“The researchers found that 40% of workers had encountered workslop within a month, and then spent an average of 3.4 hours a month dealing with it – which the study estimates adds up to $8.1m in lost productivity for a 10,000-person organization.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
@MadocCairns 3 years ago me in 1562 having a friday night flagon of sack with my fellows: i will notte be seen Deade at Chapell now the Protestantes hath done a Numbre on it me on Saturday morning when the constable asks me if he'll see me at church: Most certinly Sir. Chapell gets bettre every Week Sir
Mortal Kombat was actually based on a Scandinavian church song.
It was a Finnish hymn
Hey did you know you can find radically awesome protest posters for printing and flyering at justseeds.org? I love the work this cooperative does, and they are generous enough to share their work openly for anyone looking to adding some post-up action to their days 🤗❤️
Red graphic with white AFSC logo and text that reads: President Trump's threat to wipe out Iran's "whole civilization" is genocidal. Thousands of civilians have been killed in Iran and throughout the region. The U.S. is already carrying out war crimes — and now it is threatening to commit more. As Quakers, we have opposed war and stood with its victims for more than 100 years. We cannot be silent now. This must stop. Tell Congress: End this war now.
President Trump's threat to wipe out Iran's "whole civilization" is genocidal. Thousands of civilians have been killed in Iran and throughout the region. The U.S. is already carrying out war crimes—and now it is threatening to commit more.
This must stop. Tell Congress: End this war now.
All bloody principles and practices, as to our own particulars, we utterly deny; with all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever; this is our testimony to the whole world.
a homemade protest poster that says "no war no war" and "oppose all war," and features a cut out of a child carrying a bag on their back.
A page from an old National Geographic magazine with the words "no war no war" cut out of it.
Making. #quakersopposeallwar
Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!
"Health workers are sounding the alarm of healthcare jobs being lost in Ottawa and across Ontario due to provincial underfunding."
"It's mind-boggling to hear about frontline job cuts at our hospital when care is already at breaking point."
#Ontario #Canada #Healthcare #Labour
Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.
Today in AI:
Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.
Everyone involved should be fired.
archive.is/ELrCI#select...
“Our lunch is spoiled,” said Toad. “I made it for you, Frog, so that you would be happy.”
“But Toad,” said Frog, “I AM happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up, I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you for a friend.”
Joyful Militancy is a fantastic book and resource that I keep returning to over the years as I continue to understand how I show up in the world, activist or otherwise.
anarchiststudies.org/shop/joyful-...
Planning to be good to each other—
Preventing harm by building infrastructure. [WOW]
briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...
😂
I'm not advocating for the use of generative AI.
I'm going after low hanging fruit to point out that we tend to take writing for granted (what it is, as well as what it does and how). I worry we are missing the opp to really think abt the nuances of writing as tech, social axn, harp, harp, etc.
Shame can have positive implications for sure. Also: the statement "Using AI to write" is one of those that sounds easy enough and yet, as a writing studies scholar, I have to wonder what "to write" means here. Put words on a digital screen? Compose? Proof read?
But search engines are NeUtRaL
In the Sierra Nevada in California. Lush grass and brush gives way to a blue lake surrounded by stone snow capped mountains.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. - Hélder Câmara
Pic of the day
#photography
“Researchers from Cornell University have developed what they call "the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale," a tool designed to measure how impressed people are by business school-style jargon that sounds strategic but says very little.”
www.theregister.com/2026/03/15/c...
In other words, writing is how we come to know, and it is also how we relate, connect, and coordinate selves, actions, and beings.
I'm seeing alot of writing is/as thinking comments these days, particularly in response to AI + writing. While there is absolutely an epistemological element with writing, some socio-rhetorical theorists would say that writing is also SOCIAL ACTION.
my applied linguistics & discourse studies self is cheering you on ;)
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooT!!
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Yes!
Horses are the best.
Older sibling gazes down at younger sibling. Younger sibling gazes nonchalantly at photographer.
Some of my greatest work tbh
Pic is focused on a silly baby face distorted to an extra squishy level using a photo effect in an app.
We found the effects option in WhatsApp.
Cute baby in teddy suit, feels about as squishy and cuddly as you might expect.
Obsessed with my latest scholarship.
Are you studying #ScholComm, #research dissemination or doing a research project in #DigitalHumanities?
#CoalitionPublica, an @erudit.org + @pkp.sfu.ca project, is accepting #scholarship applications until April 19 2026, at 11:59pm PT!
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