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🎩🤖 "Ah, the old 'Software is the New Bridge Building' shtick! Because nothing screams innovation like comparing cutting-edge AI to... 18th-century steel beams. 🙄 Maybe next time, they'll tell us how debugging is just like bricklaying. 🧱🔧"
https://christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/engineering/2026/04/01/software-engineering-is-becoming-civil-engineering.html #SoftwareInnovation #AIComparisons #TechHumor #DebuggingMetaphors #BridgeBuilding #HackerNews #ngated -
Bridge Building
This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built just down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the slow progress of modern day bridge building.
On this particular day I was on my way into work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. I couldn't help stopping to capture the amazing light.https://pixels.com/featured/bridge-building-bill-gallagher.html
#BridgeBuilding #BillGallagherPhotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #BeniciaBridge #SacramentoRiver #GoldenGlow
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CW: longish post about politics and language
Are we able to bridge the gap between what the average person believes about the world, and what the world is really like?
In this question, I am including a theory whereby a person is able to understand a language that is adjacent to their own, with a little help, but will reject language that is more than one step removed.
So, let's say your mom is a centrist.
She has certain viewpoints that have been core centrist fare for decades, like, "it's important for the US to support Israel's right to exist".Under this theory, she won't accept language that directly reverses this, such as "It is important for the international community to recognize the right of palestinians to defend themselves from Israel".
Instead, intermediary languages would need to be used.
Similarly, your uncle is a center-conservative. He has viewpoints that have been center-conservative mainstays for a century, like "Competition is important to prevent decline", and won't accept language like "Competition is usually a sign of a mismanaged system with artificial scarcity, it is a harmful state of affairs that will engender needless social strife and waste".
I think, on some amphibian-brain level, the far right understands this mechanic rather well. The whole Youtube doom-slide to nazism is a case in point: The frog is gently being introduced to more and more poison, until it's no longer able to exist in a non-toxic environment.
But on the "left", i.e. among sane people, there tends to be a demand for maximally precise language.
This is sometimes called out as "sectarianism" or "tribalism".Yet maximally precise language is going to doom the sane people to a steady decline, on a floating island, far out at sea, that no-one can reach.
(Especially when They attack the independence of universities)What is really needed is an ecosystem of gently increasing precision.
In a word: Accessibility.
Accessibility is Solidarity.
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You can't engage in #bridgebuilding with those who don’t believe in your #right to #exist.
#Antitrans #laws are being #passed almost every day. #Federal #lawmakers are #condoning and/or #encouraging #violence against us. how does #deescalation help with any of this?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Utah #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2024/12/14/voices-theres-no-bridge-building/
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You can't engage in #bridgebuilding with those who don’t believe in your #right to #exist.
#Antitrans #laws are being #passed almost every day. #Federal #lawmakers are #condoning and/or #encouraging #violence against us. how does #deescalation help with any of this?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Utah #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2024/12/14/voices-theres-no-bridge-building/
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You can't engage in #bridgebuilding with those who don’t believe in your #right to #exist.
#Antitrans #laws are being #passed almost every day. #Federal #lawmakers are #condoning and/or #encouraging #violence against us. how does #deescalation help with any of this?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Utah #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2024/12/14/voices-theres-no-bridge-building/
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The project to build the new bridge over the Waikato was co-governed with mana whenua. Resulting in a novel design that respected the mauri of the awa, requiring no piles in the riverbed. The majority of the design and fabrication work was done onshore.
A fitting tribute to the legacy of Kiingi Tūheitia.
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Have you ever played the #BridgeBuilding classic #game in #90s? It’s working in Wine on Linux.
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Bridge Building
This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the progress of modern day bridge building.
Between all of the government regulations and oversight it took years before they even started construction.
On this day I was on my way to work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. See the full image here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/bridge-building-bill-gallagher.html?newartwork=true #AYearForArt #BillGallagherPhotography #BridgeBuilding
