Fairly sure that whatever happens “fuck Mark Zuckerberg” will continue to be an accurate and reasonable position to hold.
— Dan Hon (@hondanhon) November 4, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1323853860683669510)
For every automated technological system that isn’t working, there are *also* countless non-automated, by-hand systems working at scale that are *also* failing.
— Dan Hon (@hondanhon) September 29, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1311082231750750210)
At what stage are the guillotine shops re-opening?
— Dan Hon (@hondanhon) June 24, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1275908640633839616)
Had the horrible thought of using Unreal Engine or Unity as the frontend to a news CMS
— did you mean: dan hon? (@hondanhon) February 24, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1232048125520408576)
You’ll notice I am subtweeting basically everything. Thank you and good night.
— dan hon 🔜 Interaction20 (@hondanhon) February 4, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1224537992229982208)
“Go to bed, they’ll still be wrong in the morning.”
— dan hon (@hondanhon) February 1, 2020
“Yes. That’s the problem.”
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1223521387530178560)
This is an amazing realization: all online multiplayer first person shooters are “just conferences calls with occasional shooting” and now I see WebEx completely differently https://t.co/Hr66KKxBT0
— dan hon (@hondanhon) January 28, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1221989363015225351)
People thought they were building Star Trek’s computer but didn’t realize they were building Douglas Adams’ Sirius Cybernetics computers, because he accurately observed that the Marketing Department exists
— dan hon (@hondanhon) January 24, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1220507599386243072)
Not entirely implausible:
— dan hon (@hondanhon) January 22, 2020
“Because of its extensive work in anti-cheating software, Fortnite became the first online location for e-voting certified by the Federal government.”
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1220068110377447425)
I keep coming back to the Challenger tragedy’s NASA/Norton safety/probability/risk vs political “must-launch” culture, and comparing it to Boeing’s safety/probability/risk vs cost-cutting “must-ship” culture
— dan hon (@hondanhon) January 19, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1218975522551672834)
Blade Runner’s 2019 is prisoner firefighters battling a burning California while the internet rages with bots passing as humans.
— dan hon (@hondanhon) November 2, 2019
People always forget reality will always win at being weirder and sideways to what we’re capable of imagining.
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1190753708839034880)
everyone is excited about the new microsoft flight simulator using real-world bing data but *i* am excited about the possibilities of a real-world, planet-scale katamari simulator
— untitled dan game (@hondanhon) October 8, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1181581023726800897)
“I don’t have a train of thought. I have a trolley problem.”
— dan hon is back (@hondanhon) August 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1162766202545963010)
I have a list of Really Expensive Things That Have Their Own Twitter Accounts - do you have any suggestions?
— dan hon is back (@hondanhon) August 7, 2019
Note: I haven’t included airports for some reason, but have included bridges, canals, wind farms, ships, aircraft, space probes etchttps://t.co/Zo4xJDwmkg
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1159195147004866560)
Hands up if you think the 10,000 Year Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Markers Project (“THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR”) also works as a universal New Yorker cartoon caption in this year 2019.
— dan hon is back (@hondanhon) July 23, 2019
🙋🏻♂️
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1153717751032115200)
Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
— dan hon is back (@hondanhon) July 19, 2019
Hon’s razor: Never attribute to bureaucratic incompetence that which is adequately explained by executive-driven institutional lack of competency and unwillingness for systemic reform.
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1152272179938992128)
The Turing Police, but they don’t go after AI that cross “the Turing line” and become sentient, they go after inappropriate usages of Turing complete languages in domains where doing so is fundamentally insecure
— dan hon is back (@hondanhon) July 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1150555740001558528)
Much like the floppy disk save icon has become anachronistic, in ~30 years “parked” will mean a car participating in an orbiting smear of on-demand transport pegged to an optimal mpg with variable velocity instead of “stationary in the local reference frame”. https://t.co/geSDewW6sc
— dan hon (@hondanhon) August 5, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1025957921094389760)
Give an AI an adversarially generated image and it will identify that image as a fishing rod forever. https://t.co/e6x59J9tvF
— dan hon (@hondanhon) July 18, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1019609653217583106)
The internet’s constitution allows for the suspension of Godwin’s Law in times of emergency. https://t.co/t0mLVsbl6a
— dan hon (@hondanhon) June 19, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1009097235517194240)