RE: https://toot.cat/@woozle/117493198756239940
Apparently another one has been spotted, though I don't know the exact username.
Anyway, it's still not me.
(Hmm, who have I made an enemy of lately? ...other than authoritarians worldwide, but that's as it should be...)
@Natasha_Jay I want to know what's going on there with communication between the team doing the hiring and the team writing the filters.
...and, like, if many applications are coming in but 100% are being rejected, shouldn't someone have been investigating that immediately... :spiral_eyes:
@splendorr [insert encouraging thing that cuts through your self-doubt and helps you feel better about yourself and stuff] ^.^
@scanlime That would involve the federal government cleaning up the environment, and why would they spend money doing that when they could... [spins the needle]... invest in Trumpcoin instead?
@hellomiakoda This is why Schoolhouse Rock, and there should be more of it at every level of education.
Threads-but-"a" makes me think ActivityPub. I'm probably not being sufficiently imaginative.
- Care work ought to pay what tech work pays.
- Care work ought to pay its workers that, not its managers that.
- Care work shouldn't see managers driving around in brand new luxury cars while the staff scrape by month to month.
And if you think that's crazy; consider this:
- Care work is the *only* work that can't be outsourced to AI and automation.
- Care work is *fucking hard*.
- Every one of us will need it eventually.
And, frankly, care work matters far more than tech work.
/dev/ngl, the source-of-truth device/dev/fomo, the device which obsessively checks up on all the other devices to make sure it knows what's going on/dev/fafo is the device to use when you want to try something despite knowing it's a bad idea
@foolishowl @brooke @gildilinie
"If there weren't any advertisements, how would we know what to buy?" -- an extended family member actually said this.
@darkling @dianea @joelpomales
It probably depends on where you draw the lines. I have known decent landlords, but at the same time the whole concept shouldn't even exist.
@LPerry2 @lawyersgunsnmoney @ai6yr
I feel like a Tom Lehrer quote is appropriate here --
đ¶
I tied them to my fender,
and I got them home somehow:
two game-wardens,
seven hunters,
and a cow.
The law was very firm, it
took away my permit --
the worst punishment
I ever endured!
It turned out there was a reason:
cows were out of season,
and one of the hunters
wasn't insured.
đ¶
@rnd I may be thinking of a different meaning of "moderate" than the one you have in mind, then. I'm not really aware of any logically consistent political positions that could be called "centrist" in today's climate -- while in more normal times, that word would probably apply to me.
@rnd I suspect that does happen a lot, although there's also a certain amount of truth to the idea that someone who tries to take a "moderate" stance on certain issues is not really trustable. (See: "let's put only half the kittens in a blender, and then everyone will be happy!")
Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (nĂ©e Brown 1930-2026)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in â52 then MSc at VSU in â55. đ§”1/
Also: #spacetober_challenge Earth
