Absolutely. I'm working in the Canadian context of Healthcare, and so data sovereignty, security, and geo-location are big deals. Most of what we currently use runs locally. Machine-embedded AI is going to be a much better bet I think (and have a better enviro footprint)

The AI part in particular is interesting. I work in diagnostic medicine, and since well before the current generative AI explosion we were doing high-quality ML/AI stuff as decision support, for histology stuff with reading slides, etc. Now everything getting swamped with crappy bots.

Was just reading they currently have a surge in mycoplasma also happening right now, and they have reported high general respiratory infections (including RSV) this season

To have a referendum on literally anything would be a real change of pace versus the neglectful paternalism we seem to be perpetually burdened with

Oh absolutely agree

Thanks!

And all of the problems that government often has as an institution are issues of size and complexity. Large companies have the exact same issues

Ugh that's all awful. Sorry you are having to deal with all that

Yup, I work in the public sector in Canada (healthcare). The whole system is usually over budget every year, because it isn't like we can refuse care.

Lexx was delightfully weird. Was it a Canadian production?

I'm constantly ranting about how money is, at best, a shared fiction. Along a similar vein of money not being really limited at a government level (I prefer the MMT approach anyway) the idea that people have that governments balance a checkbook like home finances drives me into a rage

Well here is the current status, not a lot there, it's been stripped down to be pretty minimalist and only the three "Playbooks" that have been play tested in my current campaign: github.com/VoidScience/...

Current version is pretty lean and minimalist, going to try and keep it tight. Night only be like a few pages max, and most of that taken up by tables. Will try and get a version pushed on to GitHub later and link it