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Why should people be forced to work and not get paid?
https://apnews.com/article/duffy-air-traffic-controllers-shutdown-19d17aa18e15578e7aec60f409248e96

Rick Edmonds, The Poynter Institute's longtime media business analyst, has died at 78 following a car accident (Kristen Hare/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/rick-edmonds-obituary/

Rick Edmonds chronicled the media business with savvy, care and wit - Poynter
The veteran journalist died at 78 on Sunday

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/833

Framework supporting far-right racists?
The problem is that OSS (and especially FLOSS) is inherently political. The idea that we (and not some company controlled by billionaires) should have the final say over how we use our devices is political. The idea that software should be free to modify and transparent to users is political, as it puts control (and therefore power) in the hands of the users (rather than the company or organization making the software). The other, more specific problem here is that Framework made this politica…

Google plans to shut down Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to Airtable, in December and directs users to migrate to Google Sheets or AppSheet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/google-is-shutting-down-tables-its-airtable…

Google is shutting down Tables, its Airtable rival | TechCrunch
Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. The app will not be supported after December 16, 2025.

LOL right-Ctl no longer exists on Windows laptops, that’s now the CoPilot key.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7381341532349661184

Rant: Microsoft took away my right ctrl key and won't give it back. I don't know about you, but I work with typed text a lot. And over past decades I've developed habits. One of them is navigating… | Kuba Wojciak | 10 comments
Rant: Microsoft took away my right ctrl key and won't give it back. I don't know about you, but I work with typed text a lot. And over past decades I've developed habits. One of them is navigating over text with cursor keys while holding right ctrl key down. For those of you who don't do it: it skips over entire words. Now ALL of the Windows laptops you can buy come with a Copilot key replacing right ctrl. On a vanilla machine I end up getting Copilot popups all the time, as I habitually rea…

Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-aus…

Sources: Colts to work out retired QB Rivers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47251067/sources-colts-work-retired-qb-phillip-rivers

The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities.
https://www.

Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave US for Switzerland
The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities.

Ethan Mollick makes a good point on BlueSky:
I understand the fear and anger. But also:
1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out
2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help
#AI

Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social)
I understand the fear and anger. But also: 1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out 2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help [contains quote post or other embedded content]

A proposed constellation of satellites has astronomers very worried: #ReflectOrbital would produce light pollution by design.

Nvidia doing geolocation at the chip level? (First URL below)
I've done some work on the problem of finding "best" bindings between network clients and services. It is a problem that reaches into the method that Nvidia seems to be using, which is to measure latency. (My work, never finished is visible via the 2nd URL, below.)

🪇 Those who work together tend to move in sync, trampoline experiment shows
#behavior

Those who work together tend to move in sync, trampoline experiment shows
A team of sports scientists and cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna has demonstrated in a new study that solving a task together can promote spontaneous movement synchronization. Such synchronization serves as a kind of "social glue" and plays an important role in the social functioning of communities.

Trump's Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition (Faiza Patel/Brennan Center for Justice)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trumps-orders-targeting-antifascism-aim-criminalize-opposition
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p108#a251010p108

The Rise of the Knowledge Sculptor: A New Archetype for Knowledge Work in the Age of Generative AI
Cathal Doyle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07829 https://ar…

The Rise of the Knowledge Sculptor: A New Archetype for Knowledge Work in the Age of Generative AI
In the Generative Age, the nature of knowledge work is transforming. Traditional models that emphasise the organisation and retrieval of pre-existing information are increasingly inadequate in the face of generative AI (GenAI) systems capable of autonomous content creation. This paper introduces the Knowledge Sculptor (KS), a new professional archetype for Human-GenAI collaboration that transforms raw AI output into trustworthy, actionable knowledge. Grounded in a socio-technical perspective, t…

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars

This week I’m hard at work finishing a book manuscript and planning exciting changes for Free Words, so here’s just a little personal news. If by chance you are in New York, come say hi at the New York Art Book Fair! If you’re especially curious about the new work, I’ll read some on Sept 18th at Unnameable books in Brooklyn.
https://

G’morning, folks.
Please, do me a favour and follow Joy:
@…
She’s one half of Gaza Verified and is on the ground in Gaza working to help Palestinian families while trapped there herself amid an ongoing genocide.
I’m almost done with the automated verification system I’ve been building this week while travelling that will make us hugel…

I always find it interesting to compare my work with other developers' work. In this case I built a migration utility for Mastodon written in Python. After I posted to the "Support Post Migration" thread on Github someone else posted with their solution.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

Philip Rivers set to work out for Colts in wake of Daniel Jones injury https://insidethestar.com/philip-rivers-set-to-work-out-for-colts-in-wake-of-daniel-jones-injury

If you still share Klein's work I will judge you for it.
"The Nazi did politics right: By being a demagogue who attacked any marginalized group he could find - even if I, a liberal laserbrain am uncomfortable with what he said (mostly in style)" is a take that is impossible to come back from.
https://

Just FYI if you feel like you need to reply to me in a condescending way I will block you before you can say "work across the aisle"

3D and 4D World Modeling: A Survey
Lingdong Kong, Wesley Yang, Jianbiao Mei, Youquan Liu, Ao Liang, Dekai Zhu, Dongyue Lu, Wei Yin, Xiaotao Hu, Mingkai Jia, Junyuan Deng, Kaiwen Zhang, Yang Wu, Tianyi Yan, Shenyuan Gao, Song Wang, Linfeng Li, Liang Pan, Yong Liu, Jianke Zhu, Wei Tsang Ooi, Steven C. H. Hoi, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/…

3D and 4D World Modeling: A Survey
World modeling has become a cornerstone in AI research, enabling agents to understand, represent, and predict the dynamic environments they inhabit. While prior work largely emphasizes generative methods for 2D image and video data, they overlook the rapidly growing body of work that leverages native 3D and 4D representations such as RGB-D imagery, occupancy grids, and LiDAR point clouds for large-scale scene modeling. At the same time, the absence of a standardized definition and taxonomy for …

CFP: Ecclesia laborans: Reproductive Labor and the Hidden Work of Liturgical Performance, 1350–1600, Berlin (03.11.2025)
https://ift.tt/RwdQVFE
Call for Abstracts: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt - SCS San Francisco…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Bias after Prompting: Persistent Discrimination in Large Language Models
Nivedha Sivakumar, Natalie Mackraz, Samira Khorshidi, Krishna Patel, Barry-John Theobald, Luca Zappella, Nicholas Apostoloff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08146

Bias after Prompting: Persistent Discrimination in Large Language Models
A dangerous assumption that can be made from prior work on the bias transfer hypothesis (BTH) is that biases do not transfer from pre-trained large language models (LLMs) to adapted models. We invalidate this assumption by studying the BTH in causal models under prompt adaptations, as prompting is an extremely popular and accessible adaptation strategy used in real-world applications. In contrast to prior work, we find that biases can transfer through prompting and that popular prompt-based mit…

@… Have you seen this new blog yet? https://stonetools.ghost.io/ "Exploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work." (h/t

Stone Tools
Exploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work.

Finished my working day with a really nice client call to discuss providing their team with coaching across the next year. Got some incredibly nice and positive feedback about previous work I've done for them.
Filled with optimism, I'll head to the gym to work off some more of my overindulgence while in Japan!

If you’re wondering how you can help…
If you’re in MSP: talk to your neighbors, find the people who are doing organizing work, and get involved. Find something and show up for it. Info & resources here: https://monarcamn.org
If you’re elsewhere in the US: talk to your neighbors •now• about what’s happening, and get your support networks set up •before• this comes to where you live — unless of course it already has, in which case see above.
If you’re not in the US, spread the word about what’s happening here. Make the shame of ICE known internationally.

@… 😅😅😅
yeah, I don’t think that’s my vibe. I don’t release often enough for this to work out well enough

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Localizing entanglement in high-dimensional states
Christopher Vairogs, Akanksha Chablani, Leo Lee, Hanyang Sha, Abigail Vaughan-Lee, Jacob L. Beckey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08501

Localizing entanglement in high-dimensional states
In this work, we study the asymptotic behavior of protocols that localize entanglement in large multi-qubit states onto a subset of qubits by measuring the remaining qubits. We use the maximal average n-tangle that can be generated on a fixed subsystem by measuring its complement -- either with local or global measurements -- as our key figure of merit. These quantities are known respectively as the localizable entanglement (LE) and the entanglement of assistance (EA). We build upon the work of…

Back in 2010 I made the "Twitter Monkey" partly in thanks in to the work of @… for code and ideas.
Maybe we should build a new version that is Fediverse-powered.
https://

Twitter Monkey
Behold... the Arduino Powered Twitter Monkey! The Twitter Monkey is powered by an Arduino and two servo motors. He patiently monitors Twitter for a specified keyword, and when he sees that keyword, he goes bananas, flapping his arms up and down like a maniac. (For his debut at Web414, the keyword is web414.) Twitter Monkey [...]

Most meetings are bad, and most attempts to fix it merely reduce the *amount* of meetings, rather than do anything to improve their usefulness.
This is an opportunity for #UX designers aspiring to "do strategy." But hi-fi artifacts won't help you here; their purpose is to document decisions that have already been made.
Lo-fi artifacts only appear skippable when seen alone; i…

This meeting could have been a picnic
Well-designed meetings are just as important to our work as well-designed artifacts.

"Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply"
#Australia #Technology #Energy

This Morning Ireland package on age verification and the Irish government’s ill-conceived notions has some contributions from me pointing out that the Australian social media ban for under 16s has been introduced, not on foot of evidence, but by Ministerial Impulse.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/2256

Australia 'taking back control' from tech giants with social media ban
Brian O'Donovan, Work and Technology Correspondent, discusses the impact of the ban on social media use for under 16's in Australia.

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Hackers exposed government ID photos of 70,000 Discord users,
--DHS has forced cybersecurity pros to work on immigrant deportation,
--CA now requires browsers to honor data sharing opt outs,
--DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit are in cahoots,
--FCC data incident reporting rules are destined for oblivion,
--Telstra denies Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters bre…

Hackers exposed government ID photos of 70,000 Discord users
DHS has forced cybersecurity pros to work on immigrant deportation, CA now requires browsers to honor data sharing opt outs, DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit are in cahoots, FCC data incident reporting rules are destined for oblivion, Telstra denies Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters breach, much more

Tight Privacy Audit in One Run
Zihang Xiang, Tianhao Wang, Hanshen Xiao, Yuan Tian, Di Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08704 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.087…

Tight Privacy Audit in One Run
In this paper, we study the problem of privacy audit in one run and show that our method achieves tight audit results for various differentially private protocols. This includes obtaining tight results for auditing $(\varepsilon,δ)$-DP algorithms where all previous work fails to achieve in any parameter setups. We first formulate a framework for privacy audit \textit{in one run} with refinement compared with previous work. Then, based on modeling privacy by the $f$-DP formulation, we study the…

«Grantees must ensure that all submitted work can be legally published under a FLOS licence. This includes verifying that GenAI-assisted outputs do not reproduce copyrighted or incompatible material.»
That's one way of saying "you can't use generative 'AI' when we fund you" 😅
https://nlnet.nl/foundation/policies/generativeAI/

I'm about to go on a work trip for @…. I think I have all the essentials read for packing.
Though maybe I should also bring my laptop and a change of underwear (if I have space of course). 🤔

I've released 2.14.0 of build-and-inspect-python package; your friendly GitHub Action that prevents embarrassing PyPI uploading mistakes.
Main reason for a rather rushed release is that some people seem to get Python 3.14 when asking GHA for `3.x`.
https://github.com/hynek/build-an…

Release v2.14.0 · hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package
Changed Update tools such that they work on Python 3.14 (which is now 3.x on GitHub Actions). #182 The action now ignores UV_PYTHON coming from the outside. #184

Someone has put bananas in the work fridge. There's a reason you don't put bananas in a fridge. You 'nana!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Men at Work:
🎵 Who Can It Be Now?
#MenatWork
https://reeserodri.bandcamp.com/track/men-at-work-who-can-it-be-now-reese-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5BCykgPXc7zEBg2oU0klvy

We’re getting ready for QGIS Open Day on 28 November 2025! 💚
We’re looking for speakers. If you’d like to share your #QGIS work or ideas, sign up
👉 https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QOD-No…

QOD November 2025
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS) - qgis/QGIS

I was part of an OCLC RLP working group on 'artificial intelligence to support metadata workflows'.
Four posts summarise this work, looking at primary cataloguing, archives and special collections, institutional repositories, and overall pros and cons https://hangingtogether.org/tag/aiandm

AIandMetadataWorkflows Archives - Hanging Together

*thinks* I should stop playing with my phone and get back to work. Looks at screen. Oh yeah, I needed to get a OTP. Damn #ADHD. I might have done this a few times now.

Incredible work by the Google security team. This message has so many hallmarks of being a phishing message, and even some of spear-phishing:
- Presented with urgency (made worse by Apple "Intelligence")
- Links go through a domain you'd never interact with (c.gle, their click tracker)
- Sent to my email without addressing me by name
- Presenting ominous information with no detail, asking you to interact for more detail
- Unsolicited
- Blurry, @1x logo, not sharp like an SVG or @2x image would have been
- Targeting a high value target (Admin of a corporate workspace)
- Plus, some minor formatting issues on a narrow screen make it seem just a touch dodgy
Stellar work guys

Which one do you use the most, while not at work, but in your free personal time?
Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.
#poll #computing #fediverse

Long winter nights, red light on, UV burner on... So have missed making my own prints, and so glad to be able to pick this up again (and also working with older techniques, which are new to me), all after more than three decades... Still some more kinks to work out before I can share some proper prints, e.g. experimenting with different exposure times, toners (gold/selenium), fixers, concentrations... All very much like a science experiment and meticulous log keeping has been key (as have be…

MarComm at work is hosting "Photo Headshot Week" for faculty and staff who need new or updated headshots from a professional photographer. I'm thinking about doing that ... and then commissioning someone to draw me based upon it, because that's been what I generally do.

I regularly warn that content on Forbes is pay-for-play.
Here an overlay vendor shares prompts to feed an LLM for testing code, demonstrating LLMs on their own can’t do it without extensive coaching _and_ that coaching needs to be correct (the examples have issues):
https://www.

AI Prompts For Web Accessibility Testing
Accessibility should never be treated as just a compliance checkbox; it should be about creating digital experiences that work for everyone.

My bank account at work last night told me to retry my trans. What's the proper way to restart a #trans person?

for all your solo robert hunter setlist & tape needs, douglas aldridge just updated/relaunched his long-dormant hunterbase. http://stillunsung.com

Robert Hunter Performance Archive
Comprehensive documentation of 600+ Robert Hunter performances spanning his complete musical career. Search setlists, venues, and recordings from the Grateful Dead lyricist's solo work and collaborations.

It is interesting that all three energy contracts work with a fixed electricity price for the user, which is competitive with 'traditional' contracts (although I have not considered standing charges) for the rest of the consumption (as the EV charging is intended to be 'free')

it's a "we pretend it's AI but let a low-paid person do the work instead"-situation

The work of our alums is one of the most inspiring expressions of our commitment to serving church and world. And no event showcases that quite like our annual alumni awards.
If you couldn't be with us for our recent Convocation & Reunions, or you want to relive the moment, here's video of the 2025 awards ceremony and Andover Newton's Spirit of the Hill award presentation.

#GrapheneOS #Android

This year at @… London I'll be giving a quick introduction to shaders and how they work. It's a topic that really excites (and scares, a bit) me, lately. I hope it'll get y'all excited too :) But not scared. Even though it's halloween.

Social Security considers pausing more work, as shutdown takes a toll on employees
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/11/social-security-considers-pausing-more-work-as-shutdown-takes-a-toll-on-employees/

I think today's worker is the owner of the company, he certainly is the assessor.
He worked a lot later than those without the vested interest there. 😆 I finished work at my job before he did! 🤭
All the wood was sanded down and remaining nude wood given some paint. We have a test plank in the foreground of the first picture here which is painted with a second coat of paint. Seems likely we lose all the wood grain when doing that, and so will prefer the paler look where it's obviously made of wood not paint.
Won't really know for sure till it's dry. Prefer the colour a bit darker like that but if we're hiding the wood grain we might as well have used MDF instead of pine. We're after something clearly made of wood.
Another area is test-painted with just the clearcoat top varnish as a second layer. That's likely to be right, just a bit more shiny and protected.
The carpenter proper is back from holiday and starts tomorrow. He has a lot of drawers and doors to build and edging to attach to make the door panels. Still hoping at least the carpentry will be pretty much all done by the end of the week but likely some painting and touching up still to do next week. Hopefully by the end of Tuesday because I'm not really able to be here all day each day for most of the two weeks after that.

The leader of a major press association resigned after his board opposed a lawsuit defending journalists' rights (Mary Randolph/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/illinois-press-association-don-craven-resigns-lawsuit-journalist-rights/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p110#a251009p110

What David said :) 💯
And more so, please remember that @… and I couldn’t hold the verification calls without @… and @…

During five months of covering ICE raids, LA Public Press added legal training for staff, digital security protocols, threat assessment policies, and more (Michelle Zenarosa/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/la-public-press-…

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent - Poynter
Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it

A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily (Rya Jetha/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/san-franci…

San Francisco’s youngest billionaires are betting on a new kind of job boom
Mercor’s 22-year-old CEO Brendan Foody imagines a future in which white-collar contractors earn riches teaching machines to behave like humans.

I reorganized my Christmas tie collection. Decades ago my wife bought me a joke Christmas themed tie believing I wouldn't wear it. The joke was on her as I wore it. Over the decades we keep adding to the collection. At the start of every December I wear a different tie to work until new years.
Multiple tie racks hold 31 unique ties and I have 10 duplicates. I told her that Amazon has them and she whimpered. Then I told her they have socks too that we can add to the collecti…

Finished my working day with a really nice client call to discuss providing their team with coaching across the next year. Got some incredibly nice and positive feedback about previous work I've done for them.
Filled with optimism, I'll head to the gym to work off some more of my overindulgence while in Japan!

No for Some, Yes for Others: Persona Prompts and Other Sources of False Refusal in Language Models
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Paul R\"ottger, Nino Scherrer, Emanuele Borgonovo, Elmar Plischke, Dirk Hovy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08075

No for Some, Yes for Others: Persona Prompts and Other Sources of False Refusal in Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into our daily lives and personalized. However, LLM personalization might also increase unintended side effects. Recent work suggests that persona prompting can lead models to falsely refuse user requests. However, no work has fully quantified the extent of this issue. To address this gap, we measure the impact of 15 sociodemographic personas (based on gender, race, religion, and disability) on false refusal. To control for other factors,…

I used to work in an industry that was very interesting to me, and involved a lot of creativity, but as time went on and the company I was at changed I felt I no longer fit there, doing the sort of work they were pursuing with the people who ran things, so I found a way out.
That "way out" caused me a lot of pain and heartache, and set me back financially for a decade, but I'm still glad I got out because I cannot imagine what life would have been for me if I just stayed.…

Adaptive Quantum Computers: decoding and state preparation
Niels M. P. Neumann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08718

Adaptive Quantum Computers: decoding and state preparation
Interacting with a standard computer can enhance the capabilities of current quantum computers already today, particularly by offloading certain computations to the standard computer. Quantum computers that interact with standard computers to perform computations are called adaptive quantum computers. This work formalizes a model that describes these adaptive quantum computers. As quantum computers are still under development, this work focuses on computations that terminate after a fixed numbe…

Those people you see in videos blowing whistles, honking, video recording everything ICE does? They’re not just full-time activists who are used to this kind of thing, who tail ICE all day. They’re random retirees from down the street who heard the whistles and came outside even though the sidewalk’s a bit dicey. They’re mid-career professionals who were on their way home from a long day at work and heard the honking. They’re parents who are afraid their kid is going to be late for their violin lesson but they just have to be out there because this is too important.

McCarthy set for on-field work, Wentz hurting https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46514877/vikings-mccarthy-set-field-work-wentz-being-examined

We added some extra capacity to one of our Kafka clusters at work and switched on a rebalancing job to move all the data around.
Don't worry if this means nothing to you, it's basically a fancy-arsed version of the good old Windows defrag.
Anyway, it did exactly what we wanted to do but looking at the resulting graphs of how the data moved around I think we've ended up creating the worst tube map ever.

As the Pentagon, particularly the Army, cozies up to Silicon Valley
four big tech executives with no military background, were directly commissioned to be lieutenant colonels, in the Army
-- and they will not recuse themselves from business dealings with the Department of Defense.
Earlier this month, the Army announced Detachment 201,
the name being a reference to HTTP code,
for the newly commissioned executives
from Palantir, Meta and OpenAI.
The ne…

Tech Executives Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings
The new formation is set to recruit tech executives to work on major Army challenges, but the service has not articulated exactly what those individuals would do -- instead focusing on recruiting talent and creating jobs around them.

Folks,
Mahmood is a software engineer from Gaza. He’s looking for work.
Do your thing, fediverse! :)
💕
#Gaza #GazaVerified #software

Out of the following mobile operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?
Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.
#poll #os #mobile

Oof, Framework is happily making a big nazi tent, by being "apolitical". 🎪 🤡
https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986

Uh, can we put one of El Cheato's "True Patriot" air traffic controller in charge of air farce one?
"‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’"
https://www.politico.com/news/20…

How European, national and local policies enhance each other’s effectiveness. And how cities make EU policy work for business and society.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_how-european-national-and-local-policies-a…

How European, national, and local policies enhance each other's effectiveness. The share of electric vans and light trucks in new sales in the Netherlands has risen to more than three-quarters this… | Jaap Burger
How European, national, and local policies enhance each other's effectiveness. The share of electric vans and light trucks in new sales in the Netherlands has risen to more than three-quarters this year. A clear result of the introduction of local zero-emission zones for freight in an increasing number of Dutch cities, and updated taxation rules. The graph and table are from an excellent The International Council on Clean Transportation post by Dr. Sandra Wappelhorst and Eamonn Mulholland exp…

US tariff policy: At this time, the brakes don’t work | PIIE
https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/2025/us-tariff-policy-time-brakes-dont-work

OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2

I got this bike 12 days ago and just hit 100 miles. If I can keep commuting to work that's about 13 miles each day of riding a bike instead of driving a car.
#biking #bikeTooter #ebike

Agnostic Product Mixed State Tomography via Robust Statistics
Alvan Arulandu, Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel Kane, Jerry Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08472 https://

Agnostic Product Mixed State Tomography via Robust Statistics
We consider the problem of agnostic tomography with \emph{mixed state} ansatz, and specifically, the natural ansatz class of product mixed states. In more detail, given $N$ copies of an $n$-qubit state $ρ$ which is $ε$-close to a product mixed state $π$, the goal is to output a nearly-optimal product mixed state approximation to $ρ$. While there has been a flurry of recent work on agnostic tomography, prior work could only handle pure state ansatz, such as product states or stabilizer state…

The NYT says it won't be deterred in its work after Trump posted on Truth Social that reporting by The NYT and others about his health was "seditious" (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-health-press-new…

New York Times says it won't be deterred from writing about Trump's health
The New York Times and President Donald Trump are fighting again. The news outlet said Wednesday it won't be deterred by Trump's “false and inflammatory language” from writing about the 79-year-old president's health. The Times has done a handful of stories on that topic recently, including an opinion column that said Trump is “starting to give President Joe Biden vibes.” In a Truth Social post, Trump said it might be treasonous for outlets like the Times to do “FAKE” reports about …

Apparently there’s another influx of new folks here, so I guess I should give my best tidbit of advice:
You have to really actively seek out people to follow here, much more than you’re used to — and until you do, this place will feel •dead•. Cool stuff isn’t just going to show up. You won’t get many helpful suggestions. No tech giant marketing dept is spending millions to draw you in. It’s going to be •work•. It’s kind of a drag, tbh.
But: your people are out there!! You just have work to seek them out, one account at a time.

It's Going to Be Really Hard to Work Out How Much the Shutdown Hurt the Economy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/government-shutdown-economic-impact-2fb5e27a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p78#a251111p78

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.

Working on the screen early in the day
Zoom and Skype and facts
And the bosses and servers push
Filling up with data.
In nursing homes and hospitals
Poorly paid and above all
Early shift, late shift, through the night
Work like the woman does.
Woman of labor, wake up,
And recognize your power!
Care and nursing stand still
If it's your clever head's will!

The US Navy and Palantir announce ShipOS, saying the software will speed up shipbuilding and improve supply chain visibility; the deal is valued at $448M (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/09/navy-phelan-palantir-karp-shipos

Navy unveils "ShipOS" with Palantir to speed up shipbuilding
"This is, essentially, doing predictive work on supply chain management," CEO Alex Karp told reporters.

I'm at the GPs. At the entrance they have a large touch screen which you use when you arrive to sign in, so that they know you're here.
Except as was said to me and to each person who walks through the door by the receptionist: "that system doesn't work on a Saturday, can I have your details please?"
I'm struggling to understand why the computer gets to have weekends off 😵‍💫

I went on a little bike ride after lunch at work today to check out the missing bridge from the flood back in August and got approached by a woman who wanted to ask me some questions...
Local TV reporter, had a camera operator with her, so I put on a lav and talked about the (missing) bridge for a few minutes...
I stood with my bike and had my helmet on during the interview and talked about biking to work so I hope I leveled up on my bike advocacy journey.

A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January-September 2025 finds health-related topics dominated users' questions, and more (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/10/microsoft-copilot-personal-productivity

Exclusive: Microsoft Copilot is getting personal
Users are increasingly turning to Microsoft Copilot for non-work topics.

Disney nominates former Apple COO Jeff Williams to its board; he retired from Apple in November after overseeing the design team, supply chain work, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney Taps Former Apple COO Jeff Williams to Join Board of Directors
Williams retired from the tech giant earlier this year.

A longtime TV news produced at Chicago-based station WGN on Friday was forcefully pinned to the ground and then hauled off in an unmarked van by masked federal agents.
As reported by the Chicago Tribune, WGN producer Debbie Brockman was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a law enforcement action in the city’s Lincoln Square neighborhood on Friday morning, purportedly on the grounds that she was obstructing their work.
Video of the arrest taken by …

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van | Common Dreams
WGN producer Debbie Brockman forcefully arrested by ICE agents in Chicago. Video shows aggressive tactics used in the arrest.

Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector (Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.

I tried to go for a ride in the rain today and it sucked. I was hoping to go meet one of the candidates for governor at a local park and while it was "lightly" raining when I left home after a mile it got worse and the top of my legs were soaked.
The rest of my body was okay. I put my rain jacket hood over my helmet, I had gloves and good hiking shoes but damn, pants and legs were just... wet.
I never *want* to ride in the rain but may have to if I'm stuck at work o…

FilmLA: in Q3, LA-based commercial production dropped 18% YoY and was 40% lower than the five-year average, leaving a major hole in industry workers' safety net (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/busines

Hollywood’s Commercial Production Crews Are Losing a Lot of Work
Commercial production has long been crucial to sustaining entertainment workers in the Los Angeles area. But it continues to plummet.

Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user's open browser tabs and Gemini chat history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/goog

Google debuts 'Disco,' a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs | TechCrunch
Google Labs is testing a product that will work with your browser tabs to make web apps for you.

Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added app integrations in October (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841369/chatgpt-apps-adobe-photoshop-acrobat…

ChatGPT can now use Adobe apps to edit your photos and PDFs for free
Adobe is giving ChatGPT users integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express for designing and editing their work without having to switch apps.

Australia's under-16 social media ban excludes Discord, GitHub, LEGO Play, Roblox, Steam, Google Classroom, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and YouTube Kids (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20