My org seems to be making hard choices to do the wrong thing at the moment. Hope I am wrong.
Agreed I’ve usually found existing employees honest and helpful. Often it’s hard to get an opportunity for an honest conversation before you accept a new job though.
I think this is why the plan went through. Trump has too much personal investment and too many personal allies in the middle east to let IL continue to advance their plan of a “greater israel.” They paused to focus on that. Maybe wishful thinking. We’ll see soon I guess.
Good questions
What? This? This is a security zone I made in your space for me to be in.
I agree with your assessment. You’re creating healthy boundaries around your work. You’re taking your breaks legally. You’re doing your job. A job it sounds like you took specifically because you didn’t enjoy the other roles. Those other roles probably do need to be reformed. The more people that put up healthy work boundaries, the more likely policies will be adjusted to actually accommodate for (usually legally mandated!) break and lunch periods. If everyone skips lunch that becomes defacto policy and ruins it for everyone (including the patients getting worse care because their team isn’t in top form).
I held on to mine longer than I wanted to but got fed up. There’s definitely friends I don’t keep up with as well now though. Wish there was a simple and secure way to share updates and photos with friends/family aside from group chats.
I never used Snap but back when I had instagram I tried to train my algorithm to show me ONLY cute animal posts by only clicking in to view those videos (selecting from explorer rather than scroll mode). Nonetheless, IG insisted on including fitness and diet influencer videos and random “funny” clips in my feed
I agree, Kirk wasn’t minding the party line on Epstein list matters
It’s an urgent “hurry” maybe similar to “careening”
No one deserves anything in the state of nature, everything just is what it is.
Desert regards The Social Contract. The contract says we mutually agree to behave respectfully towards eachother, to honor eachother’s right to exist and persist in the world. When a person fails to abide by the contract, they aren’t covered by it either. A person who hoards resources beyond what they can possibly use is not covered by the contract and deserves no protection under it.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
Some days all I do is watch the sky
The research on it is pretty murky because marketing firms frequently fund research studies but if you poke around at some of the many meta-analysis papers out there I think it’s hard to conclude that advertising is a net profit for big companies, at least in a dollars in dollars out sense. Freakonomics did an interesting episode on the topic in 2020.
For a new brand with zero visibility I’m sure ads gain new customers, but established brands (which make up most of the advertising I see) probably aren’t making much of an impact on their sales with their incessant campaigns.
Ads make me especially mad because there’s reasonable evidence to suggest they aren’t effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyone’s time and money
Learning to make workplace smalltalk will make work easier and more pleasant. You can learn to deflect away from topics that are super boring to you and you can develop an “I’m super busy” persona for times when you need to focus.
That’s really inspiring
“The pace of what we are building is unprecedented, and these are exactly the kind of challenges that define what we do best.”
What is it that you do best though? What do you sell?
Moving 1000 engineers to a “data labeling team” and calling it applied AI basically seems like demoting 1000 engineers to non-engineering roles, I’d be insulted but people working for Meta in 2026 probably don’t have a lot of pride to lose. Seems like most AI companies outsource the labelling stuff so I wonder how Meta is justifying paying people engineering salaries to do it.
AFAIK most clients don’t automatically tag posts as any language, so almost everything is lumped under undetermined. When I post from voyager I don’t have an option to select the language.
Some former software like kbin automatically tagged language and added hashtags automatically to make posts discoverable by microblog fedi communities. Maybe mbin or piefed are currently using that capability?
But I think the short answer is that the language feature isn’t very practically useful right now, but might be in the future as features are built out/expanded.
What do you think he’s proposing as an alternative to diplomacy? What’s he going to do ‘on the ground’ in Switzerland?