Cory Doctorow - Pluralistic on bossware. How companies are using algorithms to monitor and their employees while leaving he company managers immune to legal retaliation.
Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform
https://reversing.works/pdf/presentation-37c3-2023-12-30.pdf
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/23/hack-the-class-war/#robo-boss
"CANADA IS #1 IN THE WORLD for most attractive country for graduates. We had a slight blip downwards thanks to the Harper/Poilievre Cons but we returned to the top."
Source: Gallop; The Economist
#astronomy #planets #photography
https://www.seti.org/planetary-picture-day-week-november-11-2024
"Farewell, Neptune
Voyager 2 captured this view of Neptune and Triton as it departed the Neptune system. This image was taken around 735 UT on August 31, 1989. This OGV color image exhibits small amounts of chromatic aberration around the horns of the crescent Neptune due to the smearing of the images during the long exposures necessary to image Neptune in the low lighting of the outer Solar System."
Good morning or thereabouts. Wish the snow would go away - one day is enough but were stuck with it until March π
Sidewalk cafe Seattle WA
Retired left wing 74yo Canadian, Atheist, Widower, Cooking, Politics, Nature, Birds, Cats, Dogs, photography, born 312PPM CO2