avuko

@avuko@infosec.exchange

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avuko, to random

The $500 billion ‘Office real estate apocalypse’: Researchers find remote work’s effect even worse than expected | Fortune https://fortune.com/2023/05/25/office-space-crash-harder-than-expected-remote-work-economy-cre-crash/

“And in their model, that equates to a $500 billion “value destruction,” nationwide.”

In case you wondered: That’s value for someone other than you and me, the office workers.

Did even a single one of all of those C-level people, their HR, sycophant managers, the newspapers, the real estate companies, brokers etc.

Did even a single one of those who insisted you and I should go back to the office, ever have the courage to tell you it was for their profits, and for their profits only?

All those times you and I ventured out, without a vaccin, with flimsy screens between desks, pretend masks, hand sterilisation dispensers, arrows taped to the ground, warning signs… all to keep us away from our colleagues but IN THE OFFICE; sick, scared and dying.

All of that just so their wealth, stuffed into office buildings, the very buildings enclosing you from all sides, literal death traps, would keep its value. Value for them. Never for us. Because they don’t care about us.

GossiTheDog, (edited ) to random
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

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    avuko,

    @GossiTheDog Wait. It’s “too sensitive” to discuss?
    But it was just IT, not cyber, right?

    Do corporations with sweet, sweet government contracts have sensitivities we should care about?

    avuko, to animals

    avuko, (edited ) to random

    Those who would give up essential Well-being for all, to purchase a little temporary Wealth for some, deserve neither Well-being nor Wealth.

    avuko, to animals

    Happy

    atomicpoet, to random

    What @gruber clearly doesn’t understand about the Fediverse is that I don’t have to interact with people or services that make me miserable.

    Which I couldn’t do when I was using Facebook. I was at the mercy of their algorithm, hoping that I wouldn’t encounter something they dumped into my feed which would make me deeply unhappy.

    And yet he believes that choosing not to connect with makes you a “misfit island loser”.

    @gruber believes that freedom of association is for losers.

    avuko,

    @atomicpoet @gruber

    ✅ misfit
    ✅ loser
    ✅ zealot

    I’m right where I belong.

    avuko,

    @atomicpoet @gruber

    I don’t want to fit into a dopamine trap of never ending plastic pretend, where winning is by definition at the expense of everyone else, and any ideals or sense of togetherness and goals are to be replaced by product placements, consumerism and ads to sell you shit you don’t need or do things you don’t want.

    And I’m perfectly fine with you wanting to torture yourself like that, as long as you don’t force it down my throat.

    avuko, to random

    TIL: when you set up PayPal to link with your bank account, then –according to my bank’s privacy statement– you will give PayPal:

    • Access to 90 days of payment information, not only of things you do with PayPal, but EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION OF THAT BANKACCOUNT
    • access to YOUR BANKING ACCOUNT DETAILS for ANOTHER 90 DAYS, for a total of 180 days
    • one-time access to ALL of YOUR TRANSACTIONS IN YOUR BANKING ACCOUNT FOR AS FAR BACK AS THAT GOES, in my case for a…

    wait…
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    wait for it…
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    … MAXIMUM OF 8 YEARS!

    Am I just the last to know?
    Is everybody else okay with this?

    avuko, to random

    TIL: when you set up PayPal to link with your bank account, then –according to my bank’s privacy statement– you will give PayPal:

    • Access to 90 days of payment information, not only of things you do with PayPal, but EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION OF THAT BANKACCOUNT
    • access to YOUR BANKING ACCOUNT DETAILS for ANOTHER 90 DAYS, for a total of 180 days
    • one-time access to ALL of YOUR TRANSACTIONS IN YOUR BANKING ACCOUNT FOR AS FAR BACK AS THAT GOES, in my case for a…

    wait…
    .
    .
    .
    wait for it…
    .
    .

    … MAXIMUM OF 8 YEARS!

    Am I just the last to know?
    Is everybody else okay with this?

    En_US translation: Credit and debits from payment accounts You give a third party access to the credit and debits of the last 90 days of your checking account(s) for 90 days. That means the third party has 90 days access to retrieve your account information. That's access to the account information from the last 90 days. In total, the third party will then have access to 180 days of account information. The following information is provided by credit or depreciation: • Amount • Processing time and Date • Interest date • Counteraccount holder name and account number • Description • Transaction related credentials • History of debits and debits of checking accounts You give a third party access to request and store your full history of credit and debits from your checking account(s) once. The history concerns all credit and debit that you can consult in Rabo Online Banking. This is up to 8 years.

    mattblaze, (edited ) to random
    @mattblaze@federate.social avatar

    If this is true, that prime-time Trump infomercial was an even more shameful act of journalistic malpractice on CNN's part than was previously understood.

    Allowing audience members to applaud - but not boo or express disapproval - doesn't report the story, it materially alters it. It creates the false impression that Trump and his odious policies and behavior are more popular than they are.

    https://www.mediaite.com/politics/republican-at-trump-town-hall-says-many-in-audience-were-disgusted-or-bewildered-by-ex-president/

    (HT @lauren)

    avuko,

    @jeber @mattblaze @lauren it deserves the label “fascist propaganda”.

    noahshachtman, to random
    @noahshachtman@mstdn.social avatar

    Powerful op-ed from CNN contributor and former Capitol cop Michael Fanone:

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/cnn-trump-town-hall-abomination-michael-fanone-1234732510/

    avuko, (edited )

    @noahshachtman if you ask a fascist on stage with you, especially if you allow him to speak, you are a fascist too. I hope CNN realises this.

    bastianallgeier, to random
    @bastianallgeier@mastodon.social avatar

    A while ago, I read about the psycholgical effect that kicks in when someone tries to fight for a good cause, but then makes a tiny mistake.

    We are very hard on hypocrisy because our brains like when things add up.

    I.e. a climate activist with a plastic cup triggers much harder than Elon taking a 5 minute flight in his private jet every other day.

    The first feels wrong, while the second just meets our expectations.

    I can't stop seeng this everywhere ever since.

    avuko,

    @thesquirrelfish @sbestbier @bastianallgeier @danielhpavey

    Interesting question. I don’t know about people immune to it, but I can give some insight into my “justice bias”.

    I (autistic) have a hard time dealing with incongruity in people. Some of that inconsistency can be hypocrisy or plain old lying, but sometimes people just can’t see themselves, or have a hard time accepting their emotions, characteristics etc.

    For me, that creates an uncomfortable feeling of something being off. The best I can describe it is like the feeling you get when it’s dark and there is a sound in your house you can’t explain away.

    Now, because the person being incongruent is acting like there is nothing wrong with them (“nope, I didn’t hear that sound. You must be imagining things”), I often confuse it with something being wrong with me.

    And because I don’t like that feeling, but it is hard to consider all of the above in the moment, I find it is usually easier to blame the other for being inconsistent, hypocritical, a liar or just stupid.

    I have to admit though that calling this mess “justice bias” does make it sound much more noble… 😋

    carolina, to random German
    @carolina@norden.social avatar

    avuko,

    @sinky @carolina drag-queens are a marginalised group, religious leaders are.. well, “leaders”. People who have been demanding (and given) complete and utter submission to their deprived ideas on gender and sexuality for literal millennia.

    So no. This is not an unfair generalisation. Punching up is always fair.🤷🏻‍♂️

    PS: most people abusing children aren’t even pedophiles. They are however most often:

    • (sexually) frustrated
    • untethered to reality
    • provided with ease of access to children
    • Interacting with children from a position of authority

    I would be hard pressed to describe religious leaders more succinctly.

    _L1vY_, to random
    @_L1vY_@mstdn.social avatar

    A reminder that THIS is the primary underlying reason they want you back to in-person work.

    https://www.npr.org/2023/05/06/1174468821/companies-are-defaulting-on-loan-payments-for-unused-office-buildings

    avuko,

    @_L1vY_ capitalism is, in fact, the biggest pyramid scheme ever pulled.

    The only reason it hasn’t collapsed yet, is that there are 385,000 new suckers… I mean consumers… born every day.

    https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/how-many-babies-are-born-each-day

    jerry, to random
    avuko,

    @jerry not going give air to a new techbro protocol, purposely designed to compete with an open standard.

    I wish we could as a community of communities learn from previous mistakes, but apparently not. Quite sad, really.

    lauren, to random
    @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org avatar

    Bluesky is saying that torture and self-harm posts are acceptable. That's the end of Bluesky as far as I'm concerned. They don't have a clue what they're letting themselves in for.

    avuko, (edited )

    @lauren “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

    – Maya Angelou | https://www.mayaangelou.com/biography/

    Never seemed more apt.

    avuko, to infosec

    looky what I found...

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table

    @jerry

    avuko, to random

    Made a meme for everyone who’s getting tired of explaining current affairs to people just waking up.

    Really more like a proactive “”, come to think of it.

    kylelambert, to random

    A great write up from The Verge:

    "When I asked him about the similarities in the company statements, his answer was succinct: the tech companies are copying each other. “I think Peter Drucker [who is widely known as a father of management thinking] was quoted as saying something to the effect of ... thinking is hard work, which is why most managers don’t do it,” Pfeffer told me."

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23571659/tech-layoffs-facebook-google-amazon

    avuko,

    @Andrewhinton @kylelambert allow me to introduce you to avuko’s razor, invented about 10 seconds ago:

    Never attribute to ignorance that which is adequately explained by greed.

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