Washington, D.C.
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- Adjust Your Register; The Curse of The Next Generation; Some Sort Of Tinkerbell; Your AI Pharmacy … 1.2 The Curse of The Next Generation I found out that the Washington State Bar Exam gave up on administering a previously scheduled bar exam -- the concept …
- A Model for the People … They are entrusted and, so far (*looking pointedly at Washington, D.C.) have been trusted independent institutions. They set copyright policy You know, how copyright works in practice …
- It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful … TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech , Brian Merchant, 18 September, 2023, The Washington Post ↩︎ DSA: Very large online platforms and search engines | Shaping Europe’s digital future …
- Tech Journalism, But Not Tech Journalism; Sounds More Like A You Problem … Back in April, The Washington Post analyzed the Google C4 dataset with the Allen Institute for AI to understand the sources for that data, as well as providing …
- Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me … its name too many times you'll summon pg) ↩︎ The NSA has its own team of elite hackers, Andrea Peterson (archive.org), 29 August, 2013, The Washington Post ↩︎
- Hey, Ease Up; A Load-Bearing If-Statement … The MRI showed Washington had developed myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle [2] . And here's the bit that really caught my attention, my emphasis: Washington's …
- Sunny and crisp outside … Best, Dan Which is absolutely a thing that happened at Washington Dulles International Airport in 1990. ↩︎ New Ethernet Cyberattack Crunches Critical Systems , Michael Kotzol, IEEE Spectrum, 15 November …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … For example, we trust that washingtonpost.com is The Washington Post, that whitehouse.gov is The White House, and that Apple.com is that big fruit company that …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … or that @oneofthefunniestsmartestcolumnists@mastodon.social is related to someone who works at the Washington Post who is called Alexandra Petri. Anyway, there's all of that. Is Mastodon …
- A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More … The deal with the autodiscovery protocol and the standardized naming is that all a user would have to do, to find Washington Post accounts to follow, would be …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … This realization came via a Washington Post story that dropped during the day, that Musk was planning on cutting 75% of Twitter's workers [2] and hidden amongst …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … There was a Washington Post story with insiders who are anonymous in exchange for the info etc but validated that as soon as Trump got in all rules …
- It's a trombone, a midi controller, and a videogame controller... … There's a Washington Post Op/Ed thinking out loud about whether the US's Noise Control Act of 1972 can be extended to defending human attention in …
- It's getting hot in here, so … And that could be trouble for the public. , The Washington Post, Andrew Freedman, November 25, 2019 via Noah Chestnut ↩︎
- There Was No User Need … Oregon Health Authority (or whomever) had been working on the vaccine portal since at least November 2021 Oregon " worked closely with Washington and California in developing its app …
- Wait, it's just a guess?! … other cities have open data policies, I mentioned that I was looking at Washington, D.C.'s ShotSpotter data, updated quarterly, and that there'd better be a …
- Steven Wolfram Is Probably Busying Figuring Out How To Turn A Cellular Automata Into Blogging Platform … Also that bit with the mirror shot. ( Via Metafilter ) In the Washington Monthly, Bezos didn't just necessarily buy the Washington Post for its news influence , but also …
- PARC THOR LASER AKL-IX AOaS CFPB … Margaret Sullivan, the Washington Post's media columnist covered pink slime news sites [8] , which are disinformation/misinformation sites masquerading as reputable local newspapers/news organizations. I understand …
- New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18 … Via Deb Chachra on Twitter, the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang published a photo taken by James Montanus of “newest official cloud type” Asperitas over Lake Ontario …
- The Return of Snow Crash - Snow Crashing: Chapter 14, part 2 … still experimenting with servers cooled direct in fluid in a datacenter in Quincy, Washington [ Datacenter Knowledge ]. Servers get hot, so you can cool them by blowing air over …
- Why Not Put An RFID On Everything, and Griefing … Eric Lofgren, an infectious disease epidemiologist [ Washington State University ]. Lofgren wrote a ( the ?) paper on Corrupted Blood, The untapped potential of virtual game worlds to shed light on …
- Three Things … the newspapers like the Washington Post who’re doing the reverse and trying to turn their CMSes into products that other organizations use and buy. Disney, and all …
- How can I help you? … having an entire Reddit dedicated to figuring out how to work unemployment insurance? [ Washington Post ]. Because Here’s The Thing: Statista says around March 2019, there were around …
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate … The next day, on January 16, the Washington Post published a video timeline of the Capitol building siege . The Post’s… piece? “used a facial-recognition algorithm that …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … that described key details about Henderson’s cooperation were obtained by Terance Black. [ Washington Post ] The Post says that this error has happened 1,500 times across the …
- The ATCR Boundary … A reminder that I’ll be in Washington, D.C. on March 11-13, co-chairing the Code for America Summit and that if you ping me, I …
- Some things … There’s a good Washington Post story about how some residents of Silicon Valley aren’t too keen on self-driving cars being beta-tested in their neighborhoods …
- Do Better … The Washington Post has an article about a heartbreaking bureaucratic failure in Washington, D.C. that resulted in the death of a 9 year old and a 40 …
- The Inevitable And Possibly Ill-Advised Reboot … 1.1 The one about Helen Greiner So, I am back co-chairing the Code for America Summit for the third time (it will be in Washington, D …
- You're The Mayor of Terminal B Airside at SMF Airport! … but it totally isn’t) an op/ed from Grant Wythoff in the Washington Post, which has from my point of view a not-necessarily helpful headline (“ Silicon …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … has passed that there’s actual academic research! Here’s the University of Washington press release, Alexa, be my friend: Children talk to technology, but how does it …
- Filtered for wide spread, low accuracy … OK, so there's some commentary floating around thanks to the tidbit in The Washington Post that the mistaken ballistic missile emergency alert broadcast in Hawaii over the …
- It's Not Safe To Go Alone, Buy This … I happen to pay for an NYT subscription because, uh, I can justify both the NYT and the Washington Post as business expenses when they cover government issues …
- A future of working … I decided to take it because this year I'm spending more money on, as they say, Supporting Quality Journalism, and after getting my Washington Post and New …
- News and Religion … The Times (any country) and The Guardian and The Washington Post have inherited a worldview and business model that, yes, is the "neutral point of view" model. This …
- Something is better than nothing … is designed to track space junk and watch out for killer asteroids - The Washington Post [5] How To Use Lean Manufacturing And Six Sigma To Run Your Household …
- OVERNIGHT SUCCESS … The April Fools’ joke that became a global obsession - The Washington Post 2.0 Miscellanea * After seeing someone passively-aggressively complain on Nextdoor in Portland (could there *be …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … of their child welfare digital service team (more on that later), over to Washington, DC for a White House Foster Care Hackathon, a brief interlude for a family …
- That Is Interesting, Isn't It? … Paul and Washington, DC (albeit a lot nearer to MSP than DCA) after having disappeared for a while. I've been out in Australia: Canberra, with the wonderful …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … and then...) On Thursday May 26th and May 27th I'll be in Washington, DC taking part in the White House Foster Care & Technology Hackathon taking part in …
- They Should Have Sent A Poet … Buzzfeed has a new arts/culture section[6] and, the buried lede of this long thought is me thinking a bit more coherently about the Washington Post's …
- Broadcast Resumed … Pentagon’s procurement system is so broken they are calling on Watson - The Washington Post [2] Automakers, Government Agree Automatic Braking Will be Standard by 2022 - NBC News …
- Shockwave; The Top Priorities; Engagement; A Hostile Environment … It was an invitation to either attend or sponsor (it wasn't completely clear, to be honest) a conference about the top IT priorities for Washington State (to …
- The Puppyslugs; Car Phishing; 24th Century Procurement … The Next Generation Technical Manual - Amazon [2] Why can’t Washington build a website? -- That's enough for today. Best, Dan
- 2015 (1); A Manifesto Walks Into A Website; Stuff About The Web And Post Capitalism Again … It's 2015. [0] Skipping church? Facial recognition software could be tracking you - The Washington Post [1] Churchix Facial Recognition Software for Event Attendance [2] After Jeep Hack …
- Names; The Condition … How Ebola Spread Out Of Control - The Washington Post Failing the GDS Service Assessment - "The team is planning to achieve [a simple and intuitive enough system that users …
- Continued Careening … During my interview process I'd talk about being taken by my then-girlfriend and now wife and mother to our son to the Jefferson memorial in Washington …
- She Who Wears The Digital Crown; Designing Community … raised money for convicted murderers, will draw the line at abortion and ‘sorcery’ - Washington Post, Caitlin Dewey [2] Every Man Is Responsible For His Own Soul - blog.reddit …
- I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos … If you don't want to get hurt, don't challenge me - Sunil Dutta, who is an idiot, in the Washington Post, who are also idiots. 2.0 …
- Sketchy; Don't Call It Sharing; Walking Sensors, Contd.; 2014 (3) … Guess which camp the "instrument all the employees" people fall in to. (Here's a clue - in an interview with the Washington Post[2], the chief executive of …
- Manifest Destiny; A Little Bit Desensitized; The Material (2) … I think I've written before about how, in 2002, I visited my now wife in Washington, DC and we went to the Jefferson Memorial. There are some …
- Meat Puppets; The Circuit … England, 20 July - Cascadia Ruby , Portland OR, 11-12 August - HOW Interactive , Washington D.C., 3-5 September - HOW Interactive , Chicago, 19-21 October and the one I …
- Cities; Disruptive; Still Brittle … For example, a London-equivalent in America would be some sort of freakish combination of New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Boston and bits of San Francisco. Because …
- Shorts; Code as Law; The Real Revolution; The Flip … 2014/02/26/e83af186-9ee0-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html Also, holy shit, Washington Post URLs. - Ars Technica takes a look at moving image representation of messaging but …
- 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 …