@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-28 13:36:14
How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/india-technology-jobs-ai.html
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-04-25 23:07:02
I never cease to be mystified by this common work-from-home complaint.
I’ve been 100% wfh aside from a half-dozen short trips to NJ for “all-hands” meetings since 2008. Last one of those was 2016.
I consider solitude when working one of the great positive features of wfh. Having people forcibly interrupt me by their physical presence gained me a ‘prickly’ reputation in my last office.
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie2026-02-25 19:22:32
"Denman Rooke has been selected as the People Before Profit candidate to contest the by-election in Galway West.
He is a long-time activist campaigning on issues of worker’s rights, trade unions, anti-racism, climate action, cost of living, and housing."
https://www.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-28 19:17:46
Raiders Exec Named Potential Candidate for Vikings GM Job https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/exec-potential-candidate-vikings-gm-job/
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2026-03-24 13:03:54
Tell Congress: Oppose H.R. 5103 the misnamed "Safe and Beautiful Act" being pushed by people who have no interest in living in DC themselves, and wouldn't know beauty if they fell over it. (H.R. 5103 is about as beautiful as the Big Beautiful Bill.)
https://docs.go…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-25 22:04:44
On Tuesday famed climate scientist Kate Marvel joined the more than 10,000 people with PhDs in science, engineering and mathematics who, according to Science, are reported to have left the U.S. federal workforce since
Donald Trump took office in January.
Marvel resigned from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS), where she studied climate change and its effects on Earth’s systems. In her resignation letter, she wrote that “the decision to leave was not an easy one.”…
@crell@phpc.social2026-03-25 16:41:58
I see a lot of people pushing to avoid libraries that use AI. We're soon going to need to figure out how we even define that, since it's not always obvious if a PR is AI-assisted.
We're going to need standards for "organic code." Which is... yeah, GFL with getting devs to agree on anything.
#Programming
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-16 13:05:52
Anthropic secures new London office space for 800 people, days after OpenAI unveiled its first London office; Anthropic currently has 200 London staff (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-london-office-800-staff-openai-ex…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-26 06:45:46
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to deport nearly
300 veterans and their family members in Donald Trump’s first year back in office,
despite protections offered to those officers when they joined the military.
Between Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, and January 26, 2026,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 125 people who were former members of the Armed Forces
— two thirds of whom did not have active criminal warr…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-26 18:25:55
Raiders enter offseason better equipped to implement John Spytek's vision https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/26/raiders-offseason-free-agency-gm-john-spyt…