Whenever the IT department says they can't help with my problem because I'm working from home, I think I'll send them a link to NASA fixing Voyager 1 despite it being outside the solar system.
This is a great trick for me, someone who Points Out Problems as a Service
https://www.simplermachines.com/why-you-need-a-wtf-notebook/
This arrived for my mother's birthday a couple of months ago. My brother painted a wasp on the hand-made paper-wasp paper
I never realized Amazon's automated checkout technology was just an outsourced, creepy, Mechanical Turk:
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
That is quite nice..
#contractor #contractors #fuckoff #slavery #wageslavery #employment #employee #employers #ausgov #politas #classwar #capitalism #fascism #oppression #repression
"Thank you for contacting me about the tightness in your chest and sharp pain in your left arm. Pee is stored in the balls. Have you tried ivermectin?"
https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-wants-replace-nurses-with-ai-1851347917
@trib @helenperris @kcarruthers Another thing I do is start writing shopping lists in Korean. I'm sure that there are a bunch of kids books available to buy and transcribe as well, and these may work for you if you had any childhood favourites you can find. For me that is Alice in Wonderland
@trib @helenperris @kcarruthers I bought an introductory text and workbook on Hangul and then a blank notebook as well where I copied all the exercises from Duolingo into for an initial period.
The other thing I've started doing is transcribing texts. I've bought some Korean language poetry and write that out into notebooks as well, along with my attempt at translation. I find poetry an interesting challenge as the translation is not necessarily literal word for word
A complaint has been raised with Nestlé to investigate and I've mentioned the OAIC - let's see where that gets me
A subsidiary of Nestlé assigns customers an email address on their system of the format
Firstname.Lastname.YYYY.MM.DD@ where that's the birth date
I have no idea what that's used for, but I hope the company has thought through the risks of exposing PII, even more so for older people with health issues
This thing I wrote on BirdChan is doing the rounds again there:
🎶I am the very model of an Internet Monopoly,
I Hoover up your data then I model its topology,
I influence your buying and your vote with my psychology,
And if you ever twig, you’ll get my insincere apology!🎵
🎶Each time you search the web I make a note in my big database,
Your photo uploads help me guess your weight and recognize your face.
I’ve information detailing each ad you’ve seen and clicked upon,
I even know the username you use on Ashley Madison!🎵
🎶I track you as you surf the web, with magic cookie pixie dust,
I override your Do Not Track, to silently betray your trust.
I’ve even got the DNA, your sister sent to Ancestry,
Oh yes I am the very model of an Internet Monopoly!🎵
