I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup.
Or ruling on cases related to govt regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires.
It's a disgrace.
Erin's talking about the Covid Tracking Project and how every day the team would wake up wanting to see the CDC finally get their data together...
Oh boy let me tell you How Hard It is To Build Government Technology and infrastructure like “knowing how many people have covid" and “where are vaccines”:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/17/1020811/better-tech-government-pandemic-united-states/
Erin: Our networks are *worse* now in 2024 than they were back when we created the covid tracking project. We wouldn't be able to do that now. The network is hostile to sociability, it's going underground to private discords, private slacks, partly because platforms have poisoned so much.
Unpopular opinion: the only rule for having a Wikipedia page about a topic should be : "Would someone in the world ever look for information about this topic on Wikipedia?"
The reason why some zealots try to remove "non-notable enough" pages is because they think it is a badge of honor to be on Wikipedia.
The reason why it is a badge of honor is because some zealots spend their time removing pages considered "non-notable enough".