@ronkjeffries Thanks! The format isn’t so much to avoid cluttering up the blog as to organize the newsletter and control the timing of when it goes out in email. I also post to mitchwagner.com. I had been doing a daily linked list there to, as you say, avoid clutter, but I think I’m going to stop doing that and go back to just posting individually.

@Uair Classic!

@mitchwagner.com If you steal $1,000, they throw you in prison, but if you take hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes, they put you in the White House.

@mitchwagner.com In the United States today there is no penalty for flagrant corruption and attempting the overthrow of the US government — if you’re a billionaire.

@mitchwagner.com Or will they wimp out, as the US has done since the Reconstruction after the Civil War, and give oligarchs a pass?

@sloanlance I am not so easily offended. And yes I too share the disappointment about AI-generated images, particularly cute animal videos and photos, which I loved and now love a little less.

And the original image may have been AI-generated. I found it posted without context or explanation, and did the same.

@tezoatlipoca But the bikesheds are great.

@mitchwagner.com The idea of bikeshedding became popular in the open source community, which is where I encountered it.

www.lightreading.com/telecoms-sof…

@mitchwagner.com Historian C. Northcote Parkinson noted the phenomenon in 1957. “The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of money] involved,” Parkinson said.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law/_of…

@mitchwagner.com It’s based on a hypothetical story about a local planning organization tasked with reviewing plans for a nuclear power plant. They are overwhelmed by the cost and engineering of this advanced technological project, and instead focus on details of the bike shed proposed for plant employees.