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It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
February 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
Giving access to SSNs+ on govt employees to non-staff (eg Musk) is violation of 5 USC 552a, & carries penalty of $1000 per person for data breached.
We're building a case. Govt employees wanting to join, contact me directly. Mark Lemley bsky.app/profile/mark...
profiles.stanford.edu/mark-lemley
We're building a case. Govt employees wanting to join, contact me directly. Mark Lemley bsky.app/profile/mark...
profiles.stanford.edu/mark-lemley
bsky.app
February 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Giving access to SSNs+ on govt employees to non-staff (eg Musk) is violation of 5 USC 552a, & carries penalty of $1000 per person for data breached.
We're building a case. Govt employees wanting to join, contact me directly. Mark Lemley bsky.app/profile/mark...
profiles.stanford.edu/mark-lemley
We're building a case. Govt employees wanting to join, contact me directly. Mark Lemley bsky.app/profile/mark...
profiles.stanford.edu/mark-lemley
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"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.
“Disrupt” is a very Silicon Valley word. Every time I see it crop up in a business-case, my bullshit-detection hackles go up.
November 25, 2024 at 1:07 PM
"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.
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We're seeing this same short-sightedness in analysis of the 2024 box office, which sort of elides the months-long strike as a factor. If the studios had not spent months trying to break the unions only to end up giving them most of what they wanted, the 2024 release sked would be, uhhh, BETTER.
I swear, sometimes it feels like so many box office analyses act like either the pandemic didn't happen, or that the theaters aren't still feeling the effects. "Why didn't this movie in 2021 do as well as the one from 2019? Must be the audiences didn't connect, no other reason."
June 3, 2024 at 1:22 PM
We're seeing this same short-sightedness in analysis of the 2024 box office, which sort of elides the months-long strike as a factor. If the studios had not spent months trying to break the unions only to end up giving them most of what they wanted, the 2024 release sked would be, uhhh, BETTER.
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I don't think people appreciate how bad things are in journalism and how terrible a blow it is to democracy. I have never seen the employment this iffy, wages this low, reporting this little in demand (by editors). You wonder how a column like Kathleen Parker's gets printed--that's who's left.
June 3, 2024 at 8:49 PM
I don't think people appreciate how bad things are in journalism and how terrible a blow it is to democracy. I have never seen the employment this iffy, wages this low, reporting this little in demand (by editors). You wonder how a column like Kathleen Parker's gets printed--that's who's left.