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Scapegoats abound. It’s never the readers’ personal responsibility for retweeting conspiracy theories, The Onion as fact or PR-manufactured articles. Maybe NYT trying to get the InfoWars demographic / fly-over country back on their side?

You’re bikeshedding on a switch versus a button, still an extra, unnecessary step to forget. Same problem. You failed. Try again.

There is more than one legal form of union-busting. They could’ve reorganized departments and “eliminated positions,” but instead they chose to throw everyone out on the street as collective punishment to send a message.

This is why reporters need to form independent, co-op, subscribers-funded news in order to avoid the strings and slavery of corporate advertisers and exploitative owners. Corporate news doesn’t work.

Thanks, dad. In the meantime, the GP’s not “alt-facts” remain the apolitical reality of the rich vs. poor.

More than binary nuance is needed. The ship that crashed is a system of humans plus machines, the UI being just the API between the two. Forensic incident analysis of ship design, UI, human factors, etc. is needed.

I’ve seen hundreds of millions (!!) wasted at a university on a program of software projects that failed miserably.

Having too much money allows for unproven, complicated or arbitrarily selected solutions and more bureaucracy that introduces Tragedy of the Commons mediocrity and diffusion of responsbility to address higher-level risks.

That is super dumb and dangerous. They should just flip the inputs on one end.

EDIT (since some people obviously don’t understand the problem): ... so that each set of controls is always correct for the respective side on which it is located. No switch is necessary.

Redundant affordances are needed:

Controls that are active should be illuminated in a particular color, say red.

Controls that are disabled should be extinguished, physically-locked or track active controls, and sound a warning when manipulated.

News and social media are legitmized gossip that create information overload / Tragedy of the Commons / false equivalency.

This leads to InfoWars, Cambridge Analytica, foreign state actors and anyone with deceptive goals and funding able to manipulate millions to billions of people economically. Heck, there’s an Instagram likes vending machine in Moscow.

Parents and teachers need to teach children and students often using trickery and not thinking for them in order to teach them lessons to not be so gullible. Wrapping them in bubble-wrap, helicopter parenting, dumbed-down education, extended adolescence and sending them to private schools/homeschool is counter-productive. A healthy citizenry needs initiative, leadership, nuance, moral courage, critical thinking and reliable knowledge; otherwise idiocracy.

Like Andy Grove’s book title: ”Only the paranoid survive”

Probably drives a Mercedes, but not so bad as a BMW.

This sucks. Wine subscriptions are big money-makers for vineyards. And, it will mostly hurt California.

In the US, paying prisoners is technically optional per the 13th amendment loophole.

Furthermore, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and combined with for-profit prisons’ political contributions, there are perverse incentives and outright corruption to overprosecute poor and minorities, as evidenced by the skewed prison vs. entire US demographics.

And it’s ”their”

Higher dpi maybe required for those kids these days whom hold their phones a few centimeters / inches from their eyes. I call it sera rubens myopia, Latin for glowing myopia.

1G started in 1976 with the IBM 3800 at 240 dpi.

HP’s first 2G laser (LaserJet w/ Canon CX engine) was 300 dpi in 1984.

Also I had a 600 dpi LJ 4 which was released in 1992.