Never overlook the power of organizational CYA. Likely the next announcement will be they've discovered automated sarcasm analysis of twitter feeds is, in fact

Never overlook the power of organizational CYA. Likely the next announcement will be they've discovered automated sarcasm analysis of twitter feeds is, in fact, as suspected, completely impossible. Then announcement after that one will be a policy change to cease to analyze twitter feeds because its impossible to triage fast enough to keep up and its all noise anyway. Then the announcement after something tragic happens will be a steaming pile of CYA about how the worlds best minds couldn't find a way to automate the detection of XYZ but if our budget were only a little larger ... (never let a crisis go to waste...) This is beginning to read like a Stross book plot and maybe he's pissed because yet again he's scooped where the world is getting weirder faster than his plots are getting weird, like happened with the halting state series (as I recall). The laundry series is still safe from this danger, at least as far as we know...