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Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 (Beth Galetti/About Amazon)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-layoffs-corporate-jan…

Update on our organization
The following message was shared with Amazon employees earlier today.

Copypasta from LinkedIn:
Recent blogs by KnowledgeRights21 blaming copyright and the creative industry for knowledge hampering instead of, for example, the enormous bureaucracy in place in Horizon Europe / European Commission grants is really something.
Don't get me wrong, I think #copyright should be reformed and in its current form is indeed strange - why can we copyright research articles for example?
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In my view, those involved in reformist or traditional trade unions might consider that genuine worker self-managment comes through syndicalist structures.
Unions rooted in the workplace, organized through general assemblies, with delegates who are strictly mandated and immediately recallable, without any permanent bureaucracy, embody the principles of direct democracy and worker self-management.
Any organization claiming to be syndicalist while maintaining hierarchical decisio…

The lawyer behind Vought's bureaucracy crackdown (Sophia Cai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/the-lawyer-behind-voughts-bureaucracy-crackdown-00689831
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p31#a251213p31

Training cannot correct for deficiencies resulting from a lack of vetting.
Remember what federal LEOs are normally screened for (CARLA F. BAD):
Character
Associates
Reputation
Loyalty
Ability
Finances
Bias
Alcohol/Addictions
Drugs
ICE is not being vetted against any of these.
Shut it down.

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com)
No. We don’t need to “modify ICE training.” We need to close DHS. Dismantle it. It’s an outdated expensive bureaucracy that’s been usurped by violent white supremacists. Shut it down.

Sometimes I understand why people design new standards or formats when the existing ones can’t be extended (whether due to practical constraints, authority, or bureaucracy) or simply aren’t flexible enough to evolve. I think the XKCD comic doesn’t include that aspect.
And yes, maybe new standards will appear.
#nocontext

love my fuckin Tons

someone pweaze make stickers
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-struggles-to-go-digital-stuck-in-analog-era-fax-machines-paperwork-bureaucracy/a-75206481

wondering why/how iec 559 was published 3 years before ieee 754
the histories talk a lot about the wrangling in the ieee committee but nothing about international standards
did the iec just pick up the draft when it seemed close enough to a done deal? seems oddly presumptuous for an oldskool bureaucracy

Trump's plans to shatter the bureaucracy have a green light at the Supreme Court (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/07/supreme-court-trump-firings-humphreys-executor-00679728
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p43#a251207p43

"Well, Euro and USB-C worked, so TDMRep will also work."
- EU bureaucrats, probably. 😎 🧑‍💼
#EU #EuropeanUnion #bureaucracy #technology #naive