Seattle Times has a new report on how Boeing's current challenges can be traced to prioritizing shareholders over everything for 25 years, slashing costs and outsourcing key work, weakening unions, and pressuring suppliers, leading to loss of its core competency.
Now is a great time to say Biden is a Great President. Responding boldly and effectively to historically hard challenges inherited from T and new ones, despite obstruction, #Biden delivered. This essay lists some of those quietly heroic accomplishments. #politics#uspolitics#bid
We need a new word to describe the constant fear of leaving entire tech platforms and starting again every six months because they decided posting Swastikas doesn't violate their TOS
@Daojoan Of taking temporary shelter without hope for settling. Of renting forever instead of owning. Of feeling deeply that you are subject to corporate vagaries and chaotic human forces beyond your influence, let alone your control. Powerless. Unrooted. Living in online precarity. Living with hypervigilance of landlords evicting and mobs attacking and lies displacing reality.
I’m old enough to remember when smoking (and smoke) was everywhere, and the idea that smokers might ever be asked or made to stop was seen as absurd. Many kids (including me) got horrible bronchitis every single year and had other sorts of breathing problems all the time. Many parents (and other adults) died early.
@Pagan_Animist@emilyk@histoftech Are we at the start of similar curves for vaping and pot smoking and the respiratory sicknesses associated with their use?
#UX great Jakob Nielsen is warning the field to immerse themselves in #ai in general and #genai in particular. He says their impact is as fundamental as the move from desktop UI to web UX. And recalls that very few #design pros led the switch, producing a decade of flawed and broken interaction. So now is the time for all good designers to jump in and lead the next interaction revolution. https://www.uxtigers.com/post/ai-new-ui-paradigm
"How to Migrate from Evernote to OneNote: Step-by-Step Guide." Clear wikihow guide, pretty effective method, fast-ish, for Windows. In light of #Evernote killing off the free tier.
Shakespeare was desperate, in the pocket of theater owners and would have crossed the #WGAStrike picket lines. Chris Marlow would have stayed #WGAStrong
@daringfireball says #Apple should stop #advertising on #twitter, building on @ianbetteridge's observation that X's support for hate groups is an advertiser's disqualifier. This would hurt twitter's cashflow fast. A bigger statement: let the Apple store drop the twitter/X apps. Most traffic is mobile and Apple users are premium ad targets. Deny advertiser (and hate group) access to Apple users and see a new kind of power for good emerge. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/05/betteridge-apple-twitter
Lots happening in government #regulation around the world. Anything for masto and other #fediverse designers, developers, and operators to get ahead of?
Saw a #Dell monitor spec'd to "Max Operating Temperature: 104°F" and thought about redesigning phones and all other gear to work in #Phoenix+ heat, rated to 120°F or 45°C. #lifewithouttheinternet
I like Rick Beato's take on #AI in the #music business. People who can generate new music, including fakes, are artists do we need a name for them like aiJs?). Everyone is puzzling revenue and rights. Many old assets will become worthless. And technology moves forward despite your attachment to old business models. [#strategy
