This is due to the efficiency fallacy. And we need to get a handle on it.
Efficiency is a one-word double-bind, paralyzing thought and peoples' capacity for reason. Some people define efficient as "minimal" and others define it as "optimal" ...
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/p/authority-without-accountability
It's Friday! Time for a quick knowledge management game...
Wishing everyone a fantastic weekend full of relaxation and zero frantic document searches!
Fill in the blank: "I spent __ hours this week searching for documents that should have taken me 5 minutes to find."
#poll #what #OpenSource #Documentation #efficiency
"This assumption that efficiency is always a good thing is ... incorrect. In a democracy, friction exists for very particular reasons and those are; 1) protection, and 2) stability. Centralised data, and centralised control of data, or ... of anything, is inherently less stable than a decentralised structure."
#EmilyTavoulareas, 2025
https://techpolicy.press/doge-and-the-united-states-of-ai
(1/?)
"The government’s #efficiency requirements originated in 1975, when the concern was an energy shortage, not global warming.
In the decades since, the standards have been widely embraced, dramatically cutting energy and water consumption, reducing emissions and providing plenty of attractive consumer choices."
The transition to LED light bulbs is estimated to have cut energy bills by $3 billion a year and eliminated the need for about 30 large power plants."
Day 14 cont 
“Price was appointed to lead a government efficiency unit if the #Coalition government is elected after 3 May. The unit, which would sit within the prime minister’s department, has been compared to one led by US #tech billionaire Elon Musk (#TechWeenie, #Oligarch), whose Department of Government #Efficiency, or Doge, is taking a razor to US government departments.
“Let’s be very, very clear, media, you’re obsessed with Donald Trump 
. We’re not obsessed with Donald Trump. We’re actually obsessed with ensuring that we can improve the circumstances for #Australians,” she said.”
Devoid of any #policy, #analysis, #costing, #ideas an LNP Senator makes a word salad of foreign phrases about making the “Bond market” sexy again, from a #BowlingClub on a Saturday in #Perth.
Repeat the slogans,
Repeat the slogans,
Repeat the #slogans.
#AusPol / #LNP / #Liberal / #propaganda / #JacintaNampijinpaPrice / #indoctrination <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/jacinta-price-says-coalition-will-make-australia-great-again-then-accuses-media-of-being-obsessed-with-trump
I put up an essay on my blog, Government is not a Business. These are things I've said before in various ways. I'm just putting them together in an easy-to-reference place.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2025/04/government-is-not-business.html
@noujoum #efficiency "is an inherently suspicious concept."
Because "It doesn't ask: efficiency in the service of what?"
Timothy Snyder
@MatthewToadAgain @ChrisMayLA6
Efficiency
How optimally a system uses resources by minimizing unused capacity, at the cost of flexibility and resilience.
Effectiveness
How well a system achieves its goals while maintaining reserve capacity for resilience, adaptation, and peak demands.
Highly efficient systems may be vulnerable to disruption, while effective systems maintain deliberate slack for robustness and responsiveness to changing conditions.
I wonder if adding low frequency sound to dishwasher cleaning mechanisms would lower water use and improve efficacy? #innovation #efficiency #water #environment
had to go up 26 flights of stairs thanks to the finbro and techbro efficiency of the Wall Street investment bank that, with the backing of the OPEC mafia, privatized these once government-subsidized affordable housing buildings and been gaslighting the unsuspecting by calling them “luxury housing”.
26 flights of stairs.
on a friday evening.
when there’s nobody around to repair them, thanks to their union busting ways.
there is really nothing quite like techbro and finbro #efficiency.
NASA’s New Satellite Could Change the Way We Farm Forever
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https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-new-satellite-could-change-the-way-we-farm-forever/ <-- shared technical article
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https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/ <-- shared NISCAR page
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https://youtu.be/ONHTazfGoiM?si=y2n0abh5B4UBAyuW <-- shared overview video
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Precision Agriculture at Scale | Mapping Crops with Advanced Radar | Cutting-Edge Techniques for Crop Identification | Enhancing Crop Forecasts with NISAR Data | Tracking Soil Moisture for Smarter Farming
#GIS #spatial #mapping #farming #agriculture #farmingintelligence #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #fedscience #satellite #earthobservation #remotesensing #policy #planning #management #efficiency #radar #planting #irrigation #waterresources #tools #resources #economics #costs #moisture #crops #AI #machinelearning #water #hydrology #NISAR
@nasa | @ISRO | @JPL
FARMing With Data - OpenET Launches New Tool For Farmers and Ranchers
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https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/ames-science/farming-with-data-openet-launches-new-tool-for-farmers-and-ranchers/ <-- shared NASA article
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https://etdata.org/ <-- shared OpenET home page
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #OpenET #FARMing #spatialdata #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #farmers #agriculture #water #hydrology #NASA #USGS #waterresources #ET #evaporation #transpiration #efficiency #weather #climate #evapotranspiration #model #modeling #planning #conservation #sustainability #remotesensing #earthobservation #management #satellite #watermanagement
@USGS @nasa
Pour #Revenue #Energy #Efficiency. Cette approche exploratoire, semble cohérente mais mérite d'être approfondie.
Agree 100%
The idea that the density of good people is different among different categories, whether races or genders or degrees of ableness or whatever, seems completely suspect to me. So there's that.
But also, abstract goodness is not always the entirety of what is needed of employees. Regardless of what score anyone might get open whatever test you could throw at them, there is intrinsic value and having people who come from different backgrounds. Diverse groups have a better mix of origin stories, and are not just diverse in nature but in nurture.
Diverse groups have walked more paths, seen more things, experienced more situations. There is a greater breadth of empathy. There are more varied sources of inspiration. Inspiration comes in odd ways from different situations.
When solving mysteries, differences in people's personal histories will lead them to see the same situation differently, sometimes shaking them out of overly narrow, limiting, or even toxic assumptions.
When creating policy, having folks present who can more directly represent those impacted can help to call out and perhaps avoid biases, prejudices, indignities or injustices that might be invisible to or unappreciated by a narrower group that is so used to things going a certain way that they don't realize or find it easy to relate to that full space of potential negatives others might endure.
When creating stories, diversity brings more richness of life experience to draw on.
When innovating, diversity brings more points of view a greater breadth of traditions and techniques to draw on, better thinking outside the box because the boxes people have inhabited are so many and varied.
When entertaining, more sources of music, jokes, artistic tools and media. Even with 5000 TV channels and as many grocery store products, we crave variety, which better comes of diversity than a sea of cultural sameness.
One can allege there is a kind of dogged efficiency in eliminating diversity, but there is no reason to suppose it will do anything other than destroy all that has made the US an interesting place to visit, study, and buy from.
The monocultural sludge we are becoming is the farthest thing from smart, safe, healthy, entertaining, or free. Even a highly efficient from of that toxic sludge will still be sludge and will not thrive economically or socially. The stock market is just an early warning sign but there will soon be other even more visible indicators. Our society is melting down before our eyes and the present experiment in selfish, bigoted authoritarianism is the cause, not the cure.
This cesspool of feigned expertise and mindless leadership being thrust upon us claims to be motivated by a desire to avoid bankruptcy, but in fact is the shortest path not only to economic but also moral, cultural and intellectual bankruptcy that anyone could have devised. If there is an efficiency to be claimed it is in the swift path ruin it has charted. Future generations of locusts will study the raw, ruthless, and ultimately pointless efficiency it has required to dismantle and plunder a thriving society in such short order.
#diversity #DEI #DOGE #efficiency #politics #bigotry #monoculture #inspiration #justice #bias #prejudice #injustice
H/T @salixsericea
Government Efficiency Or Oligarchy Demolition Team?
And how some in tech industry seek dictatorship
Watch On #peertube:
#technology #doge #USA #privacy #efficiency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
ChoiceEvent #83 - #BASF + #TfS: Making #Scope3 Data Work
Date: 20.03.2025
Time: 1-2pm
Speaker: Alessandro Pistillo, Director, Sustainability & #Digital Strategic Projects, BASF
"Learn how the Together for #Sustainability (TfS) framework helps drive comparability, #efficiency, and scalability in data exchange.
Understand how Scope 3 #data can become a strategic business lever, not just a reporting obligation."
"If they really wanted to know how to use technology to build a more efficient country, they would ask us."
♬ 
Greg Cocks 
RightToPrivacy & Tech Tips 
