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i’m at the anti-ICE protest
i’m at the anti-war with iran protest
i’m at the combination anti-ICE anti-war with iran protest

Big starts at 6 and wraps by 9 energy

Marathon is this and will only ever be this in my mind. Running on pizza box Mac Performa machines after school.

lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

i liked my job better when i got to explain complex and subtle things about technology and society, not when those things were, like, "insider trading on war crimes is bad"

I don't care how fast you can draw two circles when you're still missing the rest of the fucking owl.

first as farce then as farce i guess

Was at least one of them so high they were repeatedly falling off the stage? Just checking to see how similar our experiences were.

No bad albums though.

Fish and
Plankton and
Sea greens and
Protein from the sea

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

The issue is going to be how much time is the track oval not being utilized? I'd estimate not much. Short track worked because they were building a figure skating venue anyhow but it was only utilized about 1/3 of the time.

For the uninitiated
youtu.be/FUaaGRLEbm0?...

They did it, they finally gamified work.

software is a crystallization of opinions and most people’s opinions aren’t good enough or clear enough to crystallize in the first place, no matter how much hand-holding they get

We would love to engage with you and your team to learn more about this "torment nexus" you claim to have found within our product.

To fix it of course, yes, absolutely, what else would we do with the information!?

O.g. torment nexus

grown ass computer scientists saying "why you not put the sociology in my mouth like a baby bird"

Have you by chance read this? vurt.org/articles/my-...

Short track as well, but less gentle

And the number of folks who don't even recognize, let alone set out to minimize, the gap between 'work as imagined' and 'work as done' is *shocking*

You can very easily tell who in tech has never actually worked a blue collar job.

Huge ammounts of 'continuous improvement' activities are performative, neutral in impact at best, and chasing one specific cherry-picked metric that can be claimed as a win, but which does not actually make a material difference in the org or process.

Memento 2: Corporate Edition

I will simply forensically analyze our artifacts to composite how everything worked

:touches earpiece:

Whats that? Our information systems are now completely full of slop?

This btw technically meets Russell Ackoff's definition for "Mess"

Text image saying "pretty good for a game made entirely out of problems" beneath a logo for the game "Cyberpunk 2077"

Taps sign

We are headed straight towards a concrete wall of reckoning with no brakes and the pavement is wet, completely covered in slop.

This is, in many ways, the most plausable route to ending up in the idiocracy cinematic universe end state.

The Charlie Munger quote about not thinking of anything else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

The system is working as designed, careers need accomplishments to progress, the ladder demands it, and so as always, work finds a way

bsky.app/profile/dlew...

They are inventing all these statistical and technical practices to paper over the fact that they fundamentally don’t understand the basics of running an organization of any size, but are trapped at the top of these behemoths that have no internal capability of knowing things for more than 5 minutes

I think in a very real way, the fascination with big data and now AI is downstream of the fact that the people who run and work at tech organizations literally have an absent understanding of how knowledge and information work as a social and organizational function whatsoever.