Advancing civilization one eliminated stupidity at a time. Report stupidity
Humans are astonishingly clever creatures who periodically do unbelievably stupid shit. This publication exists to identify it, document it precisely, score it, and keep the file open until it stops.
Newly opened files and cases revised in the last thirty days.
When the mountaineering research phase begins and ends with an autocomplete engine, the mountain remains entirely indifferent to the algorithm's confidence.
A child-resistant packaging standard excludes the disabled from its senior test panels, producing hearing aid batteries that require cutlery and routinely cut their owners.
When basic parity between signing up and opting out requires municipal intervention, user experience design has formally failed.
Ranked by the standing measurement. Scores are living and may rise or fall.
10 is fuckery. 11 is when fuckery becomes institutional philosophy.
An 11 cannot be awarded at publication. It must be earned: the responsible party knew, had ample opportunity, and the fuckery continued anyway.
Cases are never deleted. When something is fixed, the file stays open as a record of the fix.
Humanity +3 · Score reduced to 2.1
Cases may hold more than one classification. All classifications are in force until repealed.
Objects designed by competent people under incentives that punished competence.
Software that works exactly as specified by someone who never used it.
Policies that survive because nobody is allowed to be responsible for them.
Process defended on the grounds that it is process.
Containers engineered to outperform the product they protect.
Buildings that photograph better than they function.
Controls relocated for reasons that were never driving-related.
Systems empowered to decide, forbidden to understand.
Working hardware bricked by an expired server contract.
Waste created by a decision that saved almost nothing.
Machine confidence deployed in place of human attention.
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