adespoton

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I disagreed with it at the time and do again now… there’s no grand conspiracy; people are just depressingly predictable in how they respond to economic and cultural pressures. Some people recognize the trends and attempt to ride them or even control them (or stop them), but with a few notable exceptions, history tends to just roll on regardless — which can look to some as if there must be some cabal of puppet masters calling the shots.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 hours ago

Republicans seem totally unaware that DEI means “instead of excluding people because they may not fit in because they aren’t straight white men, hire them based on their actual qualifications.”

Then again, some of them probably know this and resent it.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

For those of us who lived through it, what he said was blatantly obvious at the time.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

… which was spent on voter turnout in Bangladesh, not India.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago

You could use Afrikaans as that’s the language of Musk’s home country. That way, you could insist that you were trying to make it easier for him to read.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Seems like a really good application for LLMs here. Use activity log as source and then turn it into a 500 page showstopper.

In German.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

Any good place for me to contact you?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Well, as a lot of us are on instances hosted outside the US, a very long time.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

The show is essentially about toxic work culture. It explores all the tropes with the twist that a person’s work consciousness is completely severed from their rest-of-life consciousness; one has no recall of what the other has done.

This is only for the workers and doesn’t extend to managers.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

That’s why he had to seek out the authors and appoint them to key government positions… so he’d be properly informed!

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Hmm… if it’s hosted in Portugal, then it’s under the GDPR instead of the CPA and PIPEDA.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

That could actually be useful. The one thing I used to use Twitter for was tracking local emergency response. If all of that operated on a local mastodon instance that all government orgs and press outlets used, I’d be down with that.

Of course, it would be even better if we knew it would, for instance, survive a massive earthquake.

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