Lactose for me. No more cheese or ice cream or it’s also back to 6/day. Luckily there is medicine for the occasional treat.

Then twins walk into the airport and the system crashes.

And facial recognition has been known to fail with very dark skin so that’ll turn into a racial issue real quick.

Amazon of the “just walk out” shops powered by AI, that turned out to be s lot of Indian workers in the background.

We see that the system of checks and balances is more of a theatre that only appeared to be working

Seems it was rather based on a gentlemen’s agreement, which is fine as long as gentlemen get in power, or at least someone believing in the rules of the game. As soon as someone gets behind the controls who clearly dislikes the rules, that’s a huge issue.

¨Sir, you are scaring the banks, and if banks get scared they kill presidents. They hire professionals, not some kid on a roof.¨

¨Oh¨

We know what contributes a lot to developing autism. It’s pollution, more specifically small particle matter found in for example car exhaust. The same cars for which they’re now killing the environmental regulations.

Popular media doesn’t really investigate other ways of organizing society. It’s always the standard job, shop and money with only rare exceptions. It just swaps dollars with credits, uses hovercars instead of normal cars and calls it a day. Hell, they were shoveling coal into a reactor in Rebel Moon to power their space ship. I don’t expect that much from entertainment and can live with the black mirror doom porn. Maybe I give writing my own stuff another try, but I’m not a good writer.

Honestly I’m with black mirror. These days when a new tech appears, the mind immediately wonders how this will be abused it obstructed by other parties. That’s not the show’s fault but of what keeps happening in real life.

Black Mirrors shows the future, extrapolated from current systems and events. It’s not about new paradigms that might be possible.

It makes him feel like the big boss, without any rules or opposition.

… while the rich exploit what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Well, often they know it´s hard to estimate, but the entire corporate system is built around having things done by a certain date, your time costs money and payments are usually linked to those dates. They don´t really have a choice but to make a planning based on the estimates you give and monitor the progress so they can give the proper level of panic to their bosses. Of course, software has always been a disaster with estimates and attempts to tame the chaos haven´t been that successful.

I usually make a ridiculously detailed list of all tasks. ¨Add button A on screen. Discuss details: 2 hours. Interface work: 0.5 hour. Code work: 2 hours. Database work: 2 hours. Testing: 2 hours. FAT: 2 hours. Changes after FAT: 1 hour. SAT: 2 hour. Test script: 1 hour. Update documentation: 2 hours. Add button B … ¨ Put it all in an excel sheet and summarize. Most PMs don´t even want to start arguing a list like that, and it seems to make a reasonably good estimate for me.

Unless USA does become a hereditary monarchy and the whole circus continues with Queen Ivanka.

And if everyone is moving to the USA at the same time, the existing supply lines get overburdened immediately, causing prices of all raw materials to explode until new supply can be developed.

It’s an attempt to get a handle on things and trying to avoid situations such as:

“Oh, I was struck on that point for the last 3 months. I reinvented the wheel 2 times and now it works.”

“And now we’re 3 months behind schedule. Why didn’t you ask anybody?”

“Yeah, I didn’t want to bother anyone. But I did put in on the timesheets.”

“It says ‘working on project’.”

And that’s how regular project update meetings get scheduled, and a bunch of messages asking for updates.

That’s the same psychological effect like 9.95 for a product versus 10.00 I guess.

Seems cops think they’re MaxTac already.

Trump will of course say that this is not fair and he was supposed to divide and conquer, not get them to unite and retaliate.

And it will say people of lower economic classes and foreign origin are the biggest risk. Will action be taken to help these people? Nah. This is just going to be a technological excuse for some good ol’ repression.