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gemlog

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Older than dirt linux guy in northern bc canada (near the alaskan panhandle). he, him. Not quite lefter than left :-) Co-ops python #bash #rust #kde #solarpunk ... bunch of geeky stuff. Getting rusty 🦀. Also fishing. Former Amiga dealer. Linux 1994. Posts auto-delete weekly or they'd number in the thousands - I'm yappy. b.1960
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Actual Join: Apr 2017
#fensterfreitag #hydroponics #aquaponics #circuitpython he/him

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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

No-one will be surprised that new research into attitudes to the US across populations in the G7 plus Brazil, India, China & South Africa, revealed that the view that the US was a threat had increased most among Canadians.

But for all countries this view was rising (although it predates the start of the Tangerine Tyrant's second term as POTUS).

Again, its yet more background to the continuing pivot of US allies away from the US and towards other 'partners'.


h/t FT

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@ChrisMayLA6 Even back in the 80s, when Canadians and USians didn't even need passports to cross our borders, even when maybe every 3rd or 5th car was even stopped and asked for ID, even when many border crossings didn't even have border guards, even then I felt some trepidation when crossing into the USA.
They had so many levels of armed LEOs with poor reputations and much more violent, gun ridden crime than in Canada.
Today?
You literally could not even Pay me to go to the USA for any reason. Masked, armed thugs roving the streets kidnapping people, no due process, concentration camps, executions at sea and on the street, no-knock - heck, no warrant! searches and seizures... It looks like a living hell down there these days.
And I'm an old, CIS, white guy.
I can't imagine being a young, brown trans or immigrant. Or double down and be a trans or gay brown immigrant in the USA...

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@ChrisMayLA6 It's not looking good down there at all, at all.
Now, I was looking at some numbers yesterday.
Since global tourism is up 6% and USA tourism is actually down 7%, does that mean, roughly, they are down 13%? Or something in between?
I know, I'm back in your first year class again! :-)
But, generally, with Europe moving off the USA credit cards, the digital infrastructure, the government borrowing, the overall fleeing of the USA's volatile markets and policies... it's gotta begin to hurt a lot soon.
Wait until they try to harvest this year with many fewer migrant workers. I thought it would have fallen over by now really, but their inflation is only inching upward.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

Carlos Cuerpo (Spain's Economy, Trade & Business minister) thinks now is the time for the EU to develop a Euro-denominated public debt instrument - partly to allow for EU-wide funding of public goods and partly as a marker of EU-level sovereign fiscal power.

Its been talked about before, but Cuerpo may be right that now, in the face of the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant's reshaping of the global system, the time is right for this move...

Will the EU Commission agree?


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@ChrisMayLA6 Good! This follows on to that new credit card idea then?
Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/

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@h4890
Looks like they're going to go with w/e 'wero' is (I'm in Canada, never heard of it):

The European Payments Initiative, a consortium of 16 major banks and payment processors including BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and Worldline, launched Wero in July 2024 as Europe’s answer. Built on SEPA instant credit transfers, Wero lets users send money using just a phone number — no IBAN, no card, no intermediary.

@ChrisMayLA6

@gemlog@tilde.zone avatar gemlog , to random

@ChrisMayLA6

Oh no...
I know she writes it. I know she directs it, I know she's just playing a part, but I'm so... cringing for her in the first episode of S03E1 of Fisk that I had to turn it off!
I'll get back to it, but... the poor woman! I mean character...
This is why I can never watch horror movies or violent things.
I will get back to this though, after I take an emotional break.
You know, there was an episode in 'The IT Crowd' that you may have seen, when Jen is tricked into giving a talk about the internet being in a box... I turned it off. I just didn't want to 'feel' her (not even really a person)'s humiliation. It wasn't until years afterward that I learned that her audience had sucked it all up and that she was a hit! :-)
Yeah, I'm a wuss. Just a fragile idiot really. [ shakes head ]

@LoganFive@beige.party avatar LoganFive , to random

Remember, if the door doesn’t open, then it’s not your door.

Also, you’re probably drunk, trying all these doors randomly in the night. Please call a friend to help get you home.

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@helenclayton

A cop waits for a bar to close and watches for drunks to drive off...

The first man out the door stumbles, wanders around looking for his car, then drops the keys under his car and starts crawling around looking for them. The cop, knowing if he waits until the guy finds his keys and pulls out he'll have a DUI arrest, sits and watches him for a while. Eventually the man finds his keys and fumbles with the lock a while, and eventually gets into the car and cranks it. By the time he pulls onto the road, his is the last car in the parking lot and the cop hits the blue lights and pulls him over. He administers a breathalyzer test and can't believe the results: 0%.

"I don't understand" says the cop, "you were staggering around, losing your keys, crawling on the ground...explain yourself!"

"Simple", the man says, "I'm the designated decoy."

or:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_IPOxpA2_Y

@LoganFive

@gemlog@tilde.zone avatar gemlog , to random

From 'The Dogwood' newsletter:

Prime Minister Carney was in Terrace yesterday, where he announced the federal government will try to ‘fast-track’ the American-owned Ksi Lisims LNG project, as well as the North Coast Transmission Line, to power the terminal with renewable electricity.

He was good enough to take a question at the podium from Dogwood News.

I asked, “Western LNG is the owner of the Ksi Lisims terminal. And it would be built in Korea with Korean and Chinese steel. So how much taxpayer money are we prepared to invest in a project that is American-owned and foreign-built?”

Carney nodded along, but then struggled to answer the question.

“There is d– uh, look, there are different aspects of the project, as I said. Um, there is ah, the PRGT pipeline, which is necessary, which is Canadian-owned,” the PM began.

To clarify, the Nisga’a Nation has partnered with Texas-based Western LNG on the pipeline, but all the investment so far has come from Wall Street firms, and the company contracted to build it is American.

“There is the associated transmission line,” Carney continued. “There are structures that come with projects that ensure there is returns to taxpayers, um, through the tax system as well. And the structure of the financing is a decision that we take with the full information.”

Carney didn’t confirm any federal money for the gas terminal. But he did announce a $140-million loan to BC Hydro to start work on the transmission line. Clearly, Ottawa is hoping it will be a positive signal for the American billionaires deciding whether to invest in Ksi Lisims.

“These projects are in the interest of Canada…” Mark Carney said, without producing any evidence.

Profits from this project and others like it will go to its owners and shareholders. Once construction of the floating terminal is complete in Korea, Ksi Lisims will add maybe 200 jobs to B.C.

These projects are also in the interest of Indigenous peoples, Carney insisted. Outside the gates of the substation, surrounded by RCMP officers, Gitanyow, Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en leaders held their own press conference, reaffirming opposition to Ksi Lisims and PRGT.

“This is environmental racism happening right in front of us. All these projects are being pushed through Indigenous communities,” said Drew Harris, a Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan youth organizer. “Part of our ways is to always be a good neighbour. You don’t want to mess up your neighbours upstream or downstream by harming them or polluting them.”

Carney claimed that fast-tracking the gas terminal would help Canada build “a more sustainable society.”

Did the Prime Minister of Canada just tell us to our faces that more fracking and methane will build a more sustainable society?

Communities burned to the ground. Houses flooded or sliding down hillsides. Sea water rising and polluted air making our kids and elderly sick. This is the Canada Carney will build if he sticks to industry talking points instead of facing the reality of LNG.

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’moks summed it up: “When they destroy things, they call that the cost of doing business. But our pride, our dignity, our future has no price tag.”

@gemlog@tilde.zone avatar gemlog , to random

Backup Mastodon

Middle-click the gear icon in the upper left of your screen, which will pop a new tab, so you won't lose your place.
Left click on 'Import and Export' in the menu column on the left. 'Data Export' is already highlighted for you.
To the right of where it reads 'Follows' in the resulting table, click on the link named 'CSV' and let it download to your default download folder.
Optionally, you may also download your Lists, Blocks, Mutes, Domain blocks or Bookmarks, otherwise you are done already. Close the tab happy in the knowledge that you are backed up! :-)

It's also possible to download your entire archive, including media using the button 'Request Your Archive' at the bottom of the screen - it may take some hours to create the archive for you is all.
I have a cronjob that tells me to do this.
I also use the day to check local and remote backups as well as rsync to an external usb drive.

Screenshot of the 'Data export' tab in Preferences
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@fname I've never done it; no idea. I thought you could import it to another instance - no? Well, then, I guess you'd still have your 'stuff'. I don't even know what format the data is in! :-)

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@fname I've never tried it at all. I only noticed that it was an option for folks and, like I said, assumed one could import it. sec...

This info is all from the excellent @FediTips website https://fedi.tips/how-to-download-your-mastodon-post-archive/

How do I view the archive?

This is a very good question! The Mastodon developers have provided no official way to view post archives. There are unofficial third party archive viewers, but these usually require a lot of technical knowledge to install and use. Here are some links to third party archive viewers:

Mastodon Archive Viewer (Zero’s fork) ⧉
Mastodon Archive Viewer (modified by Slashyn) ⧉
Mastodon Archive Viewer (Python script) ⧉

Can I upload my post archive to my new account on another server?

Not on Mastodon. The archive system is totally separate from the account transfer system, and the archive is NOT used in transferring accounts. The archive is mainly intended for your own personal records, so that you have a private offline copy of your posts and attachments. There are no Mastodon servers which allow uploads of archives. If you attempt to upload it during an account transfer, it will just give you an error message.

HOWEVER… there is work being done on allowing people to upload their Mastodon post archives to other types of Fediverse server including GoToSocial. These uploads use a tool called Slurp ⧉ which also allows transfers of Pixelfed and Bluesky post archives. At the moment Slurp requires quite a lot of technical knowledge and isn’t practical for most people to use, but it shows that it is technically possible and could perhaps power an official post transfer feature at some point.

Uploading archives to another server can take a lot of resources depending on how many posts are in the archive, and some people have archives with thousands of posts or more. Using lots of resources can really slow a server down, which is possibly why Mastodon doesn’t allow archive uploads at the moment.

more info is at that website

@gemlog@tilde.zone avatar gemlog , to random

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

@gemlog@tilde.zone avatar gemlog , to random

Government net debt of G7 countries as share of GDP 2010-2024

Of the G7 countries, Japan had the highest net debt in terms of share of gross domestic product (GDP) between 2010 and 2024. That year, Japan's government's net debt reached an estimated 156 percent of its total GDP. Italy had the second highest debt rate at 127 percent of its GDP, whereas Canada had the lowest at only 14 percent.
What conclusions may be drawn from the top, middle and lowest tiers? About their governance? Economic base? Climate? Hotdogs? What? I can't see anything that jumps out at me. And if so, what is the point of the measurement for instruction on how to act?
@ChrisMayLA6 ?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1370943/g7-government-net-debt-share-gdp/

A graph showing detail from 2010-2024. Japan and the Italy are always highest and Canada always lowest with Germany always hovering above. France, UK and USA are intertwined in the middle.
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@ChrisMayLA6 Ah. I was looking at it from the wrong POV. I was foolishly thinking how a society could better guide itself using the information vs how a lender would use it for risk assessment. And it still came down to their individual sentiment.
Thank you!
I happen to be awake for a bit in the middle of my night on this side of the planet, and here I am reading your cogent answer already. Fedi is so great having all you guys in it! Thank you Professor.

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@dwasmkuk
I think Japan is the largest holder of USA bonds too. Maybe this 'collateral' is viewed as balancing things out.
Now that I'm looking at it from the right way around.
@ChrisMayLA6

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@dwasmkuk
Who gets to create the money we have?
Governments need to spend money and they don't have any of their own, so they use yours! This humour is said to explain taxes. But where did the money come from I got as a wage anyhow? If it came from the government, why don't they just bloody make enough for themselves and leave me and mine well enough alone‽‽ :-)
Answer: I don't really know! As usual.

Question: when you deposit 100 quid with the bank for a set time, do they only lend out £100?
Heck no! I don't what the ratio is set at legally, but they likely lend it out a half a dozen times, at least - so they've 'created' money. That's nice for banks isn't it? Some of it's backed by hard assets, some isn't.

Or when a government issues bonds, it's simply selling debt to whomever will trust them enough to buy it. They get money, governments need to spend money and so that 'new' money goes into the economy.

Or another idea I read was that government should simply print/issue as much as they like, so long as value for it exists in the real world. Like, issuing 10 billion for a new bridge is fine, because there is the value of the bridge. Printing a million for a big tory1 blow out at number 10 over a weekend is not fine, b/c there's nothing to show for it but hungover politicians.

I've heard that last one called 'Social Credit'. All these are kind of jumbled in my head and I've never sorted them out really, as I don't organize our economy - I have other gifts ;-)

@ChrisMayLA6

[1] Labour = Tory these days anyhow, don't quibble

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@ChrisMayLA6
"This reminds me of the sorts of discussions I used to have with my student"
Of course - we are, in a way, less than first year students, because we never prepared to even study for first year! Well, speaking for myself anyhow.
@dwasmkuk

@PGBeattie@mastodonapp.uk avatar PGBeattie , to random

The well off talk about exit strategies, pension funds and retirement

My exit strategy is carry on working, live and then die

And I'm one of the lucky ones

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@PGBeattie
"My exit strategy is carry on working, live and then die"

I'm a member of the same start-up!

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

From Bloomberg (doesn't appear to be a paywall story)
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

"Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills."

"The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern Virginia region known as Data Center Alley. But Kevin Stanley, a 57-year-old who survives on disability payments, says his energy bills are about 80% higher than they were about three years ago. “They’re going up and up,” he said. “You wonder, ‘What is your breaking point?’”

"It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers send power costs to records in much of the US, pulling everyday households into paying for the digital economy."

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/

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As a person who is not in the habit of buying electricity at wholesale, how much per kWh is normal around Virginia these days @trebach ?

I use a tiered rate https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/electricity-rates/residential-rates/tiered.html here in BC, Canada, although tweaks like time-of-day and flat rates are offered as well.

The least I can pay is 11.72 cents (8.41 cents USD) per kWh and the most is 14.08 cents (10.1 cents USD) per kWh.

@briankrebs

@don_atoms@hostux.social avatar don_atoms , to random

For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.

Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.

Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

@marcprux @fdroidorg

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@don_atoms

If it had anything at all to do with 'security', then goog would ensure the source code was available for all their stuff like f-droid does.

@xmanmonk @marcprux @fdroidorg

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

The ultra-wealthy would have a better case against a wealth tax if they were paying similar levels of tax to other people... however, while squealing about over-taxation of various forms, around the world the rich consistently pay less tax than regular folk.

Their disassociation from society, formed by a belief that their money is a just reward for their brilliance is just a different form of sociopathy (cloaked by the media & politicians).

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@ChrisMayLA6 This experiment suggests that no one is immune from abusing and misascribing their privelige.

Monopoly Social Experiment - How Money and Power can Modify Your Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qri10wUxyos

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=paul+piff&ia=web

If one grew up with outrageous wealth, like Trump, Musk, Gates et al., then a super human gift of a charitable disposition would be needed to avoid the trap, perhaps.

Or, you could play the game like these people:

Form a co-op in the game of Monopoly

In the spirit of the original idea behind The Landlord's Game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game

Stuart
@slowe
Jan 22, 2023, 21:49 · · 121 · 0

"I haven't played Monopoly for many years now. The last game was with three housemates at university. One housemate was winning and really enjoying his triumph over the rest of us. So I suggested to my other two housemates that we form a cooperative. We would let each other off rents on our properties. The standards rents would apply to anyone not in the coop. And you could leave the coop if you wanted. None of this is forbidden in the rules of Monopoly because it has little market regulation.
Within a remarkably short space of time the monopolist had lost his dominance and the rest of us had flourished. He went bankrupt and the rest of us agreed to end the game as joint victors. I felt as though we perhaps played it more to the spirit of the original game that Monopoly had been derived from and found a non-monopolist solution.
A few years ago I shared this story on Twitter and then had angry libertarian men complain that I'd cheated and had actually made a cartel, not a cooperative. They weren't happy that I pointed out that no rules had been broken. In fact it was the lack of market regulation in Monopoly that allowed us to do what we did. Plus we did it fully openly and the fourth player was able to join our coop if he'd wanted.
I still don't agree that we were a cartel as there was no secrecy, deceit, or defrauding going on. We were very open about forgiving rent and doing better deals within the coop than the 'official' prices outside the coop. Anyway it was funny to see libertarian men be unhappy about something happening due to very limited market regulation (no rules saying you couldn't discount rent or undercut the guide prices).
Although Monopoly is so often presented/framed as an individualistic game of capitalist dominance, it doesn't actually have to be played like that. The system might strongly encourage that but the players can behave differently. A better way is possible.
It did teach me that a bunch of libertarian men are all in favour of lower regulation until you use that lack of regulation to behave cooperatively to help each other."

edit: missed adding the direct url for the vid.

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A New Solar Panel Shield Made From Onion Peels Outlasted Industry Plastics in Tests

Natural dye from discarded onion peels outperforms fossil-based UV filters in durability and performance
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-new-solar-panel-shield-made-from-onion-peels-outlasted-industry-plastics-in-tests/

Their breakthrough came when they dyed these films using an extract from red onion skins, a common kitchen waste. The result was a filter that blocked 99.9% of UV radiation up to 400 nanometers, a feat that outstripped even the PET-based commercial filters chosen for comparison… [T]he onion-treated filter excelled: it let through over 80% of light in the 650-1,100 nm range — an ideal sweet spot for energy absorption… Even predictive modeling based on early degradation trends suggested the CNF-ROE filter could extend a solar cell’s lifetime to roughly 8,500 hours. The PET-based filter? Just 1,500 hours… [T]he red onion extract offered a rare combination of longevity, transparency, and sustainability…

1,500 ~= year

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

I HAVE JUST BEEN INTRODUCED TO HG

Me: Oh, this is so cool, hg is just a Python module. So I can just install it however I install Python modules

I HAVE BEEN USING HG FOR SIXTEEN YEARS

Me: It really sucks how hg is a Python module, which means anytime something goes weird with my Python environment hg breaks

$ hg bash: /home/Andi/.local/bin/hg: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
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@mcc Well, kind of mid-retro is Haiku?
https://www.haiku-os.org/

@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social avatar joyousjoyness , to random

This is my custom foiled drawing of Tessarion the sweet gray cat!

video/mp4

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@joyousjoyness That is amazingly cool! Wow! :-)
I didn't know this existed even.
@aolog should see this.
But I'll email her too, b/c I don't think she pays much attention to fedi.

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de avatar vfrmedia , to random

Rescued an old desktop which had been decomissioned as too slow and laggy for Windows even with 8GB RAM

Now running - I tried the edition but it was still a bit laggy with Cinnamon DE and also managed to hose its CUPS configuration immediately after the first update.

Had better luck with the based edition (even though I didn't want to use Ubuntu as much) and it runs XFCE desktop very fast.

Even the printer still works! This might go in the next office as a backup PC, if they don't want it I will probably take it home with me and use it there..

HP desktop PC running Linux Mint XFCE edition
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@drajt
I've used kde since it first existed. There was a period when it was a real pig. I used it anyway still, but its needs did go down. My new-to-me is from ~2017 and I bought it used a few years ago. It has a whopping 32GB of RAM and an SSD plus rust. I'm thrilled with it still.
Low demand linux DE''s are nice. Another option for elderly PC's is Haiku - blindingly fast. Weather I get wifi to work is kind of spinning the wheel each time, but it's very usable these days.
https://www.haiku-os.org/
@vfrmedia

@gemlog@tilde.zone avatar gemlog , to random

Activists say Israeli troops have boarded aid ship
"Connection has been lost" on the Madleen, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) campaign group said on the Telegram app.
It posted a photo showing people in life jackets sitting with their hands up.
Appearing to confirm that the ship had been boarded, Israel's foreign ministry said the yacht was "safely making its way to the shores of Israel" and its passengers were "expected to return to their home countries".
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is among those aboard the vessel, which was reported to be off the Egyptain coast.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y264x3nnno

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@wim_v12e Same as genocide by any other country.

@_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , (edited ) to random

Thanks to the magic of the Streisand effect, I just heard about - a book by former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams.

Apparently the company is FREAKING OUT and seeking legal ways to stop its promotion. I can see why. This article about it in the Times made my jaw drop: https://web.archive.org/web/20250310221013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html

I will definitely order it at my local bookshop.

🔗: https://bookshop.org/p/books/careless-people-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-greed-and-lost-idealism/22213433

Edit: included non-paywalled link (thanks @gemlog )

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@geos
I know! Who da thunk right?
@_elena

@gemlog@tilde.zone avatar gemlog , to random

The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer. Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer.

We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is.

It will never reach you.

@darrellpf@mas.to avatar darrellpf , to ActuallyAutistic group

One actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group trait I haven't seen mentioned is what I'll call "efficienct routines".

I'm slow to learn a task, but once I know it I get faster and find more efficient ways to complete it. Doing the task without error and as quickly as possible is important. I can't stop halfway through or leave the task partially completed.

When I vacuum I do it exactly the same way every time. I know where to position it so I only plug in once. I despise being interrupted.

Is this common?

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@SallyStrange
I do this. It just seems like common sense to me. If you need to do something a lot, why not find the best way?
But yes, I don't like being interrupted. I like to complete.
No one has ever said I was autistic, but I think we all are to some extent?
@darrellpf actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group

@KentNavalesi@mstdn.social avatar KentNavalesi , to AcademicChatter group

Some under-the-radar news from : the attorney general has found that the University of Kentucky violated state open records laws when it withheld a "Statement of Work" relating to , a firm it consulted in developing controversial plans to end shared governance at the University.

https://www.ag.ky.gov/Resources/orom/2024-OROM/2024/24-ORD-153.pdf

academicchatter@a.gup.pe icon AcademicChatter group @academicsunite
@phdlife

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@KentNavalesi
People would be shocked to learn how much of the cold hearted, calculated nastiness that is thrust on the average person by corporations and governments alike is spawned in the bowels of very well paid consultancies like mckinsey and deloitte.

academicchatter@a.gup.pe icon AcademicChatter group @academicsunite @phdlife

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@KentNavalesi
"In When McKinsey Comes to Town, two prizewinning investigative journalists have written a portrait of the company sharply at odds with its public image. Often McKinsey's advice boils down to major cost-cutting, including layoffs and maintenance reductions, to drive up short-term profits, thereby boosting a company's stock price and the wealth of its executives who hire it, at the expense of workers and safety measures. McKinsey collects millions of dollars advising government agencies that also regulate McKinsey's corporate clients. And the firm frequently advises competitors in the same industries, but denies that this presents any conflict of interest."
They often consult on both sides of real conflicts.
https://www.parnassusbooks.net/book/9780385546232

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"A History Instructor Complained About Parking Fees. It Cost Him His Job"
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He complained about the high price of parking. He disputed the President's numbers in a "cordial" but "tense" public meeting on the topic. He turned over the research documenting his numbers. Two and a half weeks later, the provost fired him, explaining that Tarleton State University would not "tolerate intolerable behavior."


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And let that be a lesson to feudal academics all over on short term contracts! :-(

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