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texas democrats should stay away from texas to block redistricting *and* oregon, new york, california and any other blue state that can should nuke their red districts

i sort of think they’re being drafted by committee now

everyone hates it but for non-specialized/industry tasks, O365 gets you most of what you need

tilda swinton in michael clayton looking at george clooney’s phone screen

one small bright side to this is that the world in which booker is seen as a centrist is one in which the party’s ideological balance has legitimacy shifted a lot further left than people think

it’s not even entirely true about the united states

i continue to think post-covid madness explains most, if not everything, wrong with us, and think it’s sort of wild to think we would have gotten back to normal quickly under any circumstances

rewatched 25th hour recently and it still holds up *extremely* well despite being of a very particular time

he’s got some duds, but when he’s on, he’s fucking *on*

If I understand the Bloomberg story correctly -- and if they have it right -- Ferritor and DOGE killed USAID contracts on their own after State Dept leadership and the White House had ruled in favor of keeping those specific programs. I have no problem sending them to jail

she also *was* a republican at one point

i think they should be tried and convicted for acting directly against both state department and court orders

if you hand someone a loaded weapon, you’re responsible for what they do with it, just as much as they are.

same

ferritor didn’t need genius skills to destroy USAID, he just needed to be pointed in a direction and allowed to act with authority and autonomy no one at his age and career level should ever be given.

this is an absolutely rampant problem in tech — plenty of other industries, but tech especially — there’s a black hole of accountability up the chain when someone fucks something important up, it’s NOTME all the way up

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

i think the most important point made here is the one that’s not getting a lot of discussion; what ferritor did didn’t require any particularly unusual level of skill, and while i think he should be held accountable for the damage he did, so should the people who were responsible for oversight

seems to vary wildly

people often chalk this problem up to STEM vs humanities education, which isn’t correct, but it does seem like we need a broad systemic focus across all disciplines on both morals and ethics, particularly in business settings

it doesn’t help that we have been in a steady backward trend in UX for what feels like a decade

you shouldn’t believe everything your parents tell you, i have had many conference calls with your cohort

ed was born with a computer attached to his hands, he doesn’t count

when i started working in a call center we were still using a DOS billing system

Imagine wanting to report this but the only way you can is to call a toll free hotline?

anyway everyone knows keyboard shortcuts are the actual measure of typing speed and basically everyone sucks at those

funny thing about this as a tail end x-er is that i had a call center job in my 20s which means i can type at high speed *and* talk on the phone *at the same time*, which makes me a wizard, basically

few years earlier and yes, too young to have gen-x’s massive chip on my shoulder and too old to have grown up in the type a personality factory

(this is a joke and if you don’t see that you need to have your house tested for carbon monoxide)

well, yeah, you don’t have to type as much when you don’t have a supernatural fear of phone calls