And the sad truth is that as more and more of the country’s/world’s infrastructure and systems shift to these types of intermediary software solutions to operate, these problems are only going to become more common. Because there’s just not enough financial and/or legal pressure to stop companies from cutting the…

Take your damn star....

“Capitalism for me, slavery for thee.” — The Real America hidden behind a flimsy curtain of performative ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ and ‘democracy.’

In a completely ‘unrelated’ note: Boeing would also like people to stop saying ‘parts fall off their airplanes.’

Yes, because the Ticketmaster/Live-Nation merger was so good for the public...

*We* can’t buy products that don’t exist, and nearly all products are packaged in plastic. Plastic manufacturers externalized the true cost of their products for private profit, and expect society to pay for it. It’s not like they didn’t know, decades ago, just how harmful plastic really was. And not only did they not…

Here’s How the Plastic Industry Thinks We Can Solve ITS Waste Crisis

I suppose that depends on how you define ‘good’ as it relates to Musk’s procreation activities. Because I would say ‘none’ is better than any amount greater than zero. The world most assuredly needs fewer racist egomaniacs who think nothing of destroying shit for their personal glorification.

Their numbers are a product of their orbital elevation, not capabilities. The lower their elevation, the less coverage each individual satellite has, the more of them it takes to create adequate coverage. But just as critical, the lower their elevation, the shorter the distance that data traffic has to travel,…

Government tax dollars spent on funding ‘public service’ jobs has always been far more valuable for society and more productive than tax dollars given to businesses. But, of course, business owners don’t like it when ‘their’ money goes to anything that isn’t their bank accounts. All part of their ‘taxes are bad,…

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I watched half of the first season and decided I just wasn’t interested. I didn’t like any of the characters or any of the hanging plot arcs. They’re all a bunch of whiny, self-important, arrogant jackasses pining about a bunch of imagined slights and ills they brought on themselves.…

But they’re doing exactly what they were asked to do: produce irrelevant ‘metrics’ of interactions with a computer system. It’s not *THEIR* fault that  when metrics become goals, the cease to be useful metrics.

Star Trek’s own stats for a Galaxy-class star ship lists a crew of 1000-6000. And that’s just the Starfleet crew. Not their families or attached civilians (which a science and exploration vessel would have have lots of). So yes, the average Galaxy-class starship is going to have between 2000-3000 Starfleet personnel…

Not hundreds. Thousands. With a complement of 1000-6000 crew, the ‘average’ Galaxy-class starship sports over 3000 crew and related support personnel, and their families.

I’ve got several friends at various tiers of academia, so I’ve heard all the horror stories about mediocrity failing upwards. And while the process is somewhat more ‘diverse’ in academia, it’s still much more common for white men to fail upward than it is for men of color. But the second bit, yeah...the more fragile…

It’s not a Hollywood exclusive. Mediocre white men fail upward in most industries. It’s basically their superpower. You just have to know the right selection of other mediocre white men to get in on their never-ending circle jerk of blame-shirking and buck-passing.

Yes. Go on about this magical ‘inflation’ thing that only ever seems to be a problem when right-wing assclowns aren’t in power. Just like how the ‘deficit’ is only ever a problem under the same conditions. Even though both of them consistently get worse when they *are* in power.

But that would require they acknowledge that homelessness and poverty aren’t personal failings but *societal* failings, that their great God, Capitalism, runs on the threat of suffering, misery, violence, and destruction on anyone who won’t prostrate themselves before their God. And that’s before we get to all their…

Hey Mr. CEO man — if an AI can ‘do your job’ while you’re on vacation, maybe the real issue is ‘you’ and your ‘job.’ Because if your job is that mundane, that simplistic and performative, it doesn’t actually need to be done. Because nothing of value is actually being done. It’s a make-work task, a glorified economic…

You should be powering down electronic devices regularly, no matter what. Data held in volatile memory is *NOT* infallibly correct. The error rates might be tiny, but errors will still happen, and since typical consumer devices aren’t going to be using ECC memory, those errors won’t be found or corrected. Thus, the…