“You Want My Password or a Dead Patient?”
One example given is that one Electronic Health Record (EHR) system forces clinicians to prescribe blood thinners to patient meeting given criteria before they can end their session, even if the patient is already on blood thinners. So clinicians have to do a risky workaround where they order a second dose of blood thinners to log out (which is lethal if the patient gets it), quit the system, then log back in to cancel the second dose.
Relevant: “My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story.”
The birth & death of search engine optimization.
This would be a way to systematically churn out infinite amounts of bullshit that would not only drown out everything else, but allow you to sit back and do nothing as the money rolls in.
The Impossible Bottle is a beautiful, witty and enthralling text adventure I recently found by way of Linus Åkesson’s website – which itself is full of amazing wonders, my mind boggles!
Even better, it rekindled my past love for these kind of interactive storytelling – although I am not very good with solving such puzzles at all! But already the feeling I get after being immersed in the narrative (and this is such a brilliant one!) is priceless; something between excitement and suspense, between reading about what is going on and participating in the action, between this world and another 🕳
So I got hooked a bit and found some similar gems by Brian Rushton:
- The Impossible Stairs (authorized sequel to “The Impossible Bottle”)
- Grooverland
- Color The Truth
And then there is Chandler Groover, the titular saint of Grooverland, and his collection of interactive ficiton I still need to check out…
Relevant: Dial-a-SID (interactive non-fiction!)
A list of one-liners showing the genius that is Steven Wright:
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
70 Car Demolition Derby Knockout Tournament!
Hot Wheels Treadmill Race Cars.
Antifeministische Behauptungen erkennen und widerlegen.
Die Engobe (auch als Begussmasse oder Angussmasse bezeichnet) ist ein Oberbegriff für eine dünnflüssige Tonmineralmasse, die zur Einfärbung oder Beschichtung keramischer Produkte dient.
Dabei kann es sich um Schlicker (franz. Barbotine) handeln, es werden jedoch auch Mischformen zwischen Schlicker und Glasur oder Überzugsmassen ohne Schlicker als Engoben bezeichnet. Engoben bilden anders als Glasuren keine Schutzschicht für das keramische Produkt.
Money donating instead of virtue signalling.
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive.
We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
A palliative care specialist makes a gentle yet powerful case for discussing and understanding how death usually unfolds
Relevant: “Every so often something happens, a family member or friend dies, and that makes the confusion come front and center. And once in a lifetime someone as close as a father dies, and that floors you. You get knocked down, and as you come back up, you're not the same person you were before. The mystery of life and the question of existence after life, they're always there, but they loom much larger after a loss.” – Dave Winer
Going cashless is a bad idea, but it’s not a conspiracy.
(…) imagine a million blindfolded people tied together, trying to find a direction to walk. They collectively form a system, but its interdependence is so complex that it’s almost impossible for people to coordinate. This means they default to some lowest common denominator, vaguely stumbling in a direction without knowing why. This resembles how our global economic system works.
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There was a time when the automobile industry seemed ascendant, and bikes were pushed off the roads, but we built a cultural movement to demand bicycle lanes. That’s why we should see cash as being like the public bicycle of payments, and support efforts across the political spectrum to protect and promote it.