“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”
I think you’re talking about “at-will” employment, which allows the employer or employee to terminate employment for no reason at any time. Only Montana doesn’t have that (unfortunately for the rest of us), and employers must show good cause for termination after a set probationary period. “Right-to-work” means that you can’t be required to join a union or pay fair share fees as a requirement of employment. 26 states have this on the books.
I live in a state with both laws, and it sucks as much as you’d imagine… (mainly because it’s fairly indicative of other issues throughout the state).
Processional: “She’s the One” by World Party for groom and family, “Book of Love” by Peter Gabriel for bride. It ended up being perfectly timed, because I was able to sing the last verse to my favorite person when I got to him (which is about wanting to give each other wedding rings)
In another thread, @flooppoolf made a post leading to the question “How long until we need to include a lesson on crafting appropriate AI prompts in order to help students use them as tools and not as unpaid ghost writers?” Are we already doing this?...
Academic librarians are already here with prompt engineering to obtain (more) accurate responses, particularly with finding keywords to use, etc. Maybe surprising to some, but faculty are our biggest requesters for how to do it “for research.” We also give a bunch of caveats, because we don’t want to be tracking down hundreds of fake references from AI either.
In this post I am speaking as a Beehaw fanatic and not as an admin. That is why it is placed in the chat community. To be clear, I am not speaking on behalf of the Beehaw admin team nor the community as a whole....
With Pebble shutting down already, I’m going to stick with Beehaw where it ends up. The ethos around discussion and understanding is the reason I have this account.
Basically the title. I’ve been thinking of checking out Mastodon, and I’d like to get opinions on which instances are great. I’m mostly just looking for something like Beehaw. That is to say, a chill and friendly place that’s at least decently active....
Before starting my own personal one, I used ones run by @Stux, mstdn.social and masto.ai. He has another one that’s based around coffee lovers, too: mastodon.coffee. They’re pretty laid back servers!
Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10....
We switched to Duo, too. Making that plan unlimited was the las barrier to my spouse jumping aboard the Kagi train. We’re in for the yearly Duo sub as of this evening!
When we lived in Duluth, we couldn’t find a place that didn’t require us to entirely declaw our cat, so we found a rental out of town. I’m so glad to see that requirement become illegal. It’s cruel and unnecessary mutilation.
No, my local public library removed fines a few years ago and added auto-renewal in its place. You get three renewals and then another three-week grace period before they even send you a polite letter that says they might declare it lost if you don’t return it.
The first legal sale of recreational marijuana in Minnesota was made on the Red Lake reservation on Tuesday to a tribal employee before a throng of journalists and tribal leaders.
I’ve been using StoryGraph since it came around and really enjoy it. I’ve looked at BookWyrm, but I haven’t considered switching yet.
The article mentions the WaPo connection to Amazon and its board, as they should, but I’m surprised to see this particular topic there, too.
This particular paragraph is disingenuous in its characterization of what’s going on with Reddit, though:
There was also a concern that any major changes to the platform could scare people away. One former employee compared Goodreads to Reddit, an 18-year-old internet forum where users are revolting because of modifications to the site. “People feel like they can’t anger the community,” the former employee said.
The Artisan's Coop is building itself right now. Only time will tell how successful it will be, but they're taking their time to try to build a useful and real cooperative.
It also isn't that Mastodon is necessarily a replacement for Twitter (or Lemmy for reddit). I use these communities vastly differently than I did those two places: I am much more involved and feel like an actual part of my curated communities. I'm not a lurker or a pair of potential eyes to be advertised at.
The ways that our Fediverse options are different are myriad and immensely important in a way that most outside observers don't get. These aren't "just replacements" at all; they're communities—and upgraded ones at that.
This hsppens in an Atlantis episode, “The Shrine,” and the gate seems to work. Atlantis has the shield up, luckily, so the water from the dial-in doesn’t come through from the flooded gate. The gate does not shut down normally, however, due to water continually attempting to pass through, and requires the 38-minute buffer to close the connection. Once it closes, Atlantis dials back out to the flooded gate and sends a jumper through.
Why do people hear their names being called in the woods? (www.livescience.com)
Safety in typing, no cloud needed (f-droid.org)
Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)
“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”
Is the Southern Accent Disappearing? (youtu.be)
Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies (www.wired.com)
What were your wedding processionals/recessionals and why?
I was just running through these, and, I think they’re rather illuminating....
Twitter’s decentralized offshoot Bluesky now has 2 million users (www.theverge.com)
Lessons in Developing AI Prompts
In another thread, @flooppoolf made a post leading to the question “How long until we need to include a lesson on crafting appropriate AI prompts in order to help students use them as tools and not as unpaid ghost writers?” Are we already doing this?...
Where will we all be(e) next year?
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Mastodon Users: What Instance(s) Do You Like Best?
Basically the title. I’ve been thinking of checking out Mastodon, and I’d like to get opinions on which instances are great. I’m mostly just looking for something like Beehaw. That is to say, a chill and friendly place that’s at least decently active....
Amanita Fly Agaric (lemmy.one)
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog (blog.kagi.com)
Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10....
New rights for Minnesota renters: Here’s a guide. (sahanjournal.com)
Newly passed legislation evens the playing field between landlords and tenants, housing advocates say.
Does your library still do late fees?
Mine doesn’t, I was surprised when they phased it out but apparently it increased use a ton.
Best keyboard on F-Droid?
I’ve used a couple, Thumb-Key which was fun but didn’t support emojis, and now OpenBoard which is pretty decent as a replacement
Minnesota tribe makes history with state's first legal marijuana sale (minnesotareformer.com)
The first legal sale of recreational marijuana in Minnesota was made on the Red Lake reservation on Tuesday to a tribal employee before a throng of journalists and tribal leaders.
Where did the name “Beehaw” come from?
I know it’s “Yeehaw” with a bee, but where’d that idea for a name come from?
OC Peanut butter cookie
Lemmy apps (vlemmy.net)
Why fireflies are going extinct and what you can do about it (wapo.st)
Summer is here. Where are the fireflies?
Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it. (www.washingtonpost.com)
📚 Time to switch to BookWyrm...
Short Video. Why is Etsy so bad now? (www.tiktok.com)
Mastodon (and the Fediverse) is failing. Here is why. (blog.bloonface.com)
Long read but well worth it if you care....