@MidnightRider my boss has been extremely supportive but there have been some "run ins" with more senior people. None of this will cost the company an extra dime. I'm moving for a year for an adventure and just needed remote work approval.

On June 6, I received final approval from HR for my move to Spain with my family for a year. I had been told for over a year that this shouldn't be a problem as we have remote employees all over, including Europe. Then on THURSDAY, my immediate boss says that there were concerns about my performance the past couple months and I hadn't been approved. Now the "miscommunication" is being investigated. I don't exactly want to be talking to labor attorneys for the first month of "vacation"...

@Dane looks like Gaia had it right but then messed it all up...

@tyghebright also my gigantic poster with just one commandment: be good for the flying spaghetti monster!

@dauphin87 the 15th commandment said "These commandments are written in FUCKING STONE. They mean exactly what they say. You don't get to "interpret" them however you please."

There is a reason that regulatory bodies exist. They may oftentimes be overbearing and sometimes stifle innovation. But innovation can also be completely stopped in its tracks by disasters like this. This should never have happened and society needs the ability to protect good-faith whistleblowers, even from common business vehicles like NDAs.

https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files/#intcid=_wired-right-rail_b6e1521f-188a-41c7-8ccf-5d4fb392c3e5_popular4-1-reranked-by-vidi

@th3j35t3r my NFTs are huuuuge (unlike my hands)! They're also MADE IN AMERICA, just like my red ties...oh wait.

Back in my PhD days, I worked with technology invented by Gelernter, a brilliant guy (with whose politics and social stances I vehemently disagree but that is immaterial). It's interesting to see how people were thinking 25+ years ago. "The desktop is dead" was a statement made because of scale. Google and others solved it via search and we are now all paying a certain price in terms of privacy.
https://www.wired.com/1997/02/lifestreams/

@scottyorange except the Catholic Church in particular has way more experience and has very rarely had to pay for bilking people out of trillions. Same for Trump...

@ecksmc we should just have AIs fight simulated battles and all agree that the winner gets compensated in real assets...

@thedisasterautist does MDMA work?

@JV3MJD as her jacket once read "I don't care... Do you?"

@JV3MJD I mean the only difference at this point is that Trump looks more Aryan than the original...

@th3j35t3r

@kel diabolical!

This is an interesting and important article but couldn't we just have @th3j35t3r run everything instead? 😜

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

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@JolieSaboteuse from an astrophysics standpoint I don't think any interstellar civilization would ever detect us and even if they did, a Bezos with antennae would be like "BORING..." So far we only have a detectable sphere of transmissions with a radius of ~100 light years in a galaxy with a diameter of 1,000x that distance. Even a type II civilization would have to be searching for us and they have absolutely no reason to. We are for all intents and purposes, alone.

@waywardflf @th3j35t3r I appreciate the creativity here. He needs to suffer but also contemplate his existence...