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 My new #SenseMaking technique is unstoppable. 
 AirBednBug 
 Is #Enshittification mainly about the increasing encroachment of #BigWorld?
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/Enshittification
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/BigWorld 
 @8b8af88b it's their own pharmacy data, so this seems less horrible than lots of other data issues. 
 Hot-take: the more dysfunctional the buyers, the more dysfunctional/grifty the products.
Edtech > military > othergov > enterprise consumer > smb 
 (Edtech is worst because after all the bullshit they're also generally cheap) 
 i'm noticing my Content™ On Here® to be bifurcating:

• nerd shit goes to mastodong
• shit... 
 i cannot explain the feeling of how the thing i'm working on would be super helpful for finishing... 
 @b0767e1c you should do that 
 When money becomes the goal and not the means to some greater end, bad things happen. 
 You brought a haiku to a rap battle. 
 scrumfabe 
 What if, 15ya, Mozilla had decided to host/subsidize a bunch of cheap protocol based services (webdav, xmpp) rather than a trail of 0-impact apps? 
 I have bug-icks, I blame 70s horror movies.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0076214/ 
 Over time I’ve finally come to realise that the Agile manifesto is a rebuttal to Taylorism. I k... 
 If that was a real fork in the road, someone would have already taken it. 
 We need a variant of The Aristocrats movie, but the punchline is always "The ScrumMasters!" or "The Stakeholders!" 
 I need "brands" on Masto for customer service purposes.
https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1708238253600411832 
 @4ebb1885 oh weird, before there was also a Login link up in the top ribbon.
I smell Designers at work... 
 Does the Law of Requisite Variety mean that the Crazier player always wins?
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/LawOfRequisiteVariety
This combines nicely with the cynical version of the Golden Rule.
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/GoldenRule
Does this rule-pair better explain
1. management (cf #GervaisPrinciple)
2. politics? 
 @2aff42f7 "an international push to force the drug industry to share the intellectual property and patents associated with coronavirus vaccine development. Making the patents available, in turn, would allow countries across the world to swiftly manufacture generic vaccines" 
 @2aff42f7 "It is not clear to what extent Twitter took any action on BioNTech’s request. In response to Morschhaeuser’s inquiry, several Twitter officials chimed in, debating what action could or could not be taken." 
 if you're a monotheist, you're not post-rat you're pre-rat, i don't care how neo you are 
 @2aff42f7 "an international push to force the drug industry to share the intellectual property and patents associated with coronavirus vaccine development. Making the patents available, in turn, would allow countries across the world to swiftly manufacture generic vaccines" 
 Does anyone I follow use Obsidian collaboratively?

I'm looking for an (ideally open source) know... 
 @64a373a4 
1. Are you expecting to not pay anything for server hosting?
2. How many people do you expect to be writing? How many of them have github accounts? 
3. Have you ever gotten that group, orna similar-sized group, writing before? The biggest challenge isn't technical. 
 nostr:npub1p4rpzym686zwxh7rv76cupvxe50kw7agvkusu8lnrkfveqrmfmxqgy6aux do tell......we're waiting. :) 
 @9c385ceb my next "fun" project will use htmx and bootstrap5, because I'm JavaScript-phobic. 
 What's the best LoginWith "provider" if you don't want it to be Google/Gmail or another "commercial"/"silo" vendor?
(In 2021, Twitter might have been the answer.)
Github? Not enough non-devs will do it. (And does it still count as non-commercial since MS bought it?)
WordPress?
Or maybe you offer Github, plus classic email/password as fallback?
I'm especially thinking of a pattern for #ToolsForThought to follow.... 
 hmm maybe this slides into this old twitter thread https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1447587222258073608 
 yak shaver yak shaver shave me a yak 
 @b0767e1c 
hack me a hack 
 Florida school district orders librarians to purge all books with LGBTQ characters. 
""Are we removing books from any school or media center, Prek-12 if a character has, for example, two mothers or because there is a gay best friend or a main character is gay?" the librarians asked. Charlotte County Superintendent Mark Vianello answered, "Yes.""
 https://popular.info/p/florida-school-district-orders-librarians?publication_id=1664&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=n9nf#:~:text=%22Are%20we%20removing%20books%20from%20any%20school%20or%20media%20center%2C%20Prek%2D12%20if%20a%20character%20has%2C%20for%20example%2C%20two%20mothers%20or%20because%20there%20is%20a%20gay%20best%20friend%20or%20a%20main%20character%20is%20gay%3F%22%20the%20librarians%20asked.%20Charlotte%20County%20Superintendent%20Mark%20Vianello%20answered%2C%20%22Yes.%22 
 Timely tune... 
Check out Ozempic Wegovy Mounjaro by Ari Dayan on Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0BYZZ5V58?trackAsin=B0BYZY3KZ4&do=play&ref=dm_sh_YbpVEuItnwbfBy8BTKv526s3v 
 nostr:npub1v79cw2wy09a5hd2xz298m7h3x9n4gx8xdvtfmhqka6s9jpzlehyq5g96a7 nostr:npub1p4rpzym686zwxh7r... 
 @9c385ceb @678b8729 hmm is htmx the new ___? 
 @6b514c9b
1. The die is cast as soon as you take #OPM.
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/OPM 
 @6b514c9b
2. Almost all businesses fail. If you don't want your business to fail, you don't want to add "being accountable to the community" to your constraints. 
 If you’re going to interview Donald Trump, you had better be prepared to fact check him in real... 
 @98042630 or...
Don't interview him 
 One weird #Hobonichi note: after thinking about planners all day yesterday, it struck me that my ... 
 In a bar yesterday discussing how Lovely Day by Bill Withers is great

Me: I'm so old I downloade... 
 @07556023 I try not to keep using "before you were alive" in stories 
 Remember Franklin Planners? In the 1990’s, these #GTD-inspired, pre-digital #PKM and project-ma... 
 @3c47cdf3 strong disagree, I'm so much happier with digital/linky systems. 
 The interesting part of having blogs or other systems federate natively probably isn’t being a ... 
 @bc00b0fe but would bringing those fed comments back to the blog raise the same consent objections as having search? 
 Possible PM talk title: Don't Be the CEO of your Product, Be the Joker.
https://media.tenor.com/BJd2RyNpzI8AAAAd/joker-heath.gif 
 Of course I *love* it when someone, occasionally, declares me all that and a bag of chips.

But I... 
 @a8871cd2
Have a problem?
Hire GeePaw.
Now you have a meta-problem! 
 Double feature hard mode: Fight Club followed by Harold and Muade 
 @2aff42f7 FightMaude 
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 @61201a23 you have to change your notification sound https://youtu.be/Dr8HDRvlKog?si=Qj2idIQCDtbBwMpn 
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 (insert rant about ebooks priced at $15)