Having talked to a couple of people in the CDC I fear the worst. They’re not allowed to participate with the WHO outside of the agency (even on their own time). The employees are largely censored from expressing their opinion on any topic, anywhere.
They were talking about getting work outside of the States. These are smart, dedicated people who are boots-on-the-ground for crises like Ebola, and I wonder about the purpose of the agency and our ability to respond to the next event (with bird flu looming on the horizon).
So research aside, our incident response has already been compromised, and we’re just seeing the beginning.
I don’t know if it’s widely known but now that we have TikTok back it’s irrevocably altered. Content amd actions are being policed for anti-right wing sentiment and people are being TOS’d or prohibited from that action.
Examples that have been posted: warnings or prohibitions from posting content. Limits placed on sharing content (no bulk-sharing and a hard stop on sharing).
We’ve lost one of the only venues that wasn’t under control of an American oligarch, and it’s now clear what we’ve traded to retain access to TikTok.
The dems failed at messaging, as they have forever. Both parties have abdicated their role enforcing antitrust regs (esp as it relates to the food industry).
Additionally mis-handling COVID and implementing a 25% tariff on some commodities had a massive impact on prices.
Then there’s just the evolution of some markets: PE buying housing inventory + short-term rentals + Rental yield-management (thinly-veiled collusion on pricing) have transformed the housing market.
The biggest impacts: consolidation and a deregulation mandate. Companies can do whatever the hell they want.
The fact that we even have to have this conversation tells you how far afield from our stated values we have drifted.
Some municipalities are just corrupt. If your cops are going to conferences to learn how they can seize property, they’re criminals. We should start treating them that way.
In addition to the obvious, Windows feels like a neglected ecosystem. They pile on new, half-baked features without fixing what’s already present and broken for years.
Try searching for a file by name. Third-parties have had this figured out for years and yet Microsoft can’t deliver accurate or quick results.
Two different interfaces for settings since the failed Metro experiment. The jarring introduction of old NT menus where they haven’t updated a setting to the new UI.
I could go on, but the author has done a good job of cataloguing a broken product.
I used to use Apple keychain and lost access to it at one point when I switched phones and no longer had a known device associated with my account. Even when I had the correct credentials, I could no longer access the keychain.
It may be my own ineptitude, but I won’t use it again.
Insurance companies have been doing this for years. Feed data into an algorithm controlled by third parties (and what’s more, share data about people who’ve been terminated, coordinate benefits, etc).
They were talking about getting work outside of the States. These are smart, dedicated people who are boots-on-the-ground for crises like Ebola, and I wonder about the purpose of the agency and our ability to respond to the next event (with bird flu looming on the horizon).
So research aside, our incident response has already been compromised, and we’re just seeing the beginning.