Jon HancockI hope that there were lots of people waiting for the eclipse today who were making peril sensitive sunglasses jokes. I'd hate to see The Guide slip into pop culture's dusty vaults.
Cory DoctorowAmazon's burying of this vital information will be familiar to #DouglasAdams readers, as the "#BewareOfTheLeopard" tactic. It's not even the first time Amazon's deployed it:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/27/beware-of-the-leopard/#relentless
Another group of scholars recently coined a useful term to describe this ripoff: in a paper published last week, @timoreilly, #MarianaMazzucato and #IlanStrauss dubbed the costs of all this complexity #AttentionRents:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/subprime-attention-rent-crisis/#euthanize-rentiers
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Edwin GroothuisGoogle Docs doesn't have image captions. But there are extensions for it! But extensions are disabled by default by $(company policy). So I log a helpdesk ticket, which becomes an InfoSec ticket, which tells me to request a No Cost Agreement Review Process with Legal. For that I need to have access to that process, for which I just have submitted another helpdesk ticket, which is now reviewed by the manager from the Legal team...
Laszlo Xalieri