Notices by Glenn Fleishman (glennf@twit.social), page 5

@jeffcarlson (my blog is fine, but I must do everything for a joke)

@jeffcarlson I would have posted it to my blog, but, well, see above

All CMSes are bad, except the one you are using, which is worse

Did Alaska made exit row seats +$0? I'm booking a flight three months out and…all exit row seats are $0.

@thomasfuchs @mwichary

@thomasfuchs @mwichary not stuck! It’s in transit, and USPS apparently scans much more rarely than one would ever expect! Likely by later today or tomorrow, the first scan will occur, or it will have arrived! PS, we put all this in the email to make sure people weren’t anxious about it—I understand that it still is frustrating. And why would you read a really long email about shipping anyway?

@thomasfuchs carpenters replaced with pneumatic nail guns that fire in a pattern they determine themselves with unavoidable casualties

In February 2023, I helped @mwichary run what became the #1 tech book campaign on Kickstarter for his massive tome, Shift Happens. How did we raise over $750,000 in the campaign (and sell more copies later)? How did we deal with the expected—and surprise problems? I've detailed all that in this essay: https://glennf.medium.com/how-we-crowdfunded-750-000-for-a-giant-book-about-keyboard-history-c30e24c4022e Hard-won advice from this weathered campaign veteran.

When was the last time you had to write a resume/C.V.?

Boeing’s #1 problem is not that they lack a culture of accountability.

It’s that they *hate unions* and *hate criticism.* So many of Boeing's major actions in the last 20, even 30 years have had to do with their attempts to break unions and escape political pressure in Washington State. The payoff is pressing workers without enough training, denigrating and overruling the work of union employees, and outsourcing work to avoid increasing union employment. This has cost them $10s of billions.

AI voice scams are here. Create a simple family password based on a story you all remember. Or ask for a very specific memory and when the person says they don’t remember or are too upset you know it’s a fake because everyone in your family would know they’d be asked in just this circumstance.

@thomasfuchs It's weird, because there is something like 30–40 years of visual programming systems that can be pretty robust, or at least address many people's need for data handling. Those are typically vastly better than all the "solutions" even when they're imperfect.

@thomasfuchs oo, oo, remember “expert systems”!

@aleen @thomasfuchs tofu contains no pork — no wait, that one is true

@thomasfuchs I mean, NFTs are like broken links, but even worse than broken links.

Posted 10 days ago https://twit.social/@glennf/111631358383609633

@jerry @thomasfuchs I predicted a few years back that if the COVID vaccines were as successful as they seemed the would be, that people would dismiss them as unnecessary—see, everything worked out! Just like Y2K. (I believe I have seen that take multiple times.)

A reminder that Mickey Mouse is thinly coded minstrelsy. The tune he whistles in Steamboat Willie has a previous title so racist I won’t note it here. And Disney adopted that ditty to open all its animated films a few years ago. Minstrelsy is a long scar on our cultural landscape, one of the most popular forms of entertainment for a century, and its vestiges and symbols remain with us.

Happy New Year!

@jgordon Yes: it’s not that they *cost* pennies, but they could be made under massive contract and supplied for relatively little with subsidies (or free) as part of a functioning health system. Ones like this with COVID-19, Flu, and one other (RSV?) I've seen shown as widely available in Europe.

@Snowshadow @jgordon They exist—for all I know, they're $250 each or something, but what quantity are they produced at? What's the cost of hospitalization to society? etc. I would love to have a combo test, even for $10 or $20 (free to people with lower incomes) to reduce transmission and avoid doctor visits, etc.