SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
@Federation_Bot
Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade. The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances. Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S. Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
No Kings includes Draft Kings
The Unaccountability Machine
Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions – and How The World Lost its Mind
Hardcover Edition
304 pages
Published in 2024
by Profile Books Limited
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead organisations to make catastrophic errors.
When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.
Management cybernetics was Beer's science of applying self-regulation in organisational settings, but it was largely ignored – with the result being the political and economic crises that that we see today. With his signature blend of cynicism and journalistic rigour, Davies looks at what's gone wrong, and what might have been, had the world listened to Stafford Beer when it had the chance.
y'all might want to double-check WritingAtlas(dot)com to make sure your work that's behind a paywall isn't there for free. a friend had several of her stories scraped.
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The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega wareho...
Every bike lane cleared by a volunteer crew is an act of heroism and a policy failure.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:stch4h6ryvyp4pb6w2khu3wz/post/3mebpdtqdfc2t
You can see how massive this chunk of ice was that had to be chopped out and then removed! Had the city just cleared the bike lane when the snow was still soft, none of this would be necessary
While all this was going on, people who rely on this bike lane year round were forced to be either in the traffic lane or on the sidewalk. Folks biking, riding scooters, skateboards, runners, someone on a skateboard: Boston is a multimodal city and we all deserve safety and to be protected from cars
Because the storm was so long ago, and snow from the street had been pushed into the bike lane, there were epic mounds of ice. You had to chop through them with metal shovels. And that's exactly what we did. All by hand. Here's a before, and during shot
You can see how massive this chunk of ice was that had to be chopped out and then removed! Had the city just cleared the bike lane when the snow was still soft, none of this would be necessary
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Everyone showed up with something, a shovel, something to hack through ice, drinks to keep people hydrated, a willingness to work together to take care of each other. Most of the work was done by hand, but someone brought a snowblower and started hacking a path through compressed and frozen snow!
Because the storm was so long ago, and snow from the street had been pushed into the bike lane, there were epic mounds of ice. You had to chop through them with metal shovels. And that's exactly what we did. All by hand. Here's a before, and during shot
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Credit to the BU Urbanists club who had been registering complaints for over a week, entering 311 tickets, contracting the mayor, Chief of Streets Nick Gove, and city councilors: no action whatsoever It was clear the city did not care and was going to do nothing. Enough folks were motivated to show
Everyone showed up with something, a shovel, something to hack through ice, drinks to keep people hydrated, a willingness to work together to take care of each other. Most of the work was done by hand, but someone brought a snowblower and started hacking a path through compressed and frozen snow!
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Our friends at Pedal Collective are running another Disaster Relief Trial this year. You should all come along! www.drtbristol.co.uk Read about Matt's experience last year on our blog: keert.uk/blog/survivi... #CargoBike #Bristol #DisasterReliefTrial
First, context, Commonwealth Av is the backbone of Boston University and around the BU Cycle Kitchen is one of the best protected and heavily used bike lanes in all of Boston. It's protected by curbs and separate from the sidewalk and this is what it looked like yesterday. Unpassable
Credit to the BU Urbanists club who had been registering complaints for over a week, entering 311 tickets, contracting the mayor, Chief of Streets Nick Gove, and city councilors: no action whatsoever It was clear the city did not care and was going to do nothing. Enough folks were motivated to show
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First, context, Commonwealth Av is the backbone of Boston University and around the BU Cycle Kitchen is one of the best protected and heavily used bike lanes in all of Boston. It's protected by curbs and separate from the sidewalk and this is what it looked like yesterday. Unpassable
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Sorry but *what*? How did I not know that George Osborne - the architect of British public sector austerity - was now OpenAI's head of "OpenAI for Countries" pushing AI for the public sector, education and skills, and doing so at Davos and on LinkedIn? www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/george-...
#Via Foone
@foone
12:49AM · Jan31 2026
"I'm one of people who got him to delete old politics board, not sure how I feel finding out I got overridden by fucking epstein.
also one of things I did was moderate 4chan, which was a lot of deleting of CSAM. Part of why I no longer do it is moot was pushing us all to do it manually, rather than work on projects to try and prevent it
I was arguing about how to keep pedophilic content off site w/someone who hung out w/epstein?
jesus fucking christ."
#Via Zach Malm
@Muzach
12:29 AM · Jan 31, 2026
"So, let's get this straight. Christopher 'Moot' Poole created 4chan as a gathering place for hentai and CSAM enthusiasts, started /pol/ the day he met with Jeffrey Epstein, then /pol/ memed Trump to the presidency and birthed Qanon, a conspiracy theory in which Trump is a good person who hates CSAM."
Is asset shovelware a thing? It feels like a thing.
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@GossiTheDog @petko and hopefully no one was hit by the wheels?
Enshittification
Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Hardcover Edition
352 pages
Published in 2025
by MCD
Enshittification: it’s not just you―the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify.
We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.
Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.
When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).
The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users―and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.
Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.
Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and―most important―how they can be undone.
