Notices by Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶 (a_cubed@mastodon.social), page 2

@phaedral @aspragg @pluralistic @d2718 This is exactly the same as many private hire operatipns in the UK, except the drivers and cars ,usy be licensed and insured properly. the firms used to be call centers/radio dispatvhers and ate now app based for drivers and often for passengers, too.

@aspragg @pluralistic @d2718
I've been teaching this for years in my ECommerce course. For example, Uber/Lyft are just unlicensed private hire cars, not an innovation.

@atomless @pluralistic
It's related to but a compounding factor that rich people tend to be surrounded by "yes people" which atrophies their cognitive abilities, particularly their ability to realise when they are or have been wrong.
e.g. https://www.oveo.org/fichiers/power-changes-how-the-brain-responds-to-others.pdf

@cstross @blades Hmm, I still remember a conversation with you and Mary at a con sometime in the 90s about sysadmining as the basis of a fantasy quest. I definitely get the feeling that some of those concepts worked their way into the Laundry Files.

@davidtheeviloverlord @cstross Copilot is the new Clippy!

@lxo @pluralistic UBI is the primary proposed solution. Economists have email been writing about this since at least the 90s.

@jwz @DemocracyMattersALot
Apple's and trees coming to mind for some reason.