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   Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2026 00:50:20 JST Artemis

   The subtext/metanarrative that I believe is bothering me with Supergirl reviews is that if I like something, I have to spend lots of money on it & get all my friends to spend lots of money on it.

   As though I should be doing the marketing for the films I like because otherwise they will be a "failure" & I won't get any more films like that. And as though it is normal & natural to decide the value of a piece of art based on what "most people" are willing to spend money on.

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   Chuck Darwin (cdarwin@c.im)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 05:26:46 JST Chuck Darwin

   in reply to

   The use of commercial tools on the sites departs from federal web-team conventions.

   Davisson, the senior counsel at the EPIC, described the studio’s work as
   “trying to establish their own sort of fly-by-night version of what federal agencies normally do with added tracking technologies
   and less oversight”.

   This is most apparent in the NDS’s employment of user tracking prior to outreach from the Guardian,
   such that when a member of the public visited one of the studio’s federal websites,
   a commercial tool called PostHog recorded what they did on the page.

   PostHog’s session-recording feature,
   which can replay every click, scroll and keystroke of a visitor’s time on a webpage,
   is installed in the code of all four sites and enabled on two of them.

   On the remaining two, the recording is held inactive only by a single setting inside PostHog’s dashboard,
   which can be changed by whoever controls the website at any time.

   The Guardian emailed PostHog for comment on its apparent provision of tracking tools to the NDS, but received no response.

   Adblockers and similar privacy tools are used by millions of people to limit what third parties can learn about them as they browse.
   Most of them work by intercepting requests that a visitor’s browser makes to known tracking services
   – and blocking them before any data leaves the device.

   Website source code shows that PostHog has been configured on
   NDS-run sites to route analytics requests through an address on the federal website itself,
   rather than through PostHog’s own servers.

   Because the request appears to go to the site the user is already visiting, rather than to a recognisable third-party address, adblockers don’t flag it.

   As PostHog explains in its own documentation,
   this works “because ad blockers haven’t visited your domain to catalog your setup.
   They don’t know what to block.”

   In other words, the technique is specifically designed to evade privacy tools
   – by presenting commercial tracking as ordinary website activity.

   Serge Egelman, research director of the Usable Security and Privacy Group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), explained:

   “The issue there is that over the last several years,
   due to abuses relating to this type of data collection,
   there’s basically an arms race with tools being released to allow consumers to try and exert some control over what data gets collected.”

   Egelman said that he had not looked specifically at the PostHog tool or its deployment on federal websites,
   but he did point to a lawsuit involving the addition of commercial tracking technology to a state government website.

   “I testified on Meta where the [Meta] Pixel was put on the California DMV website.

   And Meta was able to obtain information about when people are requesting, say, disability placards,
   reinstating a suspended license, things like that
   – sensitive information that’s actually protected by federal law.”

   He added: “It’s not like someone going to the DMV website expects a private company to receive their personal data and then be allowed to use that however they want.”

   PostHog comes with a separate feature called session recording,
   which plays back every click, scroll and keystroke a visitor makes,
   like a video recording of their entire visit.

   Princeton University researchers who first documented the technology in 2017 wrote that watching such a recording was “as if someone is looking over your shoulder”.

   On the Trump Accounts and TrumpRX websites, the feature has been built into the page code and is held inactive only by a single setting inside PostHog’s dashboard.

   The NDS can turn it on at any time, on either site, without making changes in the underlying website code.

   Separately, until the Guardian sought comment on this reporting, the NDS’s own website, ndstudio.gov,
   ran a 539-line piece of bespoke code that recorded visitors’ clicks, form entries and navigation;

   assigned each visitor a session identifier;

   and forwarded the captured data to an address that does not appear anywhere on the public internet.

   The script’s source code refers to it as AutoMonitor.

   #posthog #JoeGebbia #nds #doge #tracking #surveillance

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   Jacqueline (burnoutqueen@todon.nl)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 12:57:10 JST Jacqueline

   @evan

   There is a whole article about it.

   As of 2025, AI is 4% of energy usage

   https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 19:25:50 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   “You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

   Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

   Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

   Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

   I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

   But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

   Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

   As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

   So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

   The expiry of your relevance

   The "soul-crushing" signal

   The need for reinvention velocity

   The "Sunday night" signal

   Read about them in the full post.

   And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

   Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

   You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

   Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

   ---
   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

   **#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 00:18:43 JST Paul Cantrell

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   Teaching students to critically evaluate technology and its uses (including but not limited to LLMs) is a Good Thing Actually™ in my book. If this initiative weren’t stuffed full of OpenAI + Google + Microsoft money, I’d be a lot warmer to it.

   As it stands, I’m placing my bet on “following the money tells you how this story will end.”

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 19:27:06 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Make difficult decisions sooner. (Even when you don't want to)" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   --
   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
   --

   At one moment in time, I had Google Claude analyze the thousands of blog posts I've written since 2002, to try to come up with a list of the unique phrases I've come up with through the years. It came back with a massive list. and called them "Jim'isms." I'm pretty proud of the list, since these phrases often capture the essence of the ideas I share with my clients and readers.

   The one I am proudest of is probably the one with which you are most familiar: "aggressive indecision." I coined it back in 2002 to describe the tendency among my clients to make the tough decisions that need to be made, particularly when uncertainty reigns.

   And it led me to believe that the most dangerous words in any business or life are, "Let's wait and see."

   When we wait, we fail. We might tell ourselves we are being prudent, being cautious, but usually, we are just being hesitant. In my 36-year voyage, I’ve learned that the difficulty of a decision doesn’t decrease with time: it only compounds. To stay ahead of the curve, you must learn to make difficult decisions sooner, especially when you don't want to.

   Every successful pivot I’ve made in my career and business required me to cut ties with something comfortable but declining. Whether it was walking away from a stable career path or sunsetting a keynote topic that was still "doing okay," the hardest part identify8ing what I needed to do. It involved actually doing it.

   As humans, we are engineered, it seems, to avoid the tough decisions. And yet often, that's the only way to get ahead!

   The simple fact is this: if you wait until you are forced to make a decision, you aren't pivoting; you’re reacting.

   Making decisions sooner -m even when you don't want to - is the antidote to aggressive indecision. Most organizations and people stay stuck because they treat difficult choices like a burden to be avoided rather than a strategic advantage to be seized. By making the tough call early, when you still have resources and momentum, you control the future to the extent you can. If you wait until your hand is forced, the market (or the crisis) controls you.

   Don't let the weight of a difficult choice paralyze you.

   Make the call.

   Futurist Jim Carroll believes that 'aggressive indecision' is the root cause of most failure.

   **#Decisions** **#AggressiveIndecision** **#Action** **#Courage** **#Sooner** **#Pivot** **#Leadership** **#Waiting** **#Momentum** **#Jimisms** **#Strategy** **#Tough** **#Paralysis** **#Control** **#Future** **#Freelance**

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/04/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-14-make-difficult-decisions-sooner-even-when-you-dont-want-to/