I’ve registered to vote twice in Florida, and both times I cannot be found as a registered voter. I don’t have any felony convictions, etc., but registering to vote never goes through for unknown reasons. (Florida is my state of residence.)
Don’t think I will try any more; seems pointless. Voter suppression works!
Enterprise UX. pic.twitter.com/0MbrT8tTuF
— Janne Aukia (@jaukia) April 5, 2019
Also, Firefox designers and developers.
There is a very recent example, with recent evidence. The 2008+ foreclosure crisis resulted in banks owning a lot of property. Was the goal of predatory lending not only to fleece customers and make money trading scam securities but to scoop up property when the music stopped?
— Adina Levin (@alevin) April 7, 2019
I’m not much into conspiracy theories, but this is something I’ve wondered about often. I do think more than a few lenders and corporations had this as an explicit goal, because it was an obvious outcome. (The “who could have known?” narrative is extremely, extremely false. Many people knew and were in a position to do something with this knowledge).
Also I believe this was the case because throughout history, the objective of many if not most lenders has been to saddle populations with usurious and unpayable debts with the explicit goal being to seize the property once the recipients of credit are inevitably unable to pay.
There is little new under the sun. Why would this be different in 2008 or now?
Read this whole thread. It’s worth it. (Click on date-time stamp to go to thread.)
In 1920 the NBER when it was chartered made a fateful decision to exclude women's household labor from economic statistics (Redesigning the American Dream, Hayden, p. 125)
— Adina Levin (@alevin) April 6, 2019
It coincides with a lot of what I’ve been thinking about lately regarding the social construction of reality and how there is no such thing as objective measurement of any social aspect of life. It just can’t exist.
"To build world class software, we need everyone to be inside this building."
Developer: *Installs 9 trillion packages written outside this building"
— Mark Dalgleish (@markdalgleish) April 7, 2019
The infrastructure version of this is: “To build great infrastructure, we need everyone to be inside this building!”
Me: The primary data center is a thousand miles away and the failover data center is 2,000 miles away. My nearest team member is in the UK. Literally not a single person in this building knows a single thing about what I do or when I do it.
Of course, butts in seats is a managerial obsession — MBAs love seeing their charges arrayed out on a floor, actual productivity be damned.
Seriously great, and she’s obviously a horror fan. There’s nothing quite like her music out there. I’m kind of puzzled that it’s so popular, but I’m not complaining.
That Bösendorfer piano she is playing in the video below sounds absolutely wonderful. I’d love to have one of those, but they cost more than $250,000 for the base model.
No time soon, then. But it sounds so, so good.
Very Liszt-like, which is not accidental. Liszt was kind of the “heavy metal” composer and pianist of his time.