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@… @… 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.

💝 Scientists camouflage heart rate from invasive radar-based surveillance
#sensors

Scientists camouflage heart rate from invasive radar-based surveillance
It's a typical workday and you sign onto your computer. Unbeknownst to you, a high-frequency sensing system embedded in your work device is now tracking your heart rate, allowing your employer to monitor your breaks, engagement, and stress levels and infer alertness. It sounds like a dystopian scenario, but some believe it's not so far from current reality.

You know the classic story of the foolish employer who paid software developers per bug fixed? If you haven’t, you can guess the outcome: program called off when one developer “fixed“ hundreds of bugs in a single day (that they’d intentionally introduced).
This is just like that, except not like it at all: the “fake bugs” — ICE agents abducting random people to make a buck — are the •intended• effect.

"Even if #OpenAI was run by decent, ethical, friendly, trustworthy people (which would then of course make them not work on the products OpenAI has, but it’s just a thought experiment) their products would need to be criticized for what they are and what they do." — @…

Acting ethical in an imperfect world
Live is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

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.

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

What a relieve it will be, now just hope my employer won't start paying... "Starting April 15, Copilot will no longer be available inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote without a paid license."
#AI https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nadella-paid-650m-recruit-ai-170000361.html

Guy who put it on a thumbdrive...
"According to a whistleblower, a former DOGE employee with access to highly sensitive Social Security databases planned on sharing data with his private employer."
Social Security faces 80-year crisis after Trump employee steals data - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-data-breech/

Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigating claims an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-brea…

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familiar with the process.

https://www.wired.com/story/john-solly-doge-operative-accused-social-security-data-leidos/
Somehow I think it’s fair game to dox anyone who worked for DOGE

John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job
A whistleblower complaint alleges John Solly claimed to have stored highly sensitive Social Security data on a thumb drive. Solly and Leidos, his current employer, strongly deny the allegations.

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

How to get rich in tech in 2026:
1. Vibe code a fake AI service integration to your favorite IDE.
2. Convince your employer to pay for the service/credits.
3. Start charging credits to your own usage.
4. Pocket the exorbitant cost of basic autocomplete
5. GET RICH BABY! 🤑🤑🤑🤑

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…

No se si visteis esto. Lo que estš haciendo gente para poder programar y que en la empresa piensen que estš usando un agente de loroestocšstico https://danq.me/2026/03/03/ai-agent-logging/

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.

Day AI, which is developing an AI-powered CRM service that can automate data entry, meeting prep, and more, raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/day-ai-sequoia-ai-crm

This Startup Raised $20M From Sequoia To Build 'The Cursor Of CRM'
Day AI enters general availability to take on CEO Christopher O'Donnell's former employer, HubSpot -- and even Salesforce.

Oh, my - interference with business expectancy (which he committed) is tortious...
Kristi Noem’s son-in-law sued by former employer in South Dakota | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-kyle-peters-lawsuit-b2931436.html

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

Former dev at my current employer somehow convinced everyone he was a genius while writing some very smelly code. One project still on his codebase I have to fix something in every so often.
This is his enum of product status values - what occurs if something is a Top Seller and discounted 10%? 🤡

I saw an article claiming that AI is killing "B2B SaaS," and my mind keeps going back to my former employer, which would always call itself B2B2C or B2B2B instead of B2B.