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“Get a blog. If your ideas have any value put them on the open web. Facebook is trying to kill it. Trust me you will hate yourself if they succeed. Same with Google.“

Dave,

It’s 2017. For years you played dumb with Facebook and Google, acting like they would not just try to kill everything that is on their path to lucrative margins. They’re companies, of course they’d suffocate RSS and the open web! You are a developer, you lived the 90s with MS, you are one of the very first blogger and you couldn’t see that coming? I don’t believe that.

I want the same as you: people independently owning their own spaces online, sharing their thoughts. And for that we can’t be whiny for a decade, we need to bring up actual solutions. Allow me to be blunt: no one cares, not even a second about technical detail. It’s a classic issue: developer gets so worked up with his/her own software, she/he forgets what the goal of those pieces of code are. We need a blogging solution, a full package now. For everyone, not the three friends who like to set up software on a server.

People type, record stuff on their phones or laptops and want to put it online and get it done quickly. That’s the Facebook lesson. No user should care about the backend, that’s the hosting companies and nerds problem. No user should care about syntax to format text, bring familiar GUI, allow people to flow.

Users need to be able to:

– buy/lease online space.

– produce and share anything they want, from paragraphs to live streaming.

– be able to archive and move to another online space with their stuff whenever they want.

All that in a few clicks. There are no other way. The other way is called “stay behind a private walled garden” because people are intellectually lazy and also, it just works. *opportunity shows up*

We need those tools now and yesterday: 10 year old kids today only know walled gardens and don’t understand the importance of the open web. Let’s go devs!

Yo,

Earliest estimation for computers to beat humans at Go was 2027. It was done by 2015. Two years later, not only computers can beat the best Go players in the world but it’s done with ten times less power. Last month the games were close but ultimately the machine won and probably would forever. AlphaGo is retiring.

It’s very difficult to grasp what Google learned here but it’s probably prodigious. Damn.

Other news, they just announced 5nm process ready for chips, which is a staggering achievement. That’s 3 times smaller than the current 14nm top of the line, still pretty rare. We cram 5 billion transistors in current chips, we will be able to go for 30B in a few years. That’s a lot of computing power guys, I try to imagine it. I can’t. I think it will be enough for machines to take over everything. Of course, there’s more innovation –that we don’t know yet- to come. I mean.

Your kids will not have any jobs. You should probably not have kids and if you do, don’t be surprised if they basically become Wall-E’s humans. They won’t leave their VR headsets and will cry when not getting an achievement for putting their socks on.

Brace yourself, it’s coming.

People always are realizing after game 1 of the NBA finals that basketball is a team sport.

The finals are always about defense.

That’s something Cleveland is not so great at. Yeah yeah last year bla bla but it was the exception, not the norm. The odds are not in this happening again.

After those playoffs and the circlejerk around LeBron I was curious and watched some of those old 90s WCF/ECF. Boy. Those playoffs have everything: 3-5pt  game until the last second, fans loosing their entire shit when a player hits ONE three, bricks thrown at, hands in the face everywhere… Look at the ‘93 ECSF Knicks VS Bulls in 6 games. Games were exciting and it really feels like the Bulls –who seem so invincible in our memory- were not doing so well. they had to fight damn hard to get to the finals. I remember reading magazines thinking “that big New York dude, Ewing, he might win it all this year” except it never happened. Because it’s a team sport and one dude or two isn’t enough.

People forget that aspect. MJ was showing up on both ends of the floor then Pippen would too then Grant would too and so forth.

This is what is happening right now with the Warriors. It’s not about individual stats and one guy doing everything, it’s about the actual teamwork and communication and all about adapting to the opponent. And they’re damn good at this. Spurs in 6 tho I don’t care.

Yo Dave,

I was watching your last standup special again after a few months and man, the “he rapes but he saves” thing I mean it’s smart and real but… Fuck no to the hell nah.

Nah because you know it: all women on earth, 100% of them, including the ones not born yet and the ones gone will experience that creepy ass motherfuckingly disgusting behavior that some of us men have and that we most of us (RIGHT?) condemn. So that makes us not really qualified to joke on this you know what I mean? And you do it well, I don’t think you could go through that joke on stage with lights on your face better than you did but…

I don’t know why I picture your wife going “nigga you’ll see” on you but I do. My girl on my couch, women in the audience, none are not like “wait, that’s not funny is it?” pondering, which is bad in itself. But also I giggle and I feel stupid and sad because I know that it’s because I’m not as concerned about rape as women are. Shit is wrong. Fuck rape, nothing to laugh at there when half the planet will have to deal with it in a way or another.

About Bill Cosby. Fuck him. He will stay in history just because he also did marvelous things, whatever. I’m like you a care bear-raised, Cosby-was-so-important-to-me type of dude. I want him to be gone from the realm of heroes though because we have to have standards as much as possible and we can’t be sad about a grown ass, smart dude doing that fucked up shit. Fuck that.

I thought we would find the weirdest shit about Prince like some appalling fetish or something. Dude wore heels but he was a simple romantic and kind of a nerdy lover for what I read. He probably stole credits for some songs here and there like his guitar licks straight outta Carlos Santana’s playbook, but that’s it. That’s all the wrong he did. We should celebrate him as a hero of ours more. Make jokes about him and his absurd life, celebrate how much life he gave to the entire human sexual spectrum, all that shit. Maybe that’s bad material I’m just bitching on a blog.

Anyway I love you bruh and I hope you leave that rape/save/cosby combo that makes my head tilt 30° sideways in the past. Peace,

Edward Crawford.

Deandre Joshua.

Darren Seals.

Jordan Edwards.

Richard Collins III.

Timothy Caughman.

I will not forget about you. I wish I could hold you tight and know for sure that you are here. Alive. Breathing.

The pain, the anger, the exhaustion.

Damn. With a healthy squad, they could be up 2-1 against the Warriors. And if KD hadn’t joined Golden State, they definitely could be up 3-0. I don’t know if Pop is planning on winning 4 games straight but I guess that’s a big stretch here.

I still don’t get how people talk about prime time being late 20s. No, prime time is when you know what to do and have the physical abilities –still- to make it happen. Manu Ginobili, 39, schooling these bums. Lebron James is considered old at 32 but he can now land those chase-down blocks at will when he never could before.

Experience matters a whole lot, y’all. You ain’t shit in your 20s, you’re still learning then.

I hate that people talk about J Simmons getting paid, the fuck? He’s making 500K a year –that’s enough to raise four kids comfortably-, has the best coach in the league if not of all time, plays for a team that makes the playoffs every year, fits in a great roster with depth. He could just stay like that for years and be happy and get better on the court. Why the fuck would you want him to get millions somewhere else? He has everything already! He looks like a humble guy. Leave him alone.

There’s this philosophical discussion about whether monopolies and oligopolies are good or not.

Netflix. The Cavs. Time Warner. Verizon. It’s a bit everywhere.

Monopolies and oligopolies are not good if they last. Because they destroy competition and any incentive to get better. They just get fat, impotent and indulgent. We all lose.

They make things better by setting up expectations and standards though. No Microsoft hegemony, no Universal Serial Bus. Netflix forced competition to hurry the fuck up and get aggressive on content, price etc.

That’s good. But the world we live in these days is so brutal that… It goes too far? I think about Netflix. They are ultra aggressive, producing tons of content, a lot being good. They are flooding our senses, force-feeding us with binges we can’t escape. To the point that even if the last OITNB season leaks no one cares because waiting a few months for it while finishing some season of something is totally fine. There’s far too much going on. We saturate.

Take those superteams in the NBA, a handful of them destroying everyone else. it’s kind of fun, and it’s kind of the worst shit ever. The other day the game was over at the end of the first quarter. Eastern finals completely useless, we already know who will win. Those blowout games probably bring a lot of people to watch games live. Maybe? Maybe not. People love drama, hail to the King. But it’s probably bad in the long term (why watch the regular season or playoffs games if it’s always the same teams at the end?). We’re bored.

The focus is not on doing good or great anymore, to sustain something. It’s to intensely retain, funnel people into extreme behavior, burn us out. It’s weird.