Whatever works. Anything to lower subs.

I'm going with Harsh but fair on that interaction.

In a minor defense of nerds: the foss/volunteer/Linux nerds are doing a great job trying to counter this crap.

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@purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social oooh. Nice site! I could quibble with Spotify as an "alt" to big tech but 🤷

In the process of actively degoogling, and also as much as possible, dewindowsing. Fair to say they make it hard. Move to #Linux fantastic, the fight to change and update accounts/logins etc, is an absolute shitshow.

Just a quicky to say to anyone looking to jump ship from MS or Apple or whoever, come on over to a #linux OS, it's a delightful time and not as scary or hard as it seems.

A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles. This is not a technology story; it’s a management honesty story that happens to involve technology. The reason it works is well understood. Decades of research on how markets react to layoff announcements have established a consistent pattern: Investors punish companies that frame cuts as a response to problems. But when a company frames the same cuts as proactive restructuring, the penalty disappears. The stated reason for the layoff matters more than the fact of the layoff. AI has become the most powerful proactive frame available. “We’re restructuring around AI” is a growth signal. “We over-hired during the pandemic and revenue softened” is an accountability signal.

Via a forum I haunt... no word of a lie in the quote. archive.is/202603130935...

Thoughts and prayers.

Condescending and harmful: An update on Australia’s social media ban The social media ban was sold to the public as protection, but evidence shows disadvantaged teens are paying the price.

The social media ban was sold to the public as protection, but evidence shows disadvantaged teens are paying the price.
~ Dr Binoy Kampmark

Condescending and harmful: An update on Australia’s social media ban
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Israel’s Undeniable War Crimes in Gaza ino.to/yJ9FH78

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The pics they choose for these folks when they're doing this are amazing.

Stealing machine accuses others of stealing their stolen goods

As Raad makes clear, AI is not a cure-all. And even if AI does increase productivity, that productivity can be a mirage. How often are AI models producing shoddy code? And what if that shoddy code goes unnoticed? Maybe, as Raad suggests, ideas being “expensive to implement” was a good thing, because it forced engineers to think about a problem creatively. Not every impulse should be entertained. What’s a thousand ideas that were dashed off with an AI instead of a few promising ones that are honed and given time and attention? The former may seem more productive, when it’s really a collection of dead ends. Moreover, having employees become dependent on AI hardly seems conducive to rewarding and fostering creativity. As numerous experts have warned, it’s another form of cognitive offloading, in which crucial functions of our brain, including critical thinking, are outsourced to a piece of technology. This isn’t the line being peddled by tech companies, however. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly told his workers they’d be “insane” not to use AI to complete every possible task. Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman claims AI’s already so effective that virtually all white collar tasks will be automated within a year and a half. And Microsoft and Google both brag that over a quarter of their code is now AI-generated. But however useful these AI tools may or may not be, they can’t work miracles. At the end of the day, it comes down to humans to run a tight ship.

Replace code with whatever industry you're in... ino.to/cApCo23

This one hits hard.

See every Western gov everywhere in recent memory.

One thing that astonishes me about the Herzog visit is that Israel has murdered more journalists than any other state in the 21st century, and he hasn’t faced a single question about this (to my knowledge) from the Australian media

"The simple fact is that Israeli actions endanger all of us, including Jews. Because what Israel is doing claims to in our name, in my name. And believe me when I say it is not in my name."

Thank you to advisory committee member, Antony Loewenstein for speaking out at last night's rally

Just because you use caps doesn't mean it's true. The data on social media is messier than that. It also doesn't follow that a blanket ban is workable or the solution even then.

I can't speak to ease of getting around it etc, but it's really only been frustrating for our fam. It's meant a reshuffle of music streaming services and being unable to decide what our daughter can listen to.

Absolute banger of a video. Gets dark. But well worth the time.

Is it a substack style thing? Assuming it's so far doing things better than that, hence you're trying?

Like I don't understand the maths/business case if it's not more viable for small artists to be able sell digital DLs themselves if physical media is prohibitive.

I have no answer as to why but occasionally find similar things with music. Different albums from the same artist coming and going from diff streaming service, and more strangely in some cases no way to buy direct from artist.

Thank you! Was ringing bells and I couldnt nail it.

ffs.

Nba app showing who advances when hide scores is on

@nba.com why the heck does the league pass app show "x advances" while I'm hiding scores? What's the point of hiding the score without hiding that? #huh

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

I would also say that its pretty easy to get a decent sense of browsers pretty quick, even without signing in etc. So just spend an arvo and download and try a bunch.

I've been browser hopping and trying stuff on windows and linux. Vivaldi has some stuff I really liked. The dash/email integration was potentially cool, but not quite there. otherwise, it was fine, good looking, some good options.