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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-02 21:15:50

Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic)
anthropic.com/research/how-ai-

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-12-02 13:00:05

"So what if, right, what if, we put the data centres in … space!
This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details."
(Original title: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work)

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-12-02 16:07:07

There are only 19 work days this month and I need to drive on 9 of them due to other appointments during work hours (PT, dentist, haircut, etc) so even if I could bike to work right now it would be fewer than 10 days but also with the snow and the piriformis pain it's just not happening this month.
I do need to get the trainer set up in the basement with one of the good acoustic bikes to see how pedaling feels right now.
Basically December sucks due to *waves hands* everythin…

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-11-02 17:16:35

Wise words from @….
Reflecting now on how often I find myself saying “Just show up, over and over, and do some work. Don’t worry about whether it’s enough, about whether you’re going to get an A. Just show up. Do some work.”
Wanting to get really good at [software dev skill]?
Worried about passing the class?
Not sure if you’re a Real Programmer yet?
Impostor feelings?
Horrified at politics?
Wanting to saving democracy?
Feeling powerless?
Anxious? Depressed? Panicking?
Show up. Work. mastodon.social/@grimalkina/11

@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-02 14:13:47

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…

@kctipton@mas.to
2025-11-02 23:43:56

ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Attracting A Bunch Of People Who Are Too Unfit (Or Too Criminal) To Work At ICE | Techdirt techdirt.com/2025/10/31/ices-h

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-02 12:15:42

Republicans work to defend a deep-red House district in expensive Tennessee special election (Owen Auston-Babcock/NBC News)
nbcnews.com/politics/elections
memeorandum.com/251202/p9#a251

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-02 16:38:07

Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
siliconangle.com/2025/12/02/aw

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-03 15:42:03

from my link log —
Don't give Postgres too much memory.
vondra.me/posts/dont-give-post
saved 2025-11-03

A federal judge could soon decide whether tens of thousands of so-called “Dreamers” in Texas could lose their ability to work in the US legally under the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) immigration program
– prompting fears of upheaval and heartbreak.
As part of the years-long legal battle over Daca,
US district court judge Andrew Hanen is set to rule on competing proposals for the future of the Obama-era program.
One of those proposals, submitted …

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-03 01:01:37

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Ills:
🎵 I Was Riding My Bike To Work When I Realized I Have No Job
#TheIlls
ills.bandcamp.com/track/i-was-
open.spotify.com/track/6CXFupt

@adrianco@mastodon.social
2025-12-03 17:12:07

Some positive signs for AI coding tools. Claude-code is a $1B run rate product six month after launch. The latest Claude Opus 4.5 model is several times cheaper and faster than last month’s version and uses about a quarter of the number of tokens to get work done. My own benchmark saw over an hour of coding reduced to 17 minutes. The high rate of change continues. The boundary of what does/doesn’t work is pushing back fast.

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-02 23:22:00

My house is just where I crash between shifts. If I don’t rest, I’m useless the next day. But if I don’t work the next day, no paycheck comes, and then no rest either.
So really, I just visit my place to keep functioning at the job that owns my hours. It’s like living to work, not working to live.
I don’t have a home life anymore, capitalism sucks.
#Capitalism

Drawing of a weary-looking character with a beanie and stubble, smoking a cigarette. The expression is somber, set against a dark background.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
2025-11-03 17:36:00

Oh, look, the result of anti-immigration fascists' policies are labor shortages.
Who would've known?
(unless it's paired with starting a global trade war, I suppose; in that case you'd get an economic slump, bankrupcies and unemployment... if you don't TACO)

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-01 21:12:30

Cowboys' Matt Eberflus opens up on why things 'didn't work out' with Trevon Diggs si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/d

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-01-02 16:45:45

Right now trialing KOReader, seems to work pretty well!

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-30 14:04:42

💦 Boosting work engagement through a simple smartphone diary
#work

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2025-11-02 07:53:57

Sunday started at 6.30am with some work, urgent deadlines that can't wait.
But sitting on the sofa under a blanket reading science, drinking tea, listening to sublime classical music on DR with a cat purring away next to me, turns out to be actually really nice.
I should do this more often.

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-12-02 22:30:16

This took a lot of tedious work but I’m now npm token free, weee!
The @… ecosystem is now using Trusted Publishers (docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publish

@NicolasGriseyDemengel@piaille.fr
2026-01-02 22:09:59

"Let’s stop trying to copy the West. Let’s build the web that actually works."
The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
paulallies.medium.com/the-sili

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-03 23:59:18

He doesn't know what tariffs are or how they work, and how the Constitution works.
Great choice of leader Texas.
#USpol #TXpol #tariffs

Screenshot of a two post thread.

Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX: 

After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.

MigratingCoconut @aheadwarp9: 

Replying to @GregAbbott_TX 

States cannot tariff each other.  Read the Constitution. Article 1, sections 9 and 10. 

Nov 3, 2025 · 11:04 PM UTC
@hynek@mastodon.social
2025-11-02 13:18:10

A day’s worth of work 💪

All my cables sorted into labeled airline amenities bags.
@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-12-02 18:07:54

finding MEANING in your work/life vs finding SUCCESS in your work/life
youtube.com/watch?v=QPTIoXiEcB0

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-03 23:33:39

Ashton Jeanty: 'Continue to just work hard and inspire others around me' raiders.com/video/ashton-jeant

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-02 17:00:04

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981). 29 nodes, 740 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/7th_graders
@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-12-03 17:00:29

@… I love your work, but pushing this tab into Thunderbird, causing Thunderbird to pop in front of my current meeting window while I’m presenting and have to then scramble to close it and get my notes visible again, is _utterly_ unacceptable.
You gotta find a better way.

Thunderbird client with a new tab showing the message “Only 3% of users SUPPORT THUNDERBIRD” and a giant donate button.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-12-03 06:06:06

Trump regime renames National Renewable Energy Laboratory to National Laboratory of the Rockies...
gravityisgone.com/a-collective

@hanno@mastodon.social
2025-12-02 10:32:05

I've recently stumbled upon an RCE "exploit" for the Serendipity blog software, which I happen to use and have contributed to in the past. From what I can tell, it does nothing interesting (it does not even work due to broken indents, if one fixes that it uploads a PHP shell given existing credentials, but that won't be executed unless you have a server config that executes .inc files). I'm 95% certain this is bogus. Yet... in case anyone wants to have a look:

@vrandecic@mas.to
2025-12-03 16:10:25

"During the preparation of this work, the authors used ChatGPT and Gemini for grammar & spelling checking and paraphrasing. After using these tools, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the publication’s content."
I like that.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-03 19:45:43

Air filter doesn't work unless you plug it in. You'd think a doctor's office would know that! #HealthyAir

A small round air filter machine in the corner of an office next to a power outlet. The black power cable is on the floor wrapped around the machine, not plugged in.
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
2025-12-03 20:12:28

I've been eating these oven-roasted Korean sweet potatoes all week, and it’s genuinely one of the best things I've eaten all year.
Just regular-ass potatoes roasted in the oven in their skin. No prep work, no seasoning, no nothing.
They taste like potato, chestnut, and maple syrup in one magical bite.

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-02 22:08:23

have any of yall managed to deal with / work around adhd and if so how

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-01-02 11:52:25

Initial experiments on a GPU-accelerated parallel CDR PLL filter.
Fundamentally, the problem is that a PLL is stateful so you can't process any given iteration of it without knowing the previous state. I'm trying to work around that by recognizing that the impulse response of the PLL loop filter tails off to effectively zero after a while, so we can truncate and samples older than that point will not materially affect the output.
What you see here is the first pass of wha…

ngscopeclient displaying a low frequency square wave labeled "DEBUG_BlockBoundaries" and a jitter waveform with large spikes every time the block boundary signal toggles
@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-02 22:42:59

Offshore Wind Projects Challenge Trump Administration’s Order to Stop Work - The New York Times
nytimes.com/2026/01/02/climate

@crell@phpc.social
2025-12-02 19:49:27

I really feel sorry for @…, and how hard they have to work to be more ridiculous than reality.
heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/01

@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2026-01-02 10:54:15

Because I literally just finished clearing the snow and putting out food for the birds, it has started snowing those giant wet flakes the Icelanders call "wet dog kisses" and all my work is undone.

@joe@toot.works
2025-12-03 13:42:57

I should probably work on this over lunch. I ran the shovel across some of the patio, but there really wasn't a lot of snow to remove.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social
2025-11-03 15:15:04

It pairs well with something that I think it was @… said at one point "the job of the senior engineer is to bring clarity"
So often in tech work we end up in a field of ambiguous possibilities, and people usually default to throwing habits and opinions out.
But it turns out, in a great many cases, _we can actually check what the right answer is_, and we should generally do that.

@publicvoit@graz.social
2026-01-01 23:17:14

FYI: If your #Mastodon #domainverification doesn't work, check if you do have upper case letters in your URL as this won't work as of this #bug report from 2022:

@andycarolan@social.lol
2025-12-02 08:06:56

Morning!
I discovered yesterday that the community coffee shop that I occasionally work from supports Pay-It-Forward. They even have a donation page on their site for it.
Awesome! I love stuff like that ♥️
#Freelance #PayItForward

@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social
2025-12-02 08:49:10

For a work thing, I have to consult potential EU regulations covering advanced machine-learning algorithms.
Most of the resources I find, reek of longtermism...

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2025-12-04 00:45:05

Note to self: every time a simple electrical project doesn't work, try resetting the Arc Fault or GFCI breaker. Fixes it every time.

@boris@cosocial.ca
2026-01-01 17:31:23

On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.”
And
“Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.”
[contains quote post or other embedded content] bsky.app/pro…

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-11-03 22:43:52

AI does one thing for me: it reminds me why I prize creativity, why I try to make new things (or just my own, sometimes feeble, replicas of existing stuff), and how important this sort of work is to society and to our individual sanity.

@usul@piaille.fr
2025-11-02 09:57:32

Upgrading second machine to Fedora 43. Once done I'll 'work' on the kids machine

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-12-02 17:24:11

Just read about DeepSeek Sparse Attention.
Essentially, they gave ADHD to an AI to make it work better, and market it as a big innovation.
This would be a chance for Neurotypicals to question their attitude towards Neurodiversity, but I doubt they take the hint.
#adhd #neurodiversity

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-12-02 23:01:00

RE: neuromatch.social/@elduvelle_n
Please answer this very important question from my "work" account :)

@datascience@genomic.social
2025-12-01 11:00:01

TidyX: screencasts explaining different aspects of the R language and the coding process. #rstats

@pre@boing.world
2025-12-01 17:32:29

All the windowed doors up now, though some adjustment of hinges is still needed. Lots of the trim to fake the panels painted. There's struts everywhere.
No work being done tomorrow, two men in on Wednesday and Friday.
He still seems to think it might be finished by the end of the week. I still find myself doubting it.
Very glad to have a day off building and off work and off having to get up in the mornings tomorrow. I can lie in bed until noon if I want for the first time since October I think.

@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
2026-01-02 19:16:58

First day back at work and the problem today had me scratching my head at the end of last year was solved in a few hours. I guess it's good to come at things with a fresh head. And it's the weekend next - bonus 😎🖥️

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2025-11-03 18:58:16

an den ersten 66 von geplant 660 Metern der grafischen Partitur dieses auf zehn Jahre angelegten Work in Progres

@yaya@jorts.horse
2025-12-03 17:21:45

audio description rules because even though im completely sighted, sometimes my brain doesn't work right and I can't follow what's happening BUT ALSO it's great for if you wanna watch something but also close your eyes for a bit or try to fall asleep or your head hurts but you still wanna watch an episode of something. they're usually really well done, too

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-29 19:24:31

Microsoft is increasingly shrill in its desperation to get people to love it's 'AI' service, 'Copilot'... windowslatest.com/2025/11/28/y

@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2025-11-03 08:51:38

I have so much to do today (a day off work, ha ha) and I am very much not getting on with any of it.

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-01-02 08:50:26

Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution
news.mongabay.com/2026/01/guat

@padraig@mastodon.ie
2026-01-02 12:47:00

#Sky's scaremongering is not going to work.
They simply need to drop the pricing (€52 a month on their 'Sky Signature' aka. Entertainment package €40 a month on Sky Sports)
And abolish the Saturday 3PM bollocks (in Ireland anyway) for Premier League games, and maybe people will pay for it then.
The wording on this is just laughable.
'Dodgy boxes' are not i…

The broadcasting behemoth hasn't revealed specifics about the data it seeks to utilise - though sources suggest this encompasses private detectives collecting intelligence on dodgy box and Firestick users through WhatsApp channels that distribute these devices. Intelligence gathering may also focus on properties with high-speed internet connections that don't appear subscribed to streaming platforms like Amazon, Disney, Apple and others. 

Sky's privacy policy makes no mention of data harvest…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2025-11-03 17:50:20

Next Thursday at YDS! Scholar of ancient philosophy David Runia giving the Classics-Divinity Lecture. Dr. Runia's lecture is titled "On the Indestructibility of the Cosmos: Philo of Alexandria’s Most Controversial Work."
5:30 p.m. Niebuhr Hall, reception to follow. Open to all.

A man wearing a bow tie.
@jerome@jasette.facil.services
2025-11-02 16:00:43

I was wondering why I wasn’t getting reminders from #libby about a hold that I had asked to deliver later.
They changed the system: you must suspend a hold and remember to unsuspend it when you’re ready to be back in line.

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-11-03 10:16:54

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

@StephenRees@mas.to
2025-12-03 18:05:18

From TransLink
UPDATE: The Pattullo Bridge will be closed southbound on Thursday, December 4 from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. To complete this current phase of work, an additional overnight closure is required.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-01-03 13:09:36

So it's been pointed out that steve, the #jobserver, doesn't have a #logo. Here's a first approximation. Made in #Inkscape, using lines and fonts (the apples are from Noto Sans, I think). I also have an SVG version but browsers mess it up by substituting the apples for some colorful emojis with incompatible metrics. I've added a bright background, since the actual transparent background doesn't work on black (which seems to be Mastodon default).

@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-12-02 15:46:15

An important update from the Director of Procurement at one of my customers:
"From Monday 1 December, all your invoices submitted for payment to the Invoice team must include a valid PO number. Invoices without a PO number will be rejected and returned to you. Please ensure that work is not started without a PO number; the PO number will be sent to you via our ERP system, Tech One."
Great, so they have introduced a manual step into my automated process.

@izzychambers@vivaldi.net
2026-01-02 14:44:06

@… I have Linux Mint as my primary OS, with Windows 11 running in a VM (VMware Workstation Pro). My laptop has 32 mb of RAM; I allocate 16 to the VM. Works fine, except that WIndows 11 is a bit slow. If I cared, I could increase the RAM allocated to the VM, because Linux doesn't use all that much.
Other VMs work fine, too. I just settled on VM…

@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us
2026-01-03 14:16:57

Now the whole goal is to get them to match a fully discovered in-game map so that the location data I get from this can be used on the site to search and highlight locations later in the process. They have to be correct first, and some work out almost fine, while others do not. Going through wago.tools/db2/ h…

@jensilber@mastodon.social
2025-11-03 17:34:38

We just got through the annual open enrollment benefits meeting at work. I have a 'good' job with 'good' benefits and yet I'm still so exhausted by it. My sympathies are with folks who have it worse.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-01-02 02:23:28

My hobby: unfollowing developers who complain that generative “AI” doesn’t work to write code
No shit Sherlock

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-03 14:21:25

Biggest insult today: Motherfucking Github rate limited me browsing issues of a software product while being logged out. Git-we steal all your open source code to train our slop machine that management will use to make your life at work worse-hub.

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-11-03 16:21:34

@… I am still maintaining it (last round of work happened in August of this year) even if it isn’t top of the list right at this moment
fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachle

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-12-03 16:16:34

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-03 21:19:56

Me, the person who changes the clocks at work: "It's after 4pm already?"
Also me: "Goddammit."

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-11-02 17:17:34

Stop waiting for someone to hand you a gold star sticker.
Stop waiting for someone to make you.
Stop waiting for permission.
Just show up. Do some work.

I think being an egocentric asshole as a service is finally falling flat
and people want to hear more about what real living is about.
hachyderm.io/@suzannealdrich/1

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-01 01:52:19

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Marie Davidson:
🎵 Work It
#MarieDavidson
djtonyofrance.bandcamp.com/tra
open.spotify.com/track/6WfL1pw

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-02 23:13:31

You don’t work from #home, you sleep at the #office.

@joe@toot.works
2025-12-02 17:06:13

Does anyone know how to get a Samsung phone to work with Google Fi's visual voicemail?
#Samsung #Android #Fi

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-02 23:40:39

US homeland security condemned for using Japanese artist's work without consent (Maya Yang/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j
memeorandum.com/260102/p56#a26

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2025-12-04 00:47:17

On the good side, I now have a proper LED dimmer for these LED bulbs and hey, they work so much better! Unfortunately we put in a bunch of dimmers in our house about 2 years before LED dimmers became a thing.

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-02 14:43:10

A freely available masterclass! 👇

How Does "Bait” Work? Vol. 9

Flippancy primes readers for a hot take

@ratlimit

sorry but neopronouns in 2025 is so

Zoomer syntax is unelaborative. [Using] neopronouns is so what?

Readers imagine an obvious interpretation, like Neopronouns are an outdated extravagance of the Woke Era. This may cause readers to:

1. Imagine maximally provacative framing of the assumed sentiment;

2. React strongly enough to repress the unwelcome fact that they "know what I mean"; or 3. Resent me for remindin…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-03 00:55:51

Sources: Anthropic has tapped a law firm to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and has held preliminary talks with big investment banks (George Hammond/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/3254fa30-5bdb-4

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-01 04:49:25

✊ The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-02 01:46:48

Cowboys Hall of Fame icon set to help fix Dolphins' front office cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story

@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2025-12-02 06:35:19

Cracking insomnia last night, worst for over a year. I think I'll be taking advantage of the lunchtime snooze pod at work, our drying room with a reclining deckchair in it 😄

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-11-02 13:02:26

Computer programmers be like:
1. LLMs generate code for me and sometimes it even works
2. This is also true when I write code manually
3. Computer programming is clearly the hardest of all possible human endeavors, you have to be a complete genius like I am to it because it is really, really hard
4. Therefore LLMs are geniuses
5. They will certainly work really well for all these lesser fields you don’t have to be genius for like I am, like writing summaries of text or medical research or making art or…

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-03 17:37:15

Today–or more accurately–tonight, will be my first ride home from work in the dark.
My bike currently has two headlights, two rear light, and a strip of white LEDs pointed towards the front/down towards the road.
I have a rear helmet light, a hi-vis vest , and two lights in the chest pockets.
I've got another light coming today (thanks to @…) and I…

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-02 16:16:34

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

New reporting by
"The Information" has revealed some recent topics of conversation between #OpenAI employees as they work to supply #advertisers with a teeming new audience to manipulate.
The plans are not final, though they give us a look at what soon may become the norm for

@joe@toot.works
2026-01-02 16:46:29

I started listening to an Archer podcast while I work and Pocket Casts is now recommending a TNG podcast and a Paul Blart podcast to me. I'm a little surprised that there is enough content for "Til Death Do Us Blart".

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-03 02:35:39

Offshore Wind Projects Challenge Trump Administration's Order to Stop Work (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/02/climate
memeorandum.com/260102/p72#a26

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-02 16:15:43

Amazon launches the Trainium3 UltraServer, powered by the 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which will be able to work with Nvidia's chips (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/amaz

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-02 22:54:17

Another endless night, staring at this damn screen, hoping for something that’ll never come. Feels like I’m stuck in this cycle of work, waste, and digital chains.
This fake world just keeps selling me more ways to waste time, more ways to feel empty. Everything’s a distraction. Everything’s a lie.
Capitalism is truly shit, a broken system in a clean shirt.
#Capitalism

A figure resembling a "wojak" character sits at a desk in the dim light of night, staring at a laptop with a blank, melancholic expression. The figure is bathed in light from the screen, with their head resting on one hand in frustration or exhaustion. The reflection in the window behind shows the same figure, further emphasizing the solitude. Various mugs are scattered on the desk, one of them featuring a red "NES" logo. The background shows dark buildings with glowing yellow windows.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-01 10:38:18

🤦🏻 Golf lesson: Study shows political polarization hurts performance at work
#politics

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-03 16:16:33

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-12-02 20:09:35

I continue to be amazed at people who put personal appointments and reminders into their work calendar. 😮

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-31 09:50:42

"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task?
All bigger studies we know (even those done by Google for example) show a total lack of meaningful productivity gains, especially when looking at a whole organization.
(There are few exceptions: Spam generation might see prod…

Sleeping on the job used to be frowned upon.
But a Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps.
According to experts, 30 minutes or less of catnapping can “restore alertness, enhance performance and reduce mistakes and accidents” in the workplace.
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy caught some extra z’s in early afternoon to keep up his stride.
And NASA pilots take in-flight naps as short as 26 minutes to enhance performance and alertn…

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-01-03 18:11:35

Back and leg pain was terrible from around 4am to 11am but I managed to get moving after that and doing some kitchen work helps distract me from the pain... I still feel a little dizzy, but whatever.
So I am attempting a "tavern style" pizza today, the "other" Chicago style, a thin, cracker crust. (Also St. Louis or Milwaukee style to some folks.)
I'll report back on my results after lunch, unless I fall asleep again from the medication.

Pizza Dough
Pizza Dough
Pizza Dough

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-03 14:54:09

🤑 Nearly Half of Young Japanese Workers Spend Big on Fandom Activities
tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-01-02 18:37:22

🫦 Researchers pioneer pathway to mechanical intelligence by breaking symmetry in soft composite materials
techxplore.com/news/2025-11-pa