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!🎵
***
We pan across an OPEN PLAN office inside the SULACO. There are STANDING DESKS, sleek APPLE LAPTOPS and DOG BEDS. The PIVOTAL team are milling around, busying themselves reading HACKER NEWS and having opinions about which JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORK is better.
APONE, a seasoned SENIOR ENGINEER with NEARLY A WHOLE PERCENT OF EQUITY, gets the team’s attention before their DAILY STANDUP, which GORMAN, the new Product Manager, is going to lead.
heheh I tickle myself https://medium.com/@hondanhon/a-stand-up-deployment-or-just-another-bug-hunt-4ee741ef0474
junior developer: uses pair programming to learn new technologies & best practices
senior developer: uses pair programming to exchange knowledge and get her code reviewed earlier
principal engineer: uses pair programming because after working on that codebase for 5 years she's too traumatized to venture into it alone without getting a severe hit to wellbeing & needs a companion to be productive
@cstross US version: “Five people have been tied to a trolley track. You can save them by diverting the trolley onto another track, killing one. But there is no trolley, because a private equity firm bought the trolley company, loaded it with debt & sold off the assets. All six people will eventually die of exposure, but if you attempt to rescue them you will be arrested for trespassing on land now owned by a real estate shell company registered in the Cayman Islands. What do you do?”
The last 10 years or so of tech:
2013: Blockchain! It's a like a database, but slower and worse!
2016: VR! It's like monitors, but slower and worse!
2021: NFTs! It's like pictures, but slower and worse!
2023: AI! It's like algorithms, but slower and worse!
The West views clothing as a cheap and disposable product meant to be worn briefly and then discarded. It's a big problem made worse by the fact that cheap clothing is predominantly made of plastic. Discarded clothes end up in giant (11k-59k ton) dump sites where they don't break down, but apparently do sometimes catch fire.
Weaving my own cloth changed my whole view of fabric and the clothing industry.
https://gizmodo.com/a-mountain-of-used-clothes-appeared-in-chile-s-desert-1851143267
I got answers from Amazon. It's as bad as expected, and not sure there's anything to do about it. They sell damaged goods as new, and I will get no royalties for those sales. Fuck them forever.
I love clever uses of incentives and tech: Cities are using traffic lights near schools that start red and turn green if an approaching car isn't speeding.
If you're good, you get to keep driving. If you're bad, you have to stop and wait for the light to turn green.
The average speed on the road almost immediately dropped to the speed limit as people learned the rules.
Instead of punishing people with tickets after the fact, it creates the behavior the city wants.
It feels like 40 years of being my own person with hopes and dreams separate from my mother's needs have all disappeared. I know she's sick, and I came up here willingly to help, but I hate being trapped in this house again at the moment