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Having just finished a 1-year consulting contract myself, my own list of restrictions for future jobs/consulting is very similar:
- will not work on adtech/surveillance/weapons
- will not knowingly make world worse and/or abet genocides
- will not be forced to use vibe coding (or will explain cost implications)
- prefer to work in the open
- prefer remote only
- flexible with time zones (last role was for a company in LA, -9h)

Joey de Villa 🪗 (@AccordionGuy@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image As long as we’re in the “September Surge” (that trend where there’s a noticeable uptick in job vacancies and hiring around September and October, when companies ramp up for year-end and the upcoming year), you might as well also ask “What DON’T I want in a new job?” https://www.globalnerdy.com/2025/09/06/what-dont-you-want-in-your-next-job/

(From BlueSky post)
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
Source: https://

“An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said … four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship”: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025…

Israeli drone strike kills 5, including 3 children, in southern Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship. Two others were wounded, including the mother in the family. Officials at the U.S. […]

In a world which has become quite insane, it is perhaps most shocking to witness how society moves on with business as usual while monsters are destroying our cities, killing our children, eating our future and all the potential for greatness we once had.
We have become accustomed to entirely too much cruelty and fuckery. Like frogs in a pot of water being slowly brought to boil.
Glory to the heroes who fight, glory to the heroes who dare to venture into warzones and report the t…

A Spit In The Face Of Diplomacy
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

There are no plans for Donald Trump to meet with Vladmir Putin “in the immediate future”, a White House official told the Guardian.
The official added that the recent call between secretary of state Marco Rubio and Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was “productive”, and therefore an additional-in-person meeting between the envoys is “not necessary”.
This comes after Trump announced a yet-to-be determined bilateral summit with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, after his conversati…

Such intelligent and thoughtful comments from the Singapore PM. It is embarrassing as a USA citizen how foolish and ignorant our leaders are. We need to elect people with much more integrity and competence as they do in Singapore. Singapore is so well run and the USA is now being run into the ground by extremely bad policy. The damage the USA as done to its future this year is beyond calculation. We will be paying for decades for our foolish votes last year.

PM Lawrence Wong in an interview with the Financial Times (Oct 2025)
Transcript of Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong's interview with the Financial Times' (FT) Editor, Roula Khalaf, on 21 October 2025.

Child harm/death mention; Columbus
On Indigenous People's Day here in America, it's a great time to:
1. Remember that Columbus was a monster. Anyone who feeds toddlers to dogs actually deserves to burn in hell for eternity. Nothing else about this man should be remembered before this fact.
2. If you're in a colonized country, check out the website(s) for your local indigenous tribe (s) to remind yourself that they're still here. For me, that includes #LandBack, etc.
Me, I'm hopeful for a future in which the US is a distant memory and the hundreds of surviving nations on this territory flourish like budding plants after the winter snow.

Make a Video Call with LLM: A Measurement Campaign over Five Mainstream Apps
Jiayang Xu, Xiangjie Huang, Zijie Li, Zili Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00481 https://

Make a Video Call with LLM: A Measurement Campaign over Five Mainstream Apps
In 2025, Large Language Model (LLM) services have launched a new feature -- AI video chat -- allowing users to interact with AI agents via real-time video communication (RTC), just like chatting with real people. Despite its significance, no systematic study has characterized the performance of existing AI video chat systems. To address this gap, this paper proposes a comprehensive benchmark with carefully designed metrics across four dimensions: quality, latency, internal mechanisms, and syste…

The A.I. insurance market is in its infancy, but Mr. Kvist says mainstream insurers are lining up to back him.
One of his clients is a job recruiting company that uses A.I. to sift through candidates.
“Which is great, but you can now discriminate at a scale we’ve never seen before,” Mr. Kvist said.
“It’s a breeding ground for class-action lawsuits.”
Mr. Kvist believes the work he is doing now will lay the foundation for more complex A.I. insurance policies to come.

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
A destructive A.I., like a nuclear bomb, is now a concrete possibility; the question is whether anyone will be reckless enough to build one.

Adaptive 6G Networks-in-Network Management for Industrial Applications
Daniel Lindenschmitt, Paul Seehofer, Marius Schmitz, Jan Mertes, Roland Bless, Martina Zitterbart, Jan C. Aurich, Hans D. Schotten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18902

Adaptive 6G Networks-in-Network Management for Industrial Applications
This paper presents the application of Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) for future 6G industrial networks, establishing an efficient controller for the Networks-in-Network (NiN) concept. The proposed architecture integrates nomadic as well as static sub-networks (SNs with diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements within the coverage area of an overlayer network, managed by a centralized spectrum manager (SM). Control plane connectivity between the SNs and the DSM is ensured by the self-org…