Boon Sheridan v2.6
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Boonerang™ is self-cleaning and features a safety lock, lower storage drawers, manual clock, countdown timer, ignition, and warming controls.
Past lives at 18F, Automattic, NASDAQ, Digitas, etc.
Past lives at 18F, Automattic, NASDAQ, Digitas, etc.
Proposing a new principle - Tyrell’s Law: Any person that can be synthesized, will. Preferably at scale.
July 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Proposing a new principle - Tyrell’s Law: Any person that can be synthesized, will. Preferably at scale.
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We have some news to share with you. 🥄
Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.
Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.
18F files legal challenge
A statement about 18F’s appeal filed with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.
18f.org
May 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We have some news to share with you. 🥄
Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.
Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.
This week I learned the band Trio intentionally put “skips” in one of their songs. The songwriter thought the song was ‘too beautiful’ and needed to be ‘destroyed’ a bit. It took me going through digital copies and buying and LP to figure it out.
www.stephan-remmler.de/dokuwiki/dok...
www.stephan-remmler.de/dokuwiki/dok...
May 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This week I learned the band Trio intentionally put “skips” in one of their songs. The songwriter thought the song was ‘too beautiful’ and needed to be ‘destroyed’ a bit. It took me going through digital copies and buying and LP to figure it out.
www.stephan-remmler.de/dokuwiki/dok...
www.stephan-remmler.de/dokuwiki/dok...
“You may have love
You may have hate
You may be the President Of The United States
But even you, you can't sit and hide
While the world's resources die”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9l8b...
You may have hate
You may be the President Of The United States
But even you, you can't sit and hide
While the world's resources die”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9l8b...
The Alarm - Absolute Reality (Official Music Video) [2018 Remaster]
YouTube video by The Alarm
m.youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“You may have love
You may have hate
You may be the President Of The United States
But even you, you can't sit and hide
While the world's resources die”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9l8b...
You may have hate
You may be the President Of The United States
But even you, you can't sit and hide
While the world's resources die”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9l8b...
April 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Fun fact, it's possible the domain "climatecore" was established because some folks might not have known the pronunciation of the word "corps" was "core."
Just slightly possible.
Just slightly possible.
❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted.
https://climatecore.gov
Action taken by the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) at or around 2025-04-25 06:11:08.
https://climatecore.gov
Action taken by the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) at or around 2025-04-25 06:11:08.
climatecore.gov
Federal US website delisted. URL is not valid.
climatecore.gov
April 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Fun fact, it's possible the domain "climatecore" was established because some folks might not have known the pronunciation of the word "corps" was "core."
Just slightly possible.
Just slightly possible.
The Urn reversed, gonna be one of those days, I guess.
April 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The Urn reversed, gonna be one of those days, I guess.
This one stings a bit. Building and launching ACC's site was a stressfest, but going from zero to site in a few months was a highlight of my time at 18F. I learned so much about building with constraints, limited resources, bubble gum, scotch tape, adrenaline, and caffeine.
❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted.
https://acc.gov
Action taken by the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) at or around 2025-04-25 06:11:08.
https://acc.gov
Action taken by the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) at or around 2025-04-25 06:11:08.
acc.gov
Federal US website delisted. URL is not valid.
acc.gov
April 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This one stings a bit. Building and launching ACC's site was a stressfest, but going from zero to site in a few months was a highlight of my time at 18F. I learned so much about building with constraints, limited resources, bubble gum, scotch tape, adrenaline, and caffeine.
This is perfect. I hadn't heard of "vibe coding," but it's precisely the thing I'm worried about with government development and AI. Coding with "vibes" is the approach that gets people dropped from benefits (or worse).
Vibe coding - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is perfect. I hadn't heard of "vibe coding," but it's precisely the thing I'm worried about with government development and AI. Coding with "vibes" is the approach that gets people dropped from benefits (or worse).
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The ultimate goal of a market intentionally drowning itself in AI and SaaS methodologies is a camera that costs nothing to own, but scans each photograph you take for copyrighted logos or phrases, then charges a dollar for each such photo you wish to keep, and another for each you wish to share.
April 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The ultimate goal of a market intentionally drowning itself in AI and SaaS methodologies is a camera that costs nothing to own, but scans each photograph you take for copyrighted logos or phrases, then charges a dollar for each such photo you wish to keep, and another for each you wish to share.
I didn't know I needed a sun and steel-drenched dancefloor reedit of Bruce Hornsby and the Range's "The Way It Is," but my day is already so much better for it.
The Way It Is, by Psychemagik
from the album Undercover Lovers Vol.5
psychemagik.bandcamp.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I didn't know I needed a sun and steel-drenched dancefloor reedit of Bruce Hornsby and the Range's "The Way It Is," but my day is already so much better for it.
The new Walt McClements album, On a Painted Ocean has been a welcome companion the last few weeks. It's full of minor disturbances in the surface of the day that spiral out into the wee hours.
On a Painted Ocean, by Walt McClements
7 track album
waltmcclements.bandcamp.com
April 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The new Walt McClements album, On a Painted Ocean has been a welcome companion the last few weeks. It's full of minor disturbances in the surface of the day that spiral out into the wee hours.
Honestly, I expect this sort of project any day now.
April 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Honestly, I expect this sort of project any day now.
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My new paper describes why the “business ontology” is a fallacy, and how the business-centered technocratic approach to digital service delivery made agencies like USDS uniquely vulnerable to takeover under a malicious regime. journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic...
April 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My new paper describes why the “business ontology” is a fallacy, and how the business-centered technocratic approach to digital service delivery made agencies like USDS uniquely vulnerable to takeover under a malicious regime. journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic...
Here's a puzzler: Why would the State Department take down all its policy pages, positions, and reports on AI at the beginning of April of this year? Wipe the slate clean of all previous AI work. 🤔
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - United States Department of State
Together with our allies and partners, the Department of State promotes an international policy environment and works to build partnerships that further our capabilities in AI technologies, protect ou...
web.archive.org
April 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Here's a puzzler: Why would the State Department take down all its policy pages, positions, and reports on AI at the beginning of April of this year? Wipe the slate clean of all previous AI work. 🤔
Tonight’s entertainment: Tommy Lee Jones’ 4th best movie. Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn and THE Bubba Smith in a small role. The only criticism is the soundtrack is missing the John Carpenter synth vibes. (I know it’s Lalo Schifrin but it needs more high energy vibes.)
Black Moon Rising (1986) ⭐ 5.5 | Action, Crime, Thriller
1h 40m | R
m.imdb.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Tonight’s entertainment: Tommy Lee Jones’ 4th best movie. Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn and THE Bubba Smith in a small role. The only criticism is the soundtrack is missing the John Carpenter synth vibes. (I know it’s Lalo Schifrin but it needs more high energy vibes.)
Also consider this a full-throated, blue-ribbon, star on the fridge, high-five endorsement for @arnicas.bsky.social's newsletter at arnicas.substack.com.
April 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Also consider this a full-throated, blue-ribbon, star on the fridge, high-five endorsement for @arnicas.bsky.social's newsletter at arnicas.substack.com.
I love this SO much. Traceability to source documents is the sort of feature I dreamed about when thinking about government AI tools. The ability to help identify, amplify, or de-emphasize docs in the training data? Swoooon.
OLMoTrace, from A2I, is really useful-- see the source training documents that contain strings from the output of the LLM. Doing it with generated stories is especially enlightening (even when we know it's often regurgitating). playground.allenai.org
April 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I love this SO much. Traceability to source documents is the sort of feature I dreamed about when thinking about government AI tools. The ability to help identify, amplify, or de-emphasize docs in the training data? Swoooon.
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Sharing a story from 2021 for no real reason. It was an interesting take back then. Wonder how it's aged?
How Biden’s infrastructure plan may fracture the nation’s colleges
Where community colleges love seeing the administration push for free education, some four-year schools see an "existential threat."
www.politico.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Sharing a story from 2021 for no real reason. It was an interesting take back then. Wonder how it's aged?
It HAS been nice to go back through 7 years of bookmarks and see what I was reading, watching, and listening to.
Remember "peak tech conference" of the 20-teens? A company called Fetch posted a Google sheet of all the events they were tracking in 2018! Warning: This may cause a wave of nostalgia.
Remember "peak tech conference" of the 20-teens? A company called Fetch posted a Google sheet of all the events they were tracking in 2018! Warning: This may cause a wave of nostalgia.
Fetch Events — A curated list of the best design and tech events
docs.google.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It HAS been nice to go back through 7 years of bookmarks and see what I was reading, watching, and listening to.
Remember "peak tech conference" of the 20-teens? A company called Fetch posted a Google sheet of all the events they were tracking in 2018! Warning: This may cause a wave of nostalgia.
Remember "peak tech conference" of the 20-teens? A company called Fetch posted a Google sheet of all the events they were tracking in 2018! Warning: This may cause a wave of nostalgia.
It's wild to remember the days when we thought the internet was forever. In 2010, Eric Schmidt discussed the right to change your name when you came of age to avoid your "youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites."
It was so "this is going on your permanent record!"
It was so "this is going on your permanent record!"
Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name To Escape His Permanent Record
Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name To Escape His Permanent Record
www.huffpost.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It's wild to remember the days when we thought the internet was forever. In 2010, Eric Schmidt discussed the right to change your name when you came of age to avoid your "youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites."
It was so "this is going on your permanent record!"
It was so "this is going on your permanent record!"
The cult of velocity certainly has the upper hand of late. There's also something in the expectations for digital tools and services has been downgraded to "practically disposable" so time and care are ditched.
Design is being reshaped by people who no longer (never) believe in maintenance, only in momentum.
April 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The cult of velocity certainly has the upper hand of late. There's also something in the expectations for digital tools and services has been downgraded to "practically disposable" so time and care are ditched.
I still can’t get over there’s a paint color called “Dorian Gray.”
Dorian Gray SW 7017 | Neutral Paint Colors | Sherwin-Williams
SW 7017 Dorian Gray paint color by Sherwin-Williams is a Neutral paint color used for interior and exterior paint projects. Visualize, coordinate, and order color samples here.
www.sherwin-williams.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I still can’t get over there’s a paint color called “Dorian Gray.”
RIP Dave Andrews, the man behind my favorite basslines. So many Gang of Four and Shriekback tracks to think of, but I always had a soft spot for Low Pop Suicide. LPS filled playlists nicely with funky and angry soundtracks to those early 90s weekends. (Rick Boston was also such a great gent).
Low Pop Suicide - Kiss Your Lips
YouTube video by badtracking
www.youtube.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
RIP Dave Andrews, the man behind my favorite basslines. So many Gang of Four and Shriekback tracks to think of, but I always had a soft spot for Low Pop Suicide. LPS filled playlists nicely with funky and angry soundtracks to those early 90s weekends. (Rick Boston was also such a great gent).