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💦 Boosting work engagement through a simple smartphone diary
#work

Boosting work engagement through a simple smartphone diary
Work engagement is a positive and persistent state of mind related to one's work. It is characterized by high energy and mental resilience (vigor), enthusiasm and involvement (dedication), and complete concentration in the task at hand (absorption). Engaged workers are not merely more productive; they are more likely to be proactive, creative, and less susceptible to burnout. Most importantly, work engagement has been consistently linked to many health benefits and overall well-being.

I took drugs at work, got drowsy at work, may have fallen asleep at work. My back does feel better now so that's a plus.

Microsoft is increasingly shrill in its desperation to get people to love it's 'AI' service, 'Copilot'... https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/28/you-heard-wrong-users-brutually-reject-microsof…

WFT?
Fox Contributor Questions Trump’s Plan to Eliminate Income Tax: ‘The Math Doesn’t Really Work There’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fox-contributor-questions-trumps-plan-to-eliminate-income-tax-the-math-doesnt-really-work-there/

There are a couple of anonymous cowards on Mastodon telling people that all Palestinians you see here are fake and that the Internet there doesn’t work at all and spamming the #fediblock hashtag to get my Mastodon instance defederated so they can silence me and the work we are doing with @…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Enhancing work-extraction in quantum batteries via correlated reservoirs
Sejal Ahuja, Tanoy Kanti Konar, Aditi Sen De
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25109 https://

Enhancing work-extraction in quantum batteries via correlated reservoirs
Going beyond isolated system dynamics, we examine how local and spatially correlated reservoirs influence the work extraction in quantum batteries. By employing a one-dimensional spin-1/2 model coupled to baths via dephasing and amplitude-damping noise, we demonstrate that correlations in reservoirs can significantly enhance battery's performance compared to local noise. In the dephasing scenario, we prove that correlated reservoirs produce a finite amount of extractable work, or ergotropy, dur…

"5 Tricks to Make Your Run Faster, Healthier and More Fun"
The grumpy old man in me hates the clickbait-y title, but it's an otherwise nice overview of different types of runs (tempo, strides, progression, etc.) and their intent. I wish I had something like this when I was starting out.

5 Tricks to Make Your Run Faster, Healthier and More Fun
Speed work isn’t just for serious runners. Up your pace just a little for a more efficient workout.

@… @… do you think this approach will work at work too

This is attributed to H.G. Wells:
'The work of woman in prehistoric communities, when carefully analyzed from the fossils with which archaeology, folklore, and philology provide us, assumes somewhat large proportions as compared with the work of men. '
https://skywriter.blue…

#Containerschiffe verursachen rund 3 Prozent der weltweiten #Emissionen.
Vollständig elektrische Antriebe sind für Ozeanreisen kaum wirtschaftlich, doch eine Kombination aus #Flüssigkraftstoff

Electric container ships won’t work – but a fleet of auxiliary battery ships could clean up shipping
Could container ships ever go electric? The best option might be a fleet of attendant battery vessels to power these giants directly.

From my perspective ->
1. So much construction. It is almost impossible to go anywhere without lane closures.
2. Buses are less than reliable and the last update nuked one route I took and it leaves me one and only one route to the transfer point near work.
3. LRT construction. Going to work isn't too bad, getting home I have to travel AWAY from home, transfer and hope the bus going home arrives. Alternative is to take three buses and that is double the time than …

This whole thing reads like a puff piece for that "AI detector" startup, but this quote by an researcher got me:
«Everyone in the community is aware that we are in a regime where all of us are doing significantly more volunteer work than we used to.»
I bet large part of that increase in work is due to "AI"-generated slop and not only due to a genuine, human increase in publications, but somehow that part of seems not discussed. Wonder why 😅
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Charlotte Day Wilson:
🎵 Work
#NowPlaying #CharlotteDayWilson
https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/track/charlotte-day-wilson-work
https://open.spotify.com/track/1knUACOt5yfNAYn7gnYQVt

Do you have the ability to write code for Apple platforms? Do you know what MDM / device management is? Do you understand what Compliance is? Do you care about being able to use a Mac or iPad or iPhone for work or school?
Does the idea of dealing with the bugs that can crop up from things like "this needs to be reliably managed like a server, but a human randomly sleeps it mid-process and when it wakes up it's in a different country!" sound interesting to you?
If so - come be my direct co-worker!
Need to be able to be based in/work within the US, but the team itself is fully remote. Multiple positions open.
Feel free to DM me with questions
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200628824-0836/software-engineer-test-infrastructure

"I Don't Think RAI Applies to My Model'' -- Engaging Non-champions with Sticky Stories for Responsible AI Work
Nadia Nahar, Chenyang Yang, Yanxin Chen, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Ken Holstein, Motahhare Eslami, Christian K\"astner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22858

"I Don't Think RAI Applies to My Model'' -- Engaging Non-champions with Sticky Stories for Responsible AI Work
Responsible AI (RAI) tools -- checklists, templates, and governance processes -- often engage RAI champions, individuals intrinsically motivated to advocate ethical practices, but fail to reach non-champions, who frequently dismiss them as bureaucratic tasks. To explore this gap, we shadowed meetings and interviewed data scientists at an organization, finding that practitioners perceived RAI as irrelevant to their work. Building on these insights and theoretical foundations, we derived design p…

From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed northbound for a night
Closure necessary for repaving work near bridge deck in New Westminster
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed to vehicle traffic travelling northbound into New Westminster for one night, due to construction work for the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project. The directional closure will take place overnight on the following date:
Thursday, October 30 (9 pm to 5am)
Southbound travel into Surrey & nb peds…

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers https://edintone.com/work-housing-health/ In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe O

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers - Miscellanea Edintone
In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe Operatives Trade Union had 13,104 members; officials estimated that only 5% of adult workers were outside the union.

Using devices as long as they work is literally the exact opposite of “hoarding”, which would be buying a new phone every year and ending up with a hoard of them.
Let’s not use words that were deliberately used in bad faith to blame consumers for problems producers have.

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Quick review of Omi. I’ve had it for about a week now, and spent more time trying to get it to work than having it work. Definitely not ready for prime time, though it looks interesting. See discord for details https://www.omi.me/

Republicans work to make Zohran Mamdani the face of the Democratic Party (Scott Wong/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republicans-work-make-zohran-mamdani-face-democratic-party-rcna240069
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p110#a251027p110

A look at how David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's WH benefits his investments, those of Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/3…

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.

I'd rather work on tickets that take 5 hours of troubleshooting than to work on a ticket where I have to ask someone else to approve/deny something on their end.

In my opinion, organisations involved in developing military capabilities shouldn't operate as charities.
https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/turing-institute-to-work-on-ai-tools-for-national-security-and-defence-analy…

Turing Institute to work on AI tools for national security and defence analysis | UKAuthority

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
This is a sign for how fucking atrophied our mental muscles are. How limited our space for thinking about how things should be.
You want to democratize "going to therapy&quot…

Sunday's game results work vs Cowboys' draft interests in worst way https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/28/sundays-game-results-sunday-week-17-draft-slot/87937751007/

Microsoft has invited vibe working⁠. We did it everyone! We won capitalism!
https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-office-agent-mode-office-agent-anthropic-models

Trump says Xi agrees to 'work together' with US on ending Russia's war against Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/trump-says-xi-agrees-to.html

Amazing work by Felton, regardless opinions, there are many irregularities and inconsistenties around the official version of Himmler's death. The use of "AI" I find a bit doubtful, there is enough normal evidence to doubt the offical story.
https://youtu.be/PYXWOxZf5-U?si=gOCtC2

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

All of this. @… spot on.
And he doesn't even mention the tracking and funnelling of our data to #BigTech
Our devices work for Big Tech, not us - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/70ba11e1-d4d7-4df6-83bb-f0a5433b1ee2 via @FT

I don’t just mean this as a flippant remark. I’m deadly serious. If whipping up a fake war keeps Epstein off the front page, they’re going to keep doing it. Our best hope for preventing a war is to make it not work as political cover for them.

Is it actually possible to delete files from a git repository without breaking existing forks etc?
There's a load of large generated and audio in @…'s git history. Trying to wipe them from history seems super risky though..

PCIe / FPGA folks: the ThunderScope people are chasing a strange issue where the TS PCIe card appears to work properly on AMD hosts (even with fairly long lossy channels like OCuLink cables or >1 foot riser ribbons) but is failing to train the link at all (i.e. not even coming up as gen1 x1) on Intel hosts.
Ideas on root cause / fixes? I haven't scoped the training yet, as soon as I get an updated unit in my lab I will.

I wanted an easy way to figure out how many days I rode my bike to work this month, and since I've Python and a folder full of GPX files I started there.
First run, look for files that were created on weekdays, with a start time of 8:nn am or 17:nn pm. That would be when I leave home or leave work.
It got me some results, but also bad results... I also had to check for start times of 9:nn am and 7:nn am and leave times of 16:nn pm. Argh.
1/3

I don't spend all my (non-work) time on Mastodon. Sometimes I use my RSS reader to find me great blog posts to read instead 😄
@… has a wonderful blog going into great detail in dissecting rare old video game consoles. I love reading the articles but I do accept it's quite a niche little area so don't usually share much from there.
But the latest post on that blog had a little aside while trying to find information on an obscure integrated circuit. And I think this will be appreciated by much of Fedi.
(full blog post is at https://nicole.express/2025/a-very-fuuki-circuit-board.html)

I've been fortunate enough to work with hugely talented folks on H-1B visas at my university. This will only harm Florida universities by preventing them from hiring the best people for the job.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2025/10/desantis-announces-plans-to-pull-hb1-visas-at-florida-universities

In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of decades in prison, large fines, and other penalties. These federal charges eventually lead to his death in 2013.
No AI company was ever charged under federal laws.

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: (@volpeon)
> OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear. It's kind of hilarious that they go "if you don't want me to pirate your movies, you ne...

Android needs better 3rd party password app integration. Password apps have to work too hard to show correct UI on apps trying to login.

Interviews with standards editors at the NYT, WSJ, and Guardian on how their work has been affected by Trump's willingness to sue for reporting he doesn't like (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/trump-nyt-wsj-guardian-lawsuit-threat/

Media Goes on Offense as Trump Steps Up His War on Journalism
The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian U.S. tell TheWrap how they’re upholding journalistic standards.

#cycling to work is great for science if it can be done without stress 🚲. I must have written some good chunks of my papers in my head while cycling to work. I come up with and flesh out the ideas while cycling, then just need to write them down when arriving - perfect! (It helps that my research is *about* cycling 😬)

I was called "one of our SecurityChampions" today because I started to ask questions...
Seems I asked the right questions.
#work

I've been working on a bit of a larger project. It is still very much a work in progress. It's an attempt to combine blog and mastodon posts with other things I've written in the past, along with some original analysis, into a zine. I'm probably about 2/3 of the way through.
It's primarily focused on political theory and critique, which, I think, deviates a bit from how a lot of other folks view the world. It's pretty explicitly anarchist, though I don't think I've actually put the word "anarchism" or referenced the ideology anywhere so explicitly.
I'd love feedback (especially around editing and flow) if anyone would be willing to put eyes on it and tell me what they think:
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 28: In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?
In one novel I've written, I based my main character on what I imagine I would have been like if not for the trauma of my childhood. He came out as very successful, but also extremely arrogant and entitled — not a likeable person.

Wait, he *really did* call his security company "Sauron"
Need to start a white hat hacker collective called the Fellowship now
and maybe work on my "we are all Samwise" rabble-rousing speech

Back in the car again to go to work earlier than the first train would leave. 😕
I enjoy one thing about this though: I see soooo many nocturnal animals, and since I drive slow enough, there's enough time for eye contact 😊

"A woman's work is never done", is a saying especially relevant when applied to women's rights. Someone is always trying to take them away from us - we can never relax and think that fight is over. Please sign this Holyrood petition. https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions…

Petition: Ensure abortion services are available up to 24 weeks across all parts of Scotland
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure abortion services are available up to the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy across all NHS health boards in Scotland.

Wake up all you citizens, hear your country's call,
Not to arms and violence, But peace for one and all.
Crush out hate and prejudice, fear and greed and sin,
Help bring back her dignity, restore her faith again.
Work hard for a common cause, don't let our country fall.
Make her proud and strong again, democracy for all.
Yes, make our country strong again, keep our flag unfurled.
Make our country well again, respected by the world.
Make her w…

Sequences of odd length in strict partitions IV: the combinatorics of parameterized Rogers-Ramanujan type identities
Haijun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24942 https://

Sequences of odd length in strict partitions IV: the combinatorics of parameterized Rogers-Ramanujan type identities
In the first three papers, we conducted a series of discussions on the statistics of strict partitions and Rogers-Ramanujan partitions, specifically the sequences of odd length (denoted as $\mathrm{sol}$) and its extensions. We established bijections for some Rogers-Ramanujan type identities. This paper will continue that series of work, and first we will use the bijective method to re-establish several parameterized Rogers-Ramanujan type identities, which appeared in the recent work of Hao-Kua…

"Basic lack of humanity"
Congratulations to all you assholes that wanted the government to 'work like a business': You got all the dysfunction, corruption & immorality & absolutely none of the ROI.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xzlvs

When you’re a kid, life feels easy because you haven’t yet seen how much work gets hidden behind the things that just appear for you.
Then you grow up:
#Marxism #Leninism #Communism

If I understand correctly, the contracts for housing asylum-serkers in ramshackle hotels (because they can't work or access benefits) are open to rip-offs by hotel owners and the taxi firms contracted to do the transport.
So the people badly served are now further demonised and will mostly be denied help to get to health appointments.
Further demonisation.
Correct me if that's wrong because the news hasn't been very clear. BBC radio 4 played a part in this.

from my link log —
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
saved 2025-11-30

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

Hummm.
So I was thinking about how with a couple of caster-boards and straps, the bed could be upturned and stowed in the studio. Probably? I should have figured for a fold-away really.
Still. Could work...
Then, without a bed in there, the place could turn into a dining room.
I was thinking about a shape of a table for a dinner party in there.
Oh my god.
This semi-circle table curve of wood and attachable table-legs and fold-able stools might just fit, like, under the bed normally?
Looks perfect for a card-game or a Dungeon Master setup.
Could that table and it's legs and it's chairs all fit under the bed? Probably not at it's current height. But I want to raise it a bit anyway.
🤔
Oh my god, look at this though. The projector is pointed at the wall behind the throne surrounded by the seats for the council of seven.
This could be built.
Not right away, but eventually?

I don't want to:
* Work on "AI"
* Write software that ultimately exists to abuse its users
* Dogmatically follow patterns assumed to be "the way it's done"
I want to:
* Actively use my brain to craft quality solutions
* Engage with the problem domain!
* Avoid JavaScript, but if I can't, I'll live

Oh and the accompanying nunchuck’s accelerometer sucks. But at least my original nunchucks still work.

I've got a monero wallet, I've never actually received any funds on it. I'd like to recevied a few things to see how it feels/work. Anyone willing to share some small bits as an experiment?
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#xmr #monero

"On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which the federal government created to honour 'the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities,' members of the Active History editorial collective offer suggestions on scholarship and resources they have found helpful in their own work and learning journeys."

On the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued its final report on the history of residential schools in Canada. Mandated to “inform all Canadians about what happened in reside…

Installed #Vivaldi today (I had been using #Firefox for the past ... 20 years or so?) - First Impressions:

• it is really fast (definitely faster than FF)
• very easy to import bookmarks from Firefox (exported html)
• uBlock and Zotero connector work fine
• adding No A…

Since the start of the semester I feel like being hunted by an angry pack of looming deadlines: everything seems to cluster around October 31 and mid-November.
But! I have now finished all work-related tasks due October 31, and it's only the 28!

Since the start of the semester I feel like being hunted by an angry pack of looming deadlines: everything seems to cluster around October 31 and mid-November.
But! I have now finished all work-related tasks due October 31, and it's only the 28!

Since the start of the semester I feel like being hunted by an angry pack of looming deadlines: everything seems to cluster around October 31 and mid-November.
But! I have now finished all work-related tasks due October 31, and it's only the 28!

If you want Wi-Fi network to work perfectly, you need to use dedicated, specialized hardware.
At work, everything is fine, but at home I was temporarily using a mini PC with a Wi-Fi card as a router/firewall, and video streaming, for example, was suffering. Now I have an wireless access point with VLANs channeling all Wi-Fi traffic (currently with three devices simultaneously streaming via Jellyfin), and everything is running smoothly, with instant video playback.
Lesson learned.…

“The reforms would give more people access to domestic electricity rates, enabling families to run their EVs for as little as 2p per mile – the equivalent of London to Birmingham for £2.50.
[..]
The government will also work with Ofgem to ensure public costs are fair and strengthen protections against landowners overcharging tenants for home charging above the market rate.”

Government looks to slash red tape to make charging electric vehicles at home easier
Reforms will open up affordable home charging to thousands more households

It's the end of the month again and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately takes up a lot of time, which is why we would be very happy about a little support! :boost_requested:

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Hey it’s #WeekWithoutDriving and I probably have to drive to work Friday due to an event and needing to move a large table… but I biked to work all last week (5 days) so I think that will make up for it… kind of.

it has never been more clear that the good people of the web must work together

Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808472/grammarly-superhuman-ai-rebrand-rel…

Grammarly is changing its name to Superhuman
Grammarly is rebranding to become Superhuman, an AI agent-powered work platform that combines its writing tool with Coda and Superhuman Mail.

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

"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

The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
-- @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
https://

Mike Eckel (@mikeeckel.bsky.social)
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington

Accelerating Regression Tasks with Quantum Algorithms
Chenghua Liu, Zhengfeng Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24757 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24757

Accelerating Regression Tasks with Quantum Algorithms
Regression is a cornerstone of statistics and machine learning, with applications spanning science, engineering, and economics. While quantum algorithms for regression have attracted considerable attention, most existing work has focused on linear regression, leaving many more complex yet practically important variants unexplored. In this work, we present a unified quantum framework for accelerating a broad class of regression tasks -- including linear and multiple regression, Lasso, Ridge, Hub…

Ha ha — but also note that the 21% figure is itself •generated by an automated tool•:
❝The next day, he got a response from Max Spero, chief executive of Pangram Labs in New York City, which develops tools to detect AI-generated text. Pangram screened all 19,490 studies and 75,800 peer reviews.…Pangram’s analysis revealed that around 21% of the ICLR peer reviews were fully AI-generated, and more than half contained signs of AI use.❞
The word “revealed” is doing way too much work there.
1/
Re this from @…:
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115632304917619952

How Dangerous Is It Really to Work for ICE? (Noah Lanard/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-deaths-assaults-administration-masks-covid19-shooting-dhs-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p55#a251029p55

I am enthusiastic about GenAI , it's possible applications and added value in specific usescases, but please let's not start using CoPilot in Excel with these accuracy numbers...😆 Imagine that workers would actually start using this and not checking their work. It could destroy productivity...

Breaks the law: "the policy is aimed primarily at organizations that work with immigrants and transgender youth"
Trump administration completes new rules on public service loan forgiveness | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/public-service-loan-forgiveness-debt-cancellation-62536bdb25f04b5138d2d0a2aeec4e58

We have builders in doing the kitchen at the moment, and they have put on some kind of classic rock playlist, the songs keep filtering through to me trying to work upstairs.
And I have no problem with that, except that I've now had to listen to Hotel California about 6 or 7 times in the last 3 days.
You can do your own "check out any time you want" jokes, I've had enough!

Journalist Eoin Higgins says Matt Taibbi is suing him for defamation over Owned, his book about tech billionaires and the left, and "I stand by my work" (Eoin Higgins/The Flashpoint)
https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/yes-im-being-sued-by-matt-taibbi<…

Yes, I'm being sued by Matt Taibbi
Does that make me the realest free speech warrior?

A survey of 16K creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (Adobe Newsroom)
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/10/adobe-max-2025-creators-survey

Inaugural Adobe Creators' Toolkit Report: 86 Percent of Global Creators Use Creative Generative AI, See it Boosting Creator Economy
Adobe’s Creators’ Toolkit Report reveals how 16,000 global creators are using generative and agentic AI to shape the future of creative work.

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…

@… @… yeah, for me that’s a good example of a <button> that wouldn’t make any sense without JS (since the copy-to-clipboard feature *can’t* work without JS)
We’re having some productive discussions here that feel very similar to…

Enshittification wasn't an accident.
It also wasn't inevitable.
This isn't the iron laws of economics at work, nor is it the great forces of history
#Enshittification was a choice:
Known individuals, in living memory, enacted policies that created the enshittogenic environment.
They created a world that encouraged tech companies to merge to monopoly,

Charlie Jablonski, an NBC Sports executive who won 12 sports Emmy Awards for his engineering and technology work on the Olympics, died on October 25 at age 69 (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Charlie Jablonski, NBC Olympics Veteran, Dies at 69
The NBC Sports exec earned 20 Emmy nominations and 12 trophies for his engineering and technology work on the Olympics, starting with the 1988 Games in Seoul. 

The (former) graffiti guy at work used his finger to write something in the dust on one of the warehouse doors. I looked at it and said "I cannot decipher even a single character of what you wrote."
Graffiti Guy: "I still got it!"

Framework says it is raising DDR5 RAM prices to charge $10 per GB, after a price hike earlier in December due to "substantially higher costs" amid the AI boom (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/850376/framework-ram-memory-ddr5-price-hikes…

Framework announces another memory price hike — and it likely won’t be its last
Framework is adjusting the price of its DDR5 RAM modules once again, as it will now charge $10 per GB for its 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB variations.

Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, a microbiologist at Mount Sinai’s medical school who wasn’t involved with the study, called the work
“a good vaccine to have ready in case of any outbreaks with this virus”
However, he thinks this approach may fall short in tackling human influenza.
“H5 changes in multiple directions, so a central antigen makes sense,
while in the human flu or human SARS-CoV-2,
the central antigen moves with time.”

One shot to rule them all in the fight against H5 influenza
New bird flu vaccine design could help preparations against an evolving potential pandemic virus 

"The modulo operator does not work on floats."

A survey of 16K creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (Adobe Newsroom)
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/10/adobe-max-2025-creators-survey

Inaugural Adobe Creators' Toolkit Report: 86 Percent of Global Creators Use Creative Generative AI, See it Boosting Creator Economy
Adobe’s Creators’ Toolkit Report reveals how 16,000 global creators are using generative and agentic AI to shape the future of creative work.

Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-sur

US government helps Silicon Valley firms sell surveillance technology to China
Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, an Associated Press investigation has found. And time after time, despite bipartisan attempts, Congress has turned a blind eye to loopholes that allow China to work around its own rules, such as cloud services, third-p…

The Washington Post reports on 996,
"a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week..."
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/25/0…

Some Startups Are Demanding 12-Hour Days, Six Days a Week from Workers - Slashdot
The Washington Post reports on 996, "a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week..." As the artificial intelligence race heats up, many start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York are promoting hardcore culture as a way ...

Every now and then I find something that does not work in LibreWolf so I need to use Firefox... this time it's this gamepad tester.
There's probably some permission I need to set in LibreWolf but I haven't found it yet.
https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad

I stopped at the grocery store on the way to work... another thing I thought I would never do on a bike.
Loaded the panniers up so they could barely close. (I meant to put the milk crate on the rack but I forgot.)
There's actually case of seltzer in one of the bags. I would have got more chips but I was afraid of them being crushed.
I basically got everything I'd get on a normal Aldi "car" run except for more chips.

Billionaires with $1 salaries
– and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting
Mark Zuckerberg was the lowest-paid employee at Meta in 2024,
and he made US$1.
But he is not the only very rich person who has collected $1 for a year’s work.
Why would incredibly rich CEOs make only $1 a year when they could pay themselves millions?
The reason is taxes…

Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting.

The moment that will stick with me the most
—the video that still gives me chills
—came during an otherwise unremarkable baseball day early in the summer.
It was June 14, and the pop artist #Nezza was getting ready to sing the national anthem at Dodger Stadium.
A week earlier, ICE and DHS agents had descended en masse on Los Angeles work sites,
grabbing immigrants and U.S. citiz…

Defiance in a Time of Cowardice
She sang the national anthem in Spanish as deportation forces assaulted L.A. Now she’s headed to Sundance.