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Your Donations at Work: Funding Josh Matthews' Contributions to Servo - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/17/your-donations-at-work-funding…

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Meta is discontinuing Horizon Workrooms and Meta Horizon managed services, amidst its many VR layoffs.

The implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.

"Can Academic Libraries Lead the Quantum Revolution?" https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/can-libraries-lead-the-quantum-revolution
– Herjeh, um was sollen wir uns denn noch alles kümmern…

I did a lot of stretching and used the massage gun this morning to deal with the sciatica and felt pretty much fine when it was time to leave for work, so I biked in.
A bit cold, but no wind, so that's good. I keep a log of temperature and wind and what I wore for my rides to work so I can check back if I was too cold/too warm, etc.
I'll see my PT tomorrow for the sciatica so no biking into work.

Qué tiempos cuando todo el mundo decía que el Metaverso era lo mejor del mundo y había venido para quedarse ¿eh? https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-metaverse-for-work-too

This piece nails it.
#BigTech #SiliconValley https://dice.camp/@brunobord/115558496764119435…

Great call to action by Dariusz Jemielniak in Nature: academics should contribute to Wikipedia, and such work should be recognized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us | Nature
Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet. Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet.

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What is Anarcho-Syndicalism and how we work: An Open letter to Media and all workers all over the world
https://iwa-ait.org/content/what-anarcho-syndicalism-and-how-we-work-open-letter-media-and-all-workers-all-over-world<…

‘No work’: India’s Alang, the world’s largest graveyard of ships, is dying | Shipping News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/15/no-work-indias-alang-the-worlds-largest-graveyard-of-ships-is-dying

‘No work’: India’s Alang, the world’s largest graveyard of ships, is dying
The Gujarati town accounts for nearly 98 percent of India’s total and about a third of the global ship recycling volume.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Karizma:
🎵 Work It Out
#Karizma
https://titandavis2.bandcamp.com/track/titan-davis-vs-karizma-work-it-out-the-unholy-mix

9:00 - just check my socials before I get to work
9:45 - I should really get to work soon
11:17 - ok that's enough scrolling get to-... well, I have to leave at 11:30, no point in starting something _now_ <reopens Mastodon>

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

An interview with Lynsey Addario, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, on conflict reporting, sexism in the field, and balancing motherhood and work (Megan Cattel/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/lynsey-addario-chai-vasarhel…

Lynsey Addario in ‘Love+War’: A War Photographer’s Life on the Front Lines and at Home - Nieman Reports
A new documentary captures Lynsey Addario’s work as a photojournalist balancing conflict reporting and motherhood.

Can Giants interim coach Mike Kafka make it work in New York? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46953005/can-giants-interim-head-coach-mike-kafka-make-work-new-york

A day of lots of painting, most of which is more or less invisible on a photograph coz it's the clear-coat varnish over the top of the wood stain. Does it look more shiny? To the eye it does, but even that may fade as it dries. The clear coat is important to protect the wood though.
For the first time all the exposed wood is blue though. Hurray.
One more days work tomorrow, then we're off for six days while I have to work and play away.

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

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

That’s the key problem. People have very vague ideas that can easily and accurately be expressed in natural language and LLMs operate in the vagueness. A programmer will demand specificity before starting to code anything, which is a real nuisance to people with vague ideas about wanting some sort of app. https://in…

Hrmm, so created a HashMap (`HashMap::<&str, fn(u8) -> u8>`) in Rust without too much issue which was kinda nice. Then decided to try and make this work inside of an `impl` which...err...Rust has some rather strong opinions about, most of which is telling me to stop what I'm doing because this isn't gonna work.
Kinda fun to try though...lol
#rust

María Corina Machado presents Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal;
Trump heaped praise on the Venezuelan opposition leader for presenting him with ‘her Nobel peace prize for the work I have done’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan<…

María Corina Machado presents Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal
Trump heaped praise on the Venezuelan opposition leader for presenting him with ‘her Nobel peace prize for the work I have done’

weird how since the epstein files leaked, the accusation of trans people being pedophiles is no longer so central to fascists. almost as if they're laying the ground work to justify pedophilia now

More and more people calling for a US General Strike (no work, no school, no shopping) on Friday, January 23rd.
Might want to put it in your calendar.

Bartleby the Scrivener be like
"I prefer not to work it, work it
I prefer not to work it, work it"

Currently wondering what it feels like to work so hard on an open-licensed typeface only to have it co-opted by very terrible and very famous people as part of their core brand identity.

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."
—Willem Dafoe
#acting #coaching

Massive thanks to my colleague @… who did most of the work ..
#ClimateChange #SeaLevel #ClimateAdaptation

deeply amused with the premise of this video
what do you mean "if". _obviously_ the dark web sellers have customer service. how else would it work??

"Twenty’s contracts are a rare case of an AI offensive cyber company with VC backing landing Cyber Command work; typically cyber contracts have gone to either small bespoke companies or to the old guard of defense contracting like Booz Allen Hamilton or L3Harris."
The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On AI Hackers

The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On AI Hackers
The U.S. government has been contracting stealth startup Twenty, which is working on AI agents and automated hacking of foreign targets at massive scale.

New full leadframe skeletonization test. Will it work?

My work Outlook keeps crashing today, and I figure it's probably because it's such quality software

I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.

Raiders get to work building an offensive juggernaut in 3-round mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/14/raiders-get-to-work-building-an-offensive-juggernaut-in-3-round-mock-draft/

Every republican needs to be asked how this keeps our communities safe.
Explain it to us. Show their work.
And then they need to be called on their bullshit.
https://bsky.app/profile/ruthz.bsky.social/post/3mcgpwx5c7k2g

Ruth Zakarin (@ruthz.bsky.social)
Every republican needs to be asked how this keeps our communities safe. Explain it to us. Show their work. And then they need to be called on their bullshit. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist.
Fighting with PMs over who "gets" to do strategy (usually: neither of you) won't help you. Lean into the core #design

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"
Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.

All people suggesting that Art.5 NATO offers stronger protection then Art. 42.7 TEU should check how the procedures work around Art.5, the NATO has to decide that it is applicable , there is no automatism or something like that, well described in this scenario.
https://www.amazon.nl/If-Russia-Wins-Alas…

Somewhere between pacifism that is just passivism and starting a pyrrhic hot war that only entrenches authoritarianism, there’s some kind of jiu jitsu here that is active and forceful resistance, but uses the regime’s own force against them.
I do not pretend to know what exactly that is. I do believe that a diversity of tactics is important — and that we’re all going to have to accept the work of holding ourselves together as a resistance even as people choose very different tactics we’re not comfortable with ourselves.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Steely Dan:
🎵 Dirty Work
#SteelyDan
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/steely-dan-dirty-work-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IvTwPCCjfZczCN2k4qPiH

Last week, I had the honour of presenting my work on smart charging and V2G to the IEA's Transport Project Partnership.
https://www.iea.org/news/the-iea-convenes-transport-project-partnership-to-examine-the-topics…

The IEA convenes Transport Project Partnership to examine the topics shaping the transport sector - News - IEA
The IEA convenes Transport Project Partnership to examine the topics shaping the transport sector - News from the International Energy Agency

Today at work, hamalert went off on my phone. @… was activating the state capital, two blocks away from me, on 20m. For once, not in my skip! I grabbed my QMX, ran up three flights of stairs out onto the patio, pulled all the parts together, and...
silence.
I looked off the balcony at the state capital groun…

Reminder: under GPL/AGPL, “Corresponding Source” includes everything needed to build and modify the work. That means AI prompts, generated scripts, and config files as well. Don’t leave them out.
"The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities."

#WritersCoffeeClub
10. What have you recently learned which will have a big impact on your work?
11. How accessible is your work?
12. How can writers ensure the focus is on the work and not the writer? Or should they?
---
10. That's a hard question.
I fear I've reached a plateau where nothing freshly learned can do that.
11. It consists of words.

I know, I know, I should not send work-related messages after office hours. But sometimes I forget to schedule the delivery for “tomorrow at nine.”
But then, colleagues (yes, plural!) accepting meetings at 23:14, what’s wrong with YOU?
#AcademicChatter

Hello, I'm calling to get a quote on new breaks and a small React app?
#webdev

My husband and I have been sick with the flu and completely out of anything going on with society for the past week.
This time of illness has been worse than COVID - I showed up to urgent care last week with a 104.2 F (40.1 C) fever after sleeping for 22 hours straight.
I am still delirious and unable to keep track of meetings or emails, so trying to get caught up on work will be a struggle.
Don’t be like me, get your flu shots if y’all can 😭

This getting up, getting dressed, commuting to work life is hard after being work from home for so long.

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usda-foreign-scientists
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p128#a260116p128

The 2025 Web Almanac mistook me.
I did *not* say LLMs provide better image descriptions. I cited SeeingAI and Be My Eyes as tools for undescribed IRL uses.
I said LLM-generated captions could be better than craptions. I mentioned abstracts / reading-level changes, which could be summaries?
But “better” image descriptions is right out.

My work MacBook is forcing me to upgrade to MacOS Tahoe. And I'm running out of clicks on "Postpone" button. Ugh.

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

IETF@40
Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Dear University Administrators,
"Part of my job is to protect the university" is:
1. A terrible excuse when you are actually impeding the core work of the university.
2. Will accomplish nothing with the faculty trying to do that core work other than convince us that you don't remember why the institution is here in the first place.

A couple days ago I was doing a work call in my car (I’m in I.T.) and after I hung up my daughter, who was in the car with me said:
“I could NEVER do your job…I don’t mean the technical part.”
😂

This week, GÉANT held its first multistakeholder policy event in Brussels—opening a new chapter in how the GÉANT community and European policy makers can work together to shape the #DigitalTransformation of #Europe.
This event laid the groundwork for an ongoing dialogue between GÉANT, …

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311777942
> imagine if [LLMs] were a grassroots movement that workers were sharing with each other to work less
> [finbros would lose their shit]
boy howdy is this a compelling argument.
Worth the rea…

from my link log —
How London finally cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-london-finally-cracked-mobile-phone-coverage-on-the-underground-86784/
saved…

How London finally cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground
Dotted around London, there are a number of private hotels that aren’t the sort of hotel you might expect – they’re needed to make mobile phones work on the London Underground.

Every 24 hours become a new person

Next up at #12Clouds: Peco @ Autoptic explaining how context windows work.

Just learning that Untamed Youth put out a new album. It's been 27 years since their last one. Not that the band members haven't been super busy with other projects. Still, good to see this.
When I worked at a record store in college we had a guy named Derek come work with us for a few months. It wasn't til a few years later I learned he was Deke Dickerson.
#music

An interview with security expert Runa Sandvik on the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home and seizure of devices, and how journalists should reassess security (Maddy Crowell/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/ha…

The home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter, was searched by the FBI. Her devices were seized. Runa Sandvik, whose life’s work is protecting journalists’ digital security, assesses the damage—and what news organizations need to know.
The home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter, was searched by the FBI. Her devices were seized. Runa Sandvik, whose life’s work is protecting journalists’ digital security, assesses the damage—and what news organizations need to know.

Revamped my domain name site #indieweb using

Ricardo Mendes - DevOps / Wanna be Solution Architect
Ricardo Mendes is a DevOps engineer sharing experiences in infrastructure, automation, and solution architecture.

me: "Yeah, this 'no screens' punishment thing isn't working."
A: "And [the 8yo] is using screens responsibly! Right now she's using an app to learn Korean."
8yo: "See? You should let me have screens."
me: "We need to come up with a better punishment! Maybe we should pull out her fingernails?"
8yo: "Hey!"
A: "But that will only work for 10 days"
me: "Oh yeah, good point"

Last two days at work until Jan 5th start tomorrow 💪

A bunch of last-minute issues at work tracing a path back to “We didn’t know that they understood differently.”
Our company culture is “async by default,” which is making it even harder to evaluate “how are they understanding this?”

Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications.  Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…

Decoupling …… again
If you’ve been reading our material for long you’ll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: …

Been redoing my Raspberry PI based heating management around pi5 machines after a few 3s died this month.
Previously designed some 3D Printed cases but I was new to the hobby - and new to 3D design - so they didn't work out great, here's the new attempt, happy with 2 years of experience gains.

When people can’t tell what’s real, it can blur their understanding of animal behavior, welfare, and conservation needs. It can also divert attention – and support – away from organizations doing the real work to protect wildlife.
https://scz.org/blog/the-reality-of-ai-animal-content

American “leftists” (who work at Apple, etc.) stop imposing your fucking world-view on everyone else – including folks from the Middle East – challenge 2025.

@… The web interface currently doesn’t load for me in Safari on macOS 26.2. The API seems to work as I can use the Ivory app on my phone just fine.

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

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

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…

Bike Stats for mid-October... It's starting to get a little dark out when I bike home from work... may need to up my lighting game a bit.
#bikeTooter

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.
You are not obligated to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.”
https://amandalitman.substack.com/p/50-things-you-can-actually-do

50 things you can actually do
If you're feeling helpless

Getting ready for another work week

PCIe any% speedrun, day 6: Almost at minimum-viable-baseline-happy-path status!
It's still 2.5 GT/s only, I haven't implemented up-negotiation to 5 GT/s speed yet (or tested that on the SoC side for that matter).
Configuration reads and writes work; they're translated to APB bus transactions and bridged to an APB register block that reports a bunch of hard coded default values and lets you change a few things like BARs.

Just because the educational work of Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents of all centralising tendencies which are so characteristic of most of the present labour parties.
Centralism, that artificial scheme which operates from the top towards the bottom and turns over the affairs of administration to a small minority, is always attended by barren official routine; it crushes individual conviction, kills …

Wow, loving our greenhouse - already have the first tomatoes turning red! Only a couple weeks into summer (not even proper summer, 22 Dec in Aotearoa, yet) Crazy! This is months before we've ever had ripening fruit pre-greenhouse.

🇵🇸 @small-tech/cross-platform-hostname module deprecated
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/cross-platform-hostname
The release of version 1.1.0 deprecates and removes support for this small module that normalised hostname reporting between Linux/mac…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Porter:
🎵 Host of a Ghost
#Porter
https://proximomx.bandcamp.com/track/porter-host-of-a-ghost-globemaster-drums-re-work
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HTFDQQb7auJ2dZwXtPK5e

Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/googles-…

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

I dumped Google for my email & calendar a few months ago, but forgot to write a post about it!
If you are still using Google, consider leaving them. If Fastmail doesn't work for you there are other good alternatives.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/11/1

Hello Fastmail, Goodbye Google Workspace!
Continuing the goodbye to Google...

Doing processes at work that no 'AI' could do, despite knowing that the company I work for just signed a contract with a 'company' that does it's data processing using all 'AI' for our department, without talking to us, and thinking what a fucking trash fire this is going to become

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the…

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

Microsoft to bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete certain tasks on local files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/microsoft-test-copilot-manus-windows-11.html

Microsoft will test a Copilot AI feature that performs work on local files in Windows 11
Early adopters will be able to tell Microsoft's Copilot assistant to take action on files stored on their Windows 11 PCs.

"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

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating (Financial Times)

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-…

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

The Pentagon says Stars and Stripes will move "away from woke distractions" and cease publishing AP "reprints"; its EIC says he'll work to save its independence (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Pentagon to overhaul independent military newspaper, calling it ‘woke’
Plans for more Defense Department control of Stars and Stripes surface after job seekers were asked about their commitment to President Donald Trump’s policies.

"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

In a message to members, the WGA says Disney's licensing deal with OpenAI "appears to sanction" OpenAI's "theft of our work", and it plans to meet with Disney (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/…

Disney’s OpenAI Deal 'Appears to Sanction' AI Company's 'Theft of Our Work,' WGA Says
The Writers Guild of America said that Disney's huge licensing deal with OpenAI appears to "sanction" the AI company's "theft of our work."

Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents/

OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.

Craig Newmark shifts away from journalism as a primary focus of his philanthropy, saying "a lot of my efforts haven't been as effective as I'd like them to be" (Ben Gose/Chronicle of Philanthropy)
https://www.philanthropy.com/news/craigsli

Craigslist Founder Signs Giving Pledge and Narrows Focus
Craig Newmark's philanthropic strategy is shaped as much by what didn’t work as by what did — leading to an approach that favors scale, networks, and trusted intermediaries over scattershot giving.

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-…

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

The UK government drops plans for mandatory digital IDs to work in the country, marking a reversal from when the UK first announced the policy in September 2025 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o

Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK
There will still be digital checks on those starting a new job, but people will not need to hold a digital ID.