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New Virus
There is a new virus going around called WORK. If you receive any sort
of WORK, whether via e-mail, Internet, or simply handed to you by a
colleague, do not open it. Those who have opened WORK have found that
their social life is deleted and their brain ceases to function
properly.
If you do encounter WORK via e-mail or are faced with any WORK at all,
purge the virus by sending an e-mail to your boss with the words 'This
is too much for…

Fins GM: Work to do before we ID 'our guy' at QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47694969/dolphins-gm-sullivan-work-do-id-our-guy-qb

Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions (Mike Sorrentino/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsungs-galax…

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Phones Will Work With Apple's AirDrop, Much Like the Pixel 10
AirDrop support will start with the Galaxy S26 this week and is planned for more Galaxy devices later.

"The same industry that once called you family is now using the fruits of your labor to commit war crimes. [...]
The industry has decided what it wants to be."
(Original title: How to do the work)
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-do-the-work/…

How to do the work
I’m paintings ducks. This week’s question comes to us from Tony: How do you keep doing a thing you love, that you’ve done for decades, when you hate what the...

A federal judge slows Voice of America return-to-work order and eliminates the March 23 deadline, now ordering 70 people due back each week (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-slows-voice-of-america-return-to-work

Federal judge slows Voice of America return-to-work order
Judge Royce Lamberth issued the order Friday night, eliminating the Monday morning deadline he had set for the Trump admin to bring all affected employees back to work.

Keystone Kash Busted Celebrating in Olympic Locker Room on 'Work Trip' (Daysia Tolentino/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kash-busted-celebrating-in-olympic-locker-room-on-work-trip/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260222/p47#a260222p47

The fact that Anthony has been looking for work for an extended period is an indictment of the whole IT employment scam. @… https://tilde.zone/@sirwumpus/1159397382639…

Work resumes on the Hudson River rail tunnel project, but NJ Transit delays continue
A thousand workers are expected to be back on the job after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze billions of dollars to fund construction.
https://share.google/xcagr3k9euo6b6RIS

Sometimes I feel that I could have my introduction much better. So I'll leave another piece here, and maybe one day I'll be able to find it again and use somewhere…
I'm a radical. I believe that every human has a right to dignity in life. Yes, even these people who allegedly "are too lazy to work".
I believe that everyone deserves safety, that nobody should be cold or starve, that everybody should be able to use a toilet or wash themselves, have access to healthcare and public transportation.
I think that restricting access to drinking water and toilets is a crime against humanity. The latter is also plain stupid, because it only leads to people using other places as toilets.
I'm so tired of the postsoviet labor cult (a kind of Polish thing). Seeing labor as a value in itself. Everyone must work, and it doesn't matter whether the work is actually beneficial, or outright harmful.
And last of all, I can't tolerate smokers. There is no excuse to harm yourself and everyone around you, just to satisfy your stupid addiction. And I'm also talking of all the random people who breathe all the toxins because smokers think they deserve to smoke everywhere, all the time.

A proposed constellation of satellites has astronomers very worried.
Unlike satellites that reflect sunlight and produce light pollution as an unfortunate byproduct,
the ones by US startup
"Reflect Orbital" would produce light pollution by design.
The company promises to produce “sunlight on demand” with mirrors that beam sunlight down to Earth so solar farms can operate after sunset.
It plans to start with an 18-metre test satellite named Earendil-1 wh…

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Odonis Odonis:
🎵 Work It Out
#OdonisOdonis
https://odonisodonis.bandcamp.com/track/work-it-out
https://open.spotify.com/track/0BSLWkIT2Gp7oHB7s9KLFJ

I Cut My #Docker Image by 99.7% (846MB to 2.5MB). Here Is the Full Breakdown
https://www.hexplain.space/blog/42ZscpWSpYhH1vIhfMIY

Quite a good primer on heat pumps.
Evan Davis: Heat pumps work for me - but they're not yet a money saver - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce358gkx9vpo

Evan Davis: Heat pumps work for me - but they're not yet a money saver
The government wants Britons to embrace heat pumps. But will they ever make financial sense for the average user?

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

"We have a funding system for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that is entirely based on the spending priorities of the UK government in England. The Welsh government has less borrowing powers than a local council, and it often publishes its final budget nine months into the financial year, because the Treasury has decided to change funding in England. This doesn’t work. And it can’t work"

After a weekend with a hike, three plays and a soccer watch party it’s back to work. Marie started us with waffles, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. After work, Arkham Horror card game tonight! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/TfwrLAYZkN7W1fZ68

On Website Technicals (2020-11) - Tech updates: work storage, Let's Encrypt auto-renew, lazy wins, slow https switch, AMP https only, soft canonical, Apple touch, Apache stop, ad sub. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-42.html

On Website Technicals (2020-11)
Tech updates: work storage, Lets Encrypt auto-renew, lazy wins, slow https switch, AMP https only, soft canonical, Apple touch, Apache stop, ad sub.

I’ve lost a lot of respect for Andrewism after his recent upload. It feels disconnected from the reality of working-class life and from anarcho-syndicalism as it actually exists.
This response is a worthwhile read. It doesn’t romanticize work or the working class, but it doesn’t drift into abstract alternatives either. It sits with the fact that we don’t want to be working class, but we are, and that contradiction isn’t something you escape with theory.
I strongly relate to what’…

Congratulations to YDS student Tyler Fair! Part of our social-work dual-degree program, he has been selected as a Behavioral Health Scholar at UConn, where he will enter a year-long program and receive specialized coursework, intensive practicum placements, and faculty mentorship (not to mention a stipend).
Divinity and social work are a potent pairing. Find out more about this and our other dual- and joint-degree programs here:

Yes, AI could boost productivity, but work is about more than maximising output https://theconversation.com/yes-ai-could-boost-productivity-but-work-is-about-more-than-maximising-output-278121

Yes, AI could boost productivity, but work is about more than maximising output
Work needs to deliver security, fairness and social value as well as efficiency.

The Westborough Crusaders: The Trilogy That Took Forty-Four Years to Earn Its Novels
Some work waits for you. Not patiently. Not the way a dog waits by the door, loyal and uncomplicated. It waits the way a diagnosis waits in a family's bloodline, silently present, expressing itself in symptoms you do not recognize until you are old enough to understand what your body has been trying to tell you. In 1982, I was sixteen years old…

The Westborough Crusaders: The Trilogy That Took Forty-Four Years to Earn Its Novels | David Boles, Blogs
Some work waits for you. Not patiently. Not the way a dog waits by the door, loyal and uncomplicated. It waits the way a diagnosis waits in a family’s bloodline, silently present, expressing …

OK, the last two weeks at #work before the #holydays were harder than I thought.
I'm just a bit exhausted right now.
Looking forward to the beautiful #family evening.

OK, so apparently I shouldn’t have said “beyond the obvious,” and the obvious needs stating:
(1) Copyright licenses very clearly •do• allow the copyright holder to determine who may use a work and for what purposes, at least when such use would be otherwise prohibited without a license. That is how the law works. Rightly or wrongly, empires are built on this: “Streaming service XYZ may offer this song for streaming but not for download until this date.” Copyleft is one example of this principle in action.
(1a) Thing the thing presents discriminatory licensing (such as in Daniel’s strawmen) is anti-discrimination law, not copyright law.
(2) The reason copyleft specifically might prevent LLM usage is that •if• LLM output can be considered a derived work of the training material, then the output must also be licensed in the same way. That seems to me a thin reed: courts so far haven’t been willing to treat LLM output as derived work, even when the output includes things that would surely be considered plagiarism and grossly illegal if done by a human. But I don’t see another path to protection, and courts are still sorting this out…so.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/116267990581623218

I've signed up for this. Work worth doing: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/got-ideas-for-growing-the-open-social-web-bring-them/

Got Ideas For Growing The Open Social Web? Bring Them.
Register here for our Growing the Open Social Web Un-Workshop. For over three years now, since Elon Musk decided to spend $44 billion turning Twitter into his personal playground, we’ve been …

DOD says it'll move the press to an annex facility outside its main building, among other changes, after a judge found its current media policy unconstitutional (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.

Pentagon Adopts New Limits for Journalists After Court Loss
The Defense Department said it would close the Pentagon’s work area for journalists, among other changes, after a judge found the existing media policy unconstitutional.

At last ! Everything you ever wanted to know about getting a healthy sleep and using blue light filters:
https://www.neuroai.science/p/blue-light-filters-dont-work
TL;DR : blue light filters don't work 🫠
by @…

Blue light filters don’t work
Why controlling total luminance is a better bet

Okay, so I've been talking about the ways that Big AI directly harms kids. But what can we *do* about it? Here are some things you can do, at work and and your kid's school, to take action today, complete with scripts to follow: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action…

Taking action against AI harms
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

We Work Stiff
The New Japan Pro Wrestling Character and Storytelling podcast...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods

Great post about the Project Hail Mary movie:
"Competent people overcome their differences to work together—that’s really the perfect movie for 2026.
Competency, science, countries working together toward a vital common goal, get to know the stranger so as not to be afraid of it anymore...
It's an antidote."
https://bsky.app/profile/thespaceshipper.com/post/3mhq46qvbcd2q

🥳 New Kitten Release
• Fix: Events on `KittenComponent` hierarchies are now bubbled in reverse (from children down to parents). This provides for predictable event firing in cases where parents might emit events (e.g., a page emitting an event from its `onConnect()` handler). Your existing code should work as before with certain edge cases that might have broken before no longer breaking.
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕

💧 Climate change is a water story.
Too much, too little, or too polluted.
Water justice = climate justice.
#WorldWaterDay #WaterIsLife ht…

World Water Day | UN-Water
World Water Day, he

Friday Jan 23
Ice Out
No Work
No School
No Shopping
https://bsky.app/profile/4loveofwisdom.bsky.social/post/3mczpk6h7722n

Yoshi's Island DS: baby Bowser
Baby Wario's gimmick of having a magnet was bad, especially since it often didn't actually work. Baby Bowser's gimmick of being able to fire fireballs is pretty good, apart from the fact that I keep on melting the platforms I want to stand on. And the fact that he's used in an ice world, which involves slippy platforms and lots of deaths. I lost 25 lives on one level section alone. Not fun in the slightest. I'm on to world five now…

"I support work requirements for able-bodied, childless adults, of working age to receive taxpayer funded benefits."
Ever wonder if your elected official cribbed their email newsletter from a Dickens villain?

“The main goal of hackers is personal data that can be used for blackmail or manipulation. If the device has a microphone and camera, they can technically be activated for surveillance, even if it is programmatically prohibited.”
Hackers have learned to hack smart vacuum cleaners
https://

Hackers have learned to hack smart vacuum cleaners
It is impossible to visually determine a hack - the device continues to work properly

> for a large share of actual product work, the person who can say "here is what done looks like, prove it without seeing my rubric" is more valuable than the person who can write the code.
> Implementation is what AI is getting good at. Knowing whether the result actually solves the real problem is not an engineering judgment call, it is a domain judgment call.
Reposting to call out those two quotes and agree that this matches my experience as a staff developer…

The last 5 days have been a bit wild for the GCVE.eu initiative.
What started as steady work suddenly picked up real momentum:
The public GCVE.eu database instance - https://db.gcve.eu/ - caught the attention of the media, sparking discussions well beyond our usual circles
We publishe…

Vulnerability-Lookup
Vulnerability-Lookup - Fast vulnerability lookup correlation from different sources.

The product delivery lifecycle is composed of service relationships. AI's main value proposition is freedom from relationships.
When designers champion AI tools, we are not making ourselves layoff-proof. We are reinforcing a system that frames us as unnecessary friction.
If we don't want to serve as janitors for vibe prototypes, We must invest in deliberately designing the service relationships that make up the PDLC.

UX works through social relationships. AI tools are erasing them.
Stakeholders want to vibe code and have designers clean up after them afterwards. But rather than helping with velocity, there is just more noise and more work for everyone.

from my link log —
Matt Gray hacked car charging to work with his e-bike. (YouTube)
https://youtu.be/i6IyukCIia8
saved 2026-02-23 https://dotat.at/:/LX0C8.…

I don't send many emails anymore. I receive emails but I don't send many. Even at work, most of our communication is done via other means. But I do generate at least one email a day to send to a group of external testers. I don't send this from a traditional mail client. Instead it is a shell script that gathers some information and opens a text editor to add further comments. After that the file is sent with

It is with a rage filled sadness that I witness the horrors our nation now creates with such staggering speed and intensity that my muscles and bones try to yell themselves circumventing my voice and conjure such images of retribution that startle and stupify, and yet: the coffee must be made, the vacuuming must be done and the work message returned as some sort of bass line among a concert crying havoc and wrath.

✍️ New post: Con­tin­voucly Morged Value
Couldn't get out of my head what happened to @…’s diagram – and so I wrote down a few premature thoughts about what happens when we mistake the (AI) artifact for the work …

Continvoucly Morged Value · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

I work from home (so don't commute), haven't daily driven a guzzolene car in 6 years, and primarily get around by bicycle between April and November. I still feel empathy for people who feel trapped into paying $75 for a tank of gas for their Camry, though. I feel more empathy for people who are trapped by a $300 /mo WE Energies bill. We really need to get out of using fossil fuels in this state.

#guzzolene #oil #StopBurningShit

Bolton on Trump’s Greenland reversal: ‘No grand strategy at work here’
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5702282-bolton-trump-greenland-strategy/

Just patched a long fiber link, which would've absolutely _sucked_ to get CAT.7 cable through.
The steel-armored OS2 cable is cheap and super robust/easy to work with. The LC connectors are even smaller than the hole for CAT.7 would've been.
This is nice \o/
What I want to say is: Don't be afraid of fiber for DIY networking people, it's awesome and often muuuch better than copper cable!
I also didn't have to do any annoying LSA terminations or crim…

Just ran half a mile on the treadmill in 5:01, a personal record (at least as far back as I have stats in my spreadsheet).
Now to try to keep this pace up for a while before bumping up the distance and see how long it takes me to work my way up to a ten minute mile.

Welp, after a day or two of fermentation and a few hours preparing the accompaniments, like the potato filling, the 'gunpowder' to sprinkle over it, and both tomato and coconut chutneys (all made from scratch, even involving cracking a fresh coconut!), I've made my first ever dosas. I'm quite chuffed by the result. It's a lot of work for a one-off...

#AllBillionairesAreEvil #YesEvenThatOneYouBootlick #WealthTaxNow

If you are buying a new computer, there's no need to throw the old one away. I was really surprised last year how many items found another owner.
Nothing to get rich of, but avoid unnecessary e-waste
https://www.locked.de/how-i-gave-my-old-computer-parts-a-s…

Faster than understanding
"Is this really a productivity boost? Probably only for people who do not care about whether or not they produce software that works correctly."
Oof, that captures the core concern with AI "work" painfully well.
https://phpunit.expert/a…

Faster than understanding
An AI coding agent implemented a complex software metric in 15 minutes. I have now spent hours trying to figure out whether the implementation is correct. Is this really a productivity boost?

Thanks to a correction from @…, my post now gives a pass-through for VoiceOver on macOS:
“Brief Note on Application Keyboard Shortcuts”
https://adri…

Brief Note on Application Keyboard Shortcuts
Identifying keyboard shortcuts for an application is mostly an internationalization problem. It’s also not a new problem. A recent (to me) example is the WordPress Gutenberg team starting to discuss keyboard shortcuts in 2017, addressing what will and won’t work across keyboards for different languages. Sight gag for my old…

New blog post:
"Higher orders need higher standards"
https://skewed.de/lab/posts/higher-standards
I discuss our current work disentangling misconceptions around "higher-order" networks.

"Stop mowing the lawn – and five more ways to save Britain’s ‘charming’ and ‘polite’ gatekeeper butterflies"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

KDE Partition Manager just nuked my fucking work drive. I have a backup, but WTF.

Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais…

OpenAI’s First Advertisers Can’t Prove ChatGPT Ads Work
As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering. Among other things, the ChatGPT creator is planning to streamline the process of ad buying, either in partnerships with ad tech ...

It's remarkable how much modern web page programming breaks fundamental things. Scrolling with spacebar or page down doesn't work. Or selecting text. Or doing Ctrl-F to find stuff on a page. All this basic functionality destroyed so some mediocre programmer can use a giant Javascript framework that isn't even necessary.

Political candidates are like pets. Okay, it's very exciting, you brought a new one home, but like, are they even housebroken? You've still got to train them, take care of them... And it's heart-breaking, but sometimes things just don't work out and you need to return them to the shelter.
Oh, you purchased rather than adopted? Well there's your problem.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116278152785186022
Important step for Europe.
I kinda like the practical approach to a complex problem for Europe.
It is a way to make things work in a growing group of countries that always will have certain differences.

Looking at "THE PARCHED EARTH OF COOPERATION: HOW
TO SOLVE THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS IN
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL
GOVERNANCE", thinking:
Too bad we have no world governance really, so regulation does not work out. The second approach, privatization, actually *caused* a lot of tragedy-of-the-commons issues; see wastewater, climate change, labor exploitation, inflation, shortages, wealth distribution and all the corresponding collateral damage (non-exhausti…

Saquon Barkley 'super excited' to work with new Eagles OC Sean Mannion: 'It's refreshing' https://www.nfl.com/news/saquon-barkley-super-excited-to-work-with-new-eagles-oc-sean-mannion-it-s-refreshing

RE: #ComputationalLinguistics specialist (with

What Can I Teach? Will Martin Luther King’s Work Be Censored Next? - The Barbed Wire https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/19/will-martin-luther-kings-work-be-censored-next/

What Can I Teach? Will Martin Luther King’s Work Be Censored Next?
I’ve taught “Letter From Birmingham Jail” more than 100 times and have never questioned whether I’d be violating university policy. Now I am.

I'm listening to this audiobook at work atm as I pick snails invisible to the naked eye out of dust 😵‍💫🫨
@… https://mastodon.social/@ter…

Pentagon Adopts New Limits for Journalists After Court Loss (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/business/media/pentagon-closes-journalists-work-area.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VVA.fT6d.Lea23i_SZBM-&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p137#a260323p137

I've written another essay about my mad #PostScarcitySoftware #Lisp system.
"We don't need to know, or have known, these people to build on their work. We don't have to, and cannot in detail, fully understand their work. There is simply too much of it, its complexity wou…

The Times New Resistance font is a work of art.
https://www.abbyhaddican.com/times-new-resistance

Mastodon question, I'm trying to completely filter/hide posts with specific hashtags and I can't get it to work.
I set them up as filter for "#blah" and I'm enabling to filter the Home timeline but they just stay in my Home timeline—I've tried with and without "whole word" on.
Is there some known issue in v4.5.7 or am I missing something?

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

House Rep. Rosa DeLauro (from CT) says:
❝I understand that many of my Democratic colleagues may be dissatisfied with any bill that funds ICE. …[But]… The Homeland Security funding bill is more than just ICE. If we allow a lapse in funding, TSA agents will be forced to work without pay, FEMA assistance could be delayed, and the US Coast Guard will be adversely affected….❞
And I am saying stop ICE if you have to ••shut down every airport in the country•• to do it.
That is the message I want Congress to hear. That serious. This is Trump starting a civil war.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/democrats-ice-funding-bill

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Missy Elliott:
🎵 Work It
#MissyElliott
https://bigenigma.bandcamp.com/track/missy-elliott-work-it-big-enigma-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3jagJCUbdqhDSPuxP8cAqF

Corey Lewandowski, who helped Kristi Noem get her job:
Top DHS aid overheard at DC airport talking about his work with agency: reporter - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/corey-lewandowski-2675008836/

EU chief says Europe needs to abandon caution after US treasury secretary calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’ – Europe live
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/21/europe-donald-trump-davos-speech-greenland-denmark-latest…

New Giants HC John Harbaugh 'excited' to work with Jaxson Dart: 'I wanted this job' https://www.nfl.com/news/new-giants-hc-john-harbaugh-excited-to-work-with-jaxson-dart-i-wanted-this-job

My employer sent out guidance on working on site, tomorrow. I'm glad that I get to just work from home. #Milwaukee

A look at the rising popularity of "WorkTok" videos, where employees film their daily work routines on TikTok and Instagram, particularly among Gen Z viewers (Kimi Chaddah/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7fe88a68-272b-4e56-94ad-bf68f1b2865e

What really makes me irate about how LLMs are marketed and sold is that if these companies instead spend their time and money to make highly specialized versions for them we could have amazing and actually helpful tools without the ick.
This could both work much better for many use cases (for example for correlating documents and giving a list of results like a search engine instead of tedious palaver) and they wouldn't need to steal data (Professor Bender calls it succinctly "datasets too large to care")[1].
But they're pursuing "AGI" (which is provenly impossible to do with LLMs) and endless growth.
[1] https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116109627131276897

Many of the people I do have online conversations with speak English as their first language. I kinda get by but you native speakers really underestimate how hard it is to express oneself in a foreign language. Concepts work differently, metaphors don't really translate, references you have used for decades don't make sense.

Dr. Gladys West,
the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology,
has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent,
she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College …

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

(This is not some kind of false modesty. Most of what you’re hearing from me here is just me passing along information from community channels. My personal contribution has mostly been helping communication, helping people with tech issues, doing some volunteering, keeping watch, protesting, doing neighborhood support work — that kind of stuff. I don’t want to downplay the importance of any of that. It matters a •lot• that there are so many people doing all of those things! It matters that I’m one of them! Just…you know, I’m one among many, a small player who somehow ended up holding one of the mics on Mastodon, and that’s it. The courage you see is the courage of many.)

Three gates on hinges and stock proof. One wooden gate loaded up to be relocated. This feels like a useful afternoon's work.
#Crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting

Principle No. 1: "We Work for You." ... That means you come first. Not our advertisers. (The Ringer)
https://www.theringer.com/2026/01/21/media/tony-dokoupil-bari-weiss-cbs-evening-news-whiskey-fridays
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p54#a260123p54

A new version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword has been leaked on GitHub; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits "will work out of the box" (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/someone-has…

Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones | TechCrunch
Leaked "DarkSword" exploits published to GitHub allow hackers and cybercriminals to target iPhone users running old versions of iOS with spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers.

A private investigator testifies at the UK High Court that his 2021 admissions about phone tapping of Prince Harry and Elton John were a forged "pack of lies" (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar

‘HE’S. NOT. LEAVING.’: Trump Promised a Ballroom — But a Scathing Report Just Exposed the Real Work Is Happening Where No One’s Supposed to Look and Where Trump Plans to Hide
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/01/20/trump-promised-a-ballroom-but-a-scathing-report-just-exposed-the-real-work-is-happening-where-no-ones-supposed-to-look-and-where-trump-plans-to-hide/

Eric DeCosta: Ravens have 'some work to do' to re-sign pending star free agent Tyler Linderbaum https://www.nfl.com/news/eric-decosta-ravens-have-some-work-to-do-to-re-sign-pending-star-free-agent-tyler-linderbaum…

"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."

On any given day, millions of Europeans use Microsoft software, heat their homes with American natural gas and buy U.S. stocks. Many Americans work with German software, drink French wine and take European-made medicines.
More than $5.4 billion worth of goods and services are traded between the United States and European Union each day,
backed by extensive cross-border investments that support millions of jobs.
Although Trump walked back a threat to impose extra tariffs on …

The Leverage That Europe Has Over the U.S. Economy
After the latest bout of trade turmoil with the United States, European leaders are looking for ways to project strength to the Trump administration, which considers them weak.

ICE protests: Minnesotans urged not to work or shop in economic blackout over surge of immigration agents - live (Lucy Campbell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/23/ice-immigration-protests-trump-minnesota-economic-blackout-latest-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p60#a260123p60

Sources: Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its goal of trimming 30,000 corporate workers, after cutting 14,000 jobs in October (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-

Would you stop work? Just tell them you’re not coming in until this is over? What would that look like? Would you get fired? Would you still get fired if your whole team or half your division refused to work? If your union was ready to strike over it?
Maybe you can’t stop work. Maybe you’re unemployed. Maybe you’re retired. Maybe you still have people to take care of — from your income, or as part of the job you do. •Think• about it. What •could• you stop, work or otherwise? How could you prepare for that, save now, be ready?
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The Boston Globe won't print a paper for February 24 delivery due to the blizzard, the first time executives canceled a print edition in its 153-year history (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/23/business/boston-globe-…

The Boston Globe will not print for Feb. 24 delivery
A massive nor’easter that blasted New England with snow and turbulent winds made it nearly impossible for the paper’s printing staff to get to work in Taunton.

On November 20th, women stop being paid compared to men.
This is the point in the year when,
on average,
women effectively work for free.
The gender pay gap is now 11.3%,
up from 10.7% last year.
It’s a stark reminder that while progress has been made,
gender pay inequality persists
- and may be higher than we thought.

Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: 'No work, no school, no shopping' (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/minnesota-economic-blackout-ice-protests
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p42#a260123p42

Gary Lineker's Goalhanger launches The Accelerator, a three-month creative business incubator giving digital creators up to £10K in investment and mentorship (Lily Ford/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Launches Content Creator Fund Initiative ‘The Accelerator’ (Exclusive)
The podcast production giant is set to give select digital creators £10,000 to scale up their careers and brand: "Work with us, and we’ll bring the experience, infrastructure, and investment," said Lineker.

The final piece of the central tower of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia has been laid in place,
bringing the church to its maximum final height 144 years after work began.
After several days when it has been too windy to work,
the upper section of the 17 metre-high four-sided steel and glass cross was winched into position at 11am on Friday,
completing the tower dedicated to Jesus Christ.
At 172.5 metres, the Sagrada Familia, to which the Catalan architect Antoni G…

It’s DNC Chair Ken Martin with a legal update
You may know that the Democratic Party has a best-in-class team of lawyers fighting tooth and nail to stop Trump from interfering with our elections.
If you’re in a position to support work like this, I’m humbly asking you to donate to our Fight Fund
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From 1977 to 1979,
June Jordan and Toni Morrison were both a part of "The Sisterhood",
a group of Black women writers who met in a New York City apartment to eat and drink together while discussing liberation.
Whether addressing genocide, imperialism or the American literary establishment,
the writers in the group,
which included Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange,
saw their work as a means to make interventions against dominant narratives of colon…

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship
In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.