One of the reasons I’m glad we moved to #Chicago: all the festivals we can walk to this summer. This place is just a few of them. There's always something going on and it is wonderful. https://chicagoevents.com/
LinkedIn isn't a good network but I still can't fathom why people would think it is a good idea to put “maga" in their profile by-line. I see it right next to their title or company more and more often.
On the one hand it is, at least for me, a flag telling me to avoid their org but on the other.... how can people be so incomprehensibly stupid?
A friend was just telling me about their new job at a tech company and how she was explained the hierarchy of the building. Each floor is a different role and looks down on the people in the floors below them. Like, the building and org is designed for this.It is, truly, the most dystopian shit I've heard in my 12 years in tech.
@freemo Yeah, this sounds like your first degree. There are three for normal masons (and all sorts of options after that). I confess I haven't been to a lodge meeting since 2011 though. I've kept paying dues as they do some good things in the area I was in but I've never joined another lodge since moving from that area.
Now Chicago is talking about building not 1, but 2 new stadiums for the Bears and the White Sox at over $1 billion each. The Bears current stadium was refurbished not long ago so a new one isn't needed and the White Sox's current stadium is from the 90s but the owner wants an entertainment district around it he can personally profit from so he's demanding the tax payers build him a new one.
@m2m That's a very fair comment and something I'm trying to balance fixing with the fact that I'm in the US and, at 45, have another 22-25 years of work left before I can even consider retirement and have to make sure I can still find work throughout that time. For now removing WordPress is a start, but I'm really struggling with how to take that further and I'm not sure at the moment. That really bothers me. @silviamaggi
@m2m A number of friends and I have turned to Signal because of this. The format itself is similar to iMessage/etc but the killer feature is that we set our room to expire after 24 hours. It’s amazing how freeing it is to know that most will read something and, 24 hours later, it's gone. Nothing to worry about anymore. I'm not sure it's the solution here but it has kept a group of us going for almost 4 years now and is really pretty great for that. @michal_zelazny@mykie@kel@silviamaggi
I often forget to turn my work Slack back to available after some PTO. I find that, when it just lists me as offline, even when I'm at work and replying, that communications with people tend to be much more concise and I get a lot less noise on the platform. I feel a bit guilty for leaving it there but the results speak for themselves.
After 26+ years I've realized that GPG is way-overkill for my threat model and have retired my key. We'll see if it sticks but my new workflow works for me. https://chriswiegman.com/2024/01/goodbye-gpg/
@aral Oye. Took me 3 years to get one to take me in Florida (was even kicked out of an office once for supposedly having a fever). Finally found one and... now I get to start over in Chicago. Thankfully it's just phone rejections though and I don't have to submit any kind of paper application.