aka Feature Flag, see also A/B Test. Feature Toggles (often also refered to as Feature Flags) are a powerful technique, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code. They fall into various usage categories, and it's important to take that categorization into account when implementing and managing toggles. Toggles introduce complexity. We can keep that complexity in check by using smart toggle implementation practices and appropriate tools to manage our toggle configuration, but we should also aim to constrain the number of toggles in our system. (more)

Collaborative Work Management software, CWM; beyond issue tracker (more)

Cory Doctorow: Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined. There's a debate to be had about whether AI chatbots make good psychotherapists. This is not an area of my expertise, so I'm not going to weigh in on that debate. But nevertheless, I think that if you use an AI therapist, you need your head examined: (more)

aka Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Emotive_Behavior_Therapy (more)

family of psychotherapy (Self Improvement) techniques (more)

To-Do List with Task Hierarchy (OutLining) model. https://workflowy.com/ (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Lands of Lorecraft. In the last couple of years, I’ve become aware of some genuinely fresh management thinking from an emerging cohort of thinkers on the margins of the landscape of traditional institutions. (more)

spatial software thinker, currently working on PartyDAO and Area. https://darkblueheaven.com/ (more)

project management, collaborationware, issue-tracker - https://quire.io/ (more)

aka multi-user to-do list: Bug Tracker, Bug Tracking, Defect Tracker, Defect Tracking, Feature Request Tracking, Commitment tracker, Task Manager/Task List, etc. (more)

Outliner, issue-tracker https://checkvist.com/ (more)

Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on Earth? Schmidt and Frank write that a “species as short-lived as Homo sapiens (so far) might not be represented in the existing fossil record at all.” Today, less than 1 percent of the Earth’s surface is urbanized, a tiny proportion that hardly stands a chance of being re-exposed millions of years in the future (more)

Could an Industrial Prehuman Civilization Have Existed on Earth before Ours? One of the creepier conclusions drawn by scientists studying the Anthropocene—the proposed epoch of Earth’s geologic history in which humankind’s activities dominate the globe—is how closely today’s industrially induced climate change resembles conditions seen in past periods of rapid temperature rise. (more)

particularly-evil bottled water brand

How This Billionaire Couple Stole California's Water Supply. (more)

*The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968. Released by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study, it was made public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.[1][2] A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that Lyndon B. Johnson's administration had "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress".[3]. (more)

aka Monterey Plus Agreement, Monterey Amendments - secret 1994 deal for southern-california water. (more)

Erik Hoel: Proving (literally) that ChatGPT (LLM) isn't conscious. (more)

Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne. It stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, with supporting performances from John Huston, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, and Diane Ladd. The film's narrative, set in 1930s Los Angeles, is loosely inspired by the California water wars—early 20th-century conflicts over water rights that enabled Los Angeles to access resources from the Owens Valley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film) (more)

Conflict over water rights in California between 1902 and 2006... The California water wars were a series of political conflicts between the city of Los Angeles and farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California over water rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars (more)