Somebody

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s21e11 2026-07-17 1,683 words · 8 min read Somebody Else’s Cloud … 1.1 Somebody Else’s Cloud I think this one will meander a bit. There was a thread on Bluesky about how it feels like Americans (and people …
s16e06 2023-10-02 2,469 words · 12 min read Tech Journalism, But Not Tech Journalism; Sounds More Like A You Problem … by society while we get on with making the shiny new stuff, or Somebody Else's Problem". Finding Bathroom Faucets Using Embeddings is the story of someone who …
s12e11 2022-05-26 1,115 words · 6 min read Basement, flashlight, etc. … reasonable sense the power to do anything about it because it is always Somebody Else's Problem and would require cross-organization collaboration in what I assume must …
s12e07 2022-05-18 829 words · 4 min read Five Short Things, including Google Vibe … collection, aggregation, processing and distribution of large datasets availability of relatively cheap mobile bandwidth availability of a surfeit of graphics FLOPs on mobile devices 3D engines Somebody has …
s07e12 2019-10-10 4,048 words · 20 min read Scaling Bureaucracy … domestic violence) Somebody comes up with a policy proposal (we should not let domestic violence offenders have guns) This policy proposal attracts the attention of, say, a legislator …
s03e15 2016-04-21 2,083 words · 10 min read First Rule In Government Spending … is resource unbounded (hey, just keep punting those costs so that they're Somebody Else's Problem) TIME happens to be bounded and there's only so much …
ep 154 2014-09-04 2,040 words · 10 min read The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … Sufficient Density The idea behind Miranda July's Somebody[1] isn't necessarily a new one, but it's one of those ideas whose time is just about …