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  • Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure | TechCrunch

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  • OpenAI's events of last year has me just slightly less than impressed at the ability of a non-profit board/org to be able to contain/control the wild efforts of capital when it matters.

  • Salesforce Will Hire No More Software Engineers in 2025, Says Marc Benioff

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  • Agree, and "defer" can mean organizationally as in needing someone else's input, knowledge, support, buy-in...vs. running an autocratic hierarchy, which the weak and stupid prefer. Defer also means acknowledging the value and contributions of others and compensating them accordingly.

    If I had to boil a lot of the churn in the water about AI, it's by stupid people trying to sell even stupider, desperate people the idea the immense knowledge of the earth (or even that of their accounting or customer service practices) will be within their grasp and they won't need others anymore. Of course, some say great cut headcount, because they didn't understand the work others do in the first place.

    While most won't fully take an approach as extreme, and any AI use will likely be more organic, there will be outliers who receive the bulk of the press.

    Saying you don't need X position in early 2025 based on the state of AI is like declaring in 1996 libraries are dead.

  • Why are we expected to keep up with the news on a daily basis?

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  • I didn't advocate for a slow response, history shows people just like to boil like frogs as were very adaptable, for good and bad. Id love it if swift, collective action were our norm.

  • What carrier do you use and why?

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  • It's not cheap, unless you count the international service that is included and use it. Compared to the price a US prepaid plan like mint or visible, it's perfectly cromulent.

  • What carrier do you use and why?

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  • Prices of phones and aircraft carriers are about the same in 2025

  • Why are we expected to keep up with the news on a daily basis?

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  • it's how they won't the battle for the internet

    It's how they won all status quo benefits to them. They also know status quo changes and why they put so much energy, effort, influence and time into continuing to try to make things worse so the likelihood of large-scale change decreases.

    However, at a certain point, history shows people will revolt. The question is when, and how much of the horrific foundation that has been laid with people used to it can be ripped up before our short attention slams turn back to other interests?

  • Should I upgrade my headphones?

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  • He came to a sticky end.

  • What's something common that in 20 years from now people won't believe we used to live this way?

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  • Well, we've tallied the votes and...sigh

  • What is the pasta shape you dislike the most?

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  • The judges would have accepted Dietalini, Bowtie-eater, Gnot Poor, Pastafarian or Many Penne.

  • TIL that in August, the Northern Texas District Court blocked the US FTC's ban on non-compete clauses set to be effective September

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  • Yep, just like when Obama passed minimum salary increase, was stayed 4 weeks before go-live the week of Thanksgiving. Eventually rolled back under Trump 1 and watered down.

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • They're trying to ban tiktok. I've never used it but it's just because it's Chinese, social media from any other company based in any other country is just as fucked and unhealthy and unregulated in the US, but they are going to ban it specifically for its country of origin. China pills a lot of weight and the company tiktok is powerful and fighting it in court and all but it seems pretty obvious it'll go through even under current admin watch--let alone when a direct competitor and owner of Xitter owns the White House.

    While yes, you're logistically correct it would be very difficult to shut down the whole Internet, that's not the goal, the goal is to massively control it and enshittify it beyond your worst dreams.

    Look to China and Russia for "internet"TM

  • What trait is a weakness in one profession, but directly translates to a strength in a different profession?

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  • Saying no in sales is anathema to success. Saying no in HR is everything and the world will burn if you cannot.

  • What is the funniest instance of reality slapping the spoiled rich person in the face that you have seen?

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  • Trading Places

  • If you live in the Pacific time zone what are the advantages and disadvatages over living in the Eastern time zone?

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  • No, we agreed on PT. They just didn't know what the time difference was and couldn't be bothered to look it up. I finally just started scheduling in ET and then realized I didn't want to work with people who couldn't count to 4 and decided not to relocate.

  • If you live in the Pacific time zone what are the advantages and disadvatages over living in the Eastern time zone?

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  • Americans are bad at geography but shit are people from the east Coast some of the worst. They have "center of the universe syndrome" and have no idea about the rest of the country. I was looking to relocate to the East Coast about 10 years ago and had 3 interviews with different companies in NY, DC and PHL where the company failed to call me at the correct time, sometimes multiple instances, as they couldn't understand the time difference.

    Doesn't everyone fucking learn about the 4 continental time zones in school? Why is it confusing?

  • Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores

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  • And the asshats sold them up to the deadline day, instead of saying stopping sales 5 years ago. Penalizingly anal company.

  • The stars aligned and you are now one of the most sought after people currently living. What is it about you that the world is in desperate need of?

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  • Integrity. Capitalism without regulation is a painful slippery slope where more and more is lost and given up to feed the beast and always requires much complicity at each step from average people who have little choice but to say yes in the short term when collectively we're all hurt in the long term. Pollute the water? Outsource the labor? Cut back the benefit? Shrink the product? It starts with capitalist, then politicians are bought...then every company and executive, then middle management...they all give in. You have kids now thinking this is how the world has always or should work.

    Integrity is a stalwart against many ills, and it's desperately needed to return.

  • What is the point of sharing something on social media?

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  • Ego (in the broad, classic sense of our need to have self identity) and--increasingly--loneliness due to the husk of societal interactions many developed nations have let wither due to overwork, TV and privatization of public spaces.

  • What do you want for Christmas but you probably won't get?

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  • /monkeyspaw - "a complete set of Fallen Empires. Enjoy!"