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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.

'They don't consider their work heroic' — 4 energy workers die amid Kyiv repairs following Russian attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/they-dont-consider-their-work.html

Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/google-chrome-auto-browse/

Your Google Chrome browser just got a useful autopilot feature - here's how it works
Google's new Auto Browse feature aims to handle your digital chores by taking actions on your behalf.

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…

I hate to state the obvious, but your biggest advantage in the current job market is showing up and being human, imperfections and all.
Your goal is to connect with the human(s) on the other side.
If you're trying to game the system by regurgitating ChatGPT responses as your own, you've already surrendered your edge.

A.I. Is Causing Meltdowns in American Offices. It’s Only Getting Worse.
A.I. and ChatGPT were supposed to revolutionize work. They’re only creating chaos.

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/

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.

I have an idea. If we used people to do work, rather than paying for AI agents, then we wouldn’t need to pay for them to not work. Also, we wouldn’t have goodness knows how much electricity used on it.
#ai #ukpolitics

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

Natural Genius: Greater Signal. Lighter Work.
a podcast and Lab for founders, operators, and leaders who want greater signal and a clear next move...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/natural-genius/

Bucs new OC Zac Robinson 'fired up' to work with 'true igniter' Baker Mayfield again https://www.nfl.com/news/bucs-new-oc-zac-robinson-fired-up-to-work-with-true-igniter-baker-mayfield-again

Better Rideshare: Airport Ubers lined up, and you can get into ANY car, driver scans your QR code, and go. Immediately.
No 10-20 minute delay. No clog to match riders to cars.
This is how Taxi's work, but they are more expensive and no universal app. This is how Waymo could work, but they are not at most airports yet. A new competitor might do well with this trick: "AirRide"?
Many people have opted for rideshare-- lets have it work better. Other ideas?

Lastly, whenever I do work with people through a specific case of them having felt like they needed to rely on an LLM, it often goes like this.
They feel guilty and ashamed.
They explain how impossible getting that task done felt with their time and energy constraints.
Yet when I talk them through other ways of solving the same problem, often we end up completing the work much quicker than it even took them to prompt the damn LLM to begin with.
And at the end, I have often seen relief - as if the person has forgotten that there are ways to work quickly while trusting their own brain, getting help in collaboration with another person rather than from a machine.
I do kind of love seeing someone realize that the AI they thought was saving them time actually caused more hassle and stress than it was worth. And that there’s a better way.

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.

Gateway Tunnel Work to Stop Next Week If White House Holds Funding (Michelle Kaske/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-27/gateway-tunnel-work-to-stop-next-week-if-white-house-holds-funding
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p46#a260127p46

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

Hey @… here's a screenie of a page linked from masto in Phanpy. How do I get it to open in a real browser so I can come back to it later? This is totally fatal to the way I work.

I have been using Codex extensively to fix crashes. Usually when I get an obscure crash I go “well there goes my afternoon”. These days, I paste the stack trace into codex and go “fix this”, and it does a remarkable job at finding clues I miss, and to find the root causes.
It doesn’t always work, but it has a very solid hit rate. What seemed like a daunting uphill mountain of despair is now a quick sweeping job.

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/

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.

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.

🗜️ The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
https://paulallies.medium.com/the-silicon-valley-stack-doesnt-work-here-why-africa-will-lead-the-post-bloat-web-e7c34b577c61

The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
For years, we’ve followed the global tech narrative: Bigger is better. We import heavy-duty JavaScript ecosystems from the US, implicitly…

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

my wife: "I'll be done with work at 4:45, then we can hang out"
me:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/politics/hacking-disinformation-election-security
Secret US cyber operations shielded 2024 election from foreign trolls, but now the Trump admin has gutted protections

Secret US cyber operations shielded 2024 election from foreign trolls, but now the Trump admin has gutted protections
Weeks before the 2024 election, American military hackers carried out a secret operation to disrupt the work of Russian trolls spewing false information at US voters.

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

#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

Autism was engaged. :gnulightened:
(prices for the McDonalds I always go to after work)

So… talk to me about #Zotero … How do you use it? WHY do you use it versus other tools? What do you like most?
I realize I am maybe 15 or 20 years late to the Zotero party, but 3 things have me interested now:
- I’m taking on a project at work that involves a good amount of research
- I have some ideas for papers and maybe a book that would benefit from more structured organizatio…

"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…

Renewed work toward a visual prosthesis (brain implant) in the #LGN instead of visual cortex https://nin.nl/news/first-ever-recording-of-a-crucial-visual-structure-in-the…

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.

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?

Me. That's the actual work in progress. 🚧
#wip #wipWednesday

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

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115980226052408296
Hopefully, some apps that did not work when "secure app spawning" was active.
Ftom the changelog:
"avoid compatibility issues with apps doing misguided anti-tamper…

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?
42LrZz5HykaA7VEpLXeRVYLEbNRtfxqrZXA5zrPucPkARaPDx5pTBCbZya6vKapPkx1my1TcKjpUPLASFchtrtKQRbWqNjj
#xmr #monero

New OC McDaniel 'geeked' to work with Herbert https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47746871/chargers-oc-josh-mcdaniel-geeked-work-justin-herbert

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.…

#Mattermost drama... Self-hosted users discover a built-in message limit added to v11. There are work-arounds, but many are... annoyed and wondering about the future.
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermo

Message limit 10000 team edition · Issue #34271 · mattermost/mattermost
We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...

One Huge Reason Why Chip Kelly's Offense Did Not Work with Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-huge-reason-why-chip-kelly-offense-did-not-work-with

I often see stuff like this.
"I need to present my game at an event next week but it keep being reject by your stupid AI machine. I worked hard to make that 3D logo"
If you are a gamedev, please take notes:
We don't give a fuck about the event you plan to participate to.
We work on a "Last-in First-out" type of list. This wont change No matter how many email you send us or how insulting they are.
You can't review g…

I've been worried AI will crowd out human voices, and now an AI copy has replaced my 2006 Connected Knowledge site, warping context and displacing the original work online. Can we stop this creeping ensloppification?
https://www.linkedin.…

I used the opportunity to also “fix” the #troff output, i.e., it was already working, but I updated the image handling and added EPS versions of the sample images, so formatting the documentation with troff should now work out of the box.

I used the opportunity to also “fix” the #troff output, i.e., it was already working, but I updated the image handling and added EPS versions of the sample images, so formatting the documentation with troff should now work out of the box.

I have released a first v0.1.0 of intel_fw to crates.io today: https://crates.io/crates/intel_fw
There will be additional features and fixes coming at some point, but this concludes the work for now.
Feedback and questions are welcome! :)

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

Show me all these magical teams shipping “‘slop’ that works”, I’ll wait.
I bet you the slop doesn’t work, and the teams are just too sloppy to know or care.
https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/115787010150256693

I now need to find all those online profiles where I have described myself as an "inactive" pilot and remove the word "inactive" from them. After a hiatus of a dozen years, I just passed both the ground and air work portions of a flight review, and once again have a current "license to learn."
#aviation

This morning things are mostly back to normal here. Potato pancakes from leftover home fries, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Seeing a jeweler later about a piece I want, not much else but work today. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/ENfgiJc8YoACKdGD9

#ShamelesslyStolenFromTheOtherSite

So I’m cooling my heels in my Dr. office waiting for my shingles booster (45m past my appointment time & counting!) - this woman who works here just walked by dressed like she’s going straight clubbing after work & I am here for it, looks good. 😂
She’s also one of the few staff masking so 🤘

Anyone here using #Linux on a #Minisforum v3 and can give a short experience report? Other recommendations for tablets with pens that work great with Linux also welcome!

One of those anti-adblocker scripts just froze and crashed my browser, great work everyone

I – somewhat implausibly – got lucky enough to start the exact job I had dreamed of for the last 5 years this year.
I’ve opened my own research group at the #Umeå Plant Science Center, and get to dig into the cell #biology of #wood

Postdoctoral researcher in wood formation | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

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

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

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

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.

Seriously, my freelancing has shown me the inner workings of a •lot• of different companies, I’ve heard a lot of corporatespeak in my day, and…this letter from a bunch of Minnesota CEOs —
❝we are calling for an immediate deescalation of tensions❞
❝state, local and federal officials to work together❞
❝find real solutions❞
— is some of the most hollow, tone-deaf, embarrassing, Bristol Type 7 dribble I’ve ever heard from corporate leadership.
https://www.mnchamber.com/blog/open-letter-more-60-ceos-minnesota-based-companies

I do hope I handled this situation alright.
I will reiterate to this person and everyone else I work with that I’d rather people tell me when they are sick and take time off. We can reassign work or negotiate new deadlines with clients. I don’t want people taking shortcuts and pressure themselves like this.

How does Pro Football Hall of Fame voting work? One of our voters explains https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7005102/2026/01/29/pro-football-hall-of-fame-voting-process-explainer/

Work on Gateway tunnel project linking New York and New Jersey to pause next month without federal dollars (Ry Rivard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/work-on-gateway-to-pause-next-month-without-federal-dollars-00748393
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p75#a260127p75

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?

• 60 out of 100 times it’ll “sync” and freeze with all 4 LEDs on. The Wii U does a little beep but doesn’t show the controller and no inputs work.
• 38 out of 100 times the same thing will happen but with all LEDs off
  • You need to remove the batteries in order to take the wiimotes out of these states
• 2 out of 100 times the wiimotes actually connect, but show with 1 battery bar and almost no inputs go through (and the ones that do are extremely laggy, except for the power button)
  • The manual states that if this happens you can remove the batteries, wait 3 minutes and connect (without syncing) again. That does fixes it sometimes, but it really only worked once for each wiimote.
  • A truly successful connection only happens after the “low battery one”, and even then it seems to be hard to achieve for the first time.
    • Afterwards you’re supposed to be able to reconnect without syncing and then not encounter the issues anymore. That was true for the pink wiimote, but the blue wiimote had to be synced again. I spent quite a few hours trying and wasn’t able to get a successful connection.
    • If you connect the pink wiimote that was working when the other wiimote is in the 4 LEDs freeze state it’ll break the connection of the other one and make you need to sync it again
      • Now none of my aliexpress wiimotes are synced and idk when I’ll be able to sync them again

#DMA achievement unlocked: #AirDrop interoperability.
"In some ways, Apple’s journey to Wi-Fi Aware recalls the iPhone’s journey to USB-C: first, Apple developed a proprietary port that achieved some of the same goals as USB-C; Apple then contributed work to what would become the standardiz…

Wonderful news: both The vOICe for Android and The vOICe web app (PWA) work fine on the new Samsung Galaxy XR (Android XR) headset! Many thanks to Michael Gschwandtner (@…) for preliminary test results shared via Twitter/X (@xrworkoutlabs). #noninvasive

Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

"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

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

Patriots' Robert Kraft: Bill Belichick's 'record and body of work speak for themselves' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7005003/2026/01/28/robert-kraft-bill-belichick-hall-of-fame-patriots/

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.
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Re this from @…:
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115632304917619952

One of my contractors used an #LLM for a first draft of a client deliverable today.
I don’t allow #AI use for any client-facing work (and try to prohibit it for internal work too, but it’s been… tricky). This person knows it - I’ve worked with them for years, and they are usually very thoughtful and wouldn’t take a shortcut like this. So seeing the obvious AI copy was very confusing.
Thankfully we had a call scheduled this morning, so I decided to handle it there.
The contractor showed up very obviously sick, they told me they took most of past week off but had to force themselves to finish this draft because the deadline is EOD. I asked if they used #AI to draft the document, they immediately confessed and apologized.
Since the deliverable is client-facing, I asked them to explain their ideas to me in conversational language and then used my notes of what they said to help them rewrite the document. We worked through the whole thing in an hour, and I’ve asked them to go rest and recover.

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
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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,

Had my #acting #coaching client do a really brilliant take, vital, grounded, authentic, good flow and riveting. Then: the challenge is to do the next take… the champagne problem of following up great work.
Using that anxiety for the next take can be a solid option, revealed a whole new versio…

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…

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 

It’s Ilhan. Last night, I was attacked at a town hall meeting.
A man rushed up to me and sprayed me with an unknown substance from a syringe. Thankfully, my security team acted quickly to take him down.
I’m okay. I’m not going to be intimidated from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win.
But this shows something important. Just a few days ago, I texted you to explain that Trump’s constant racist, hateful attacks and the far-right threats that they bring require me to hire …

Ilhan Omar for Congress
Send her back

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.