Toots from 2025-03-11#
Dear Democratic SMS Spam Bots, Please start “stepping up” before you ask me again to “pitch in…#
Dear Democratic SMS Spam Bots,
Please start “stepping up” before you ask me again to “pitch in”.
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“It was only through writing this post that I realized how often access to information is a thr…#
“It was only through writing this post that I realized how often access to information is a throughline in delegation failure.”
https://staysaasy.com/saas/2025/03/10/delegating.html
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“So maybe it’s time we finally changed the way we talk about the Internet of Things (IoT). We…#
“So maybe it’s time we finally changed the way we talk about the Internet of Things (IoT). We keep talking about it as something achievable. Perhaps it’s time we started talking about what it really is: one of the biggest consumer scams ever invented.”
https://crazystupidtech.com/archive/the-illusion-of-a-smart-home/
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“If all of this sounds crazy, that’s because it is. What we’re hearing from the Musk-Trump …#
“If all of this sounds crazy, that’s because it is. What we’re hearing from the Musk-Trump Administration sounds, if I can use the term, distinctly un-American. It’s the kind of rhetoric you expect from an authoritarian regime that attributes every setback to sabotage by rootless cosmopolitan enemies of the state.”
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-paranoid-style-in-maga-policy
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“If you do not recognize that mass destruction of fundamental concepts of democracy and the US …#
“If you do not recognize that mass destruction of fundamental concepts of democracy and the US Constitution happening right now, you are either willfully ignorant or just plain stupid. I can’t put it any clearer than that.”
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/
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I don’t think replacing one financial metaphor with another will materially change the conversa…#
I don’t think replacing one financial metaphor with another will materially change the conversation. Purchasing optionality for train schedule flexibility is about managing known risks. There is no way to purchase optionality if you want to manage uncertainty, like whether you’ll need to switch to a rocket or a submarine.
https://leaddev.com/technical-direction/tech-debt-outdated-concept