Blame as a Service

I was really hoping this would be doing something obscure with git, I was curious why someone would pay a subscription for something that's a built-in git feature.

Unfortunately this was much more nefarious. I do see why some would pay for, I just wish they wouldn't/didn't have the option to

I love the rebranding of corporate villainy as “Blame as a Service”; it makes it easier to discuss these sleaze-bags in the open without getting into nitty-gritty technicalities that derail the core conversation.

Also fitting that McKinsey (and by extension, most “business consultancy” companies) get the first shoutout as a prime example of BaaS. Despite lending their support to decades of awful, and at times morally evil decisions, the arrangement allows both business elites and McKinsey themselves to escape blame via simple finger-pointing, the masses largely unaware that said negative outcomes were the goal all along.

To fix broken systems, we must find ways of distilling complex and nuanced topics into simple-to-communicate concepts, vocabulary, and slang. Blame-as-a-Service accomplishes that nicely, and will hopefully allow a redirection back towards the core point of many such discussions: accountability, or lack thereof.

Haha as I read this, I was reminded of Jiffy Express: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e134NoLyTug

How about the most obvious ones? AWS? Cloudflare outage? I saw nobody get anything other than a grunt this week. Who cares? What can we do? It'll be up when it's up.

I also had a client this week have a physical server catch on fire and burn down everything. Backups don't count when they're in the same room.

Virtual oxytocin drugs.

Excellent article

BaaS, Trump As Receiving Default: BaaSTARD.