20% of any population is not very smart and susceptible to emotional manipulation, schools don’t teach critical thinking very well, and 10% of a population is dark triad (‘evil’) or adjacent.
It should be pointed out that the last provincial election in BC came down to just a handful of voters in a couple of ridings. A few butterfly wingflaps and we could have had that mouth-breather Rustad as premier.
The rabid right feeds off of fear. Stop that shit when you see it.
Hostile, anti-democratic work environment with indentured overtones: next-level strategies required.
cf. the CIA/OST manual from mid-20th C on sabotage and resistance under the risk of death.
Innocent seeming tactics like work-to-rule or demanding policy adherence whenever possible can slow foolish management. Talk to coworkers carefully. Document spectacular failures of management directives but innocently, as if you don’t know whose fault it is. Set things up so they will break later, when you are not around and without a trace.
Ask for reasons; the last paragraph of the article sums up that asking them to explain the insanity is effective. Remember: it is slow and cumulative effort required to change things, be patient and persistent and alert for opportunities and risks.
Great article full of interviews with workers sharing their plight and solutions.
Black Press Media is a near-monopoly in small-town BC.
BC newspapers are primarily owned by USA oligarchs. No foreign influence here to worry about, nope.
Maybe you need to rethink what a farm can be. Many apparently wild landscapes that you are familiar with have likely been managed as a kind of agriculture for a very long time, and most people have no idea.
There are many ways to cultivate food.
Here’s a blog post by Stross from late last year which describes why he thinks CEO’s are adopting it so heavily. A good read.
From his own comments below the post: “internally all corporations ultimately turn out to be Stalinist command economies” lol
Like Stross I don’t think LLMs can do the automation needed. I’m curious about a planetary model that builds bespoke complex algorithms for a business, though.
Yeah as someone who has done a lot of workflow automation I think we need to automate out the corner offices. We need frontline workers and maintenance only for fully automated businesses.
But then I am reminded of Stross’s Singularity series, where the characters connect to an alien network as a kind of First Contact and what comes through is alien Business A.I. and is definitely a Boss fight.
I support your right to declare ignorance! Your defence of it is incorrect.
There is not “literally nothing” you can do to resist genocide in another part of the world.
In this case, there’s the opportunity to pressure your legislators into international action. There is the individual personal responsibility to avoid funding the genocide through purchases, and in business as well. Then there are activists who can help one be more effective.
The implication that none of this works is fatalism that is blind to the push and pull of history. Get out and push, if you can. If you can’t, then at least learn what you can about why others care so much–before joining the conversation about it.
I always remember the first letter and then try to rhyme my way to the correct name.
Oh, just the one time this week, but fortunately Voyager app has a nice tagging feature, so it doesn’t happen much and I don’t have to worry about blocking.
Hope that helps!
URL structure is a clue, and of course a Shop Pay icon.
cf. “Gilead”
Politicians, too. Investment housing becomes a conflict of interest.
Yes, I had a really nice canon slr and a rollei compact with the good zeiss glass, but went on a long cycle trip and grams counted, so I reused a disposable camera: plastic fixed lens, single speed, reloading it inside the sleeping bag at night and sealing it up with duck tape. Developed at whatever one-hour available at the small towns we passed through.
Turned out okay, but great shots. I sold many of those photos. Because I had any camera at all.
Nope, zorin and mint were pretty much ready to go.
I have run a few different distros on 2015 macbook pros. Debian works really well but you might have to fuss to get camera working and be careful with your display settings. Zorin and Mint run best on first install and Zorin is definitely the most mac-like with a clean design and lots of interface consistency, and it feels quite lightweight.
Ubuntu works fine but it’s Ubuntu. Fedora had some minor driver hassles too but otherwise is nice to use.
Given the age and capabilities of a 2015 MBP I put Zorin on the 8 GB one and Debian for a server on the 16GB (I have two). Ultimately reverted the 16GB to macOS 13 (via OCLP) due to not liking battery management for a server. I feel (but have no stats) that none of the linuxes were as good at power and battery management as macOS on those machines. Probably firmware obscurities or something. None are as good at the trackpad either, but you get used to it.
Anyone who hosts websites can check the logs and see the bots hammering away at wp/admin primarily, even if you are not running any WordPress. Low hanging meat? Fresh fruit?
I have a friend who was a carpenter and musician and got a phd at 45, wound up head of a university department 10 years later, moved to a prestigious university then retired. He could have kept working like a lot of profs but the second career was long enough.