FiddlerClamp

Tech has the following issues to greater and lesser extents:

* It gets in the way: confirmations, notifications, features that don't exist and can't be added, even when they're asked for repeatedly.

* It stops listening: freezes, overly-strict interaction requirements.

* It's not 100% safe, and thus not truly reliable.

Not all tech is like that. Or has to be.

Or, it's greasing the wheels of free-association until people skid out of control.

And since the 'world' of the chat is mostly epistemologically closed (except for Web search), there's no absolute tether point. Everything's subjective, and self-confirming.

Thoughts on using meta tooling to build a process for organizations:

Values -> Monitoring -> Evaluation -> Tripwire -> Enforcement

Our values are subjective across substrates, but are relatively consistent internally. We can build an objective substrate to drive this loop.

I could use some help! Been thinking about this for a long, long time while I was busy with other things in my life.

I still think stylus support (both hardware but especially software) is going to be a killer app for these things. They've gone in the wrong direction for now, but some of the Asian phone companies (Huawei?) still have stylus support.

"No physical toy, especially if it’s branding itself as a companion with a personality and soul, should include a killswitch that deactivates its core, best features if you stop paying up."

Can't wait to get my next employer's name tattooed on my forehead.

Wondering what's going on with Canada. I checked out their site yesterday out of curiosity and most products were listed as out of stock.

Also the Data General One (poor screen aside).

I think it was a one-two punch:

1. Snoopy becoming Flanderized, as in the "Happiness is a warm puppy" stuff from the 1960s.

2. Introduction of Woodstock the bird. That meant Snoopy and Woodstock went off and had their own adventures which didn't involve the human gang at all.

I also wonder whether Schulz participated in any recreational drugs in the 1960s. I don't meant to be disrespectful at all, but some of the stuff he drew was pretty wild.

There's a set of strips where Charlie Brown sees the moon as a baseball (and later, Alfred E. Neuman's head), another where Snoopy dreams of Charlie Brown flying him like a kite and him crashing to the ground in pieces, and a horror-movie-like series where Linus's blanket attacks Lucy. All very strange.