I have a theory that many of the people who thought Karen's purchase of Twitter would work out and would be a good thing have never had to deal with real, painful consequences of being disappointed by someone with power. By that, I mean: it takes a certain kind of outlook to be able to look at someone and say yes, while in theory there's a good path forward, the *person* and their behavior indicates not just disappointment but likely harmful disappointment that needs planning for.

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

We had a good run, didn't we @BreakingGovTech

Incredibly strong mid-season sweeps cliffhanger energy here

20% of all American adults are on a financing plan to pay medical or dental debt. That's 50 million people. 25% of them, 12.5 million, are on plans paying interest.

Greatest country in the world. Healthcare is broken.

khn.org/news/article/h… Private equity buying into healthcare providers *and* stacking financial services on top, what could go wrong?

ARTEMIS GO ARTEMIS MAX Q

Wait did that person buy Steve jobs' shoes so they could do a Jurassic park on him? "Some of the dna was missing so we filled it in with $complete_this_sentence"

Polyjackpot caused by multiple simultaneous golden-ticket petashambles.

https://twitter.com/johnrobb/status/1586499672490876929

Actually this makes sense.

1. It was assumed that institutional decay would lead to a doubling of shambles every 18 months (Ianucci's Law)

I AM SO GOING TO VISIT THIS

https://twitter.com/Inc/status/1580287306321338374

Oh it's also a blockchain thing. Meh.

beunstoppablestore.com

Wait, did it happen? Well then.

The Federation made product feature onboarding illegal in the late 2300s, that's why there's no pop-ups on the main viewer letting people know about AWESOME NEW HOLODECK FEATURES like People Chips. Imagine being in the middle of working on a presentation about how to beat the Borg in Astrometrics and then LCARS is all INTRODUCING A NEW WAY TO SHARE WITH YOUR CREWMATES.

also, so visiting disney for a lot of people is like visiting a place where the infrastructure works and has been continually invested in? "save up for five years and come have a holiday where the water is drinkable"

pretty sure that google colab is visual basic for ML now wondering how many production systems are actually google colab notebooks now

Totally forgot we don't have a president who wants to nuke hurricanes anymore Not even a little kinetic impact, not even

Do you think there's like an "early 2000s" enthusiast in Starfleet who invites people for dinner on the holodeck and then replicates a blue apron box and then cools the meal from the replicated box because they're that much a fan of the early 2000s haha psych trick question blue apron boxes don't exist in the World War III hellscape of Star Trek

In the Tech Policy Design Lab's workshop on Trusted Design, remembered I made this mockup of What If Digital Products And Services Were Treated More Like Buildings In Our Environment:

flickr.com/photos/danhon/… It's a mockup covering concepts like:

* apps/websites are a space, we already regulate physical space in eg planning permission
* regulations require explicit community involvement (for good or ill)
* who would oversee that process?
* "aggregated newsfeed planning division"

amazing to realize that starfleet has at least one ship that's the equivalent of a tiktok hype house and its job is to be federation ambassador omg every single culture ship is a tiktok hype house

oh no i got stable diffusion working locally on my m1 macbook pro ~65 seconds/image on a 16 GPU-core M1 Pro with 32GB RAM.

a go bag, but for when you have to do an important presentation to executive leadership everyday carry keynote / google slides / powerpoint

1999: Place of Honor
2000: Place of Honor: Danger Close
2002: Place of Honor: Shunned
2002: Place of Honor: Present Danger
2002: Place of Honor: Below Us
2003: Place of Honor: The System
2004: Place of Honor: Repulsion
2007: Place of Honor: Unleashed The series began in 1999 with Place of Honor. The game was developed by Dreamworks Interactive, with the game concept and story created by filmmaker Steven Spielberg, based on treatment for a "science fiction, far-future Indiana Jones film".

No.

https://twitter.com/blockchainieee/status/1561786285160800260

Also no.