Yay! Private equity thieves have moved into veterinary practices. By move, I mean, taken them over.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/vet-private-equity-industry/678180/

Old market, new product

"You cannot spin up GPU nodes in AWS Dublin as those locations are maxed out power-wise. There is reserved capacity for EC2 just in case,"

"This is another reason why it is not feasible for most European organizations to close all their datacenters and migrate wholesale to the public cloud as the capacity just is not there and won't be for decades,"

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/aws_resource_restrictions/

#ThisIsThePlace for #CitizenScience: "#CoCoRaHS stands for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network. It is a volunteer network made up of people just like you who report the precipitation that falls in their own backyard! Like the name implies, they report rain, hail, and snow!

Becoming a CoCoRaHS observer is easy! All you need is an official CoCoRaHS 4" diameter manual gauge and an internet connection to submit your reports.

https://www.weather.gov/ohx/cocorahs

Kurt Weill, German/American composer, known for his work with Bertolt Brecht, who wrote lyrics for significant Weill music works, was born on Mar. 2, 1900 (d. 1950). #KurtWeill

Lotte Lenya - "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" (Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht) (from Die Dreigroschenoper)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7eO7MKEZAY

>> Last year, tech companies laid off more than 260,000 workers, according to layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi, cuts that executives mostly blamed on “over-hiring” during the pandemic and high interest rates making it harder to invest in new business ventures. But as those layoffs have dragged into 2024 despite stabilizing interest rates and a booming job market in other industries, the tech workforce is feeling despondent and confused.

(gift link) https://wapo.st/492HLkX

The absurdity of the return-to-office movement https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/opinions/remote-work-jobs-bergen/index.html

Heh.

🔥🌍#ClimateEmergency

You remember "bitcoin" and "NFT's" right. Well carbon credits are that same scam.

Controversial carbon credits flood COP28, yet still no rules.

The COP28 climate talks have been flooded with announcements hyping controversial carbon credits before rules for them have been hammered out, with environmental groups fearing "greenwashing" on a massive scale.

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-controversial-carbon-credits-cop28.html

"hello"

What a cool story. #Corvids are very smart.

https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/wild-crow-who-speaks-english-appears-to-be-teaching-his-friends-to-talk

I'm starting to look forward to retirement, when I can just run around the woods and the only human contact I'll have is making day hikers think I'm sasquatch.

Leadership Language Lessons from Star Trek

Oh right, like you can resist a headline like that.
https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2021/03/14/leadership-language-lessons-from-star-trek/

The greedy-ass rich don't care until their bottom lines are effected. Period. 🤑 💰

https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-amazon-walmart-doordash

this seems bad

#CosoSec #InfoSec

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/hackers-can-force-ios-and-macos-browsers-to-divulge-passwords-and-a-whole-lot-more/

🤨 Well someone's not getting their Amazon gift receipt and message from whoever got it for them... because it ended up in my box. 🤦‍♂️ Whoever it's for though is really loved.

There's a point where the additional money you could make is just not worth the b.s., and I respect the h*ll out of people who choose not to career-climb because they've actually figured out how to have a life that works for them.