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The consequences of RTO policies in the pursuit of micro management and organisational overreach.


Researchers from the universities of Chicago & Michigan analyzed resumes of employees of Apple, Microsoft & Space X and determined that their RTO policies led to a decrease in senior staff by 5%. This analysis was prior to layoffs at these companies.

This is evidence that RTO leads to attrition of senior employees. It seems obvious but it's great to have a research study backing the intuition.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/rto-mandates-led-to-pronounced-exodus-of-senior-workers-at-top-tech-firms/



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My first ever paper was accepted to the @AoIR conference!

The topic is offline-first (local-first) p2p communication protocols.

I feel elated 🥰

@AoIR
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Yes please.

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"Unser Spezialgebiet liegt darin, Städte, Regierungen & Organisationen bei der Wiederherstellung des Fahrrads als normales städtisches Transportmittel zu beraten und zu inspirieren. Für uns besteht unsere Arbeit darin, in jeder Stadt, in der wir arbeiten, ein Denkmal für Einfallsreichtum, Rationalität & menschenbetriebenen Transport zu entwerfen."

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#WirsinderVerkehr
#verkehrswende
#autoszugast #KeinBlutzollmehr #VisionZero
#VorbildParisAmsterdamKopenhagen




Customers were allowed to run up tabs – but had to leave their sets of false teeth as collateral, which were kept in a bucket of water.


What a story! 😆


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Anyone in #Berlin want to present a #fediverse or federation related topic at a casual meetup I am hosting at @offline on May 19th? Please respond here or DM me! :fediverse: :fediverse: :fediverse:
#ActivityPub #Bluesky #Nostr #XMPP #Matrix
UPDATE: we have enough confirmed people! Please come join the event!
https://offline.place/events/2024/05/19/berlin-federated-network-exploration-circle/
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My friend: have you even heard a word I’ve said?

Me: what an odd way to begin a conversation.

#DadJokes #Puns #NotMyFault #ADHD #ImSorry

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World looking at an average of at least 1.5 C increase in temperature. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

That doesn’t necessarily mean a uniform 1.5C increase across the world. It’ll be severely more in the equatorial regions, particularly in South East Asia, where we potentially have already seen an increase of ~3C in April/ May. https://social.vivaldi.net/@cydonian/112335789047432896


Apparently the only time I can go out for a brisk walk is 10PM-7AM. It’s 29 degrees C at all other times.

Essentially the average temperature for April / May till 2020 has now become the minimum, and the mean maximum has become the daily mean.


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For now, but that won't always be the case. Just wait until the next VEI 6-7 volcanic event. Then there'll be a decline of 1.5-4.5 degrees or possibly more depending upon the scale it. That will definitely happen along with a decent sized meteorite of about 15-25 meters striking the earth whether in an ocean or on land.
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@LanguageMan1 I would like to solve problems that are facing down my throat right now, and not solve the plot of a Bruce Willis starrer, thanks.

The average temperature has increased by more than 3C in these parts, and is likely to increase even more. This will cause disruptions for food and accommodation among other things. This is happening now, not in an imagined story universe.



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Any serious #gamer with experience of #minecraft around?

I'm advising someone on a mini project for designing/ optimising a factory layout. For some inexplicable reason the person sent a plan based on a lengthy “simulation” done with a computer game called Minecraft. I don't want to dismiss this as nonsense, because I don't know anything about #gaming and they seem rather enthusiastic about linking gaming to operations management.

My initial questions : 1. Are these (rather rustic looking) screenshots from Minecraft? 2. To what extent can you actively configure input pattern in this game, including realistic elements of a factory such as a floor plan, type of machinery, number of staff? 3. How do advanced (sandbox) gamers usually control (or would like to control[!]) their simulations to get a favourable “yield”?

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I'm not a Minecraft expert but it's my understanding that you can build fairly complex machinery including analog computers.





One begins to grasp why the emotional trauma of hatred must be so deep-seated seeing these terrifying types of race relations.


On Emory's campus this morning, Atlanta police were seen continuing to tase an already handcuffed student. He'd been thrown to the ground and handcuffed with no resistance yet the cops are out here torturing him in plain sight.

Clearly demonstrating why cop city must never be built.

#Atlanta #Emory #StopCopCity #FreePalestine #ACAB #StudentSpring


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@nullagent It must be so gratifying for them to see their votes at work.

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Emory University today:

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Is there anything I can do for you?

Yes, can you call the Philosophy department and tell them I've been arrested. I'm Noelle McAfee, I'm the Chair of the Philosophy department, and I'm being arrested."

"This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine.” - Aaron Bushnell

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The shift away from seeing Consent as a magic privacy bullet requires broader transformations, including how dehumanising we relate to each other in the mart of competitive commerce.


"Consent to use data" is often a total fiction! Can you completely read and deliberately agree to hundreds of privacy consent notices a month? Of course not! Yet, GDPR and much American privacy law assume that's true. I say it, and now a noted law professor says it: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4333743

Policy makers need to stop pretending that consent is a magic bullet for ensuring privacy. Instead, companies need to do right by their users BY DEFAULT, not based on boxes they check.


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It's so frustrating to see Microsoft copy inventions from the Linux world and act like they're new. Ads in the start menu? Come on, we had that in Ubuntu back in 2012 already, you're late to the party *again*.
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