@hughrawlinson yeah, that feels like unions being stuck in the Victorian era to me. Low level managers are just as much under the boot of executives as the workers below them.
@hughrawlinson at what level of management do unions generally refuse membership? I ask as someone who has been a manager in the past but at a company so large I had less input into company policy than a Financial Times oped.
@catsalad Edge of Tomorrow (I think called Live Die Repeat in the US). I could watch that film any time.
@anon_opin when I was young and stupid I decided to deal with this by using an electric fan heater to dry myself. Only afterwards did I realise that while it was incredibly effective it was also incredibly stupid.
@NanoRaptor my parents once found me with a broken wine glass, which I’d smashed against a table. When asked if I knew that would happen I replied “I thought it might”.
@herdingdata I feel like I dodged a bullet here by passionately hating the sensation of lying on my front for any length of time.
This message brought to you by me throwing one on while I ate dinner and three hours later having watched videos about Hitman, Horizon, and Rocket League.
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.
@anon_opin excuse me while I find my tiny violin for the poor downtrodden London millionaires.
@catsalad someone got that sign wrong. Directions to tourist attractions are meant to have a brown background and white text.
@gsuberland I don’t this if the driver calls ahead and checks. Just rocking up early is amateur hour.
@pikesley I think they deserve a small prize for managing to make an entire website claiming to educate people on how Bitcoin would improve their union or whatever without ever managing to explain how Bitcoin would improve their union.
@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!
@mattgrayyes at least four on YouTube now, watched a couple this evening and will probably do the other two tomorrow.
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.
@dave fly.io are a US company but have data centres around the world. I see them as having taken the baton from Heroku since the Salesforce acquisition.
@dshan @anon_opin and the internet isn’t a single entity owned by the US.
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/
