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My employer sent out guidance on working on site, tomorrow. I'm glad that I get to just work from home. #Milwaukee

I was lucky enough to be given an M&S voucher by my employer on Friday. I bought a lovely black top that arrived today and works exactly as I'd hoped with my new trousers. I've gone mad and bought a cream one of a similar shape but slightly different design. What's the betting it fits *completely* differently and I hate it?

The employer just sent out guidance on how to handle ICE if they show up on campus. #UWM #Milwaukee

Moving services to the EU
Like a lot of Europeans, I realise that the US isn't a reliable partner anymore.
I am just talking about myself here, and not my employer, or my family.
I do use a lot of services that are based in the US, and some I will probably not migrate in the near future.
But when I receive a bill, it is a good moment to consider if it is a candidate for migration.

Blowback over posts about the death of Charlie Kirk has prompted companies to be more aggressive about monitoring employees' social media activity (Taylor Telford/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/13/employer-crackdown-so…

How companies are cracking down on workers’ social media activity
Fervor over employee posts about Charlie Kirk’s death is leading companies to adjust policies and step up monitoring of workers’ online conduct.

Which employer would you judge people more harshly for?

Here is a sliver of hope for cashflow for OpenAI: They will charge your employer a hefty fee for your company use of ChatGPT. But because your employer is recording everything you do with ChatGPT, you will want to have your private, for-pay ChatGPT, too, to get your job done.
Your employer will look the other way, as your grey use of ChatGPT provides plausible deniability for any #compliance

Strikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…

Pittsburgh journalists vote to end country's longest strike and notify the PG they are returning to work - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh’s most momentous gathering since the formation of a strike picket line more than three years ago began last week in the manner of all big strike meetings — with the arrival of a half dozen boxes of pizza. Pepperoni, plain and a vegetarian option. Strikes run on pizza. Turns out […]

Problems with ACA Subsidies Compounded by COVID Credits: Unfair to Americans with Employer-Based Insurance, Punish Work, and Incentivize Employers to Drop Coverage (Paragon Health Institute)
https://paragoninstitute.org/private-health/problems-with-aca-subsidies-compounded-by-covid-credits-unfair-to-americans-with-employer-based-insurance-punish-work-and-incentivize-employers-to-drop-coverage/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p126#a251106p126

Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel
and other Android phones,
allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices.
In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages, despite end-to-end encryption.”

Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning: What happens on your Android, doesn’t stay on your Android — not if it's a work phone.

I always know @… wil have a clear view.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-of-grief?publ…

The most obvious tell of this sort of incident is the phone call.
The only IT or #infosec folks who will proactively call you about an attempt at hijacking an account are those of your employer or *maybe* your access provider.
Google, Microsoft,Apple, etc. are not calling everyone with suspicious activity on their accounts. There are not enough support agents on the planet to do that…

My employer insists that already-installed virus protectors be removed and replaced by MS Defender. It took a serious IT expert 60 minutes to do just my laptop. He says they have 4000 to do.

Acquired a new phone for work.
Just need to get a new SIM card for it and tell my employer to update phone numbers in their system.
This way, I can have a better separation between work and private (Phone off -> I'm completely unavailable no real work-related apps on my private phone).
Sadly, "right to be unavailable" it's not (yet) in law in The Netherlands.
Luckily, my employment terms does have other clauses that effectively allow me to do this…

For folks forking IdentityServer. It's not "just code". There are decades of understanding specs, working with security teams around the world, ongoing support, and doing all those things continually.
When it comes to security, staying behind, or even worse, standing still, is the worst option.
From a maintainers perspective, think of doing all of the above for FREE to save your employer money for the "atta boys". In the meantime wasting the most precious …

Close-up view of the audio-responsive LED floor installation I co-created for the KEF Muon launch in 2007 @ Sala del Cenacolo (Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milano). The animation was repurposed from one of my first projects I created with Processing (in 2003)...
The 2 meter tall speakers were designed by Ross Lovegrove and made from milled solid aluminium...
The installation was created by Moving Brands (my old employer), a short video of the project/instal…

We've entered the festive "delivery driver pretends they couldn't access your property so their employer doesn't hold them hostage for the rest of their evening" season.

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods #ice

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

@… @… Not saying this means anything, but you got me curious so I did a bit of counting from the beginning: Pretty sure I started working at my 6th employer (Part time) at age 20.

IA: Man against the machine…
Font licencing claims shake-down (Insanity Works)
https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/11/14/monotype-font-licencing-shake-down?utm_source=fediverse

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

WTF? Why don't you go like a good sized portion of the civilized world and dump the 'for profit' health care model? Of course the GOP, billionaires, companies that own hospitals and drug companies will scream... Tell them to take a very long off a short pier at the top of a 1,000 metre cliff.
https://flip.it/3sMmr6

Former Raiders head coach says it will take “decades” to fix team https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/01/former-raiders-head-coach-says-it-will-take-decades-to-fix-team/