Welp. Guess I’ll be spending the next few/several years paying down federal student loans that total less than what any of the 6 fascists in robes make in a day.
Don’t get me wrong: for me, this is a moderate inconvenience (barring anything catastrophic, at least). For many, many others, this is a direct threat to their livelihoods.
SCOTUS just made the lives of millions measurably worse.
Did your #education prepare you for #life, for #work, did it #develop your #mind? Or was it just a box-ticking exercise, paying for 4 years just to get a piece of #paper at the end of it?
And, wouldn't it have been easier to get that same piece of paper from a school that wouldn't cost you 20-30-40-50k/year that you didn't actually have to spend?
@futurebird I think that this is another thing that activitypub can be made to do in addition to all the stuff it already takes the form of
I think there’s a bit of a need for a work from home but ‘check in’ sort of arrangement which isn’t the conventional microboggling thoroughly time wasting meaningless noise that exists already on the fediverse (that we’re all here for all day anyway)
It has to be something that’s a bit more continuous and serious, but not so serious that it resembles linked in, and it’d have to be mostly for logging time and achievements and starring other people’s achievements and time/effort spent
It’d be like a sort of calendar and timesheet but fun, it’d have to be not like a real job (in that if I want to put a masturbation break in the time sheet, it’s allowed) but it should be something that one would take at least a bit seriously and not just forget it exists after having hilarious fun with it for a few days of absurdity then nothing
It’d be networky, in that it’s all very well logging your own time but there’s a lot of leverage in being slightly accountable (~0.5%?) to other people because you said you were going to do something and did
It could also be a sort of help / problem removal platform but that’s not the main thing (or who knows, maybe it might)
But it won’t in most ways resemble being on mastodon, yet it’s activitypub
@futurebird I think that this is another thing that activitypub can be made to do in addition to all the stuff it already takes the form of
I think there’s a bit of a need for a work from home but ‘check in’ sort of arrangement which isn’t the conventional microboggling thoroughly time wasting meaningless noise that exists already on the fediverse (that we’re all here for all day anyway)
It has to be something that’s a bit more continuous and serious, but not so serious that it resembles linked in, and it’d have to be mostly for logging time and achievements and starring other people’s achievements and time/effort spent
It’d be like a sort of calendar and timesheet but fun, it’d have to be not like a real job (in that if I want to put a masturbation break in the time sheet, it’s allowed) but it should be something that one would take at least a bit seriously and not just forget it exists after having hilarious fun with it for a few days of absurdity then nothing
It’d be networky, in that it’s all very well logging your own time but there’s a lot of leverage in being slightly accountable (~0.5%?) to other people because you said you were going to do something and did
It could also be a sort of help / problem removal platform but that’s not the main thing (or who knows, maybe it might)
But it won’t in most ways resemble being on mastodon, yet it’s activitypub
@Radical_EgoCom Quiet Quitting (not working unpaid hours) is Setting Limits, good in any relationship. Rested employees tend to be more productive in allotted hours, but people miss that.
Why so many negative articles? Crabs in a bucket, people pulling everyone else down to their level. People don't want to feel stupid or lazy, or be noticed looking different, so they write about it. Those that think they benefit from unpaid overtime also encourage writing about it, using the derogatory tag quiet quitting. (No, it's not entitlements, it's benefits.)
However, "quiet quitting" is now a thing because more and more people understand the trade offs, and only want to work for hours paid and then actually enjoy having a life. (I mean, think about it: If you're paid $x for 40 hours, but you work 80 hours, aren't you really working two jobs at $x/2? Google employees, I'm looking at you.)
#Technology #Facebook content moderators in #Kenya call the work ‘torture.’ Their lawsuit may ripple worldwide
"NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — On the verge of tears, Nathan Nkunzimana recalled watching a video of a child being molested and another of a woman being killed.
Eight hours a day, his job as a content moderator for a Facebook contractor required him to look at horrors so the world wouldn’t have to. Some overwhelmed colleagues would scream or cry, he said."
#AI#GenerativeAI#Automation#Work#Unemployment: "Some argue that teaching people to code is the priority. But this is an activity at which AI systems are already impressive — AlphaCode, developed by DeepMind, outperformed almost half the contestants in major coding competitions. Instead, we should be alive to the emergence of unfamiliar new roles, such as the all-important prompt optimisers — those who, for now, are the most adept at instructing and securing the best responses from generative AI systems.
There are of course risks with the latest AI. A recent technical paper on GPT4 acknowledges the systems can “amplify biases and perpetuate stereotypes”. They can “hallucinate”. They can also be plain wrong and raise the spectre of technological unemployment.
Hence the frenzy of ethical and regulatory debate. At some stage, though, as its performance improves, and the benefits become unarguable, the threats and shortcomings will frequently be outweighed by the improved access AI provides.
The professions are unprepared. Many companies are still focused on selling the time of their people, and their growth strategies are premised on building larger armies of traditional lawyers, auditors, tax advisers, architects and the rest." https://www.ft.com/content/96a1877f-0bbb-48c7-be8f-4fed437810e8