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"Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds"
Exclusive: South Cambridgeshire experiment led to fewer refuse collectors quitting and faster planning decisionsRobert Booth (The Guardian)
Councils pursuing a four-day working week are "on notice", says the government.BBC News
@Sorvall I had read pre-industrial revolution, people worked an average of 24 hours a week. Varying between 2 and 6 hours a day, depending on need.
I don’t think our labour saving devices work very well…
@Kestenan if it was pre-industrial then yes 2 - 6 might have been the norm as work was largely agricultural during that period (long periods of minor work followed by seasonal heavy work).
Industrial period onwards was for most people a six day a week dawn until dusk hellscape. Most of that wouldn’t change until labour movements of the early 20th century.
"Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave leads to four deaths"
Average number of heatstroke-related deaths each year has increased six fold since 1995Justin McCurry (The Guardian)
"Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows"
Copernicus Climate Change Service says results a ‘large and continuing shift’ in the climateAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
norton disk doctor 8.0 for windows 3.1 let you play midis in the background while it scanned/repaired your drive 😎
#win31 #msdos #dosgaming #retroComputing
Tories questioning Labour's 172 seat majority, won under the UK's FPTP electoral system, should remember:
Brexit was advisory & happened on a 52-48 majority.
Only 81, 326 Tory members, about 0.3% of all voters, picked Truss as PM.
Sunak was appointed: There was no vote at all.
Also never forget, Tories took control of the electoral commission, rigged electoral boundaries in their own favour & introduced photo ID to make it difficult for the poor & elderly to vote.
#NeverTrustAToryPolitician
Trouble is I get too enthusiastic. I created all these pictures, and I thought they were good, and mistakenly thought people would like them. But out of 700 pictures, a grand total of 3 people actually wanted their pictures.
I think I'll stick to just doing them for myself in the future. I can't control other people's enthusiasm, but I can control my own.
England stopped the right-wing.
France stopped the right-wing.
In November, it’s time for America to stop the right-wing.
@woelfisch Glad to hear that it was bearable and enjoyable!
I look forward to the relative quiet of Eurofurence in a couple months
If you want to buy me a coffeehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/apteraocReserve your Aptera for $30 off ($70 refundable deposit instead of the usual $100) by usin...YouTube
Looks like the left coalition held together and #France dodged a fascist bullet. Some rare good news, although the trend remains troubling.
Hotel global weather forecast is on. SUNNY AND WARM EVERYWHERE EXCEPT WALES.
Normal then.
Many years ago, I starting to make a Factorio Let's Play series. I remembered it being really dumb and awful, but I just rewatched the first three episodes and it's actually not so bad. The volume is very low on episode 1 and I do spend a stupid amount of time explaining things far too slowly and repetitively at first, but actually it's otherwise okay once I got going.
I only did 5 episodes as no one was really watching (I think one of them was still on zero views a few days after upload, which was disheartening - it looks like there have been a few views over the years, but it's still in single digits) and I was running out of steam.
Could I have made it as a youtuber? Eh, probably not. It was an interesting thing to try though.
Let's play some Factorio! In this game, I'm not allowing myself to use (or even research) landfill. Our shipwrecked engineer is stuck on an island with rela...YouTube
oh, thats some cool software
oh, its open source
oh, its made by a trans woman
oh, she has a fedi account
oh, i already follow her
thank you mysterious fedi trans women for making software that i cannot
The other day, I had a customer (an older guy) at my work point at my pride tattoo and ask me "Does that mean you're gay or something?" And I was like, "Uhh, yeah, basically." He nodded and said "Word." Then left. He's become kind of a regular buying supplements about every other week or so.
I keep thinking about this interaction because 1) it was really funny and 2) When he first asked I half expected him to be homophobic.
I just hope wherever dude is, he's having a good day.
Mom look, mom. Mom! Look! I can do both! 😂
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i think being nonhuman is punk
i mean think about it youre literally going against the system but like on a whole new other level of abstraction, you not only want to disrespect the rules and cause disruption of the status quo, but also break the boundaries of what makes someone a member of society
this makes being nonhuman Decidedly cooler and more people should do it
As it becomes ever clearer (and documented) that artificial intelligence is highly dependent on exploiting human labour - from creatives whose content is stolen, to the low-paid staff who help sort & train AI programmes - once again we can see that a 'new economy' promised by the Tee-shirted 'revolutionaries' of Silicon Valley is nothing other than a reboot of C19th exploitative economic practice....
So, one important Q. for modern society is how to bring these new robber barons to heel!
#AI
👏👏👏. I think "robber barons" is exactly the term for today's late stage capitalists.
The most depressing thing about AI is that all this destruction isn't to create more accurate output that lifts society. But rather to produce quicker, plausible sounding output to benefit corporate margins.
Just in time to switch back to the loratadine!
"Interestingly, several antihistamine drugs [...] which have been approved for treating allergy symptoms without side effects for decades, have been found to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection or replication via protein-protein interaction analysis or drug library profiling (30–35)."
Thank you for the beautiful twist! I deeply appreciate the way you speak and portray love in these comics.
I resonate with voicing of the sadness that comes with disappointment as a way forward in relationships to nurture a gentle, safe and vulnerable path towards healing with each other. That sadness often hides behind the anger. But one cannot change people with anger and respect their autonomy! This comic speaks for me about how to hold and lift eachother up! 💛
Content warning: re: UK, Politics, Press
Technology is political.
If your project or organisation has a “no politics” clause, you’re saying you’re happy to exclude people whose very existence is political in our societies.
It’s only defensible if you’re coming from a place of privilege where the dominant politics are to your advantage so you can take them as given.
There is no such thing as “no politics”; there is only “no politics other than the politics of the status quo that I benefit from, which I’ve internalised as normal.”
Female hair is either long or political. Sexual orientation is either heterosexual or political. Gender identity is either cis or political. Clothing is either gender stereotyped and boring or political. City infrastructure is either car-focused or political. Energy is either fossil fuels or political. Education is either white christian propaganda or political.
Everything follows the same pattern, tech included.
A piece of "motivational CSS" that I sometimes include in web pages I haven't finished writing yet:
.FIXME {
background: rgb(160,0,0);
color: rgb(0,255,0);
font-weight: bold;
font-family: "Comic Sans MS";
}
That way, when I write something like
<span class="FIXME">come back and add a link to xyz</span>
in the body text, I'm _really_ motivated to make that horrible thing go away.
When I think about the security of a computer system, I have a specific scale I rate it on:
1. The US government can crack it *OR* the government of China can crack it (equivalent)
2. The government of Israel can crack it
3. My friend Kristin could crack it
4. The government of Russia can crack it
5. A nation-state not listed above can crack it
6. A well-qualified single infosec professional could crack it
7. I could crack it
How did elections offices in local councils not verify them? Well, you see, candidates sometimes are selected through agents, ie the party or someone they hire, will do all the paperwork on their behalf and the elections officials will just accept it at face value.
So we have a country where you must prove your identity to vote, but not prove your identity to be voted for.