#useless work, always masked as "productivity":

https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/03/the-rest-is-organizational-overhead/

VERY true for me:

"a lot of the jobs you're seeing on #LinkedIn and other job-posting sites aren't actually available jobs."

Do you agree? Also:

"From the number of interview sessions to the weeks of time needed to complete all those interviews to the intelligence-insulting aptitude tests to the requests to do actual work for the company as part of the interview process, the tech industry has gone completely off the rails."

https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/tech-companies-cant-find-good-employees-its-their-own-fault.html

"When the AI bubble bursts, Texas is going to be filled with the rotting corpses of no-longer needed data warehouses — and no jobs to show for it."

(if so, the sooner the better, I say, so the rest of us can learn and get back to reality without being directly hurt)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/01/ai-data-centers-are-trashing-the-texas-energy-grid/

Economists saying tax on REALLY rich ppl would be

"more likely accepted if proceeds went to solve #climatechange than global ­#inequality."

don't say it's 2 sides of same coin

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/28/brazil-radical-plan-tax-global-super-rich-tackle-climate-crisis

#onthisday in 2015, I noticed 3 Wikipedia editions telling 3 different inventions of CGI (the metal)

NINE years later, it's the same, but in FOUR editions.

German & French #wikipedia mention an English and a German, the English one only the English guy, and the Italian one only the German one

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

Selected links on interesting things in this day, from 2010 to 2023 (*):

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-august-30/

(*) Like BoingBoing used to be, just with memory, but without ads and distractions.

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

Selected links on interesting things in this day, from 2011to 2023 (*):

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-august-29/

(*) Like BoingBoing used to be, just with memory, but without ads and distractions.

In 2022 I said "NEVER buy a smart car where the choice is pay for stuff you'll never use, or pay for it twice":

https://stop.zona-m.net/2022/02/the-millionth-reason-to-never-buy-your-next-car/

Now, I learned BMW ditched that idiotic feature:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/bmw-is-giving-up-on-heated-seat-subscriptions-because-people-hated-them

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

Selected links on interesting things, today from 2010 to 2023 (*):

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-august-28/

(*) Like BoingBoing used to be, just with memory, but without ads and distractions.

After the last moves of #Zuckerberg, it seems useful to repost these

"Thoughts on #USA2024, and 9 suggestions to make them work"

because it's important to understand how, exactly, a "disinformation apocalypse" will work:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-usa2024-and-9-suggestions

#Google's obsession for "newness",

the real problem behind #Disney 's "wokeness",

streaming that should be like movie teathers,

and what these three things have in common:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/google-sucks-snow-white-is-woke-in

From abroad, it's funny and confusing to see many Americans dislike ANY variant of the *idea* of "candidates chosen w/o primaries & w/o 1 vote cast for them by the people in the name of saving democracy"

Considering how much everything about voting is messed up in the US, that is: https://stop.zona-m.net/2021/01/some-comments-im-seeing-on-georgias-runoff.../

My 1st MILLION words about #digitalRights, #ethics, #automation & much more is still online: https://stop.zona-m.net

To see the second as it happens, subscribe here: https://mfioretti.substack.com

@ceorl YES! This is all I needed.

Thanks, I'd have hardly seen that strip myself...

@ceorl closer, but not there yet.

I was indeed in simplified mode.

I have switched back to advanced mode.

Now I do have 3 columns again, but (unlike before) their width does not adapt to the browser window anymore

See screenshot. Now, I either see the mentions, OR the firehose.

What's missing? Thanks!

@ceorl Thanks for the prompt reply, but maybe I did not make myself clear. What I see now is in this screenshot, and there is nothing to scroll to, left or right.

Before, in exactly the same window, I saw three columns at the same time: the text input field to post new stuff (L), the community firehose in the center, and notifications on the right. How do I get back to that?

Official request to the maintainers of EVERY #Linux distribution.

In your next release, do NOT ADD or UPDATE ANYTHING (except security fixes of course). NO new features or packages.

Just add to the official repositories native packages of as many more programs as possible

Spare us from pip, rubygems, cargo, npm and all that mess.

That is, spare us from THIS CHAOS: https://stop.zona-m.net/2022/01/the-sorry-sorry-state-of-linux-packaging/

PLEASE