Kieran Healy

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Kieran Healy
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Somewhat relatedly, this sort of approach is a good way to assess what really matters to any organization from the point of view of the people who run it. For example, starting from the front page of any university website, count how many clicks it takes you to get to a page showing the faculty members who teach in any specific department (Physics, English, Civil Engineering, Sociology, Chemistry, it doesn't matter, just pick one).
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John Siracusa (@siracusa@mastodon.social)
One way I judge a website is by how difficult it is to find the name of the company starting from the home page in a form suitable for copying and ...
Always worth taking sentences that use “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
An instructive contrast here. When it comes to EU policies it thinks are bad for business, Apple has no trouble making full-throated, detailed, public statements like this, because it—correctly!—judges it’s dealing with a government that can be pressured in a conventional way. When it comes to the US, however, it's all kiss-ass humiliation dinners and gold trophies. A good illustration of how debased governance has become in the US.
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The Digital Markets Act’s impacts on EU users
Apple explains how the Digital Markets Act is forcing the company to make some concerning changes to how it designs and delivers Apple products to ...