Honestly I didn't read or watch the actual interview because I've already seen a decade of Sasse's blowhard-ism. He blames everyone but himself for America's problems.

Sasse was my senator. He was totally unreachable, offered no constituent services, never had a townhall. All the man ever did was lie and harm people. I'm not going to pretend he was decent person just because he's dying.

Sasse first ran as "the anti-Obamacare candidate," saying that if the ACA were to pass "America as we know it will die."

It must be nice for him to have healthcare for his expensive medical condition during his interview circuit about how wise he is.

How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying The former senator wants to heal the America he’s leaving behind.

Sasse's signature legislation was the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," a nonsense bill designed to gratify a conservative conspiracy theory. He wasted his whole life on culture war lying.

The surveillance state is here, and it's not here to protect us.

Trump administration personnel agency is asking for federal workers' medical records The Office of Personnel Management is asking insurers that cover federal employees and retirees to hand over details about their medical visits, their pharmacy claims, and more.

Further building blocks in the Trump / Silicon Valley data juggernaut, for automating loyalty tests and repression as a service.

OPM was the federal agency used by Musk to send his "5 bullet points" emails. It remains compromised.

A lot of men are discovering (unwittingly) that they have never been good partners to women, and moreover they have never even seen a good male partner. Generations upon generations without a role model.

Following in case you find out the answer...

As I understand it, CPRS was systematically under-invested in because there were medical software contractors lobbying to replace it with a worse product, now happening. An in spite of this CPRS was still pretty good. A government-built system.

As I'm sure you know, 18F was created to address this exact problem. Of the "fiscal conservatives" who repeatedly exacerbate this expensive problem, DOGE are the most catastrophic example.

Same with Nebraska and Tyler Technologies. All the state's software is trapped by vendor lock-in and the state gov has no idea what to other than write bigger checks. Something similar is a problem in almost every state.

"fiscal conservatives" burst into government every few years and make this expensive problem worse by firing people

Sometimes no one in government can correctly identify the system that needs to be built, or no one is comfortable with the agile methods that modern software development uses. So they set themselves up to fail from the get-go.

The government don't need to build every software system in-house, but it does need enough employees who are good enough at building software that they can tell good contracts from bad, and hold contractors accountable

What's the deal with boondoggle government contracts, like $100 million for a software system that doesn't actually work?

It's not an imponderable mystery. Usually, it's simply because no government employee has expertise in the thing the government is buying. So they get taken advantage of.

In his autobiography, Tim Berners-Lee says that from the moment he met Andreessen, the man was obviously the first person involved in the early history of the web motivated primarily by his own gain rather than a spirit of collaboration

Yeah I guess I also did because that's the level of suspension of disbelief needed to make the movie work.

By forgoing normal cues about the passage of time I found the movie to communicate events less clearly. I value clear storytelling so to me it was a miss.

It advances forward like 20 years but all the cars and every other part of the world looks the same. it makes no sense

This is maybe an unhelpful comment but, a very good pseudohistory I once read was called The Moon for Its Citizens by Wallace Cochrane. As befits a fake history I cannot now find this book.

This is presumably beyond the capabilities of his diseased mind now

"The Coca Cola company is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep drinking that garbage."

It's hard to remember now but once he was good at posting

Canvassing for local elected officials really made me realize how bad this problem is. Very many people with detailed (often insane) ideals about national politics can't name a local policy that they care about.

Right: Why might the videos cause reputational damage?

Do we, the public, not deserve to hear exactly what was done with our data, money, our science? Why does their incompetence or lack of care deserve anonymity?

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

I feel there's a huge cultural disconnect in what we even mean by "suburb." Some of what we call suburbs of DC, like downtown Alexandria, are quite walkable. When people say "Americans prefer suburbs" a certain number of people are actually thinking of that.

It will enrage but not surprise you to learn that the guy whose job it was to check targets to make sure they’re not schools before we bomb them got fired during the transition to the Trump administration

Even the richest man on earth, commandeering the world's most powerful government, is no match for the Modern Language Association

He's literally 28 years old, fully a decade beyond the age of majority

Accountability for corrupt contracts favored by the executive simply doesn't happen at the federal level anymore so good to know it still happens somewhere

They never (?) directly explain "domination and submission make me feel things in my pants and that's how I make policy decisions" but. If that's not the reason a considerable percentage of the time, I'll be surprised.