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Christopher Mims
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tech columnist @ wsj, here to make friends & chew bubblegum (& I'm all out of gum)

would mean a *lot* of preinstalled apps

nostr:npub1efvh0km06s5fqtz2mczx9yutnc6f4ksn39f6z0nz5n8hgde6x7vqp04jx2 Unfortunately I do not yet, need to get back to the gym. Mostly just doing bodyweight training at home right now. I’m a vegetarian though so that protein really helps anyway

one of the most enlightening things about seeing people opine about an industry you're actually a part of is realizing how many opinions that go viral are just a person's biases, put in such a way that other people agree

this isn't meant as judgment -- it's just human nature

this teaches me as much about *myself* and my own beliefs as anything

nostr:npub1l6y7v07gyc0mpusywf2ectrymt5g4gyp0xhm6e6g76gnfk3t9nmstr2e4y I think this is ... sort of true -- but also has much more to do with the fact that the media is pretty bad at covering slow-moving stories (see also, up until very recently, climate change)

nostr:npub19ekl4y7r2u6m0pa35z6l7074dh066vn2mtdggd9c3m48xzt2um6sxrya3u not sure! But maybe keep records if you’re a lawyer accusing people of federal crimes?

Funny to think that Giuliani forfeited his defamation case because, in part, he didn't have adequate cloud-based backups of his personal devices.

From today:

"Giuliani had claimed that the FBI seizure of his electronic devices years ago had complicated his ability to access his records..."

From 2021:

"Federal prosecutors seized 18 electronic devices belonging to Rudy Giuliani and more than one of his employees when they raided his home and office last month"

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/politics/rudy-giuliani-georgia-election-workers

nostr:npub1y2dr760f5m304d22804v5vlxt8alyklvxjhsqtgkej2nheefp76suxp52p he's maybe kind of a composite character? here's where at least one of his inspirations (I think) is now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTHUAQPlf6c

nostr:npub1hjp5acdek7h3yj5tav6g37ck6n7mjns22dedl0en49aphse7zjps5fel3e especially given that we're now doing that to the planetary life support system of which the economy is merely a subset

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Second, why it’s so hard to maintain the things we depend on for our very existence:

An aging workforce. The reluctance of young people to take on these jobs. (They pay well, but who wants to become a maintenance engineer just to work in the heat all day and get filthy? And who wants to work on old stuff?)

Enter automation.

What if the most tedious and dangerous parts of these jobs could be done by robots overseen by people?

@scott_bot@hcommons.socialwell now you have us intrigued :)

nostr:npub1sc08qgzm9x7chc83gl57l7nq76cxy23r9qt0w0yfxzrj59t3x2hsu8duc3 oh I say do whatever works for you, for everyone it's so different, I think? one thing I like about mastodon, it feels like we're having more individualized experiences where Twitter tended to homogenize them... there are no 'main characters' on here, you know what I mean? feels like a more diverse set of interactions for us all...