Reminder that SoCal wildfire donations are being matched.

https://g-give.googleplex.com/campaign/2017-Southern-California-Fires

There's a tile memorial at Rockridge Bart for the Oakland Firestorm. Gets me every time.

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Added to reading list..

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1089.pdf

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Looks like G+ sharing was added to gThanks in

https://b.corp.google.com/issues/9972517

But the shares it creates now are pretty bare-bones and you have to really hunt down that G+ share button...

Oh and big congrats to all the people getting Kudos and PBs lately. Y'all are awesome!

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Inside an AT&T pedestal cabinet in Oakland...

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my new buganizering tune...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF4u7TG7LfQ

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It took a bit of searching to figure out why I received a check for 8. But if you get one here's why:

This is a wage and hour PAGA action arising from Defendant's failure to pay wages in a timely manner at the end of each pay period. Labor Code § 204( d) requires employees to be paid out by the seventh (ih) day following the closing of the pay period if employees are paid on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Defendant, who paid its employees on a bi-weekly basis, had a consistent policy of paying the wages of its employees on the eighth (8t11) day or later following the close of the respective pay period, and thus, beyond the time periods as allowed pursum1t to Labor Code § 204. This PAGA action is being sought on behalf of Defendant's other aggrieved employees.

In addition to the PAGA action, Plaintiff also asserts individual claims for wrongful termination in violation of public policy. Specifically, Plaintiff engaged in protected activity by removing alcohol from the workplace (due to fear for her personal safety and the safety of co-workers), and to prevent sexual harassment. However, by exercising such rights, Plaintiff was terminated from her employment.

Defendant's Position

Plaintiff was employed by Defendant from approximately January 27, 2015 to April 12, 2016 as a Program Manager. In late March 2016, a Google employee reported that several personal items had gone missing. Google's asset investigations team confirmed through video evidence that Plaintiff had taken the reported items. During its investigation, Plaintiff provided inconsistent accounts of her actions, which Google deemed to lack credibility. As a result, Google terminated Plaintiffs employment for violation of company policy and the dishonest conduct she exhibited.

Google denies that its payroll schedule was inconsistent with section 204 of the Labor Code. Moreover, Plaintiff cannot show that she or any of the members of the group she seeks to represent were aggrieved. An award of civil penalties under PAGA would result in an award that is unjust, arbitrary, and oppressive

https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_State_Santa_Clara_County_Superior_Court/16CV301321/Baid...

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Two new local charities available for gift match for California Wildfires so it's not just the Red Cross now:

http://go/california-fires

Still *0k* to match.

Also I learned that Google Docs has a 'mobilebasic' suffix which generates a simple lightweight doc. Many of the emergency resource docs are using this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZhXDNaL260p5OempaFbCrsYBe_5pvNvDqV7xcwn95s/mobilebasic

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZhXDNaL260p5OempaFbCrsYBe_5pvNvDqV7xcwn95s/mobilebasic

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[Part of a new Collection for Cybernetics as I explore this fascinating discipline..]

Hey there, it's the trolly problem again...

_Ethics modules can be treated like *ethical device drivers*, so that to be fully operational, a hypothetical gun-carrying, tax-advising robot that can drive on roads requires valid ethics modules for gun-law, tax-code, and traffic-rules. Without all necessary modules for the appropriate legal jurisdiction, the robot’s gun, tax advising, or driving capabilities are automatically disabled._

http://ashby.de/

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Not strictly "social" per-se, but there were a number of cross overs from iGoogle. Also relevant as Now is undergoing some historical changes of it's own..

- Pixie Labs ended up moving their games to Google+ Games (remember Farmville?)
- The gadget infrastructure from iGoogle (GGS) was used heavily for the +1 button, OpenSocial, PeopleSense and others. +103390686048441232976 might even still carry a pager for this old infrastructure...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XS9u1D-pFSxTcrbTZRa43CV7VKHztHzWLDCzrj0csJ4/edit?_escaped_fragme...

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Google is both a particle (consumer) and a wave (enterprise). We need some kind of general product relativity instead of a newtonian model...

... or quantum mechanics vs classical physics, you get the idea...

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cc: Joseph Smarr

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s/Blockchain/Beyoncé/g

Better than replacing Cloud with Butt.

https://gizmodo.com/the-best-of-cloud-to-butt-the-only-extension-youll-eve-1685863609

https://twitter.com/blkchninstitute

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Hired to work on web protocols. Immediately detoured to the needful work of building a social network. Learned a lot along the way.

I don't have a lot of sage wisdom to offer other than be humble, humane, and empathic. That goes a long way.

That and banjo. Always have banjo.

Looking forward to 7 more years of causing trouble with you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmLINm2bchY

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Maps and GBUS work pretty well split-screen, especially useful to know if you're going to get to the stop on time.

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Google Assistant as envisioned from 1973's "Designing Freedom"

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=8pOruwSkOisC

Much of what we implement today was predicted then. We also forget that people once derided and feared "The Computer".

This work is quite accessible and reading it gave me a better understanding of complex dynamic systems, relaxation time, variety, Ashby's Law and the nature of bureaucracy. Also originally broadcast on the CBC as a lecture series:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819

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I hope we've made a breakthrough in user follicle detection for these maps notifications...

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It's such a simple concept that makes sense.

_...for every factor outside of your own control that can have a positive or negative influence on your ability to meet your goals, you need to put a compensatory control in place to allow you to respond._

Gaia service bits, D3 policies, gSuite vs Identity only -- the number of states for an account is dizzying. But by Ashby's law if we don't have mechanisms to absorb that variety bad things will befall the control software and we'll be unable to achieve homeostatis or even viability.

http://talesoftheenterprise.com/2013/06/mr-ashbys-bright-idea/

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World's worst SEO choice for a band name. Second only to the musician named dash-M-dash -M- which g+ cannot even render.

I guess I'm supposed to use Archie to find this...

http://ftp-band.com/

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Found some research around measuring User-Trust.

• First, developers can learn that trust concepts can be operationalized into specific attributes or questions that can be examined in research and designs.
• Second, one of the key findings is that trust seems to be related to beliefs about another’s ability, integrity, and benevolence.
• Third, trust and risk are related concepts, and factors that reduce risk perceptions, such as reducing uncertainty, can be beneficial for increasing trust or decreasing the need for trust.
• Fourth, ease-of-use characteristics, such as the ease of finding information and completing transactions, can affect trust.
• Fifth, external factors or context that may seem to be unrelated to the situation can affect trust, such as the characteristics of the truster and the type of risk involved in the transaction.
• Finally, trust probably develops in stages. In the first stage, superficial interface properties, such as colors and designs, can have a large effect on initial trust decisions. Later, users may make trust decisions based on more reasoned analysis of information. Eventually, long-term trust decisions are based on direct experience and personal service.

https://www.researchgate.net/

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Looks like we once had an Ethnographer on staff. This is the only notable mention of Complex Adaptive Systems I found. But it is interesting reading back from 2011....

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/google-culture/home/google-at-the-edge-of-chaos

https://www.google.com/a/google.com/ServiceLogin2?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fgoog...

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Doing Perf and listening to some lectures on VSM and it finally all starts to make sense.

I can see organizational patterns now in ways I could not before. Still grappling with the math though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model#__sid=rd0

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Greetings Area 120. Google Forever has also made it to the final pitch round.

We have plenty of opportunities for people to pitch in on sustainable bizdev models, decentralized engineering and more. But one role we'd love to fill is a UX/Design/Frontend leader. Here's our job listing. Please reach out if you're interested!

https://grow.googleplex.com/opportunity/job/2000000020689

Are you interested in building user experiences and critical user journeys that work for generations? Do you want to help people preserve their most important digital memories?

Consider joining the Google Forever Project. We're a proposed Area 120 project that's already made it to the final pitch round and we need you!

Our project is creating the software that will power a business and ecosystem that will last for decades and centuries. We're starting with a way to preserve the world's most valued Photos in an easy, simple sustainable way.

As a lead/founding frontend member of the team you will have considerably freedom to set the direction and tech stack while working with our passionate engineering and business teams. You will also be able to explore experimental user interfaces and user experiences that might be used in the far future.

If accepted to Area 120 you will have the chance to work on this full time. We also will accept any and all people who want to help us achieve our vision!

See http://go/google-forever or contact Paul Lindner to discuss how you can contribute.

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Public profile, private profile actually map pretty well to human psychology, at least to non-millenials...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stories-the-self/200812/the-conflation-public-and-private-ident...

https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2017/09/11/facebook-testing-private-profile-closest-friends/

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