Notices by Jay Stephens (jaystephens@mastodon.social)

@inthehands
I'm pretty ignorant about this, but it strikes me that the same industry that built all this big data infrastructure, has already used it to answer the question, and the answer is "mostly no', which is why we hear nothing empirical, when all the tools to provide detailed empirical proof are already built.

@atomicpoet disturbingly close to the truth and a depressingly difficult argument to make

@andi_al @Strandjunker
This. My ELI5:
"The bosses had all the weapons & bullied the workers into giving them all their lunch money.
Then one day the workers realised they could join together & build guillotines and the bosses had to stop taking their lunch money.
So the bosses made up some stories about how guillotines weren't needed anymore because they had stopped their bullying, & we stopped making guillotines.
But the bosses hadn't changed & went right back to stealing workers' lunch money.

@evan that's a huge gap between twice a week and daily or more!
5-6 times/week. Basically every breakfast except weekends.

@glynmoody
I think they mean "analog computers" here, not chips lol

@kate @mekkaokereke @KarenWyld it might not be what we'd hope, but defacto this place may end up being a channel for those who work in tech and can't stomach the Kool ade

@zens @JasonTrue Jason was in the same emigration wave as me from the bad place. Some came before, some came after, but it was easier to find people who plunged around the same time.

@mekkaokereke @rasmus91
My younger kid has been learning drums for a couple of years. Within weeks of starting, he was watching Moffett Youtubes.
Dude's amazing.

@aral
I've been biting my tongue for fear of appearing centrist on this issue.
Here's what gets me:
It is possible to accept that yes, Trump would be worse for Gaza, yes it is a two party system so on voting day it's best to hold your nose and vote Harris..... AND to understand that voting is sometimes less important than street power, and that pressure before the election is worth much more than after, so we have to hold their feet to the fire NOW.

Sometimes the timeline just lines up perfectly
@emarktaylor @girlonthenet

@tokyo_0 The Thursday suggestion is smart though and I will have a think about how to use that idea 👍

@tokyo_0 No he is quite far behind on the whole impulse control thing. We've tried a few long and short term experiments in various areas and the answer seems to be "the things his phase of life is demanding {e.g. knuckling down to x hours of homework per week) are things his development path will have him ready for in 2-3 years".

Saturday is basically unlimited and has been for 2 years and he just sits the whole day glued to the screen.

Tentatively set Mr. 13's Discord time to unlimited.
Nup, straight to staying up late on https://discord.com/blog/server-activities-games-voice-watch-together and unable to get up for school in the morning.
Gah.

A Friend is moving to Fiji from the USA.
He is looking for fully remote work in the Auckland/Sydney timezone:
Senior software engineer/engineering manager.
Specialisations in mobile and front-end.
Any leads DM me.

#fedihire #fedihired

One. It was one.

@tokyo_0 Yeah good frame thanks. It's my awareness that it's not malice that's making me feel bad every time I judge them, whereas I should probably just be like "I shouldn't judge you, but I am".

What's a Buddhist exercise for forbearance around people who just aren't very competent at life

Warning, the bleak reality of being trapped in disaster capitalism will drag you down and crush you

Dominant result for #Putin in the #Russia election - he literally buried the opposition here.

Daily pic of Brisbane