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Day of rejections.
Didn't get a job and won't be speaking at Re:publica about decomputing.
#rp26

Criminal enterprises in Southeast Asian scam hubs are recruiting "AI face models" to facilitate crypto and romance scams; some demand 100 video calls per day (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/models-are-applying-to-be-the-face-of-ai-scams…

Models Are Applying to Be the Face of AI Scams
Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face models.” The (mostly) women who land these gigs are likely being used to dupe victims out of their money.

So the Claremont Institute pays Jeremy Carl to be antisemitic and racist?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/politics/jeremy-carl-state-department-nomination-bipartisan-opposition
That’s gotta be a fascinating job description…

So, spent most of the day getting Handbrake compiled with the `svt-av1-psyex` and `svt-av1-essential` forks of the SvtAv1 encoder. However, I did win that battle and both are now available in the `sisyphus-client` containers. Definitely a pain in the ass, but it's nice to have options depending on what you want to use. Also updated the documentation to make sure I don't forget which is which.
I still need to implement some pipelines to build these, but holy crap the Handbrak…

@… Honestly I think I'm like exactly the person you're describing in your example. My day job being what it is, when I hear "host static files" my mind just immediately jumps to like "Yeah, I could do that with S3".
So I'm trying to purposefully step back, take a breath, and take your advice. But I realize I've been so *in* the co…

We're having our hallway replastered and painted by a property maintenance company. It's taking weeks, with painters turning up to paint walls that haven't been stripped yet, or with the wrong equipment, and people showing up for a few hours before being told to do another half day the other side of Sheffield so they have to spend ages sitting in traffic for no apparent reason, or no-one turning up for a week halfway through a job.. The person running the business is absolutely o…

Did California lose Larry Page?
The Google and Alphabet cofounder, who left day-to-day operations in 2019,
has seen his net worth soar in the years since
—from around $50 billion at the time of his departure to somewhere approximating $260 billion today.
(Leaving his job clearly didn’t hurt his wallet.)
Last year, a proposed ballot initiative in California threatened billionaires like Page with a one-time 5 percent wealth tax
—prompting some of them to con…

Silicon Valley Billionaires Panic Over California’s Proposed Wealth Tax
Larry Page’s apparent Florida move highlights how seriously the ultra-rich are taking a one-time tax aimed at extreme wealth inequality.

Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: 'Quit that s-tty job you have' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5728186-green-day-billie-joe-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260207/p72#a260207p72

I spent 4 hours today talking to 2 graduate seminars, 1 in each official language. In both, we had wide-ranging conversations on evidence, methodology, theory, concepts, the literature, the discipline, publicly engaged scholarship, and more. The students were engaged, inquisitive, humane, and brilliant. This is why I wanted this job. A damn good day.

I spent 10 minute looking for a cron job that wasn't there because it was on a different machine. What a great day!

Her I was, thinking Putin’s abortive war against #Ukraine might be the trigger to WWIII, but it seems to be not working out lately. And now ol’ Donnie boy is trying to pull off a copycat job at #Iran with the same 2 day, I mean 4-5 week, I mean 3-4 month oops multi-year “plan” that’s blowing up (heh) into an…

"Rabbit Recipes," US dept of Ag 1930. (We are looking for things to cook to celebrate public domain day Jan 21st 2026 re: 1930!)
Not so sure about Rabbit Recipes, but nice layout. Thank you US Dept of Ag for digitizing this (I love my job).
What will you cook to celebrate public domain day?
http…

It’s been a norm for my whole time in tech.
How is it NOT just another day at the job? @… https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115762982979476704

My friend Brad Bazemore KK4PWJ wanted a totally free — zero cost, 100% open source — comprehensive US Amateur Radio study app. His day job is in testing, and he really knows his stuff.
So he built Open Ham Prep.
I'm super grateful for Hamstudy — it's how I passed all three tests, and I contributed to a bunch of explanations, especially improving ones that were just mn…

Spent half the day writing mocks for NetworkExtension because the VPN system doesn't work *at all* on the iOS Simulator.
Seems like this should be Apple's job, not mine, tbh.

The mechanics sorted out filling the adblue tank.
The warnings have stopped beeping and the 10 l bottle that was in the back is gone, so presumably I can trust it's in the tank now.
Sounds like much of what I have paid for was for them doing what I did: Looking all around the car for an ad-blue tank hole and taking things apart trying to find it.
But none of that is the correct solution, which is to put it up on the ramp and clamber underneath to find the tank which has some sort of lowering mechanism, to then lower it and fill it and raise it again.
Not a job for me then. Next time it'll maybe be cheaper coz of them knowing what to do now and not spending half a day trying to figure it out.
Apparently there is a second emissions reduction mechanism which doesn't take a wattery bottle of urea, but instead needs a pouch of oily tar stuff.
This is more likely to empty and need replacing next, rather than the piss bottle.
And even for normal cars that haven't been screwed up for wheelchair access this is a mechanics job anyway. And the garage will have to order in the tar pouch especially.
Back in the 90s, my first car cost about 200 quid. Today I paid 200 quid to get someone to fill it up with purified piss for emissions reduction. Oh how things change. 😆

Zohran Mamdani’s third day as mayor of New York City was supposed to be dedicated to a long-stalled #pedestrian #safety plan,
the kind of local quality-of-life issue he had made central to his campaign.
Instead, after the U.S. military captured

For Mamdani, a Break With the President Just Three Days Into His New Job
New York City’s newly elected mayor planned to spend Saturday announcing a pedestrian safety plan. Then President Trump brought a captured foreign leader to his doorstep.

First day back in the office after my break in Tokyo and the contrast couldn't be more extreme! Feel like I need to re-learn my job from scratch. And I'm putting that down to complete and utter disconnection while I was away.

Die Putzhilfe, die in ihrem Day Job in einem Supermarkt arbeitet, lenkte meine Aufmerksamkeit auf die dort nun in Nachtschichten durchgeführten Arbeiten zur Erstellung von Wurstplatten.

First day on the job 💼 #DallasCowboys #NFL #RashanGary #football

good job illinois. #nfl #bears #chicago https://www.

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Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation at DHS,
but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation
so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1.
That is the job.
https://bsky.app/profile…

Wendy Suares (@wsuares.bsky.social)
More recently, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (soon to be DHS Secretary) was seen trying to grab Rep. Al Green's sign at the State of the Union. The sign said, "Black people aren't apes."

It always starts with talk about millionaires and billionaires and ends with a 36% unrealized gains tax on the handful of assets you bought to try and get a stake in the economy and claw your way out of financial insecurity and maybe be able to retire some day. Meanwhile, the unfathomably rich remain forever unfathomably rich. These people are the allies of capital, and creators of a permanently dependent underclass. They do this to ensure there is always a job for them. If they really cared…

Wooo, the new computer chair should be delivered day-after-tomorrow and I'm pretty stoked. The old chair is kinda falling apart, but for a cheap chair it did a great job...however, the "new" Aeron should be a significant upgrade. Also, the rollerblade wheels will be moving from the old Office Depot chair to the new one...