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- Not About How it Looks … Gebbia is now, like I said, the Chief Design Officer of the United States. Second: Airbnb is a private corporation. Design is making decisions -- and Gebbia’s experience …
- It’s Not 2006 Anymore; The Useful, Vernacular Institution; What Is Free Our Feeds, Anyway? … are legible Right now, as the administrative state is being dismantled in the United States, we’re going to need these illegible, vernacular institutions more than before. For …
- Just Enough World Model; Actually, it’s about Federalism … 1.2 Actually, it’s about Federalism It’s a truth universally acknowledged that someone living in the United States will get annoyed at some sort of government …
- Do Reply; Use plain language, and tell the truth … It’s only about the need to radically improve the technology that powers government procurement in the United States and a plan to do it, so no biggie …
- How old things keep living; Impossible AI; Look, just call it AI … The New York Times Company v Microsoft Corporation, OpenAI Inc (etc), in the United States District Court Southern District of New York (PDF), Filed 12/27/23 ↩︎ Written …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … 15% off at A Book Apart ) Clarissa Redwine, tech worker, formerly of Kickstarter United, labor organizer and activist, member of the team behind Collective Action in Tech , and …
- It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful … I think -- citation very heavily needed! -- that the western societies I'm familiar with, so England and the United States, are particularly good at understanding scale. One example …
- What's more profitable than...? … My only note is that the aged article banner is very much in Vice's design language and happens to look like a blanked-out ad unit, which …
- Dan, really, are you even reading what you're typing here? … The United States is a goal-directed entity, flexibly self-protecting and self-preserving. The United States responds, intelligently or semi-intelligently, to opportunities and threats – not less …
- News; More News … we're being neutral about the shocking incidence of gun violence in the United States". Every single time I think about this I come back to something like …
- s11hiatus04/05: Stages of Transformation, and Not Trying is a Signal … you can pay a little more and pay Virgin America and get a super-good user experience when you fly, compared to when you fly United and you …
- They only went and taught the sand to do maths … up of specific groups of people in the United States and more specifically the West Coast of the United States, and the inhumane policy of enslavement, of the …
- What is it like to be a person? … And because I live in the United States, I forgot to check that either of them were covered under my insurance, because you should do that before you …
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16 … No, the better reference is Fox’s Cops , premiering in 1989 in the United States and cancelled (in the United States, at least) in May 2020. The difference …
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2 … In the UK, Unite is the largest trade union (and merged with the United Steelworkers union in America in 2008). It's interesting to me to look at …
- 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 …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … look at the number of police officers per capita [ Wikipedia ], which places the United States (surely at this point the worldwide gold standard in policing) at 238 police …
- Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People … of [irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_irregularly_spelt_places_in_the_United_Kingdom) Meanwhile, I’m reminded of when …
- How can I help you? … Statista says around March 2019, there were around 202.5 million iPhones in use (“installed base”) in the United States. Let’s say 0.1% of people encounter …
- Despairing sisyphean absurdity … Earlier this week marked the formal point at which the United States passed 500,000 deaths due to COVID-19. The last time I flew on a plane …
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts? … Via Deb Chachra, do you remember that time that the North and South of the United States “were on different track gauges until one rail of every Southern …
- Aren't we all just so tired … this is what happens when software eats the world, every 2019 and 2020 Volvo car sold in the United States has been recalled due to a fault with …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … My name is Jean-Luc Picard and we come in peace from the United Federation of Planets. We are scientists, explorers and diploma- *the alien taps at some …
- Scaling Bureaucracy … the governments I’ve lived under (United Kingdom, United States of America) are old enough that the first one arguably invented the concept of a civil service bureaucracy …
- Tireless five year olds … of perceived safety for 21 cities in the Northeast and Midwest of the United States at a resolution of 200 images/square mile, scoring ∼1 million images from …
- My So-Called Content … and gripping 2020 Commision Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States ) wrote in 2008 about FOGBANK, a classified material used in the production of …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … Sloan, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel which I bought *on sight* just because of the title …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … way the BBC was reticent to describe what was actually happening between the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and Ireland and the US press seems chronically unable to actually …
- Division by Infinity … justify a peristaltic wave of colonization of the western boarders of the continental United States. One story you can tell about this, is that the people who made …
- Welcome to the Churn … This doesn't help unite a country. So, a win for Russia there. But, secondly, the activity has a secondary effect on Facebook. This might not be an …
- End of Process … But! In our drive to do more faster, we've tried (cf United Airlines) tried to systematize how we do things, which relegates a whole bunch of *other …
- We need to talk about algorithms … United CEO To Discipline Computer Algorithm That Resulted In Passenger Removal The CEO of United Airlines, Oscar Munoz, 57, said in a statement that the algorithm involved in …
- So, What'd I Miss? … things like the UK's Government Digital Service and its related offspring, the United States Digital Service and now things that are unrelated but in the same space …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … the pocket of more than 50% of the population of the United States and the United Kingdom. How tremendously terrifying and literally awesome is that? And finally, work …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … It will also kill your browser.[7] [0] English Premiership club West Ham United sign first esports player [1] Ƥℓe¥stΔt|⬤n | Teespring [2] Two Obama Tech-Reform …
- First Rule In Government Spending … I was born in the United Kingdom, a country that has a population of 64.7 million and a gross domestic product of around $2.6 trillion[1 …
- OK TO GO … like for vendors to work with state (California) and federal government in the United States, in looking in sort-of-mock horror at this particular phrase that jumped …
- ROUND HOUSE … for DEFCON 3[0], which defines the middle Defence Readiness Condition of the United States armed forces. At DEFCON 3, there's an "increase in force readiness above …
- Patterns in the noise … more likely to precipitate the first deployment of armed drones on the continental United States: a) co-ordinated attacks from the Sovereign Citizen movement; b) some sort of …
- Broadcast Resumed … 1.0 Broadcast resumed - United States military procurement is so complicated and so broken that it's easier to throw one of our better artificial intelligences (IBM's …
- Previously … Royal Statistical Society and the Open Data Institute wrote to Lord Adonis, the United Kingdom's chair of the government's Infrastructure Commission, to consider data as infrastructure …
- The Product Wars; Emergency _________ Hologram … In 2023, the title change was made official and the President of the United States of America formally became Product Director (United States of America. Following the role …
- Shockwave; The Top Priorities; Engagement; A Hostile Environment … Taking Apart a Ridiculous 'Glamour' Article That the Whole UK Is Upset About | VICE | United States 2.0 The Top Priorities I got an email about a conference …
- 2015 (1); A Manifesto Walks Into A Website; Stuff About The Web And Post Capitalism Again … yes, well, it would be *nice* to live in a socialist utopia like the Culture or (if you ignore some/most of the more troublesome bits) the United …
- Oh, I Don't Know, Just Everything; A Bit About Brand Advertising Again 0.0 Sitrep 7:50pm and I'm at home and I'm angry because I've been reading about certain states of the United States and how …
- Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make … So the recent news that Anthem, a health insurer based in the United States, had been subject to a breach that potentially dated back to April 2014[2 …
- Ops, Not Apps; The Internet (Of Things); Reviewing Reviewing A Year In Review … doorstep that led to a Code for America "expedition" to go visit the United Kingdom's Government Digital Service, so there was that going for the trip. One …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … Best wishes and speak soon, MEC Outreach Team vodafoneoutreach@gmail.com 1 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8NU, United Kingdom http://www.mecglobal.com A GroupM Company This one …
- Videogame Tourism; Principles for 21st Century Government … We have to go out and persuade local governments, who are frequently at the sharp-end of delivery in the Federal United States, that "delivery" is the way …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … 1.0 The Mezzanine If you lived in the United Kingdom in the early 2000s, one of the things that you might have noticed was the rapid supermarket …
- Not Doing A Nick Bilton; Counterexamples; echofuckingpraxia … Trains, canals, roads (but not motorways) and electricity standards, never mind more recent innovations like TCP/IP, keyboard layouts, the Twenty-Foot-Equivalent Unit of shipping containers, and …
- Car!; The Robots Work For Tim Ferris; Diversity; 2014 (6) … Then there was the thought of comparing what's happening to "gamer" culture to what happened to football (soccer) fans in the 1980s and 90s in the United …
- I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos … there's technology-as-a-whole, there's the geographical area in the United States around which technological innovation has historically been concentrated, and there's the corresponding …
- Up To Code; Science Fictional Network Security; Notes on Infrastructure; Response; 2014 (5) … Police forces in the United States are able to acquire surplus military supplies for the cost of shipping and maintenance. Observation programmes routinely discover extra-solar planets, there …
- What Are The Civilian Applications?; The Way The World Works; Seeing Like A SpamSieve … accuracy, and now GPS is run - according to Wikipedia, at least - by the United States Government as a national resource. The emphasis, of course on *national* - such that …
- Email; Snow Crashing (10); 2014 (4) … Although the infrastructure exists for mass, private genetic testing, it has been held up in the United States due to regulatory approval. Shale fracking, a resource extraction technique …
- Relentless; Tech And Media, Not Or; 2014 … Gets Increasingly Nervous - John Scalzi [5] An Important Message From Your Books - Books United 2.0 Tech And Media, Not Or So BuzzFeed gets a $50mm investment from …
- Usborne's Future; Phase Change; OK Google, Dismantle Barge … we're still industrial because everything is still a unit. Because we still think in SKUs and personal is still a weird thing. Because it's easier to …
- Another Way; Bottom-Up; Oh, Is That The Time … But, the argument goes, those countries maybe don't have as good quality of care as the United States does. That's beside the point. I guess what …
- Bridj Laziness; Deciding In Public; Terrible Tools … And yet, only a couple of days ago, the United Kingdom's National Health Service celebrated its sixty-sixth birthday, and a certain image introducing the service did …
- Clarity; The Customer … This is as much an argument for audience/customer contact across each functional unit or team across an organisation." It's hard work to remember who the customers …
- Smarts; The Real Internet … He draws an analogy with the types of second-order applications that the United States' interstate highway system enabled, and the types of behaviours that then arose from …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … it's part of the civil service, the part of government in the United Kingdom that remains constant across changes of governing party, and one literally dedicated to …
- BBC Heaven; Shorts … s role in both serving its audience (through whichever means?) and developing the United Kingdom's creative base. It's disappointing to me that, yet again, the focus …
- An Alternative; Washing; Users … when you look at the rhetoric of the formation of the United States - and I've been to the Mall at Washington, I've been to the Jefferson …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … Millions 4,700 - Viewers of the 2008 Suer Olympics (watched part of coverage) 1,700 - Servings of Coca-Cola per day 1,460 - Rail network passengers, United Kingdom …
- Not Trying Is A Signal, Peak Game, EasyHard, SnapChat … you can pay a little more and pay Virgin America and get a super-good user experience when you fly, compared to when you fly United and you …