Office Life: The Old Gray Mare, She Ain’t What She Used To Be
Ding, dong; the office is dead. The real office is in your head. This is what I tell myself when working from home gets too weird, too stale, too impossible. By now, many of you know some version w…
Are we already in World War III? In many ways, it seems so. There is a hot war between Ukraine and Russia that's only worsening and demanding more and more from the West. Sweden and Finland are joining NATO. Scotland is now planning to break with the UK and join the EU and NATO. Russian is certainly alarmed by these developments and is threatening to take "retaliatory steps." At this point, those who believe the...
Humans are born to make stuff. We almost can't help it. Place us in an empty flat plain and we'll start building things. Put us on a dried lake bed in the middle of the desert and we'll build things, take them down
The early promises about the utopia that the internet would bring us have proven wrong. The internet can never deliver on all it’s capable of when it’s run for profit — we need a publicly owned internet.
In 1660, John Locke published his Two Treatises of Government, where he set out to resolve the seeming conflict between individual property rights (which he valorized) and the Bible (ditto), which …
Apartheid Emerald Mine Space Karen's autopilot conveniently shuts off one second before impact.
"No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error. It can only be attributable to human error." Musk's regulatory woes mount as U.S. moves closer to recalling Tesla's self-driving software: On Thursday, NHTSA said it had discovered in 16 separate instances when this occurred that Autopilot
A fair question that will reveal a lot about that person is to ask them what they believe that the people they most respect do not believe. This question is similar but not the same as one that the investor
The Evidence Just Doesn’t Support Any Of The Narratives About The Harms Of Social Media
A whole bunch of people over the last month have sent me Jonathan Haidt’s essay in The Atlantic, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid,” and asked for …
“NEW: A trucker in the convoy says he’s taking a day off from driving in laps around DC because “3 young girls in a blue Hyundai” flipped him off. He says he’s now fearful: “It wasn’t just a normal middle finger that was relaxed... It messed me up.” (per 1st Responders Media)”
'Sorry to bother you': CNN obtains audio of Russians calling Ukrainian hotline - CNN Video
As President Vladimir Putin offered his support to the mothers, wives and girlfriends of Russian soldiers, CNN's Alex Marquardt reports that many of these women would prefer to know where their husbands and sons are and if they're alive. Some are reaching out to Ukraine to find out.
“My family all agreed to take a Covid test before Christmas.
My brother-in-law secretly lied about getting tested.
Now I have Covid, my parents have Covid & my grandparents have Covid.
If you can't trust your own family at Christmas, who can you trust?
#FreshWords #GetVaxxed”
Wendy Rogers said white nationalists are ‘patriots’ and called for hanging political enemies
GOP Sen. Wendy Rogers fawned over the racist leader of a white nationalist movement on Friday and told his followers that she fantasizes about hanging her perceived enemies from gallows.
“Wow
Harvard will have uninfected students sleep in same room as their infectious roommates unless they petition for a new room.
I’d be pissed if it was my kid
A slippery slope for when cases are manageable & Harvard is trying to keep outbreaks at bay.
https://t.co/YyXgK4qiUM”