The Offline Report

Working from home (WFH) involves high-intesity work tasks alternated with off-the-clock to do items, and a good buffer to mark the boundaries. My favorite task-switching buffer is finally, after five weeks, used up. Said buffer was the one streaming series I managed to stick with long enough to complete a "season" in almost a year. This series stars Christoph Waltz as the director of a sinister aristocrat's hunting game. The game in this version -- or the game's game -- is played by Liam Helmsworth, who has been convinced to agree to be chased by a set of killers. In return, the game director (Waltz) rewards the prey (Helmsworth) exponential bank account deposits starting at $50,000 for every hour up to 24 he remains alive. All contestants, all predators and all prey, must stay inside city limits of Detroit or they're disqualified. No guns allowed. It's based on a Collier's short story published in 1924. This work by AJ Fish is licensed under...

June 29, 2021 "A federal safety agency told automakers on Tuesday to begin reporting and tracking crashes involving cars and trucks that use advanced driver-assistance technology such as Tesla’s Autopilot and General Motors’ Super Cruise, a sign that regulators are taking the safety implications of such systems more seriously."    nytimes.com June 15, 2021 "Though users’ intent was crystal clear, the companies chose to disingenuously interpret the choice to apply only to selling data, not giving it away, and so they kept on distributing it free to feed their advertising businesses."    nytimes.com "Only the deepest-pocketed outfits like Waymo, which is a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet; auto giants; and a handful of start-ups are managing to stay in the game."    nytimes.com "Millions of Americans are struggling through life with few people they can trust for personal and professional help, a disconnect that raise...