I am an AV tech and we use a mouse jiggler script to prevent computers from going into an inactive state for presentations during events at my company. The script doesn’t need to be installed, you just open the file by double clicking.

Considering the chain has been owned for a few years by private equity, I don’t know if it could have been any worse than that.

Nice things like this can really only exist in a museum or immersive space, I think.

I am well aware of this overlap and it doesn’t come as a surprise. I perhaps wish more of these creators acknowledged the military industrial complex and addressed what it means for their content and for the world of engineering.

I also had this uneasy feeling watching the video. It certainly felt a bit like a cog in the military industrial machine. While the actual content of the video wasn’t exactly bad in my opinion, I don’t know how I feel about pitching anti-terror or war machines to children through the lens of, “Engineering is cool!” That said, there are many more examples of that pitch out in the world in other forms. I do think Mark could be more careful especially when he is directly promoting a company in the defense industry.

Almost as if it’s a grifter account that exists to illicit reactionary responses, both for and against. I would hardly even call this a “take” since it isn’t even an outright opinion. Let me be clear though, I do not like this account either.

I am also not a fan of the doomerism. Feels harder to avoid here unfortunately

Hey don’t spoil the surprise!

2021 had GME meme stonks and was the start of NFTs. Also COVID vax started coming out.