Done here, gone to blue sky, this place is dying. Data strategy & data science advisor, research on analytics, AI, data management.
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Mark Madsen (find me on b-sky) retweeted
Sen. Mitch McConnell after voting against Gabbard says “the nation should not have to worry that the intelligence assessments the President recieves are tainted” by a DNI “with a history of alarming lapses in judgment.”
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I'm doing a talk on real-time data analytics/integration Tuesday Sept 12 at 9:15am Pacific as part of a @TDWI online summit. Event starts at 8:30 and talks go until 11. tdwi.org/Events/Virtual/Sep/…
I'm doing a talk on real-time data analytics/integration Tuesday Sept 12 at 9:15am Pacific as part of a @TDWI online summit. Event starts at 8:30 and talks go until 11. tdwi.org/Events/Virtual/Sep/…
Mark Madsen (find me on b-sky) retweeted
$6 Trillion. Hard to wrap your head around the size of that number.
A million seconds ago was 11 days ago. A billion seconds ago was 1993.
A trillion? 29,600 B.C.
Tax. The. Rich.
For those of you in the data/ML/AI space, headed to Munich next week for TDWI data conference. Sunday is Kloster Andechs biergarten day if the trains are running. Let me know (via linkedin or bluesky) if you are in town and want to join the group for a beer and a conversation
Congratulations @doctorow for winning Strong Language’s top honors for 2023
stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
Mark Madsen (find me on b-sky) retweeted
I'd like to see the 2012 Obama era #HR4310, which weakened the #SmithMundtAct and allowed panic and confusion inducing pernicious propaganda to be inserted into domestic discourse, to be re examined in 2024. It has been a disaster imo.
Substack joins extwitter in welcoming nazis to the marketplace of idiotic ideas
theverge.com/2023/12/21/2401…
Mark Madsen (find me on b-sky) retweeted
It's not merely that the #Sacklers - a multigenerational drug-pusher dynasty - made billions while murdering hundreds of thousands of Americans by lying about the safety of #Oxycontin, flagship product of their #PurduePharma drug company. *It's that they got away with it*.
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Mark Madsen (find me on b-sky) retweeted
YIMBY valorization of Minneapolis zoning reforms too often misses the biggest reason for its success — and why it doesn't translate to other Tier Two cities with similar reforms.
Its strong mobility system unlocked undevelopable sites via ultra-efficient building types.
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In 2017, Minneapolis adopted a similarly ambitious upzoning program, abolishing single-family zoning and upzoning transit corridors. It kicked off a building boom, such that Minneapolis is now the only city in the Midwest where rents are falling. onefinaleffort.com/blog/a-de…
Mark Madsen (find me on b-sky) retweeted
Knowing, organizing, and presenting information has always been a key use of technology. DuPont was considered one of the best run companies on the planet because they figured out the purpose of corporate IT faster than anyone else.
Mark Madsen (find me on b-sky) retweeted
To recap: OpenAI dumps the women from its board & brings on the guy fired from Harvard for sexist remark, appointed under interim CEO who said "40-60% of women seem to have rape/non-consent fantasies," all while bringing back the CEO whose sister accused him of sexual assault.
Damning evidence against facebook
Mark Madsen (find me on b-sky) retweeted
The most consistent bright spot in the dark swirl of US politics is the competence of the Biden Administration's progressive enforcers: people like @chopracfpb, #JonathanKanter and @linakhanFTC, who keep demonstrating just how far a good administrator can go.
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ALT A scientist laboring in an apparatus-filled chemistry laboratory. His head has been replaced with a fedora-topped businessman's head, a faint sneer on his face. The flask he is peering into contains a floating orange book.
Mark Madsen (find me on b-sky) retweeted
Economists tell us that the market can remain irrational longer than we can remain solvent, but how long can *economists* remain irrational? Judging from the inflation scare we just lived through, the answer appears to be "longer than you can remain solvent."
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ALT A vintage postcard of the Federal Reserve building by night, a full moon overhead. The building is spattered in blood. In the foreground is a medieval woodcut of two doctors bleeding a patient. The patient's head has been replaced with that of Uncle Sam. The doctors' heads have been replaced with those of Larry Summers and Jerome Powell. Image: mosaic36 (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/mosaic36/14231376315 Chatham House (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Larry_Summers_%286357735111%29.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/