
2025-08-19 09:53:16
Another day of job interviews here at @… research group. Tea of the day: Watanabe Yutaka Midori Shincha 2024
#teaoftheday #greentea
Another day of job interviews here at @… research group. Tea of the day: Watanabe Yutaka Midori Shincha 2024
#teaoftheday #greentea
Author Adelaide Faith on the fear and joy of total artistic freedom
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/author-adelaide-fai…
Aubrey on heroic day in Cowboys OT win over Giants: 'I've got a job to do' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/aubrey-on-heroic-day-in-cowboys-ot-win-over-giants-i-ve-got-a-job-to-do
All hail Judson! All hail Judson!
Oh Judson can you see... 😁
✅ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shakes up his own job, taps veteran exec as CEO of commercial business – GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-ce
The "other" day job - what matters https://muz4now.com/2025/the-other-day-job-what-matters/
Are there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…
Ryan Day compares Ohio State's current QB battle to 2018 competition between Joe Burrow, Dwayne Haskins
https://www.cbssports.com/college-foot…
The “other” day job – what matters #inspiration #musicianresources #musiciantips
For those fretting about Microsoft's inevitable further enshittification of the already shit Github, I can report (having ditched it the day Microsoft announced its acquisition) that Forgejo (#libre
all right. Done for the day. At some point, it becomes a bit of a losing battle using the shopvac. I'll let nature evaporat it hopefully by tomorrow. Probably take another day for it to dry out and harden up.
in the meantime, I can do the next job that I've been dreading.
Figuring out the fence situation. 😱
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy
Was just peeking at what kinda jobs are round. This place gets weirder every day (not in a fun way). And found a job at a big insurance firm. Yes, eww, but.. "Operating in a face-paced environment, we strive to improve overall company resiliency and minimize impacts from potential disruptions." A what kind of environment now?
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 28, the number is 100%.
Happy Labor Day.
https://bsky.app/profile/sundaedivine.bsky.soc…
Back at the day job for a few days now...
Anyone wants to hire an ornamental digital hermit?
Author Michelle Tea on making art your main focus (and not taking your day job too seriously) https://thecreativ…
So fun things with this camper conversion. The day after I dropped it off he tells me a medical crisis is gonna stop him being able to do the work.
Later find out that now he's over 50 he decided to go on a health kick, and only drink distilled water.
🤦♂️
So he ended up flushing all the electrolytes out of his system and having a nervous system crisis the week he was supposed to be working on my van.
😆
Consult your doctors about your health-kicks people!
He managed to fit a kit thing, rather than do the custom job. Seems possible that will be enough and it won't be rescheduled, but live in it a bit first to find out.
Managed to sleep in it okay, even poorly parked on a slope and with a fractured wrist.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
--Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
#TerryPratchett
1. Have a simple job to do. Figure out #Makefile will do the job.
2. Think a bit about portability. Makefile becomes slightly more complex.
3. You're finally done. It turns out that some stupid implicit rule in GNU Make fires and adds a `rm` at the end that removes part of the output.
4. Use #Meson.
Just an average #Gentoo day.
[UPDATE: Now I regret using Meson. If you do anything that's not 100% boilerplate, it just keeps throwing obstacles in your way.]
Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen
Job by day, wiki editing by night.
MaLV-OS: Rethinking the Operating System Architecture for Machine Learning in Virtualized Clouds
Stella Bitchebe, Oana Balmau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03676 https://
Currently testing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor with FSR 4 on Linux (thanks to Optiscaler oc). I must say I'm finally enjoying this and any other game I have tried so far to the fullest. There's just this nagging feeling of resentment that AMD doesn't seem to be in a hurry to do their own job and release officially FSR 4 for RDNA 3 on Windows and Linux, hence the turncoat hesitations. For what it's worth, I'd choose Linux over Windows any day.
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Today is a good day (so far). Security officer is creating a course for those who administrate the accounts in the pay offices. He asked (very politely) if we had any materials which we sent. Some of the materials that were used (not our stuff) were years out-of-date.
We are glad as it is almost once a week we spend 15-30 minutes helping them learn their job as there was no one there in the position or the person left without any handover.
Good Morning #Canada
Yesterday, hundreds of women flocked to Washington D.C. to tryout for a few dozen spots in the new Women's Professional Baseball League. It's #Historic because it last happened over 70 years ago. It gives hope to young women who played baseball or softball at a high level in their youth, but there was no career path that involved a sport they loved. Many of those participating in the tryouts are from Canada, and certainly, one of the most interesting is Alli Schroder. At age 16, Schroder pitched the final inning for Canada’s National Team that won Bronze, and more recently, she has been striking out men in a university league in B.C. while her day job is fighting wildfires. Here's a TSN feature on her released a few years ago.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Baseball #Historic
https://youtu.be/_cOhV3giZZc?si=W3mLddxEBHshxktu