I was homeless when the Cat Distribution System recruited me. Camped under a bridge alongside the old canal, I shared my food and blanket with some homeless kittens.
“You’re a good person” a voice said.
I jumped and clutched my blanket, backing up against the concrete. “Leave me alone! I don’t have anything to steal.”
“Sorry to startle you. I’m here to offer you a job”
“You don’t know anything about me.”
The stranger indicated the kitten nose-down in a nearly empty tuna can. “I’ve seen what i need to see.”
“What’s the job? I won’t do evil.”
“Kitten smuggling. We get them to a safe country, find them homes. Subsidised accommodation but a lot of travel.”
That was six months ago. If you’re on a train, plane or suborbital and you see a kitten poking its nose out of a human or augmented human’s jacket, no you didn’t.
@jasongorman the but being unsaid here is “incentive to work in crappy jobs”. UBI means having to pay an actual wage for cleaners and shelf stackers, rather than redirecting that money to shareholders.
"Universal Basic Income would remove the incentive to work", say people with enough money to never have to work again but who mysteriously carry on.
@gwagner the company’s statement on this is quite astonishing corporate weaseling as well, acting all surprised that people would think a product labelled “a paper bottle” might believe it was in fact a paper bottle. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56687585
I was just surprised to see a photodiode emoji had been added, and trying to decide what it meant as a reaction to a Discord post. Turns out it’s a salt cellar and my brain is broken. 🧂
If you’re into games and somehow haven’t watched any Noclip you should stop what you’re doing and do that instead. They’re the antithesis of the usual game videos on YouTube, where everyone else is looking for controversy and things to hate Noclip are out there bringing out the love that gets poured into making great games.
When Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the communications of civil society, journalists, just regular citizens ...
The threat model of military operations & sharing your hate of Europeans was not what Signal was designed for. Ephemeral messages and cryptographic deniability are not fit for communications that require accountability.
But I appreciate their effort to make government more efficient by adding journalists to the chat instead of requiring to go through FOIA.
@soweliniko @jackeric well now the day I spent badly modelling IKEA furniture to see how the room would look feels even sillier than it was before.
@anna @wim_v12e don’t know if you’ve seen http://collapseos.org yet
With the power of AI, you too can take your startup from “fucking around” to “finding out” in as little as two days!
Discovered Kasso this evening, a Japanese skateboarding contest with utterly ridiculous courses. Half of them are so hard the competition is won by whoever can stay on their board the longest. Perfect Saturday evening nonsense.
The results are in for the #4DayWeek (i.e. paying employees the same dollar amount for 32 hours of work instead of 40).
For individuals (n=3500):
* 71% reported decreased burnout.
* More than 40% reported improvements across mental health, sleep quality, and fatigue.
* Workers are not using their day off to take paid work elsewhere, but instead for hobbies, leisure, housework, caring, and personal maintenance.
* 90% of people want to continue.
For businesses (n=91):
* YoY revenue up by 35% during trial period.
* Employee attrition down by 57%.
* 91% of companies immediately established the 4-day week permanently.
* Another 4% are leaning toward continuing.
Report available here: https://www.4dayweek.com/
tyler durden: the things you own end up owning you
rustc: actually, that’s impossible
"About your latest purchase, this is not to be missed" is quite the subject line for an email begging me to review a mousemat in exchange for an entry into a £100 Argos voucher raffle.
I was just lamenting to myself that I’ve done nothing useful this afternoon while I had a few hours to myself, then remembered I cleaned the kitchen and did some laundry before sinking into the sofa, so well done me.
The problem with self hosting things is that when they break I don’t get to just shrug and assume it’ll magically fix itself in a bit. Thankfully it’s just my RSS reader so it can wait.
I just said Heat to my TV because I wanted to watch it. It informed me it’s 21c at the moment.
Thank you Poe, Quora’s LLM, for providing me details of the Air Force One escape pod, alongside many Quora posts about Air Force One not having an escape pod. (Why yes, I have just watched Air Force One)