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Re-reading "The McRib As Arbitrage" in light of the entire no work from home, return to office push, and I find myself genuinly wondering how much labor exists - how many _companies exist_, even - primarily to serve as a utility function for corporate real-estate arbitrage.

I cannot tell you how grotesque this is, the idea that this might be real utility of so many jobs, bullshit or otherwise.

But there are a lot of bullshit jobs out there.

And....

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mhoye

I think I'm going to double down on this.

Companies that are forcing return-to-office aren't doing that to better fulfill their corporate mission. By clinging to antiquated ideas of what management does and what leadership is these companies have allowed themselves to be co-opted into propping up failing corporate real estate arbitrage schemes. That's it, that's the whole story.

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1/4 "V lete prešla našimi médiami takmer bez povšimnutia správa, na ktorej ma prekvapili dve veci. Prvou bol samotný obsah správy, druhou bol jej minimálny ohlas vo verejnej debate, nehovoriac o debate politickej.

Tou správou bolo, že podľa oficiálnych údajov Eurostatu sú na Slovensku najnižšie čisté platy v celej Európskej únii…"

~ #IvanMikloš

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Human composting should be a third option after burial and cremation.

My wife, Tui Davidson, spent her volunteer energy to provide a not-for-profit funeral service for Canberra. Five years later, they are a successful operation.

On Thursday, I was honoured and proud to attend her graduation from a social entrepreneur course called GRIST from Mill House Ventures. Earthly Remains is her human composting initiative and, as well as working with partners to develop the technology, she is lobbying the ACT government to create legislation to allow it, as 13 US states have done.

The GRIST program supported the creation of a short video which explains it better than I can.

She is also looking to collect data about community attitudes and would appreciate your input on a survey found at the website below.

earthlyremains.com.au/

#HumanComposting #environment #climate #cremation #burial #NaturalOrganicReduction #death #canberra

A pile of dirt with some grass on to being held in two hands.
The logo for Earthly Remains Canberra. A sub dawning between two hills.
#environment #climate #death #humancomposting #cremation #burial #naturalorganicreduction #canberra

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This fun little test scene is using #SVG textPath elements to make an arching caterpillar, some bees, and a trail of ants coming out of an anthill. Except all the bugs are made out of #braille that spells out the type of bug it's making up. Using the Braille36 Tiger font and using Unicode Braille Pattern characters for the braille itself to be visifle and embossable. It's really fun reading the braille in a non-standard way around the paper! #Blind #TactileGraphics #BlindSVG
A leaf made out of grey outlines and a stem is in the center of the drawing. On top of the leaf, the braille characters spelling out "caterpillar" are arched mimicking the body posture of a caterpillar inching along. An anthill is at the bottom of the drawing, with a line of braille ants coming out of it and marching down the side and along the ground. Two braille bees are in the upper right and lower right areas of the drawing, flying in different angles.
#blind #braille #svg #tactilegraphics #blindsvg

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"I say that NVDA changed my life, because only we know how difficult it is to get a job, and companies rarely want to pay for software licenses." - Mykael, Brazil.

Read Mykael's full testimonial at: nvaccess.org/post/mykael-makes…

Helping people achieve independence is our passion at NV Access. Thank you Mykael!

#Independence #Empowerment #Accessibility #NVDA #ScreenReader #NVDAsr

Photograph of user Mykael, seen from the right, sitting at his desk with his laptop in front of him.
#Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #nvda #independence #empowerment

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I find myself really irked by the headline here. The problem is not a "simple website bug", the problem is that they wrote thousands of lines of code without ever thinking about what the trust boundaries are, or should be.

This is a massive design flaw. The idea that cars should be controllable from some mothership is bizarre (and not needed for app control - have a digital signature from the mobile device). The idea that cars are enrolled even if the user didn't set up an account is similarly broken. This isn't a "simple website bug" but a massive failure to consider the security implications of features.

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