Adrian Tchaikovsky has a good take on it as well, Human Resources.

I think they should’ve used the word ‘focused’. Everything else about the presentation says it’s a professional communication tool.

Bring back OS licensing, Apple!

One of my favorite books is Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262680936/turtles-termites-and-...), basically the thesis of one of his students (and current MIT Media Lab professor) Mitchel Resnick. It's about the educational value of modeling distributed systems with StarLogo.

Loved it. The earnest perspective of these monks can be very funny. Don’t know how to describe the rewarding prose except “chewy”, and this is a translation from Italian. Speaking of writing, the author’s extensive notes at the end are also excellent.

The wonderful thing about Flock is that you also get to be watched over by all the outside police you don't trust.

The body cameras that seem to make a difference are the ones we all carry in our pockets/purses. Axon cameras are nothing special, and the company is not neutral.

That's a very good point. Redactions and denial of public records requests make the Axon cameras mostly useless for bringing police misconduct to light. They might help once a case has become notorious. But they rarely start the process of accountability.

They said “mostly”. AI solves 90% and then you solve the other 90%.

Lol. On almost every post someone comes in to say that $problem was easily solved by AI. Usually out of the whole context of the thread.

Snake oil level comments.

What is the 90%?

The government is more directly accountable to me. The only way I have to influence what insurance companies do is through the government.

You can switch insurance companies, no?

I can if I want to switch jobs too. Probably not a good idea given the current economic conditions. I'd be all for forcing a decoupling of these things, but I don't see that anywhere on the table, and it would probably run afoul of politics anyways.

No, you can’t.

In many cases, no.

BigCorp gives money to politicians and gets to depress worker wages because they can't leave — sounds perfectly sane to tie your insurance to your employer under capitalism.