Truss assumed office on September 6, 2022 following a general election in response to the resignation of Boris Johnson.
No, she did not. There was no general election. There was an election for party leadership within her own party, who currently hold the majority of seats and so get to appoint the PM.
While the booth was sponsored by Lenovo, LochVaness said on Twitter that her trust in Twitch had been broken.“I will never be able to trust @Twitch at another convention in my entire life,” the streamer tweeted on Sunday night.
Unsurprisingly, everyone involved here, Twitch, Lenovo, and the streams - are idiots.
“We are aware of the incidents of TwitchCon visitors who sustained injuries in the gladiator game soft foam pit at the Lenovo booth,” Lenovo communications officer Lisa Marie Ferrell told Gizmodo in an email. “Safety remains our top priority and we are working with event organizers to look into the incidents.”
Pretty clearly safety was not the first priority here, or even a priority at all.
Empower managers to deal with issues around belonging and inclusion and leading functional teams, instead of sending them to HR to die.
This is the important one here.
In last week’s Town Hall, I outlined to you that we are not the publisher of JRE. But perception due to our exclusive license implies otherwise. So I’ve been wrestling with how this perception squares with our values,” Ek continued.
I mean, you are. That's why people are having an issue with what you're doing. Put on your big boy pants and deal with what you're responsible for.
“I think it’s important you’re aware that we’ve had conversations with Joe and his team about some of the content in his show, including his history of using some racially insensitive language. Following these discussions and his own reflections, he chose to remove a number of episodes from Spotify. He also issued his own apology over the weekend,” Ek continued.
This means you're a publisher and editor motherfucker. Stop saying you just host content.
“The Great Resignation has opened the door for POC and women to reevaluate their current careers and determine whether or not they have equal access to opportunities for advancement at their organizations.”
Except neither you nor her have actually cited any evidence that most of the people resigning from tech jobs are women and POC.
“Nearly half of low-wage and front-line workers surveyed said their pay and benefits were insufficient while 41% said they felt burned out from demanding workloads,” the Journal shares. Of those, many were POC. The study shows that “Some 35% of Black employees and 40% of Asian employees said they were considering leaving, compared with 26% of white employees.”
These are not tech jobs. He is taking statistics that have nothing to do with technology industry jobs and using them to make his argument about the technology industry. In short, he's lying.
Most Americans who left their jobs this year were low-wage workers and female middle-managers.
These are not people leaving tech companies. These are people leaving retail and hospitality industry jobs. This doesn't support his point.
Metaverse
The metaverse as currently envisioned is bullshit
dedicated leadership positions focused on their future-of-work strategies
No, we do not need to create additional layers of management. The answer to innovation and change is not to always create new leadership positions.
with staff given the autonomy to structure schedules around the rest of their life
This will apply to everyone except those of us in support professions. We'll now have to be 24/7 so everyone else can work when they want. Support professions are going to experience high levels of burn out.
creating engaging content
Jesus shut up about "content" and do some work!
‘proximity bias’
Make everyone remote, don't allow anyone to always be in the office.
Not only does it look like it was just tacked on the back of the phone like an afterthought, but the camera module also makes it impossible to open the phone a full 360 degrees.
That's a complete non-starter for me
Despite Hamilton's personal experience, she said she continued to be on good terms with Portnoy. "Dating him, you kind of have to go into it with a thick skin," she said, adding: "I think that today a lot of people are kind of soft."
This bitch is so stupid she deserves everything that happened to her. Develop some self-respect, you bimbo.
Today, much of our workforce is now working remotely from home.
But not the majority. In fact, less than 25%. And falling.
What I am positioning for is a mother of all economic depressions, rampant inflation, joblessness, war on cash and basically everything described in the second part of Graham Summers’s The Everything Bubble (tl/dr Inflation, NIRP, War on Cash, Bail Ins and wealth taxes). When I run through all of this filtering and analysis this is what looks more imminently probable to me.
Except of course, here we are over a year later and none of that happened. In fact, what the most reasonable people said is more or less what is happening, and in fact things are reasonably close to how things were in 2019. The author is so full of himself that he fails to realize the he is the one wearing the tinfoil hat.
Russiagate was a conspiracy theory, one that was platformed as common knowledge by multiple mainstream media outlets for over two years before finally being conceded as a nothingburger by the Mueller Report. There are still people walking around believing that the current US president was installed as a Manchurian candidate by the Kremlin, and you’re the one in the tin-foil hat for pointing out how disconnected from reality that actually is.
It all depends on how you define Russiagate, doesn't it? No one sane ever said that the Russians put Trump in power. That Trump was unquestionably aided by Putin and that the Trump campaign was aware of this and cooperated was verified by Mueller and is very alarming. Trying to dismiss a factual occurrence as conspiracy theory in favor of Trump pretty much tags the author as in the MAGA camp.
He had never heard of the Uyghurs.
Pretty much says it all. doesn't it?
have an illegitimate president in the White House and a total breakdown of law and order.
Didn't we already have that starting in 2016? Hasn't been pretty well proven that Trump was an illegitimate President?
Should you ever go back to the office?
No. The verdict is in, and the answer to this is clear. No, knowledge workers do not need to go back to the traditional office.
Some of the people loudly calling for a return to the office are not the same people who will actually be returning to the office regularly.
Funny how that often seems to be the case in situations like this.
Under the current growth economy, this will lead to disaster.
The rapid decrease in the cost of renewables says you're wrong. Unlike the what the collapse porn addicts want us to believe, it's looking like the renewables transition will go well, and result in an increase in employment is the energy sector. The author of this piece has his thinking firmly lodged two decades ago.
Kallis admits that directly switching our current economy to the degrowth mindset would lead to economic disaster and collapse. Instead, we need small steps to rebuild a new economy from the ground up.
Trying to do this in one country would be about as successful as trying to implement communism in one country. It'll never work because any economy that does this will get eaten by economies that don't. So this depends on global action - which will never happen.
This is the sort of impractical, ivory tower "solution" that results in no one taking any action. We need practical, implementable, Bright Green solutions that aren't dependent on global action and embrace the existing market system rather than trying to throw it out.
Rather than being replaced by machines, handing over the busywork to them will free us up to focus on our uniquely human gifts — such as empathy and creativity — which right now are greatly underutilized.
This is a great thought, and one I've always subscribed to - but I have to wonder if this isn't going to go the way the Internet did. We thought it was going to free people, and it's done the opposite.
But as long as Facebook gets all of the incoming fire, those responsible for the decline in public trust will sit back, smile, and continue to diminish it.
Fair point, but it would be more difficult for them to manipulate the public trust if there weren't channels like Facebook to enable them. The deplatforming of political figures this past year illustrated the effectiveness of depriving them of the tools of disinformation.
I detached from the mainstream of conversation.
Which doesn't matter if the "mainstream" of conversation is mostly bullshit, which it is in 2021. Almost nothing in the mainstream being discussed is factual anymore. Why bother to participate in a conversation that's being so blatantly manipulated?
began dispatching the American military — before the Civil War not a truly permanent force — on foreign adventures.
The navy was always a permanent force. There were permanent army regiments before the ACW. The army did not significantly expand post-ACW. Even port WWI the army wasn't expanded that much. Yes, there were foreign military adventures during this period, but the US military was still small - not significant in comparison to European militaries of the period. Again, the author is playing fast and loose with facts. But that's to be expected in today's academy.
First America, Colonial America, lasted from about 1619 with the importation of the first African slaves to 1776 and the War of Independence.
Jamestown was settled in 1607. Dating this from the arrival of a literal handful of African slaves already shows that this guy's arguments are full of shit.
Multiply that across the economy, and you have better-paid employees working in concert with software to more efficiently serve customers.
Which is what digital transformation is all about
collapsing birth rate.
Trying to associate this with porn when it's clearly been associated with increaded educational and economic opportunity for women for decades is pretty gross. I think the author of this article is showing her ass. Pun intended.
‘The sex-negativity thing has been simmering for a long time,’ she says, ‘but now the house is burning down.’
Not that I can see. There certainly isn't much evidence of this online. I think this person is judging the world by the bubble she is in.
There's an enormous difference between engaging in good etiquette (calling people by the pronouns they prefer, using the proper term for their spouse, etc.) and engaging in work-unrelated political discourse. Adults can generally tell the difference, and the message seems clear and simple: Focus mostly on work when you're at work, please and thank you
And there's the issue: not enough adults in the workforce today.
"Basecamp pulls a Coinbase and decides to exclude marginalized people by prohibiting 'political' discussions at work, despite our lives and existence being inherently political," tweeted Liz Fong-Jones, principal developer advocate at Honeycomb.
Bullshit.
But a recusal ought to seen as an admission that a particular company isn't qualified to offer solutions for a problem of bad policy or distorted incentives; or an admission that the people who chose to work for said company did not consent to advancing a particular slate of political priorities; or maybe simply an statement that a particular company has chosen to do something else with its time, because that's its damn prerogative.
Exactly. Companies are not here to advance Social Justice issues. Trying to make everything about that, and politics in general, is toxic as hell.
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Who the fuck says that?
No one had thought about the impact that this button would have on the mental health of many people all over the world, especially on teens.
Bullshit. They knew exactly what they were doing and have admitted it.
And today, in our time, the idea of the mass slaughter of sentient animals to eat seems very strange, if not cruel.
What did you do with all of them? No way anyone was going to pay to keep millions of animals alive for who knows how long.
In the social media environment of that time they became tagged as the #Ateam showing the #NewWayForward.
And promptly received death threats from QAnon and Nazis, were ridiculed by Elon Musk, and eventually quit Social Media altogether...
I get that this is supposed to be the optimistic scenario, but some stuff is beyond the bounds of credibility here.
By the 2020s the design thinking concept was fully developed, well understood by legions of university graduates, and ready to scale.
There's a big assumption here that Design Thinking works to create innovation. I think the jury is very much still out on that.
The exception to this was people working on Support, who had to work the times set out in our support agreement with our users.
Which is always the issue with trying to do things like this in a support organization. Support is an inherently reactive role.
He called it a "messy" process and "one of the hardest things to do virtually," since he finds it impossible for people to riff off each other on a video call.
He's not doing it right, then.
The air is clean, the water is clean and nobody would dare to touch the protected areas of nature because they constitute such value to our well being.
This would be great, but people don't work this way.
Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better
I love all this from my Bright Green perspective. It's tough to see it happening this quickly though from November 2020 in the US, with trump refusing to concede and COVID-19 ravaging us.
Then, when clean energy became free, things started to move quickly
In less than a decade from now?
it’s worth the upgrade over the normal pen, which costs $49 — the device does not come with one by default
Definitely get the upgraded pen. It makes the note-taking process so much nicer
The 10.3-inch reMarkable 2 ($399) takes e-ink and shows off its capabilities beyond e-books, as if someone finally took the shackles off.
This has been exactly my experience with this device. It shows what e-ink is capable of.
I've been engaged in a similar exercise since shortly before the plague started, working on my next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND utopian novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias and their plutocratic/neofeudal paymasters.
I'm really beginning to believe we're going to need a truth and reconciliation process soon.
It's a form of socialism for the very, very rich and brutal austerity for the rest of us, as the businesses around us implode for lack of access to capital and take the jobs with them.
How long before people decide to do something about this? The guillotines are going to come out, or the rest of the world is going to come and take care of this.
The focus of some Western environmentalists on population growth is problematic in ways that cannot be ignored.
Call this what it is: eco-fascism.
“I think what we’re going to see is more tourism to Africa, because it wasn’t hit that hard,” predicts Nabongo, referring to early coronavirus numbers emerging from the continent, though cases are still on the rise.
When you don't have any test kits and aren't doing any testing, it looks like numbers are low. Do not ever pay an attention to this idiot, she clearly has no idea what she's talking about.
The reason was likely not genius, but market manipulation.
When there looks to be genius in business, check for the grift.
When the left started telling people that they’d better get used to doing less with less, that flying to your holidays was an act of depraved environmental indifference, that the new normal meant flushing your toilet only when absolutely necessary, meant stooping to pick pests off of crops, meant foregoing the pleasure of blueberries in winter, the left transformed from the side that promised comfort for all to the side that insisted that comfort was the luxury we couldn’t afford.
Which was absolute death to the Left, because who wants to live like that? It was also BS. It was and is a means of gaining power and control, not a reflection of reality.
So far, the company is keeping its annual lease, which runs some $5,000 a month
Six employees and a $5000 a month lease? Are you insane? A year from now people are going to look back on stuff like this as completely crazy.
The only real way to shock (as distinct from softening them with missile fire) close-order heavy infantry out of position was with other close order heavy infantry, and even then, it is going to be a slow, grinding affair of close-in fighting (as it was, for instance, when Roman legions met Macedonian phalanxes, or the ‘push of pike’ between early modern pike squares).
Which is why head-on cavalry charges against formed infantry are a fools game!
Vegetius notes that a legion ought to bring 65 catapults on campaign (55 ballista and 10 onagers; Veg. 2.25
I need to re-read Vegetius again...