickCaley
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/890036/

Are We Ignoring Some Remaining Weaknesses With the Texans? https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/890036/ #BlindSpots #CJStroud #Football #homepage #Houston #HoustonTexans #HoustonTexans #NFL #NickCaley #Texans

Threat Actors Exploit Blind Spots Beyond Endpoint Defenses

Attackers are now moving at an alarming pace, taking data four times faster than in 2025, and exploiting the blind spots that an over-reliance on endpoint defenses creates. They're striking across multiple surfaces, from cloud services to remote users, to evade detection and get in and out quickly.

https://osintsights.com/threat-actors-exploit-blind-spots-beyond-endpoint-defenses?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#EndpointDefenses #BlindSpots #Exfiltration #IncidentResponse #Unit42

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face https://www.wired.com/story/when-face-recognition-doesnt-know-your-face-is-a-face/ #Security/Privacy #BlindSpots #Security

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face https://www.wired.com/story/when-face-recognition-doesnt-know-your-face-is-a-face/ #Security/Privacy #BlindSpots #Security

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/when-face-recognition-doesnt-know-your-face-is-a-face/

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/when-face-recognition-doesnt-know-your-face-is-a-face/

🚀✨ In a groundbreaking announcement, #Jepsen reveals that systems are *gasp* difficult to test in the most obvious places—cue the #fuzzer blind spots conspiracy 🤔. But don't worry, they've got #Kyl on the case, so sleep easy knowing your #bugs will continue thriving in the shadows 🐛🔍.
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-06-06-fuzzer-blind-spots-meet-jepsen/ #testing #blindspots #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

🚀✨ In a groundbreaking announcement, #Jepsen reveals that systems are *gasp* difficult to test in the most obvious places—cue the #fuzzer blind spots conspiracy 🤔. But don't worry, they've got #Kyl on the case, so sleep easy knowing your #bugs will continue thriving in the shadows 🐛🔍.
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-06-06-fuzzer-blind-spots-meet-jepsen/ #testing #blindspots #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding

https://ezyang.github.io/ai-blindspots/

#HackerNews #AI #Blindspots #LLMs #AI #Coding #Machine #Learning #Tech #Insights

AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding

https://ezyang.github.io/ai-blindspots/

#HackerNews #AI #Blindspots #LLMs #AI #Coding #Machine #Learning #Tech #Insights

So, what naturally follows is that we are routinely blind to everyone else’s needs.

Everyone struggles with something, but they might not saying anything.

If we don’t create the conditions for people to tell us what they need, then we are essentially handing out right handed scissors to a room full of lefties, and we don’t even know it.

Is this our best chance at success?

#BlindSpots

So, what naturally follows is that we are routinely blind to everyone else’s needs.

Everyone struggles with something, but they might not saying anything.

If we don’t create the conditions for people to tell us what they need, then we are essentially handing out right handed scissors to a room full of lefties, and we don’t even know it.

Is this our best chance at success?

#BlindSpots

Was #DeepSeek-R1 release a Sputnik moment for AI?
"for a long time many observers hv questioned e direction of #AI #investment & devt in #USA.. W/o exception, #UStech cos r obsessed w #scale. Citing yet-to-be-proven "scaling laws" .. Some even assert tt "scale is all you need".. The question now is whether e US industry has other, even more dangerous #blindspots. For eg, r the leading US tech cos missing an opportunity to take their models in a more #prohuman direction?"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2955946/was-deepseek-r1-release-a-sputnik-moment-for-ai-

@jbigham

I hope one of the #LessonsLearned is to implement a “maker-checker” protocol.

For many hierachical, command-and-control, authority-conscious organizations, this can be a common #AntiPattern: the head/executive/leader goes offline to create “content”, and nobody reviews it for #sensemaking, #blindspots, or unintended #messaging.

@jbigham

I hope one of the #LessonsLearned is to implement a “maker-checker” protocol.

For many hierachical, command-and-control, authority-conscious organizations, this can be a common #AntiPattern: the head/executive/leader goes offline to create “content”, and nobody reviews it for #sensemaking, #blindspots, or unintended #messaging.

I used to teach young #drivers to adjust their three #mirrors—the two door mirrors and the inside mirror—so that the combined field of view not only overlaps with each other but also with the eyes' peripheral vision, thus leaving no #blindspots. While this is very useful on the racetrack, it can be lifesaving on the motorway. Adjust the mirrors as follows:

• Park the car on a piece of flat ground.
• Adjust the seat position so as to accommodate a comfortable driving position.
• Adjust the inside mirror so that the rear window is completely within the mirror's view. (I have never driven an openwheeler, so what I am saying applies only to modified roadcars.)
• To adjust the left door mirror horizontally, lean the head left until the temple just touches the raised window. Then, adjust the door mirror so that its right-edge view just overlaps with the inside mirror's left-edge view. This setting ensures that the left-edge of the door mirror overlaps with the left-side peripheral vision of the eyes, while the in driving position. The left corner of the rear of the car will not be in view.
• Now, adjust the left door mirror vertically so that the far horizon of the ground covers the lower 1/3 of the mirror's view.
• Repeat for procedure for the right door mirror, by leaning the same amount to the right side. Note that this procedure is for left-hand-drive cars; reverse the direction when in right-hand-drive cars.

But a lot of drivers adjust their door mirrors so that they could see the tail of their car. This is pointless, for the tail corners of one's own car are not threatening to overtake one.

But then, all new cars today come with side cameras and obstacle warning AI systems. So, ....

I used to teach young #drivers to adjust their three #mirrors—the two door mirrors and the inside mirror—so that the combined field of view not only overlaps with each other but also with the eyes' peripheral vision, thus leaving no #blindspots. While this is very useful on the racetrack, it can be lifesaving on the motorway. Adjust the mirrors as follows:

• Park the car on a piece of flat ground.
• Adjust the seat position so as to accommodate a comfortable driving position.
• Adjust the inside mirror so that the rear window is completely within the mirror's view. (I have never driven an openwheeler, so what I am saying applies only to modified roadcars.)
• To adjust the left door mirror horizontally, lean the head left until the temple just touches the raised window. Then, adjust the door mirror so that its right-edge view just overlaps with the inside mirror's left-edge view. This setting ensures that the left-edge of the door mirror overlaps with the left-side peripheral vision of the eyes, while the in driving position. The left corner of the rear of the car will not be in view.
• Now, adjust the left door mirror vertically so that the far horizon of the ground covers the lower 1/3 of the mirror's view.
• Repeat for procedure for the right door mirror, by leaning the same amount to the right side. Note that this procedure is for left-hand-drive cars; reverse the direction when in right-hand-drive cars.

But a lot of drivers adjust their door mirrors so that they could see the tail of their car. This is pointless, for the tail corners of one's own car are not threatening to overtake one.

But then, all new cars today come with side cameras and obstacle warning AI systems. So, ....

#Socialetiquette #blindspots
1. Not Listening Attentively
2. Interrupting Others
3. Overusing Your Phone
4. Forgetting Names
5. Being Late
6. Poor Table Manners
7. Neglecting to Say Thank You
8. Over-talking About Yourself
9. Ignoring Personal Space
https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/relationships/if-you-want-to-make-a-good-impression-say-goodbye-to-these-9-social-etiquette-blind-spots/ar-AA1qeMgP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=fcd45ed1516c473cb1ce137d8487e8ed&ei=59

this might be the most #dunning-kruegeriffic thread I've ever seen on #HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40189391

#smug #meditation #blindspots #justzenitup

this might be the most #dunning-kruegeriffic thread I've ever seen on #HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40189391

#smug #meditation #blindspots #justzenitup

@harold Incisive thinking by two women to whom we owe much, 163 years apart! The paper by @trishgreenhalgh et al is of interest way beyond public health, illuminating blindspots & pyschological limitations which constrain our collective response to many new challenges. It’s so well written it’s a joy to read, & to re-read… but also very disconcerting.

#delusion #blindspots #psychology #PublicHealth #aerosol #ventilation #FlorenceNightingale #COVID #SARSCoV2 #COVIDisAirborne

@harold Incisive thinking by two women to whom we owe much, 163 years apart! The paper by @trishgreenhalgh et al is of interest way beyond public health, illuminating blindspots & pyschological limitations which constrain our collective response to many new challenges. It’s so well written it’s a joy to read, & to re-read… but also very disconcerting.

#delusion #blindspots #psychology #PublicHealth #aerosol #ventilation #FlorenceNightingale #COVID #SARSCoV2 #COVIDisAirborne

Mit dem Protest-o-Mat kannst du eigene SharePics für Social Media oder Protestplakate erstellen und mit uns zeigen, dass humanitäre Hilfe in & von Deutschland nicht kriminalisiert und behindert werden darf!

Sag mit uns Nein zu $96!

Für den Protest-O-Mat haben wir uns mit @seawatchcrew, @soshumanity_en, #united4rescue, #LeaveNoOneBehind, ROSA e.V., #Blindspots, @mvi_org & #Frachcollective zusammengetan.

#DefendSolidarity
https://defendsolidarity.sea.watch/

Mit dem Protest-o-Mat kannst du eigene SharePics für Social Media oder Protestplakate erstellen und mit uns zeigen, dass humanitäre Hilfe in & von Deutschland nicht kriminalisiert und behindert werden darf!

Sag mit uns Nein zu $96!

Für den Protest-O-Mat haben wir uns mit @seawatchcrew, @soshumanity_en, #united4rescue, #LeaveNoOneBehind, ROSA e.V., #Blindspots, @mvi_org & #Frachcollective zusammengetan.

#DefendSolidarity
https://defendsolidarity.sea.watch/

📢 Sag mit uns Nein zu Paragraph 96 - ob online oder auf der Straße - und fordere alle demokratischen Bundestagsabgeordneten auf, gegen das sog. 'Rückführungsverbesserungsgesetz' zu stimmen.

Erstelle deine eigenen SharePics für Social Media oder Protestplakate
👉h ttps://defendsolidarity.sea.watch

#DefendSolidarity: Stop §96!

Eine Initiative von @seawatchcrew #united4rescue @soshumanity_en #Seebruecke @mvi_org #blindspots #FrachCollective u.a.

📢 Sag mit uns Nein zu Paragraph 96 - ob online oder auf der Straße - und fordere alle demokratischen Bundestagsabgeordneten auf, gegen das sog. 'Rückführungsverbesserungsgesetz' zu stimmen.

Erstelle deine eigenen SharePics für Social Media oder Protestplakate
👉h ttps://defendsolidarity.sea.watch

#DefendSolidarity: Stop §96!

Eine Initiative von @seawatchcrew #united4rescue @soshumanity_en #Seebruecke @mvi_org #blindspots #FrachCollective u.a.

How to Adjust Your #CarMirrors to Eliminate #BlindSpots

https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/manly-know-how/how-to-adjust-your-car-mirrors-to-eliminate-blind-spots/?mc_cid=4233cd339a

How to Adjust Your #CarMirrors to Eliminate #BlindSpots

https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/manly-know-how/how-to-adjust-your-car-mirrors-to-eliminate-blind-spots/?mc_cid=4233cd339a

@JacquelineJannotta @DavidM_yeg It's a fascinating book, beginning with the anecdote told at the very beginning (a woman commenting on how funny her mother is and how much her mother loves her, and once threw a knife at her).

And self-deception ("blind spots") exists at every level, from cellular to societal.

This book is in a list of books I find myself repeatedly recommending.

#books #selfDeception #blindSpots #psychology

@JacquelineJannotta @DavidM_yeg It's a fascinating book, beginning with the anecdote told at the very beginning (a woman commenting on how funny her mother is and how much her mother loves her, and once threw a knife at her).

And self-deception ("blind spots") exists at every level, from cellular to societal.

This book is in a list of books I find myself repeatedly recommending.

#books #selfDeception #blindSpots #psychology

@asymco

#Analysts #delusions about #AI lead to #blindspots regarding the greatest #corporate #growth story in modern history.

#Apple #Done

Towards a More Rigorous Science of Blindspot Discovery in Image Classification Models

Gregory Plumb, Nari Johnson, Angel Cabrera, Ameet Talwalkar

Action editor: Krishnamurthy Dvijotham.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=MaDvbLaBiF

#blindspot #blindspots #benchmark

Towards a More Rigorous Science of Blindspot Discovery in Image Classification Models

Gregory Plumb, Nari Johnson, Angel Cabrera, Ameet Talwalkar

Action editor: Krishnamurthy Dvijotham.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=MaDvbLaBiF

#blindspot #blindspots #benchmark

The third leading cause of death in the US, just behind heart disease and cancer and above traffic accidents? Prescription medicine, properly prescribed.

Read this passage from the book "Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition," by T. Colin Campbell (author of "The China Study") and Nathan Jacobson:

https://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2023/07/02/medical-danger/

#medicine #mortality #food #diet #blindSpots

The third leading cause of death in the US, just behind heart disease and cancer and above traffic accidents? Prescription medicine, properly prescribed.

Read this passage from the book "Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition," by T. Colin Campbell (author of "The China Study") and Nathan Jacobson:

https://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2023/07/02/medical-danger/

#medicine #mortality #food #diet #blindSpots

#TIL: yes of course in Linux you can create a file name that starts with a Unicode BOM (Byte Order Mark). E.g. like this:

$ python3 -c 'open("test".encode("utf-8-sig"), "w")'

Funnily on my Ubuntu 20.04 system I didn't find a way to show the special character with "ls" (neither -b nor -q nor -Q helped). But in my terminal I could copy-paste the names from "ls" output and use them in other commands.

Anyway... nice:
$ ls -Q
"test" "test"

#UTF8 #Unicode #BOM #blindSpots

@mmurraymass As a community! We keep leaving out that we are not solitary actors. We have responsibilities for the general welfare as well as ourselves. Why do we fail to mark that truth? #community #education #StudentVoices #leadership #investment #blindspots

We *all* live in worlds of our own delusion—every one of us. These narratives were written for us by others: through our genetics, the happenstance of our family of origin, and our experiences.

There’s the world as we see it and there’s the world as it is. These are rarely, if ever, the same thing. The former are the stories we tell ourselves about the world. They are our mirror, reflecting our loves, our fears, our joys, our hates. The latter has nothing to do with us. The world is not about us.

There’s us as we each see ourselves and there’s us as seen by others. These are rarely, if ever, the same thing. The former are stories we tell ourselves: we are the protagonist in a tragedy, a comedy, a romance, a drama, a horror. The latter is the sum of the marks that you’ve made in this world.

The only way we ever truly know ourselves is to share who we are, be understood by others, and receive and let in the gift of their honest unvarnished feedback. When their words find the soft spots beneath our armor and especially, when several people share similar words: they’ve just pierced the bullshit in one of our delusional narratives.

Without this, we are unlikely to ever truly know ourselves. Without this, we are unlikely to ever know lasting peace.

#blindspots #delusion

We *all* live in worlds of our own delusion—every one of us. These narratives were written for us by others: through our genetics, the happenstance of our family of origin, and our experiences.

There’s the world as we see it and there’s the world as it is. These are rarely, if ever, the same thing. The former are the stories we tell ourselves about the world. They are our mirror, reflecting our loves, our fears, our joys, our hates. The latter has nothing to do with us. The world is not about us.

There’s us as we each see ourselves and there’s us as seen by others. These are rarely, if ever, the same thing. The former are stories we tell ourselves: we are the protagonist in a tragedy, a comedy, a romance, a drama, a horror. The latter is the sum of the marks that you’ve made in this world.

The only way we ever truly know ourselves is to share who we are, be understood by others, and receive and let in the gift of their honest unvarnished feedback. When their words find the soft spots beneath our armor and especially, when several people share similar words: they’ve just pierced the bullshit in one of our delusional narratives.

Without this, we are unlikely to ever truly know ourselves. Without this, we are unlikely to ever know lasting peace.

#blindspots #delusion

#Astronomers have detected another ‘#planet #killer’ #asteroid. Could we miss one coming our way? https://theconversation.com/astronomers-have-detected-another-planet-killer-asteroid-could-we-miss-one-coming-our-way-193709
"The reason we haven’t already found every object that could one day pass nearby Earth is largely because of observational #BlindSpots, and the fact we can’t observe all parts of the sky all the time."

#Astronomers have detected another ‘#planet #killer’ #asteroid. Could we miss one coming our way? https://theconversation.com/astronomers-have-detected-another-planet-killer-asteroid-could-we-miss-one-coming-our-way-193709
"The reason we haven’t already found every object that could one day pass nearby Earth is largely because of observational #BlindSpots, and the fact we can’t observe all parts of the sky all the time."

It’s hard to be surprised by the racial, gender, geographic, and many other blind spots within philosophy historically when it is literally a discipline that says things like ‘I can’t see how you can possibly get an ought from an is’, and ignores the billions of people doing it, with great ease, every single day. For a philosopher trained to reject the existence of the very table they are sitting at, or the mind they are using to do the rejecting, it’s just a short logical leap to denying the existence of entire countries, cultures, and peoples. For if it isn’t argued somewhere on my bookshelf, can it really have been argued at all?

#Philosophy #Decolonization #Education #Diversity #BlindSpots