California
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- You Broke It, We (Should) Own It … the licensing of digital content vs the purchasing of it), the State of California in 2024 passed a law 2 to cover the circumstances where a consumer might …
- It's (not) the economy stupid; gaining convenience at the expense of agency … Digital rights management is one of the clearest expressions of trading, well, rights, for convenience of access to the extent that the State of California finally had it …
- Things Could Have Been Different; LLMs as LitTech, Their Use as Response to Mass Functional Illiteracy … So if California were to legislate for this, I can imagine California getting smacked down. But then I am cynical, and perhaps too much so. Okay, so that …
- Efficiency Gains; I Understand You, But Could Never Be You; Can You Teach A Machine To Be Human? … Even the future governor of California, a T-800 model Terminator sent back in time to protect John Connor and avert Judgment Day, even it said that even …
- Justice in Forensic Algorithms; The One With Retroactive Bereavement Fare Claims; Bits and Pieces … Congressman Mark Takano of California's 39th District ( archive.is ), 15 February, 2024, Office of Mark Takano ↩︎ 2024 BCCRT 149 (CanLII) | Moffatt v. Air Canada | CanLII ( archive.is …
- Dark; Forward-Looking Barn Door Statements … What's also weird -- and again, what put me off about Sinofsky this time -- is the bleeding-through of the California Ideology. That the government is shock-horror …
- Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants … in my user research with the state of California, one of the things that always comes up is dissatisfaction with procurement. One particular example was the procurement of …
- There Was No User Need … Okay, so last year in June, 2021 , the State of California launched their Digital Vaccine record portal(sic) that was a super easy way for you to get …
- The Right To Viable Strategies … Okay, California normally have their shit together, let's see what they've got... Clicking on California takes me to... a page called Build the House - California , where …
- Basement, flashlight, etc. … the State of California has issued a challenge to improve the processing and analysis of tax returns ! The challenge has its own website and it is easy to …
- Yellow Means Get Ready To Go; Middle Class Administrative Burdened; Google’s Fault … My consulting rates are reasonable, SavingsPlus of the State of California. Google’s Fault See this tweet about shitty websites ? Did you know there are sites that plagiarize …
- Technology and Being a Person … The future is here, it's just not hatched yet There is a no-good, terrible, horrible new mosquito in California and now the Delta Mosquito and Vector …
- Connect the dots … When I worked with California's Child Welfare team, I drew a pseudo user journey/cartoon that went right from a mother being arrested with her child in …
- Arrrgh, bees! … which was interesting to me because Why Not FDA Nutrition Labels , But For Security Breach Disclosures? I already have a thing going on for California Prop 65-style …
- s11hiatus04/05: Stages of Transformation, and Not Trying is a Signal … in California, I'm working with the state to spin up more demonstrator projects after Child Welfare Digital Services. It is unfair to hold any other department, team …
- Words and how to use them to achieve and convey your intended effect and meaning? … Freischwimmer cover/mix of California Dreaming [1] is playing in the background on single track repeat and has been since last Thursday because a) it was in that …
- Strategy UX; Numérasse, Very Specific 3D Game Engine Aesthetics, Humming … a chance? I have a story about the work I was doing with California's Child Welfare Digital Service which on the one hand was barreling ahead (for …
- No, But Really, Where Do You Start? … One reason? For California's procurement site, you can search by UNSPSC code (The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code), which you can download for free as …
- Accommodations … 1.1.2 Games and Storytelling, System Shock California dropped new legislation about dark patterns for opting out of the sale of personal information [ press release , regulation text …
- The Defensive Patent Pool … It started when I saw a tweet from Lilly Irani a professor at the University of California San Diego’s Department of Communication. Irani had pointed to a …
- An amateur with opinions … And we need that by design.” Because my work right now is working with the State of California’s department of technology to figure out the state’s …
- Aren't we all just so tired … Here’s a brief (slightly cringe-y) reminder that I’m looking for work after my work with the State of California was surprised terminated thanks to COVID …
- Take your time reading this one … my work with the State of California for the last 5 years doing product strategy to move from a waterfall, spec-heavy half billion dollar IT project to …
- There’s only one rule that I know of, babies … And then I’d throw myself on a hand grenade and start working for the State of California. How could I explain all of this? I would not …
- Ambient information radiators; butter trucks; trains … But to put this in context, Sacramento is California’s State Capitol. California itself is practically the same as the United Kingdom, so Sacramento is London. San Francisco …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … The second point is the case of Adriel Hampton who has decided to run as governor for the State of California to protest Facebook’s decision to purposefully …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … Why your cell phone is silent ” that to me is interesting because it refers to stats about cellphone base station sites that are offline due to the California …
- “With the word POLICE on it” 0.0 Sitrep It’s Wednesday 23rd October, on a Southwest 737 heading back to Portland, Oregon from Sacramento, California. You can’t stop me from listening to …
- The extra bit … Dave Guarino noticed that in the Children of Men hellscape of California grappling with “de-energizing events”, PG&E, the responsible utility switched from its custom map hosted …
- Scaling Bureaucracy … California is not burning (yet) because California is getting ready for, or already has had, its power turned off, ostensibly to mitigate the risk of aging powerline infrastructure …
- Snow Crashing … PG&E, the major Californian electricity utility, issued a warning that it may pre-emptively shut off power in 29 of California’s 58 counties because of a …
- "Leverage-meets-Parks-and-Rec" … Busy doing strategy with the California Child Welfare Digital Service, most recently helping out on some specific product strategy stuff. One thing that I’m doing at the …
- Do Better … 1.1 Do Better There is a meeting room at my day job, where I freelance with the State of California. For the last three years - nearly four …
- Very Little Gravitas … of you may know that my day job involves helping the State of California replace and modernize its Child Welfare IT system. I had a meeting in Sacramento …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … connected devices , the legislation recently passed by the State of California, which was described in the press as variously outlawing crap passwords or as an Internet of Things …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … While “yes, sir” may be de rigueur in Alabama, for example, it might be viewed as an element of the patriarchy in parts of California." Some parents may …
- Division by Infinity … One story you can tell about this, is that the people who made it to California are Doing God’s Will By Making The World A Better Place …
- Welcome to the Churn … I got rewarded for my work by being nominated as a patient representative for a healthcare project in California. This one's for creating, more or less, a …
- Stages of Transformation … in California, I'm working with the state to spin up more demonstrator projects after Child Welfare Digital Services. It is unfair to hold any other department, team …
- What next? … Or, rather, that the way I've been approaching my work with California results in certain things happening. The problem I got presented with -- help a department that …
- So, What'd I Miss? … and now things that are unrelated but in the same space like the California Child Welfare Digital Service. If I were still a lawyer, I'd say that …
- Interesting Times … This better process impressed California’s Department for Social Services, who administer food stamps in California, (but the program is itself delivered by counties) so much that they …
- Netflix Should 0.0 Station Ident 1:55pm on Wednesday, November 2 2016, sitting in the California Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) panel at the Code for America summit. I …
- DNS Fan Fiction; 100-watt-hour-Trucks 0.0 Station Ident 2:44pm on Tuesday, 1 November 2016 in Oakland, California at the Code for America Summit listening to the dulcet tones of Tom Loosemore …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … The medium version of the story is that after my work in California last year, I'm helping states move their legacy child welfare technology systems (mostly quite …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … the work I've done with Code for America and the State of California in child welfare digital services. So you know. Time-zone whiplash. -- I took a …
- If It's Just Us... Seems Like An Awful Waste Of Space, Right? … 2010 to the association of geographical information. [0] 1292 Sanderling Island Point Richmond California 94801 Single Family Home for Sales, Marin & San Francisco Luxury Real Estate [1] Holographic …
- First Rule In Government Spending … Lest we forget, the State of California has a population 39.1 million, with a gross state product of around $2.2 trillion[0]. I was born in …
- OK TO GO … Today I had the pleasure of starting a teardown/dogfood exercise on what it's like for vendors to work with state (California) and federal government in the …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … So, sometimes I end up doing work that's a little bit more serious, like helping California figure out a way to have a non-sucky outcome with …
- Politeness 0.0 Sitrep 1:43pm sitting in a New Seasons cafe with lunch, ostensibly taking a break before the 2pm California Child Welfare Open Vendor Forum (yeah, it …
- Podcasts; Other Things; Hue … If you want to see me continue to help transform government (Transform!) then California is having its second vendor forum about delivering a new Child Welfare Service using …
- Previously … Some short bullet-points: * So I've spent the last six weeks or so working with the State of California and the Federal Administration for Children, Youth and …
- The Random Walk Strategy; The Wrong Way Round; Miscellanea … Club 2.0 The Wrong Way Round Via Jack Madans the other day in the Code for America Slack, news that the California SAWS Consortium IV[0] - a …
- Recreational Capitalism (2); ... Or The Easy Way … being billed as a new plan and option, is not available in a) California, where my employer is headquartered, or b) in my zip/postcode, where I reside …
- The Difficult Third Album … That the California Ideology-esque VC model of a *startup* - ie a business that grows *incredibly quickly* is not the only model or mode of success for what …
- After All; 2014 (7) … company to pinpoint the exact second that an earthquake roused people in Napa, California. We see 3D data regularly depicted as LIDAR point-clouds and voxels, we use …
- Car!; The Robots Work For Tim Ferris; Diversity; 2014 (6) … 1.0 Car! Tuesday was the return leg of a short family vacation - roughly six hours of driving through California and Oregon and time to check out some …
- Essentially Walking Sensors; Recorded For Your Safety; More 2014 … A study in Rialto, California showed an 88% decline in complaints filed against police officers when cameras were worn, as well as a 60% decline in the use …
- Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service … In some respects, a Brit can point fun at California for this. This California, simultaneously the product of some of the worlds most connective, empowering and dehumanising technology …
- Solid 1 of 2; Requests: Cities and Technology … make it here. This is, in a way, a language thing, of course. California - especially the part that comes to conferences like this - has its own particular ideolect …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … Mozilla Foundation's appointment of Brendan Eich for his $1k donation to support California's Prop 8. It feels like the first time a big-name site has …
- On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts … Sure, there'll be a basic income and what feels like gruel fed out to everyone (California will, of course, have perfected its Soylent by then) and basic …
- Numbers; Performance and Practice; The Kessler Run In Over 12 Billion … s rant and manifesto against the utopianism of new/hypermedia Silicon Valley and California that had begun emerging and its recent eruption and evolution through the likes of …
- That Most Peculiar Thing, Cargo Cultism, That Californian Ideology … able to take advantage of that fact and no, just because someone in California invented a fucking iPod that can hold a thousand tracks in your pocket doesn …
- Only Connect; They Stole Our Revolution; Policy As Code; Dance Central … logical end-run of the bright-eyed optimism of this formerly counter-culture California Ideology. You see, signs are increasingly apparent that the bounce-back recovery (not that …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … United States 40 - Netflix global streaming subscribers 38 - Population of the State of California 23 - Population of Australia 21 - Washing machines sales, European Union, yearly 21 - Comcast (pre …
- The Difficulty … news broadcasts of Japan pegging the Yen to the Dollar in exchange for California (we need only substitute China), and that the effects of Global Warming are finally …