Ah, Dr. Oz just got tapped for CMS. You’re right lol

Yeah, I just got the TestFlight access to Loops and it’s janky. A useable web UI would go a long way.

Nah Dr. Drew is far more friendly with his ilk.

When he inevitably fires the pick, it’ll be “Czary, Not Czary”

A sestina based on the rules is, formally speaking, easy. Ask me to write one that will be studied after centuries, and you’re asking for Petrarch.

See also the audits conducted by hire-on companies such as rpk Group who destroy academic programs for “budgeting” purposes. This is one example. They’re effectively a bunch of MBAs dictating the funding and courses a school can offer, shifting to a “strategic finance model” which is totally what education is about, of course.

“John Wayne Toilet Paper: don’t take shit off nobody.”

his son’s face when the footage comes out all pixelated with black lines through it rather than a smooth blur will be priceless

Your commission, Debo: “about two hundred dollars.”

Sadly, I don’t think so. The pandemic-era cash grab solution was software that’s basically spyware, logging keystrokes, mouse movements, taking screenshots, etc. Some clever individuals just taped vibrators to their mice and walked away for breaks. You’re asking middle management to do real work here, ya silly.

“What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mysteries?”

I got this and the HBO/Max email on the same day, smdh

When C. Diff Strikes: Mile High Edition

Don’t worry, we’ll shovel more garbage reality shows into your app and wreck the ux even harder. Here’s 40 seasons of people having diarrhea on airplanes. Expect price increases in 6 months.

Just to specify, the issue is with the Hannah Reyes Morales set (avert your gaze to the children bedazzled with shrapnel instead!)

They have windows in the basement?

“Swing state” is such a misnomer for any of them. They have one drunk Tuesday and never live it down.

It’s not technically hacking when Elon leaves the door open after slamming his dick in it.

You’ve hit the nail on the head here: we’ve been conditioned to believe there is no alternative. And frankly, reimagining an entire way of life is really intimidating. But the current way of living is not sustainable either.

I think of this as akin to Moses wandering the desert for 40 years (the ins and outs are contested among scholars, of course) — the purpose of wandering was to shed the lived memory of Egypt and allowing a new generation to start over with the knowledge of what happened before, but not the suffering of it.

Ultimately I’m against retreating into nihilism, nor do I think rationalizing cosmetic changes to the status quo as truly progressive is a solution either. We are forced to work and live in the “wrong state of things” so to speak, and we can either try to drag this out for generations or have some kind of “snap” that allows for a significant do-over with the fresh wounds of The Now very much on our minds.

You’re not totally wrong with “burn it down” in the sense of bureaucracy. The sociologist Weber felt they were actually efficient systems up to a point, and even necessary for democracy, but then became the worst nightmares that we could never undo. And as we see much more recently, Graber argued that any time you asked the government to streamline, it would just increase regulations, paperwork, bureaucrats needed for the aforementioned, etc.

So we have this necessary evil to start the kind of system we wanted in place, it’s only getting worse, and any candidate with smart ideas who wants a chance gets sucked right into it. “Reform” only reproduces the problem in a slightly different direction. Like Akira or a T-1000 I guess.